Chapter 1533: Fishing in Troubled Waters
When Meng Chao surfaced again, Horizon's Sewage Treatment Plant had already descended into chaos.
Great masses of bubbles erupted from the already filthy river water, filling the air with a choking, eye-stinging stench. From time to time, clusters of multicolored flames flared up, like countless clawing ghosts dancing above the guards' heads.
The cave trembled ever more violently. Rock dust and shattered stones came pattering down from the ceiling, striking the metal shells of the biochemical waste reaction kettles with a clanging racket and stirring unease in everyone's hearts.
Amid scalp-prickling cracking sounds, dense spiderweb fractures crisscrossed the rock walls surrounding the cave.
Though the first cracks were no thicker than hairs, they spread at an astonishing speed. Before long, they had grown from "hairs" into "centipedes," from "centipedes" into "venomous snakes," and finally from "venomous snakes" into famished "giant pythons," staring deep into the underground from all directions, seeking to swallow everyone huddled below.
Even the metal tanks, firmly mounted atop bases poured in one piece from reinforced concrete, began to tremble slightly amid the mounting shocks.
Their once-smooth operating hum immediately became halting and uneven.
Terrifying explosions rang out from inside several metal tanks.
At the repaired welds of several tanks, high-temperature, high-pressure poisonous gas once again burst through from within, spraying streams of poisonous fog like sharp arrows.
Countless surveillance cameras shook their heads. Countless gauges spun as though possessed. Countless alarms gave off piercing buzzes. The lights overhead began flickering madly, and the blood-red emergency lighting system activated automatically. Yet the light cascading down like a crimson waterfall only revealed greater panic amid the increasingly grim expressions of the caught-off-guard guards.
Adding to the chaos were the monsters.
Monsters had always been more sensitive to earthquakes than humans.
Before the