Light Fortress
Chapter 129 - 117 I’m Back

Chapter 129: Chapter 117 I’m Back

"Hurry!"

"A suspicious person has appeared!"

"Move quickly!"

The duty officer in the surveillance room at South Bay transmitted the signal immediately, and the night patrol staff swiftly began to mobilize... The patrol at South Bay Building was extremely strict; nearly every floor had corresponding duty personnel.

Before the surveillance was destroyed, they remembered the suspicious individuals’ selected floors on the elevator, but to be cautious, the entire building’s security had already been mobilized, unsure if this was misleading false information.

Because it all happened too coincidentally.

When they pressed the elevator floors, the monitoring of twelve elevators were destroyed at the same time.

The true destination of these people was utterly unknown.

"Ding—"

"Ding—"

"Ding—"

Elevator after elevator stopped.

The security personnel, prepared for a fight, were tense as if facing a great enemy, yet when they saw what was inside the elevators upon doors opening, they all fell into silence.

The last elevator stopped at the thirtieth floor, a high-rise level.

This was the highest floor one could reach without the need for special access... In every building, the higher the floor, the higher the status and authority symbolized, and this was also the highest level security could reach. Nine security officers waited for the elevator doors to open.

When the doors opened, a young woman sat slumped inside the elevator, her forehead tilted as if she were asleep.

No.

She was really sleeping... Light snoring sounds emerged, proving her extreme exhaustion. This was the scene after the opening of five elevators... Each elevator presented a similar scenario.

Everyone looked at each other, perplexed.

If there was even a slight suspicion of intrusion, they would have taken the most severe actions, but opening the elevator revealed the person actually sleeping. What was going on?

At that moment when Chi Huo was withdrawn.

Gu Shen began his operation.

He entered the building without any danger. The security personnel were hypnotized, the entrance surveillance was destroyed, and no one knew he had entered the building... The building’s ground forces should have been deployed to deal with the sudden emergency.

If he was not wrong, in front of the elevator doors on each floor, a large number of security personnel were guarding.

After arriving at the building, he placed one hand on his forehead, and as Chi Huo dispersed again, his spiritual power expanded. He faintly saw walls after walls, the floor’s layout briefly flashed through his mind.

He withdrew his spiritual power.

Gu Shen walked briskly, turning right after entering, then left, passing through a long corridor.

Gu Shen arrived in front of the power supply room, his face expressionless as he grasped the door lock.

"Sssss—"

He let go.

The door lock was melted by the burning.

He stood before the power supply room, pondered briefly, then with two fingers imbued with Chi Huo, he remotely twisted the main switch’s gate.

"Zzzzt!"

Sparks flew.

The high temperature directly destroyed the main switch.

And so... the cold, blade-like South Bay Building was left only with chill in an instant.

Power was cut off.

The entire building plunged into darkness, many overtime workers looked at each other blankly, clueless about what happened. It was an extremely rare situation.

"I don’t know where the backup power is... Based on the normal activation speed estimate, it needs at least 15 minutes at fastest. I probably have 15 minutes to act."

Gu Shen took a deep breath. Without hesitation, he began his action.

Leaving the power supply room, he directly entered the emergency exit and started to run with all his might.

With the power cut off, it meant all surveillance was also disabled.

This 39-story high-rise, unless faced with a major incident like a fire, no one would enter the emergency exit. But to ensure safety, Gu Shen lowered his breathing and tensed up all his muscles... He was not sure if any of the security personnel were Transcendents who could keenly detect the sound of ascending the stairs.

Even if there were, he couldn’t afford to think further about it.

Gu Shen’s speed was extremely fast... Though he couldn’t compare to Strong Attack Type Transcendents.

But in terms of physical endurance, he far surpassed other Transcendents of the Spiritual type.

He held the stair rail with one hand, making great leaps one after another, as light as a large bird, completing an entire set of staircases in two or three jumps... Perhaps due to the tempering of the Jingzhe Breathing Technique, these actions did not strain him, and he continuously ascended fifteen floors in one breath, but as he took a breath of relief, sweat abruptly seeped from his pores, massive pressure spreading from every part of his body. This was his first time pushing the breathing technique to the limit and highly straining his body.

His blood seemed to be drained, all directed toward his heart.

His body turned into a massive pump!

In such a state, a Transcendent’s potential was unleashed like never before!

At this moment, Gu Shen realized that the Judgement Institute’s understanding of the Jingzhe Breathing Technique... might be entirely wrong. This was not merely a technique to temper the spirit.

When one breath is tense, that is, maintaining the closure state of the breathing technique.

The body also receives corresponding tempering!

"Now is not the time for me to think about this..."

