Boom!
It was as though, in an instant, the entire building had begun to spin.
As the central hub supporting the key nodes, it naturally hadn't been built on the cheap. This concerned Quancheng's grand plans; they weren't going to skimp over such trifling expenses. It was practically a stripped-down Workshop Core.
Calling it Full House Intelligence was no exaggeration.
Air, temperature, water and electricity supply and maintenance, regulation of the internal environment, external defense—it had everything it should have, and some things it damn well shouldn't have. It even came equipped with a self-destruct button.
Once activated, it would immediately draw in the Fiendification Pollution that permeated Quancheng, refine it, and unleash it in an explosive surge, flooding it back into the hub. Combined with the blast, there was absolutely no way anyone would leave alive.
Against such tight security, Lou Feng's lockpicking, Tong Shan's suppression, Ji Xue's acceleration, their teammates' protection and path-clearing, and Ji Jue's Deus Ex Machina and Disintegration Art—
Not to mention these crucial ten seconds.
If they had lacked even one of those, they would have been delivering themselves to their deaths.
According to Ji Jue's readings, the moment the hub's alarm was triggered, at least four authorities would descend remotely. Then they would have to face the Evil Transformation Cult's thunderous purge.
The instant he realized this, Ji Jue sealed off every function and sequence related to the alarm. He even controlled Mercury to drill inside and used Solid Alchemy to literally freeze that portion of its functions.
[Everything is normal. Everything is well. There are absolutely no problems.]
[The plan is proceeding in an orderly fashion!]
[Steady improvement!]
With one hand operating the hub, Ji Jue split his attention to answer the inquiries that came every ten minutes or so in the