413: Chapter 413 Destroying the Inner World, Transcending Limitations

Two afterimages shuttled and collided at high speed within the constantly collapsing architectural structure.

The roaring sound sometimes came from downstairs, sometimes exploded on the side walls, and then shook the ceiling into flying debris.

Fierce winds swept up dust and smoke, completely enveloping the entire floor, and the battle situation within it could no longer be distinguished with the naked eye.

Even ability users whose perception far exceeded ordinary people could only barely capture a blurry image:

A naked strong man wearing a white fierce ghost mask was frantically beating another man in tattered suits.

Their figures often vanished abruptly, only to be forcibly pulled back to the origin under the bizarre spatial Law.

It was as if they had fallen into an endless cycle of destruction, repeating the chase and collision over and over again.

Every collision was accompanied by dazzling sparks, like detonating a heavyweight bomb within this enclosed space.

The scorching heatwaves and shockwaves raged, causing the entire floor to vibrate violently.

Concrete fragments splattered everywhere like raindrops, and the light steel keels of the ceiling and twisted ventilation ducts fell one after another.

The entire glass curtain wall turned into powder in the shock, leaving only the twisted metal frame.

At this time, the top floor of the Noah Building no longer had an intact form.

Even the load-bearing walls and shear walls serving as structural cores were covered with cobweb-like cracks and hideous holes.

Creak... Creak...

The entire building was making teeth-aching sounds, as if it were suffering a magnitude-7 strong earthquake.

Survivors exclaimed in alarm and sought cover, some hiding in relatively intact bathrooms, while others curled up under desks.

Amidst the chaos, Station Chief Feng Jincai, the station chief of the Dongdu Branch, appeared exceptionally dedicated, still trying hard to mediate the fight.

"Stop fighting! Ancestors, I'm begging you, stop fighting!"

He scrambled and hid behind a still relatively intact pillar, pulling his voice and shouting in a tone close to crying:

"The two heroes, calm down, let's talk nicely. If you keep fighting, this building will really be gone, and everyone will be finished together..."

Hearing this, other members of the Noah Organization all agreed in their hearts, wishing they could replace Minister Luo to immediately agree to a truce and end this ultra-restricted combat.

"Yeah, you two big shots, please withdraw your Divine Ability..."

Xu Hao lay flat on the ground desperately, holding his head with both hands, praying wildly in his heart.

His mind had already begun to imagine uncontrollably.

What kind of scene would it be to fall from the ninety-ninth floor and be smashed by concrete blocks and steel beams into a puddle of minced meat that even his mother wouldn't recognize.

However, no matter how Station Chief Feng Jincai tried to mediate or how everyone prayed, those two monsters still showed no intention of stopping at all.

On the other side of the ruins.

Officer Zhou Liang and other members of the Special Investigation Team, along with Choi Suyoung, the comatose Majima Goro, and the terrified security guard, had long evacuated the dangerous area around the computer room.

They were currently hiding in the pipe shaft area at the end of the west corridor.

This place could be said to be the architectural core tube of the entire building, filled internally with thick exhaust pipes, fire-fighting pipelines, and communication cable bundles.

Surrounded by high-grade reinforced concrete, the structural strength was extremely high.

Even a monster like White Owl could not punch through it with a single blow.

At the beginning of entering the building, Officer Zhou Liang and others, out of professional habit, kept the fire evacuation map firmly in mind and made many contingency plans.

Now caught in a disaster like a strong earthquake, this was undoubtedly the best temporary shelter.

Cheng Jiashu did not act together with the Special Investigation Team.

He stood alone in the center of a relatively open ruin.

The scattered concrete fragments falling all over the sky landed a few meters in front of him, yet could not shake his figure at all.

Cheng Jiashu's gaze was sharp, always tracking those two rapidly moving figures, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching slightly.

In the end, wanting to leave this ghost place still required using the stupidest method he had mentioned.

However, this idea was actually realized for him by two monsters.

