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Chapter 71 - : Where Disaster Strikes

Chapter 71: 71 Chapter: Where Disaster Strikes

When the company’s luxury Hover Car hovered above the factory, the entire factory was already submerged in the sound of alarms, and the armed guards picked up their equipment and firearms, running towards the entrance of the warehouse.

It was an unprecedented riot, with all available hands supporting at the same time.

Bai Kou was not surprised; he slightly rotated the monocle at his right eye, surveying the scene below with interest. "Oh? Is this the Barrier you mentioned? Quite spectacular indeed," he said.

The sanguine glow wove into a hemisphere, enveloping the entire factory within it.

He deliberately looked at Duan Mingyuan beside him and asked, "The area engulfed by Life Energy is the danger zone, isn’t it? Wouldn’t it be troublesome to rush in recklessly?"

Despite saying that, Bai Kou operated the control panel of the Hover Car, directly driving it into the Barrier. At the same time, he opened the right-side door, and without an order being given, his personal guards leaped down.

He parked the Hover Car on the open-air platform of the building opposite the factory and began to introduce it to Duan Mingyuan, "This is the control room, which will be your main workplace from now on. The cargo that is delivered will be stored in the warehouse across from here. For safety reasons, it needs to be left still for a period before being shipped."

The two of them arrived in front of the reinforced glass of the control room, a position from which everything happening on the other side could be seen clearly.

Bai Kou continued his role as a guide, "Of course, these trivial matters don’t need to be operated by you personally. Your main job is to keep bringing more and more cargo here, and you can leave the rest of the work to your subordinates—look, those are the ones."

He pointed to the guards circling the warehouse, wearing metal armor of the same style as the security department.

"Although the staff are all selected from this planet, they have all undergone strict training before joining, and they are equipped with the same standard gear as the security department. The Exoskeleton Armor comes with Life Energy detection devices, so there won’t be instances of sinister entities lurking into the factory."

At this moment, these well-trained guards were standing guard at the warehouse’s entrance in full readiness.

Reports occasionally coming from the control room depicted the severe situation inside the warehouse.

Ten guard squads had lost communication, suspected to have been completely annihilated, and the cargo storage area of the warehouse was out of control. According to the information sent back by the guards, the perpetrator behind this unprecedented riot consisted of four individuals, all members of Wangxu, with the leader being the Terrorist Night Disaster, who has a bounty of 260 million Bei placed on him by the company.

In the past several years, Night Disaster committed crimes such as murdering company employees, destroying company property, and inciting riots in various places, making him one of the top criminals wanted in the Star Zone.

This wanted criminal, who repeatedly targeted the company yet remained elusive due to his sinister Abilities, finally appeared on this day.

The fluctuations of Life Energy were getting closer.

Although their expressions were unclear, the retreating steps of the guards revealed the immense pressure the advancing person was putting on them.

Following the captain’s order, all Energy Weapons opened fire at the warehouse at the same moment.

The dazzling beams from the Energy Weapons, along with severed limbs and blood, blossomed among the crowd. Drops of blood turned into lethal bullets, effortlessly penetrating the Exoskeleton Armor, which was reputed to be impenetrable by conventional weapons. The captain, falling backward riddled with holes, had those very blood droplets turn into deadly weapons upon him.

This scene, inexplicable by common sense, finally became the last straw that broke the camel’s back. The guards in the back wanted to turn and flee but found their bodies out of control. Although they merely stumbled, their limbs bent and twisted in unnatural ways, and the helmets of their Exoskeleton Armor muffled their screams.

One second earlier, the guards had heavily surrounded the warehouse, but in the blink of an eye, they were annihilated.

The workers in the control room were also stunned by the scene unfolding before them.

"The warehouse has been breached, back, backup!"

This time, no guards responded. Those who had luckily survived the ordeal cut off their communication after learning of their colleagues’ fate.

"Rep, report, we’re out of manpower, should we send a distress signal to the branch office? We need heavy weapo..."

The staff member’s report was interrupted by the crackling of electric arcs. Bai Kou didn’t turn around, the smell of burnt air was sufficient to explain everything.

"Don’t get me wrong, the equipment here doesn’t always malfunction, and the probability of electrocution leading to death is almost an impossibility,"

Bai Kou said with interest.

Having witnessed the annihilation of the guards, there was not a trace of worry on his face; instead, he casually leaned against the railing, scrutinizing the figure gradually emerging from the warehouse.

For him, the recent scene was just the climax of a cricket fighting game, "We can always replenish the guards’ numbers. Everything in the factory will be restored to normal before you officially start working. The company won’t leave a mess for the new staff."

Duan Mingyuan paid no attention to Bai Kou, instead, he gazed down at the warehouse door.

The moving Energy Source was getting closer to them, and Night Disaster appeared to have sensed their presence as well.

The blood-stained office lady skirt, with nine tails behind her swelling with Life Energy, that familiar face smeared with blood, the figure emerging from the warehouse finally lifted her head, fixing the two people in the control room with those crimson eyes.

Unexpected, yet within the realm of reason.

Duan Mingyuan locked eyes with her, and in the moment their gazes intersected, those malevolent eyes seemed to shift guiltily elsewhere, ultimately settling on Bai Kou.

"No wonder she seemed somewhat familiar to me the first time I saw her,"

Bai Kou said, "I’m helping you here. If you were handling this riot, the situation would be quite awkward now. Your constant companion turns out to be the top wanted criminal of the Star Zone. But don’t worry, even the company hasn’t managed to uncover her true identity, this won’t affect the company’s assessment of you."

The ground beneath them suddenly began to tremble, and the bulletproof glass emitted a slight cracking noise.

The cracks spread at a visibly fast pace. Under the calamity’s influence, the shattered glass would inevitably become a lethal weapon.

Bai Kou showed no sign of retreating. Before the bulletproof glass could collapse under the strain, a layer of frost formed, preventing the cracks from spreading further.

The right hand, covered in silver armor, left the control room’s wall, and in the blink of an eye, the entire building was frozen over.

Duan Mingyuan touched the layer of ice on the glass. The thin ice had somehow kept the calamity outside the building.

Bai Kou watched as his personal bodyguard confronted Night Disaster, standing between them.

—"Western Wind," that was the name of the armor as well as his codename.