Foundation Exusiai, Containment Failure!

The corners of Xiao Huasheng's lips curled up as she chuckled softly.

After laughing, her figure quickly faded away.

Before the two women's bewildered eyes, she vanished into thin air like a true Angel.

Dimensional Gate.

It could only contain the limited amount of energy allotted to its user.

Once that limit was reached, she would return.

Just like Xiao Huasheng's body—if she overused her energy and reached her limit, something irreversible would happen as well.

Fortunately, her reserves were large enough. For now, Xiao Huasheng did not need to worry about that.

Blue Hair, Iceberg, Hypnosis, Extraction [4th Update]

Three days had passed since that special entity wreaked havoc in the research facility.

Today was as peaceful as ever.

With no concrete statue causing trouble and no lizard monster wreaking destruction, it was simply wonderful!

The lizard monster was still engrossed in taking apart Russian nesting dolls, so there was nothing to worry about.

As for that special entity, it had vanished without a trace these past few days, as though it had never appeared at all.

"Ku Tang knew she'd sit in this position one day, hmm-hmm-hmm." Acting Director Ku Tang sat contentedly in the director's chair and took a sip of rich black coffee.

While this white-haired beauty had been acting director, she had abused her authority tenfold—no, a hundredfold. She read every piece of B-rank intelligence she was allowed to see and secretly read plenty she was not supposed to see as well.

Fortunately, even though the Foundation knew about this, it did not blame her too harshly.

As for where the former director had gone?

Of course, he had been sent on "vacation" due to poor management.

After all, the former director was also elite talent. He could not be entirely blamed for such an accident.

During his two-month "vacation," the research facility had been handed over to Ku Tang, who was familiar with the work.

The most important thing here was familiarity and experience, so people who had handled anomalous incidents were especially valuable.

Ku Tang herself had been a reserve director trained as A-rank personnel, so naturally there were relevant contingency provisions.

"But... I wonder when Ku Tang will finally learn the truth. You promised Ku Tang that once she reached A-rank, you would let Ku Tang see the truth."

A deep, contemplative look appeared in Ku Tang's eyes as she muttered to herself, though no one knew what exactly she was saying.

After finishing her routine work, Ku Tang began reviewing the surveillance feeds.

The screens displayed the conditions in each containment chamber: researchers were analyzing samples, harmless entities were resting quietly... everything was in perfect order.

Just as she zoomed in on one feed—staff were attempting to move a mysterious Dimensional Gate that, for some reason, had recently become impossible to shift—

The gate suddenly erupted with a blinding white light!

The next second.

"Pfft!" Ku Tang spat a mouthful of coffee onto the screen.

In the surveillance footage, that special entity actually fell out of the gate!

She was even wearing a new outfit and carrying a black box.

Without a moment's hesitation, Ku Tang immediately pressed the alarm button.

The piercing alarm echoed throughout the entire research facility.

Xiao Huasheng, who had just returned from Terra, stared blankly at the ceiling.

That metal ceiling clearly did not belong to the wilderness.

"Ah?!"

The guards cried out, and the strange reaction made Xiao Huasheng freeze for a moment.

She turned to look at the five trembling guards huddled in the corner.

They held up their guns, staring at Xiao Huasheng nervously.

The battle from a few days ago had left a deep impression on them.

"Why am I back again?" She sat up while hugging the black box, her halo swaying slightly. "Does this portal come with after-sales service?"

The guards did not dare make a sound.

Xiao Huasheng stood up helplessly and leaned against the Dimensional Gate. "Was this your doing? Wouldn't it be better to let me leave?"

One bolder guard stammered, "You suddenly appeared beside the gate."

The other guards looked at their colleague who had dared to speak in terror, as though he were already dead.

"Is that so?"

Whether they knew or not, she knew that her brief happy time had come to an end.

Xiao Huasheng sighed. There was clearly something strange about this gate, and she firmly memorized its appearance.

After that.

Xiao Huasheng continued interacting with them.

She looked at the guards. "Reinforcements will be here soon, right?"

Seeing their blank expressions, she added, "The special operations team. They should already be at the entrance, right?"

The guards grew even more frightened. This entity even knew about the special operations team!

Seeing that she could not get anything out of them, Xiao Huasheng decided to tease them.

"If you don't come clean, I'm going to eat you!"

The air instantly froze.

In the surveillance room, Acting Director Ku Tang silently prayed.