Watching them transform into humanoid demolition machines, tirelessly smashing walls and dismantling pillars with their bare hands.

At this sight, Cheng Jiashu was speechless and could only silently express his respect:

"You've worked hard."

Crack!

A crisp shattering sound rang out abruptly.

This sound was very faint, yet extremely penetrating, actually covering the violent roar and clearly transmitting into everyone's mind.

Cheng Jiashu suddenly raised his head, his pupils contracting sharply.

I saw a subtle crack, like a winding black lightning bolt, appearing out of thin air in mid-air.

Officer Zhou Liang and others hiding in various parts of the ruins, as well as members of the Noah Organization, successively noticed this bizarre scene.

Everyone's face was filled with astonishment.

What was that?

Could it be that even this sky was going to be beaten down by the two monsters?

Before they could figure it out, the second and third cracks appeared one after another.

Following that, whether it was the ceiling overhead or the pitch-black night sky outside the window, countless cracks rapidly spread in a branch-like pattern.

In the blink of an eye, this forcibly constructed different dimension space was like a mirror on the verge of shattering.

Those spreading flesh tissues, as if splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid, made a "zi-zi" sound and crazily contracted toward the source.

The monsters in the gray fog let out shrill screams, seemingly foreseeing the arrival of doomsday.

Meanwhile, from the deepest part of the darkness, a heart-rending and unwillingness-filled shout faintly came.

"No—"

But this collapsing power was a foregone conclusion, and no one could stop it.

Clatter—

Finally, accompanied by a loud bang resembling thousands of glasses shattering simultaneously,

the scene before everyone's eyes began to violently distort and disintegrate.

The intense spatial fluctuations made everyone unable to stand steadily, and the world was spinning wildly.

"Ah! It's collapsing! The building is really collapsing!"

Survivors instantly fell into extreme panic, instinctively hugging their heads and squatting down, or tightly hugging any fixable objects around them.

Some even hugged the person next to them tightly, as if making a final farewell.

Only Cheng Jiashu still stood straight, seemingly having anticipated this moment long ago.

He whispered to himself, his voice carrying a trace of relief and exclamation:

"This Inner World has finally been completely blasted apart."

Although he admired the destructive power of those two monsters, he didn't feel much surprise at this result.

After all, the crimson eye was only a newborn embryonic world and simply couldn't withstand this level of ravaging.

After a long sense of dizziness, the violent vibration also stopped accordingly.

I don't know how long had passed, but the expected fall and collision did not arrive.

Those who were lying down holding their heads or hugging the pillars tightly slowly raised their heads, opening their eyes blankly.

Woo— Woo—

The harsh alarm sounded throughout the entire floor.

However, the catastrophic disaster of the building collapsing did not happen.

"I... am I not dead yet?"

Xu Hao muttered to himself.

He suddenly sensed that the tactile feel in his arms was wrong. Taking a closer look, he immediately screamed out:

"Gang Leader, what do you want to do?"

At this moment, he and Chen Chen looked just like a pair of desperate mandarin ducks, hugging each other in an extremely awkward posture.

"I should be the one asking you, using so much strength, are you trying to strangle me to death?"

Chen Chen's face turned red, and he was almost out of breath.

The two separated quickly as if electrocuted, both showing undisguised disgust on their faces.

In the darkness, coughs and whispered words sounded one after another.

Survivors scattered in various corners of the building climbed to their feet one after another, observing their surroundings with suspicion and uncertainty.

The thick fog that blocked their vision had completely disappeared at this moment.

The emergency lights on the corridor flickered, and the dim light outlined the contours of the surrounding environment.

The concrete fragments and debris all over the floor in their memory had vanished without a trace.

The floor under their feet was as smooth as new, the ceiling overhead was intact, and the walls were also flat and smooth.

There were no wriggling tentacles and dark red flesh bred from them to be seen.

Everything was so peaceful that it felt somewhat unreal.

