Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach!

She asked perfunctorily, but her eyes kept looking elsewhere.

By now, Xiao Huasheng was completely certain that she had transmigrated.

Even her body and mind had been thoroughly renewed, becoming "something else."

Her early experiences had forged an iron heart within her.

She fell silent and pondered quietly.

A14 Director Jin Li kept biting his already-bleeding finger. His eyes were wide, bloodshot veins filling them.

Secretary Ku Tang took a bottle of healing medicine from her waist and placed it on the table. She gave Jin Li a blank look, then continued typing.

Not only could the being born from the concrete sculpture communicate normally, but it also displayed intelligence and logical thinking comparable to that of humans.

It understood direction, self, others, and the concept of imprisonment. It even possessed a rather deep understanding of human society.

"We are an organization dedicated to containing anomalous phenomena and protecting humanity."

Jin Li's teeth continually ground against his finger, blood dripping uncontrollably onto the floor as cold sweat beaded across his forehead.

After all, in the organization's eyes, Xiao Huasheng was still an object requiring containment.

Naturally, the organization's deeper secrets, especially those extremely dangerous anomalous entities, could not be disclosed.

The more Xiao Huasheng listened, the more something felt wrong.

"Umm..."

She pondered into the microphone for a moment, then suddenly made up her mind.

Rather than listen to someone else explain, she might as well break out and see for herself!

"As expected, I still don't believe what you're saying. Let me see what's going on."

With that, she cut off the communication.

The next second, a Victor Submachine Gun appeared out of thin air in her hand.

Though she wore Exusiai's appearance, she had no time to care about the changes to her body.

"Ah!"

The containment personnel in the corner cried out in terror.

Although the person before them was a beautiful red-haired girl with a halo above her head, she was an extremely dangerous anomalous entity!

In the monitoring room, Jin Li reacted immediately. "Reinforce A3 Zone's defenses at once! I repeat, reinforce A3 Zone's defenses at once!"

But it was already too late.

"Though I don't know what happened, I don't want to stay here."

Rat-a-tat-tat!

The 120-centimeter-thick titanium alloy composite armored door was torn apart like paper beneath the submachine gun's barrage.

One had to know that this door possessed four times the defensive power of a modern main battle tank!

That meant steel plates with an equivalent physical thickness of 4,800 millimeters—4.8 meters—had been ripped apart in an instant.

Even ordinary armor-piercing shells only reached around 1,200 millimeters of penetration. This weapon's destructive power far exceeded imagination.

After blasting through the door, unfamiliar combat memories flooded Xiao Huasheng's mind.

This was Exusiai's firearms expertise.

"I knew transmigrating had to come with something."

This thing that looked like a Victor but was actually a Boltgun was enough to prove it.

Xiao Huasheng did not know how it had appeared. She merely felt that it could appear.

After instantly blasting through the door.

The task force members outside reacted one after another, swiftly forming a defensive formation around the area.

Before rushing out, Xiao Huasheng suddenly realized that the containment personnel's gazes made her uncomfortable.

Instinct told her that while being watched, she could only move at an ordinary person's walking speed. The same applied to how quickly she could raise her gun and take action.

"Hey, turn around, or I'll blow your heads off. And take off your clothes. Now!"

Threatened by this astonishing firearm, the D-Class personnel immediately turned around and stripped without a word, not pausing in the slightest.

When three bare asses appeared before Xiao Huasheng.

The newly freed Xiao Huasheng changed into one person's uniform at an astonishing speed.

Her entire body vanished from the spot in an instant.

Like a gust of wind passing through.

Within 0.01 seconds, she broke through the defensive line of the security forces on standby.

Those highly trained agents could not even catch her afterimage.

"What kind of speed is this?"

As she ran, Xiao Huasheng discovered that her speed far exceeded her imagination. The scenery around her turned into blurry straight lines. It felt like a dream.

Once she realized she possessed strength beyond that of ordinary people, the fear in her heart eased considerably.

The entire facility instantly erupted with alarms:

"Warning! Containment breach in A Zone! Target is Entity 173-1, female appearance with red hair and a halo above her head. New trait: capable of moving slowly while being observed!"

Just as Xiao Huasheng was about to break through the final line of defense, a set of high-speed cameras captured her figure.

Her speed plummeted, forcing her to stop. At that moment, she ran into a researcher carrying documents.

"You..."

The researcher stared at her in terror, locking his gaze onto her. But upon hearing the alarm, he realized that she was the anomalous entity in question.

