Busan Port District had already become a sea of fire.
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The sky was not black with night, but a rolling mass of ocher-red cotton, illuminated through by the inferno below. Thick smoke churned within it, forming sickly yet magnificent vortices.
The heat waves released by the flames distorted the light, making the distant city skyline waver like reflections in water. The entire port district seemed submerged in a scorching, flowing amber.
Li Dan stood atop the steel framework of the observation tower, with only a crossbeam half a foot wide beneath his feet.
Below him, the entire port district had become Purgatory on earth.
Burning oil tanks were like torches thrust into the ground by a giant god, spewing orange-red pillars of fire dozens of meters high that twisted and roared without end.
Scalding fuel ran down the tanks like tears, spreading across the ground into burning streams.
The ruins of collapsed warehouses and auxiliary buildings let out continuous groans amid the flames. It was the piercing wail of steel structures softening, bending, and finally snapping under extreme heat, mixed with the dull booms of exploding concrete.
Li Dan's gaze pierced through the chaotic blaze and thick smoke, locking precisely onto the fortress-like gray building at the center of the battlefield.
It was like a giant beast crouching within the sea of fire. Its thick concrete outer walls had been blackened by smoke, yet its main structure still stood stubbornly firm, displaying durability far beyond that of ordinary fortifications.
Atop the building, that red-and-white umbrella-shaped emblem glowed in the towering firelight.
It stood out like a warning sign branded onto reality's skin, coldly proclaiming the unrestrained power of its creators.
The Umbrella Corporation's bioweapon army was pouring out through the building's wide-open doors and gaps that had