The explosion instantly destroyed the NYSE, but it did not end there. Its force continued to spread outward. This was bustling Wall Street, the nerve center of international finance, where skyscrapers stood side by side, many packed tightly together.
Boom!
With the NYSE at its center, the blast instantly destroyed dozens of surrounding buildings. Major banks, securities firms, stock exchanges, and insurance companies all became rubble in an instant.
Boom!
The shockwave continued to spread outward.
Within a radius of a thousand meters, glass shattered everywhere and buildings shook violently, as though the world were ending. The once-beautiful skyscrapers were instantly reduced to bare frameworks, like plucked pheasants riddled with holes.
Boom!
Buildings within several kilometers were almost all affected. Hardly a pane of glass remained intact.
After hearing the earth-shaking blast, people in the distance saw a red mushroom cloud rise over Manhattan Island, billowing into the sky.
This explosion had nearly destroyed all of Wall Street.
Jiang Hao had rushed out of the NYSE ahead of time. With no regard for anything but survival, he used his Lightness Skill, sprinting over the roofs of cars in the street at top speed. He had only run two or three hundred meters when the blast wave caught up from behind.
Boom!
Rolling flames surged toward Jiang Hao and swallowed him in an instant. His Golden Body Protection was at full power, but the tremendous shockwave still blasted him into the air, hurling him forward like a cannonball.
Pfft!
The violent shockwave made Jiang Hao feel as though his body were being torn apart. His internal organs were injured, and he spat out a mouthful of blood before flying dozens of meters and slamming hard into the wall of a building.
Rumble!
The hundred-meter-tall building suffered the tremendous shockwave and collapsed