Whoosh—

A gust of wind whipped up a few documents, spinning around in the corridor.

Everyone looked over and saw that the door of the conference hall was wide open.

Vaguely, that floor-to-ceiling window smashed with a huge hole could be seen, and the wind was blowing in from here.

Had they really returned to reality?

Looking at the familiar scenery before them, the exact same thought popped up in everyone's mind.

"Ah!"

Suddenly a scream frightened everyone into tightening their grip on their weapons again.

Following the sound, they saw a surviving periphery force leader pointing at a corpse in the corner, his face pale.

Then, more corpses were successively discovered in other places.

Seeing this, everyone instead breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that as the Inner World collapsed, the people who died inside had also returned to reality.

These corpses were like some kind of cruel proof, proving that everything before was not an illusion, and also proving that they hadn't fallen into another even more bizarre space.

Subsequently, an executive of the Noah Organization approached the wall and found shallow depressions and a few subtle cracks remaining on it.

It seemed to have suffered some kind of violent external impact.

Reaching out to touch it, it was a cold and real tactile feel.

This building didn't look completely unscathed, but it was by no means ravaged into a garbage dump like it was in the Inner World.

They couldn't figure out what on earth was going on.

At least, those terrifying and hideous monsters had completely vanished.

A sense of joy over surviving a catastrophe finally spread in everyone's heart.

Their tense nerves were finally able to relax for a moment.

Boom!

A deafening roar suddenly came, and the entire floor shook violently again.

No!

Everyone shuddered all over, their just-released hearts instantly rising to their throats, looking toward the source of the sound in horror.

There were still two even more terrifying monsters tirelessly fighting.

They shockingly fought all the way from the Inner World into reality.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The two figures, like cannonballs fired from a barrel, successively smashed through several office partition walls with unstoppable momentum.

Finally, they smashed through the floor-to-ceiling window of the chairman's office with a crash, both falling out into the night sky outside the building.

This time, they didn't return to the origin again.

A figure holding a black umbrella stood at the edge of the office building's rooftop.

Underfoot was an abyss-like urban canyon, with a river of light formed by traffic slowly surging within it.

All around, skyscrapers stood like a forest, and the shifting neon signs were rendered even more mesmerizing by the rain curtain.

Gao Jin's gaze remained locked onto the opposite Noah Building.

That pitch-black steel behemoth that seemed to have devoured all light.

The hem of his trench coat fluttered loudly in the chaotic high-altitude wind.

A few wisps of rainwater wetted his hair, sticking to his forehead, making his already tightly furrowed face appear even more solemn.

Inside the communicator was still a dead silence of current static noise.

The internal situation, the safety of personnel, everything was an unknown.

This anxious feeling of passive waiting, like an invisible hand, was squeezing his heart little by little as time went on.

Just at this moment, with a loud bang of Bang.

The dark rain curtain shrouding the Noah Building was suddenly torn apart by a sudden explosion.

Gao Jin's pupils contracted sharply.

He watched with his own eyes as two figures burst out from the breach in the curtain wall on the ninety-ninth floor.

Like stones thrown by a giant, they plunged straight into the stormy night sky!

However, a bizarre scene occurred.

One of the figures, the middle-aged man wearing a tattered suit, actually hovered in mid-air after falling a dozen meters.

Rainwater surrounded him, but was pushed aside by an invisible Qi field, causing him to float in the wind and rain like a deity looking down upon the mortal world.

The other figure—the naked muscular man wearing a white fierce ghost mask—did not have this ability.

His falling momentum was fierce, but in an instant, he reached out his hands, his five fingers like hooks, forcefully digging into the exterior facade of the building's glass curtain wall.

Amidst the harsh scraping sound, his fingertips plowed several gullies on the sturdy metal keel.

The huge kinetic energy made the curtain wall structure emit a teeth-aching moan.

Sparks flashed and disappeared in the rainy night, and he finally stopped his downward momentum, hanging on the outer wall of the building like a giant gecko.

