408: Chapter 408 Breaking down skyscrapers is the only way to survive.

Noah Building, Top Floor.

The crystal chandelier in the conference hall had long since gone out, and the heavy double doors were tightly shut.

Yet, the dense gray fog still poured in from the shattered floor-to-ceiling windows, swallowing all light.

In the pitch-black darkness, pairs of glowing eyes quietly emerged, blinking vigilantly.

The sound of breathing rose and fell, suppressed and heavy.

It seemed they deliberately wanted to hold their breath, yet couldn't help making sounds, betraying the terror deep within their hearts.

They were not monsters, nor were they playing any game of hide-and-seek.

Every person in this dead silent space was a survivor of this sudden disaster.

There were cadres of the Noah Organization who had come to attend the meeting, and leaders of peripheral forces affiliated with the organization.

There were also armed guards and pursuers stationed here by order.

In the corridor, the roar of gunfire, the screams of the injured, and the sharp, crying-and-laughing-like hissing of some inhuman creature came from time to time.

Every sound was like a cold awl, piercing through the nerves of everyone present.

Who could have thought that a cadre recruitment meeting that should have been solemn would first evolve into a farce of capturing a mole.

Everyone originally thought it would be fine to just watch the commotion; anyway, trouble wouldn't find its way onto their heads.

But before the show was even over, the real Hell descended.

The bizarre gray fog, the monsters appearing out of thin air, the building from which they could not escape.

In just over ten minutes, they had witnessed too many terrifying scenes sufficient to cause a normal person's mind to collapse.

A fully armed guard squad was dragged and torn apart by the shadow in the fog in the corridor, not even leaving a complete corpse.

The entire world seemed to have been swallowed by this gray fog.

Only the top floor of the Noah Building remained, along with livestock like them kept in captivity here.

"Will we... also... be eaten by those monsters?"

In the dark corner, muttering rang out from time to time.

Liu Yu crowded close to Xu Hao, his voice shaking like falling leaves in the autumn wind.

Xu Hao glanced at him, letting out a soft hum from his nose without responding.

"Ah-Hao, you are the top expert of our Red Tiger Gang, and our future Protector Elder, you have to protect my safety well."

A head quietly poked out from behind Xu Hao, and it was none other than Chen Chen, the leader of the Red Tiger Gang.

"After we go back, besides that apartment, I will gift you another luxury home worth five million."

He was almost pressed against Xu Hao's back, seemingly wanting to draw a trace of security from this subordinate, lowering his voice to make a heavy promise.

Xu Hao curled his lips, cursing bitterly in his heart.

I can't even protect myself right now, who gives a damn about your crap!

Is five million a lot?

This was originally the benefit that should have been given when I joined the gang, and you damn bastard dragged it out until now to say it.

From start to finish, did I ever ask you for an extra dime?

"Ah—"

Outside, an extremely shrill scream suddenly came, immediately swallowed by the roaring explosion of a grenade.

It shook the entire conference hall so that it hummed, and the dust on the ceiling fell rustling down.

Someone else died!

And not even bones were left behind.

Everyone's heart tightened, not daring to even breathe heavily.

Xu Hao subconsciously clenched his fists, his gaze piercing through the darkness, looking toward the bottomless thick fog.

Boss, where on earth are you?

If you don't appear again, I might really be treated as a snack by those monsters, chewed up and swallowed into their bellies.

"Everyone calm down, the most important thing right now is to keep your composure."

A steady voice rang out; it was Station Chief Feng Jincai of the Dongdu Branch.

As the person in charge with the highest position present, his plump body was like a small mountain in the darkness, giving everyone a bit of psychological comfort.

Station Chief Feng Jincai then turned his head, looking at another figure standing in front of the conference table:

"Xiao Zhuo, have you contacted Minister Luo?"

Zhuo Feng was holding a military-grade satellite communication terminal, but there were only bursts of harsh static noise in the earpiece.

The signal indicator bar on the screen was completely empty.

"Still no good."

He rubbed his brow hard, his voice revealing a deep exhaustion.

"Besides the noise, there are some intermittent strange sounds, sounding like the buzzing made by countless insects flapping their wings..."

This answer made the hearts of everyone, who had just ignited a trace of hope, sink back down.

They had already learned from Station Chief Feng Jincai that they were currently in a bizarre space called the Inner World.

Although no one could understand what principle this was, or where these monsters and gray fog came from.

But the solid terror was happening right before their eyes.

The previously tense and confrontational atmosphere had long since vanished.

In order to survive, everyone had to unite to jointly fight against the monsters continuously pouring out from the gray fog.

Thump! Thump thump thump!

The tightly closed door of the conference hall was suddenly violently knocked from the outside.

"Help! Open the door, it's me, open the door quickly!"

The sudden sound startled everyone, and they clenched their fists one after another, waiting in full battle array.