The red-haired Angel set down the black box and suddenly bared her teeth and claws. "Rawr!"

The guards shut their eyes tightly and waited for death.

At that moment, Xiao Huasheng felt a message coming from within her body.

It seemed that entering this message would take her into a dream.

That was what her subconscious told her.

Hugging the black box, she stood there blankly for a while.

She felt some important message continuously coming from within her body.

In the end, Xiao Huasheng chose to accept it and closed her eyes.

In the empty, deserted metal room, before the five guards, the red-haired Angel sat atop the black box and closed her eyes.

Her entire body seemed as though someone had pressed the pause button.

She turned into a humanoid Angel statue, with only the halo above her head faintly glowing.

The five guards stared at the sight, all of them dumbstruck.

What had happened this time?

Just as the message from within Xiao Huasheng had said, if she accepted it, she would fall asleep.

Without a doubt, she had now entered slumber.

Naturally, her body outside remained completely motionless.

In her dream, she arrived somewhere rather strange.

Xiao Huasheng looked around for a while, her eyes filled with confusion.

Inside the surveillance room, dozens of LCD screens glowed with an eerie blue light, arranged neatly along the curved walls.

Every screen displayed a different surveillance feed. Some showed empty corridors, some sealed rooms, and others interfaces filled with constantly changing data.

Yet everything within those feeds was empty.

There was nothing there.

Like an unfinished house, everything had to be installed by oneself.

In the center of the room stood a semi-transparent energy monitoring device, pale blue energy flowing slowly through its transparent pipes.

The display at the top of the device clearly showed [510][52%], seemingly representing 510 units of energy and 52% energy reserves.

These figures stood out especially clearly in the dim surveillance room.

The air was filled with the faint hum unique to operating electronics, occasionally mixed with several device notification tones.

Emergency lights on the ceiling cast cold white beams, outlining dull geometric patterns across the floor.

Within this highly technological space stood a blue-haired beauty in silence.

A pale golden halo floated above her head, emitting a soft glow.

Her deep blue hair cascaded to her waist like a waterfall, gleaming with a metallic sheen beneath the cold light of the surveillance screens.

The beauty stared expressionlessly at the surveillance feeds before her, ever-changing images reflected in her bright golden eyes.

Her slender fingers occasionally tapped the console, adjusting the angle of one surveillance camera or another.

Her white uniform outlined her slim figure, its hem swaying gently in the breeze from the air conditioning.

The entire surveillance room was shrouded in an eerie stillness, broken only by the sound of machinery and the faint rustle of fabric whenever the beauty moved.

She was like a perfect ice sculpture, merging with the technological surveillance room and radiating a chillingly cold beauty.

Faced with such a sight, Xiao Huasheng could not help but ask.

"Hey? Who are you?"

Hearing her voice, the blue-haired Angel beauty finally turned around and looked at her.

"You're finally here. If you keep using it like this, both of us are finished."

Xiao Huasheng looked at her in confusion. "Hm? What do you mean?"

What Kind of Company Is This? It's Ruining Lives! [1st Update]

The blue-haired beauty quickly stepped closer and repeatedly poked Xiao Huasheng in the chest with her finger.

She could not stop muttering, "If you keep this up, we're finished. Look at this energy."

"Eh? Eh? Eh?"

Xiao Huasheng was completely bewildered as she looked in the direction the blue-haired beauty pointed.

The energy display above her head, only half full, appeared before her once again.

"This energy bar represents the energy you possess. That means you only have half your energy left. Once you use it all up, you'll become a statue forever and never wake up again."

"When my energy is almost gone, will a light appear on my chest and start going ding-dong, ding-dong?" Xiao Huasheng thought of a strange question and could not help asking it as she listened.

The blue-haired beauty laughed angrily and continued poking Xiao Huasheng with her finger. "Don't be ridiculous. You're not from the M78 Nebula."

In the end.

Even Xiao Huasheng, good-tempered as she was, could not bear the blue-haired Angel beauty's aggressive manner any longer.

She could not help shouting.

"What does any of this have to do with you?!"

"Ha!" The blue-haired Angel huffed, staring at Xiao Huasheng in shock. "You think this has nothing to do with me?!"

"I don't even know you!" The red-haired Angel huffed back, waving her hands desperately as she shouted.

"Ah... oh? Right."

Only then did the blue-haired Angel realize it.

She immediately straightened her posture and stood quietly.