Zhang Yingying was a standard woman of action, the kind Ronan especially envied.
When she said tonight, she meant tonight.
At 11:55 p.m., the "Blood Intent Ring Fortress" floating above Xia City—or, more precisely, floating within humanity's Mental Ocean—fully activated and opened fire on the central region of Mount Meng, four hundred kilometers away. It was the Interference Cannon that had wiped out "Algae Island" in a single strike.
Thus, the Abyss Zone shook, Mount Meng shook, and Xia City shook along with them.
Because Abyss Turbulence heavily interfered with the Material Layer, the tremors in the affected area traveled all the way through the crust, producing a shallow earthquake of roughly magnitude 2.4.
Over in Xia City, there was actually no obvious shaking. Quite a few people remained fast asleep in their dreams. But some were jolted awake by various earthquake alerts, too terrified to fall asleep again.
When a modern supercity faced an earthquake, the hundreds of millions of High-Altitude Clan had nowhere to flee. That was why everyone had been so tense and terrified over the intermittent crustal activity since last year.
Then there were those who knew more. They were not particularly worried about a major earthquake that would doom everyone, but they were deeply concerned that a more precise "disaster," one matching tonight's tremor, was about to descend. Fear and anxiety would haunt their dreams over the coming days, stirring up more memory material, though it might not alter their outward behavior patterns.
By the time the first Interference Cannon fired, Ronan and Raven were already at the branch office.
The full activation of the "Blood Intent Ring Fortress" was, after all, a collective action involving more than half the branch office. It also answered Ronan's Strong Interference Intention. As a core figure, Ronan needed