Several pursuers guarding the door looked at each other, exchanging a vigilant look.

Seeing Station Chief Feng slightly nod to signal, one of them stepped forward with a gun and carefully opened a crack in the door.

Clatter!

A blood-soaked figure stumbled in and then fell to the ground.

Seeing this, the pursuer who opened the door hurriedly closed the door tightly again.

"It's Wang Jiu!"

Someone had sharp eyes and recognized the newcomer.

Everyone looked closely and couldn't help drawing a sharp breath of cold air.

The one who came in was none other than Wang Jiu, an eighth-rank cadre of the organization.

At this moment, his clothes had turned into tattered rags, and his body was covered with claw marks and bite wounds deep enough to see bone. Dark red blood mixed with mud, making him almost unrecognizable as human.

Wang Jiu's ability was body hardening, and his intensively trained physique and bones were comparable to alloy.

Ordinary bullets hitting him would at most scratch his skin a bit and leave a white mark.

But now, he had become so miserably like this.

Just a moment ago, Wang Jiu refused to believe it. Relying on his strong defense, he took several brothers deep into the fog, intending to carve out a bloody path to escape this bizarre building.

As a result, only he alone ran back relying on his thick skin and flesh.

Everyone watched and felt secretly alarmed.

Even he was in this state; if it were themselves, I'm afraid not even bone slag would be left.

"Monsters... monsters are everywhere..."

Wang Jiu panted heavily, his eyes full of the terror of having survived a disaster:

"The elevators have no power and can't move at all..."

"We wanted to walk down from the safety exit, but no matter how we ran, in the end we would always return to the hallway on the top floor!"

His words made everyone's hearts chill.

"That's right, it's like this."

Ma Biao, who had previously been identified as the mole, also spoke with lingering fear:

"I jumped down from the window just now, and as a result, it was like falling into a ball of cotton, feeling dazed, and the moment I opened my eyes, I was back in the conference hall."

Having recovered his normal form, his face and arms were covered with abrasions and bloodstains, looking equally disheveled.

At this moment, no one cared whether he was a traitor or not.

In such a perilous environment, catching a mole had already become unimportant.

Anything only had meaning after getting out alive.

Inside the dark conference hall, there was silence.

"Quick, look at the window!"

Suddenly, someone let out an exclamation, pointing at that floor-to-ceiling window.

I saw that the huge breach previously desperately smashed out by Ma Biao was now actually as good as new.

The smooth glass surface reflected the darkness inside the room, as if the previous destruction had never happened.

Such a bizarre thing made everyone's hair stand on end.

"We cannot sit here and wait for death; we must rush out and find another way."

Someone suggested.

"No! Even Wang Jiu almost died outside, if we go out we're just courting death. Let's just wait here and talk after the fog disperses."

Another person immediately retorted.

What he said wasn't wrong either; at least with so many people gathered together, those monsters seemed temporarily afraid to barge in easily.

"Ahem."

Station Chief Feng Jincai cleared his throat, attracting everyone's attention.

"Everyone, these gray mists are the barrier used by the Inner World to isolate the outside world."

"And those monsters are bred from the fog. As long as the fog doesn't disperse, they will emerge endlessly and cannot be killed completely, so just waiting here blindly definitely won't work."

"Then... then what should we do?"

Everyone panicked even more.

Station Chief Feng Jincai's gaze swept across the room, and then he said word by word:

"I have a method, which is to blow up the main control computer room located on the top floor of the building."

He paused, then explained in a deep voice:

"The main control computer room controls the power, network, elevators, and security System of the Noah Building, and is the central core of the entire structure."

"We can understand it as... the brain of this Inner World. As long as it is destroyed, the entire Inner World will likely collapse because of it, and we will be able to return to reality."

Saying this, Station Chief Feng Jincai looked at the members of the pursuer squad:

"I remember that on your bodies, you should be carrying high explosives."

A pursuer captain nodded and patted an inconspicuous tactical pouch at his waist:

"Yes, Station Chief."

"In order to destroy important evidence or block enemy pursuits under special circumstances, we are usually equipped with C-4 plastic explosives."

"It is stable in nature, easy to carry and shape, also known as clay bomb, has strong destructive power against buildings, and is most suited for high-risk environments in special operations."

This professional explanation made everyone nod slightly as they listened.

Although they were skeptical, under the circumstance of having no better method, this seemed to have become the only choice.

An agreement was quickly reached.

Under Station Chief Feng Jincai's command, everyone formed a defensive formation and slowly pushed open the door of the conference hall.

Outside the door, thick fog billowed, and roaring sounds came from all directions.

"Open fire!"

The guards pulled the triggers first, the tongues of fire from the gun muzzles tearing through the darkness, and a dense rain of bullets swept toward the shadows in the fog.