Gu Shen quickly refocused his mind.

He took a deep breath, readying a second one.

This time, he climbed twenty-five floors, and during the breath exchange, he heard rapid footsteps and the conversation of security personnel.

"What exactly is going on, who are these people asleep in the elevators?!"

His misleading information had taken effect... The security personnel at South Bay Building still hadn’t realized what had happened.

"If the backup power is manually started, it will still take another ten minutes at the fastest!"

Hmm... the timing was tighter than he had expected!

"It’s too late... Let’s request Deep Sea’s intervention!"

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.

He still didn’t quite understand what kind of power Deep Sea possessed, but what he did know was that once this network was spread out, his actions would become extremely difficult, and time was very short now.

He needed to speed up, then speed up some more.

He continued climbing the building.

The permission for the thirtieth floor was not specifically set up in the security passage... The climb up was smoother than he had expected, Gu Shen had originally decided that if he encountered resistance, he would directly burn through with Chi Huo.

With the power turned off, shattering the permissions wouldn’t immediately trigger an alarm.

"Thirty-nine..."

"Here it is."

Gu Shen moved gently, pushed open the door of the security passage, and slowly made his way to the top floor of the South Bay Building.

Before pushing the door, his spiritual power had spread out in advance. It seemed that the security personnel did not have the authority to come here; the thirty-ninth floor was unusually quiet.

On the thirty-ninth floor... there was a glass door that clearly required an iris or fingerprint scan to enter, but now that the power was off, all means of verification were ineffective.

Gu Shen pressed his hand against the glass door.

He was prepared to open the door in the simplest and most brutal way.

"Hiss!"

Chi Huo burned the glass, emitting a boiling roar, but the surface of the glass did not exhibit the expected melting and shattering. A layer of light red fluid emerged.

"Red silver..."

Gu Shen frowned.

The next moment.

The dark lights suddenly turned on.

The light was restored in an instant, and the fierce environment made Gu Shen somewhat uncomfortable. The silence was broken, and the faint sound of electricity in the light tubes was so grating at this moment... it was terrifying.

From action to reaching the top.

It took no more than 3 minutes.

The power had been restored, and the entire building had returned to the warm embrace of light; all the employees breathed a sigh of relief because a reassuring voice sounded.

"Deep Sea is connected..."

Meanwhile, Gu Shen’s expression was stiff as he stood staring in front of the glass door.

Surveillance restarted.

The iris detection system began to operate.

His data was uploaded to the cloud and then delivered into the verification program. He could foresee what would happen next... Gu Shen was already thinking about using the Truth Ruler to jump from the thirty-ninth floor.

Deep Sea had taken over the building.

Gu Shen could feel that countless eyes were opening in the night, and these eyes ultimately fixed on him and provided the verification report.

A "beep" sounded.

A piercing yet non-hostile voice rang out.

The impregnable red silver blast door slowly opened to the sides.

Gu Shen’s forehead was covered in sweat; he did not understand what had happened.

The door opened?

How did he pass the verification?

And... he looked up with difficulty, pressing the brim of his hat down as low as possible and casting a puzzled glance at the surveillance camera.

There were no blind spots on the thirty-ninth floor.

Had his entry here... gone undetected by the surveillance?

The view inside the surveillance room was calm... After the power was restored, the surveillance at every floor’s corridor entrance, including the security passage, was reactivated.

The thirty-ninth floor was peaceful.

As silent as a frozen painting.

After Deep Sea took over, everyone was no longer so tense. They were all waiting for the analysis from the Deep Sea database... and the final result was very simple.

It was just a power outage.

...

...

He waited for ten seconds.

There was no anomaly.

The commotion and agitation downstairs gradually dissipated; no one was trying to enter the thirty-ninth floor where he was.

Ten seconds, if his information had been captured, that time would have been enough for the staff of the South Bay Building to take action.

But now, everything was peaceful, which only meant one thing.

"I haven’t been exposed..."

Gu Shen slowly wiped the sweat from his forehead; more than astonishment, his heart was filled with bewilderment.

"Why is this?"

He tentatively entered the main door, no alarm sounded, no door closed. The lights of the thirty-ninth floor were all bright, radiating peace, as if welcoming its owner back.

Until the sound of static, from a work desk in front, answered his confusion.

It was a forgotten communicator.

A familiar voice sounded from that communicator.

"Hello—"

"Hello—"

Being an old-fashioned communicator, the owner of the voice symbolically tested it out to see if the other side could hear.

Then.

"Sorry for the wait..."

Gu Shen stood stunned in place.

After the test, that voice, with a soft smile, bloomed like a flower in the late night of the thirty-ninth floor.

"I’m back."