Before he could stabilize his figure, the man floating in the air moved.

He just raised his hand casually.

Countless shattered glass fragments around him seemed to have heard a command, instantly transforming into a fatal storm.

Overwhelmingly, they swept toward the Masked Man on the outer wall.

Gao Jin's heart tightened.

Was that man wearing the white fierce ghost mask White Owl after all?

Why did he start fighting with another person?

What about Cheng Jiashu?

Zhi... Zizi...

Just as doubts were sprouting in his mind, the communicator by his ear suddenly transmitted a burst of current static sounds.

The long-silenced communication signal was finally restored!

Hello, hello, calling Eagle Nest, this is Night Owl Two, please answer if received!

It was Officer Zhou Liang!

Gao Jin's eyes turned cold, swiftly withdrawing his attention from the high-altitude battle, and replied in a deep voice:

Eagle Nest received, report the situation.

Captain Gao, the mission is complete!

Officer Zhou Liang's voice revealed a sense of excitement of surviving a catastrophe:

The main target data is obtained, the related hostages have been rescued, all our personnel are sound and intact, walking down along the Zone B passage, preparing to assemble and standby at the parking lot, please give instructions.

Well done!

This news finally relaxed Gao Jin's tense nerves, making him equally jubilant and unable to help praising.

Turning to recall the bizarre situation earlier, he then spoke in a deep voice again:

Briefly report the course of your operation.

Yes, the situation is very complicated.

Officer Zhou Liang's voice immediately became solemn:

When we were preparing to retreat inside the building, we were completely enveloped by those gray thick fogs, and all communications and electronic equipment failed.

Not only did we lose our direction, but we were also attacked by unknown creatures. That place... was just like another world, called the Inner World in A-Yang's words.

Inner World?

Right! Later we encountered White Owl, thanks to his help...

You rendezvoused with Cheng Jiashu?

Hearing this, Gao Jin couldn't help interrupting and asking.

No, not him.

Officer Zhou Liang's voice became somewhat weird:

It was another White Owl. Cheng Jiashu said that was his cousin.

Captain Gao, you didn't see it, that person is simply a humanoid Tyrannosaurus! Minister Luo of the Noah Organization is no pushover either, the two of them forcefully blasted that ghost place apart!

If you ask me, this White Owl is even more like the legendary White Owl. Compared to him, Cheng Jiashu looks simply like a frail scholar...

Officer Zhou Liang's voice appeared very excited, seemingly still wanting to give a long speech.

Gao Jin listened in complete bafflement, two White Owls?

At the moment, he had no time to ask in detail, and then interrupted again:

Where is Cheng Jiashu?

He said he had personal matters to deal with, and left after dropping us off at a safe location.

You guys stand by in place, ensure the safety of the hostages and data, and I'll go to meet up with you.

Gao Jin made a prompt decision and issued the order.

Communication disconnected.

Before leaving, he glanced one last time at the two figures still fiercely tangling in high altitude.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and in the end he chose not to meddle.

Ensuring the obtained operation results was the top priority.

On the street, the commotion was already boiling.

Large pieces of glass debris fell from the sky, mixing with rainwater and slamming onto the ground, making a crisp clatter sound.

Onlookers hid far away, raising their heads to look at the top of the Noah Building, pointing and discussing one after another.

In the rain curtain, vision was obstructed.

They could only vaguely see two figures, set against the tall buildings, as tiny as black dots.

Harsh police sirens came from far to near, several police cars roared over, and quickly pulled up a cordon around the Noah Building.

The crowd was chaotic and clamorous, and Xiaosa, wearing a raincoat, stood outside the cordon.

He tilted his head back, his gaze piercing through the rain curtain, staring at the two faintly visible figures in high altitude.

Rainwater slid down the wet hair in front of his forehead, yet he was completely unaware, only silently praying in his heart.

Right at this time, three unusual figures quietly squeezed into the chaotic crowd.