The bullets hit those monsters, instantly splashing countless blooms of blood and causing them to emit even more shrill cries.

An insect creature covered in black carapace rushed out against the bullet rain, waving its sickle-like limbs, forcefully breaking through the firepower net.

"Watch out!"

A cadre took the initiative to meet it, pushing both palms forward, and a scorching wave of fire roared out, swallowing that monster.

The battle erupted instantly.

The cadres of the Noah Organization displayed their Divine Abilities, fully resisting the monsters continuously emerging from the fog.

A few guards were half a beat slow when reloading, and a worm monster with a woman's face coiled up slippery, opening its mouthparts full of sharp teeth.

Seeing that the newly organized defense line was about to collapse.

"Fall back!"

At a critical moment, Station Chief Feng Jincai's furious shout rang out.

His fat body suddenly shook, and the fat all over his body vibrated at high speed like water ripples.

Following that, an invisible resonance wave suddenly spread out centered on him.

The floor tiles underfoot shattered in response, and the entire hallway was shaking violently.

That worm monster let out a sharp screech, its body trembling violently out of control, and finally it was shaken into a bloody mess, releasing the guard.

The other approaching monsters also instantly lost their balance, tumbling and crashing together in a heap.

A trace of surprise flashed in Zhuo Feng's eyes.

The Station Chief who was usually slick and worldly and shrank back from everything today turned out to be so responsible, simply making people look at him in a new light.

Seeing this, the others also had their morale greatly boosted and praised him one after another.

"As expected of the leader of our Dongdu Branch, a ninth-rank cadre's strength really lives up to its reputation!"

Ma Biao, acting as a turncoat, performed even more enthusiastically.

He transformed into a half-human, half-wolf form, smashing a pouncing monster flying backward with a single punch, seemingly wanting to use his actions to redeem his crimes.

Station Chief Feng Jincai breathed a slight sigh of relief, evidently that strike just now consumed quite a lot.

Under his command and the desperate cover of the cadres, the demolition team finally arrived at the main control computer room.

The pursuer team members quickly took out several pieces of C-4 explosives like plasticine from their bags, stuck them tightly onto the server cabinets, and installed a remote detonation device.

"Alright, Station Chief!"

"Everyone retreat!"

Station Chief Feng Jincai shouted loudly, watching everyone retreat to a safe distance.

He also quietly took a step back, hiding behind the crowd.

The nervous and solemn expression on his face turned into a hint of a cold smile in the shadows where no one noticed.

At this moment, his consciousness was communicating with Jia Sangyi who was in another space through an invisible connection.

That's right, he was the real mole!

All of this was to help that old friend alleviate the pressure of the Breakthrough to S-rank.

Destroying this world constructed by the crimson eye could force it to divide its power to repair the environment, thereby buying precious time for Jia Sangyi.

As for his reason for agreeing to be a mole, it was very simple.

The two had known each other before joining the organization, and their relationship was quite deep.

Jia Sangyi promised that once he successfully promoted to S-rank, he would definitely promote him and forever protect his descendants.

Station Chief Feng Jincai was also very clear that his talent was limited, and being the Dongdu Branch station chief was already his peak.

For the future of his children and the future of his Family, he was willing to gamble big once.

"Detonate!"

With an order, the pursuer captain pressed the remote control in his hand.

Boom—

The deafening roar instantly swallowed everything.

A scorching wave of heat mixed with a pungent smell of gunpowder rushed over, knocking everyone sprawling.

Cement debris and dust filled the air, choking people so they couldn't open their eyes.

After a good while, everyone brushed the dust off their bodies and raised their heads.

The scene before them, however, made them unforgettable for a lifetime.

At the breached opening of the wall, there was no reinforced concrete, but writhing flesh and fascia.

Dark red mucus continuously seeped out from within, and tentacle-like tissues hung down from the ceiling.

The entire building seemed to have come alive from then on.

And they were right inside the digestive tract of some massive creature.

The fog briefly dispersed by the shockwave poured back in at an even faster speed.

And within that re-gathering fog, it was densely packed with monsters of various forms.

Alien worms with women's faces, giants with bloated muscles resembling mountains of flesh, and insects covered all over in black carapace.

And many humanoid monsters with twisted and mutated bodies...

Countless monsters, like an angered swarm of bees, rushed toward them like crazy.

Everyone froze in place, all color draining from their faces, leaving only incredulous horror.

Xu Hao cursed inwardly:

"Feng the Skin Flayer, screw your uncle!"

This wasn't looking for a way out at all; it was clearly poking a hornet's nest!

Just as everyone fell into despair.

A strange buzzing sounded without warning, and the space ahead rippled like the surface of water.

Following that, an incomparably fierce gale swept over from the end of the corridor, the wind seemingly carrying tens of thousands of blades!