The alarm was not a piercing electronic shriek, but a dull, heavy thump, thump, like a heart beating under immense pressure.
Thirty levels beneath Nuoding City, inside the Absolute Silence Zone.
This was where Qin Feng stored his core assets. It should have contained nothing but the hum of cooling fans, yet now the air reeked of scorched protein and briny seawater.
The "Tang San Singularity" suspended within the central gravitational field was causing trouble.
The surface of the once-pure blue-gold crystal was now covered in black, vein-like patterns. As though alive, those patterns pulsed with every breath, seeping inward as they tried to taint the miniature Tang San soul curled up at the core.
Grey Wolf wore thick lead radiation goggles, his claws leaving afterimages across the console. Yet the sweat on his forehead was pouring out even faster than he could type.
"Boss! I can't stop it! This isn't a simple energy intrusion!"
Grey Wolf shouted, his tail tucked tightly between his legs. "I activated the firewall, ran the antivirus software, and even tried physically 'disconnecting from the network,' but this thing is crawling over through the lines of causality!"
Qin Feng stood before the blastproof glass, the can of cola in his hand no longer cold.
He watched the "battery" convulsing in agony, his gaze turning somewhat cold.
"Lines of causality?"
"Yeah! It's like..." Grey Wolf scratched the fur on his head. "It's like this kid owes loan sharks money, and they tracked him down through the IOU. No matter which rat hole you hide in, as long as he's alive, the creditors can locate him."
Orochimaru pressed himself against the glass until his face was distorted, his golden slit pupils filled with obsession.
"Wonderful... so wonderful..."
He extended his long tongue and licked a wet streak