To stop them, practically the entire base had mobilized. Fang Zheng joined forces with Kallen and Sakura, protecting Rin as they fought their way out.
Although Doctor Mei had cut off the power supply, making it impossible to use the elevators, was that even a problem for Fang Zheng? He kicked open the elevator doors and sprinted straight up the shaft. Ordinary people simply couldn't stop them!
But non-ordinary people were another matter.
"Hah!!!"
A gray-haired girl leaped out in front of Fang Zheng, her fist clenched as she threw a punch at him. Fang Zheng swung his sword backhandedly, and the shrieking sword aura slammed into the girl, sending her flying. At the same time, he stretched out his left hand toward where she was being thrown and made a grasping motion. The shadows around them began to twist, and pitch-black tentacles surged out, wrapping around the gray-haired girl and devouring her into the darkness.
"Fu Hua!"
Seeing this, Kevin shouted his companion's name and glared at Fang Zheng again—but Fang Zheng had no interest in talking to him. He casually severed the elevator cable, sending it crashing down at Kevin, then used the momentum to leap up again, taking the other three out of the elevator shaft.
"All right, keep moving. We're not far from the surface now!"
"Do you really think we can escape?"
Sakura fought alongside Fang Zheng now. Though they had barely interacted in this loop, the fact that he had rescued Rin and led them out of the base through a bloody path had earned some of Sakura's trust.
"Ordinary soldiers may not be able to stop us, but this base has the Flame Moths' Thirteen Flame-Chasers. Once they gather together..."
"Thirteen whatever-the-hells, I don't care. Anyone who comes to die gets taken down!"