Though trembling with fear, he stubbornly refused to look away.

"No other choice."

Though Xiao Huasheng's speed while being watched was slow, even slower than the punches of some King of Fighters characters.

She still retained considerable strength when facing this helpless researcher.

She knocked the researcher unconscious with a gunstock, then shot out the camera. Once no one was watching her, she instantly stripped him naked and tossed the D-Class uniform onto the floor.

After that, Xiao Huasheng continued her escape.

But during those few seconds of delay, the entire organization's defense system had already completed its encirclement of her.

The whole Foundation was in chaos, yet there was a certain order within that chaos.

"Damn it..." Jin Li bit his finger so hard that white bone was visible. He stared unblinkingly at every passageway in the facility.

Secretary Ku Tang sighed. "I'll have to reattach another finger, I suppose..."

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In just a few seconds, the research facility had taken countermeasures.

Following the director's orders.

All D-Class personnel were urgently gathered into the corridors, densely filling every passage. Each of them widened their eyes and stared intently both ahead and behind.

"This strategy?"

When Xiao Huasheng quickly rounded a corner, the sight before her made her instantly understand their strategy.

This was a countermeasure designed specifically for her movement characteristics.

No matter how fast she was, being blocked by a crowd would inevitably slow her down.

Though the Victor in her hand could eliminate these people in an instant, she did not want to kill anyone.

She only wanted to escape.

"What if I really opened fire and killed them? Aren't they trusting me a little too much?"

Xiao Huasheng frowned and destroyed the surveillance equipment along the way. As she considered a solution, a guard jogged past her.

Because Xiao Huasheng was concealed by her lab coat, the guard did not immediately realize that she was a disguised researcher.

A bold idea suddenly surfaced.

As the guard jogged over, Xiao Huasheng struck the back of his head with her gunstock.

"Urgh!"

He failed to utter another word before collapsing.

She quickly dragged him into the restroom.

A moment later, she swaggered out wearing the guard's uniform.

She also casually swiped his gun, weighing it twice in her hand and finding it hard to put down.

After leaving the room, the alarms rang without end.

Although the halo above her head remained, it was inconspicuous amid the flashing red alarm lights and chaotic crowd.

Even more surprisingly, the researchers hurrying about completely failed to notice anything unusual about her.

In the monitoring room, Director Jin Li could no longer sit still. He bit his finger hard as he thought frantically.

His finger kept hovering over the nuclear detonation button, but Jin Li had no way of knowing whether a nuclear blast could truly kill this thing—or whether detonating the facility would instead directly cause even more anomalous entities to escape.

If that happened, it would inflict irreversible damage upon all of human civilization.

That was something he could not allow.

Secretary Ku Tang watched his struggle and silently checked every surveillance feed, her lifeless eyes constantly sweeping across the screens.

A14 was still racking his brains.

He completely failed to understand what had triggered this anomalous event.

"How could this be..." Looking at the file in his hand, flashes of thought continually passed through Jin Li's eyes.

According to the latest report, the target possessed enough destructive power to pierce through A Zone's main gate. She could break through in merely one minute, and her destructive capability was extremely high.

Even more troublesome, the target displayed powerful counter-surveillance abilities, precisely destroying every surveillance device along her route.

Though her defensive capabilities remained unclear, as a being born from that concrete statue, she presumably would not be weak.

With conventional methods proving ineffective, only one final option remained.

Deploy the special response team to buy time, then use a nuclear detonation to keep stalling until the cleanup personnel arrived.

But the problem was that by the time the team arrived, the target might have already escaped.

"Tch."

Jin Li bit off his right index finger in one bite. The severed finger fell to the floor, and his palm was covered in blood, yet he paid it no mind.

The others watched this scene in horror.

But Jin Li had already told them not to interrupt him while he was thinking, so after their shock, most of them returned to their tense work.

As though he felt no pain, he casually stuffed his middle finger into his mouth and continued biting it while staring fixedly at the screen.

His mind constantly considered every possible solution.

Once containment failed, not only could civilians be injured or killed, but the entire organization's secrets might be exposed.

Meanwhile, Xiao Huasheng used this black uniform to move freely through the doors.

Even when she encountered fingerprint-locked doors, she simply followed her "colleagues" through.

"Number 54, you came at just the right time. Guard this place. If anything comes out, you need to seal this area off."

Before Xiao Huasheng could react, as she passed a door, a "colleague" unexpectedly assigned her a task.

A blue access card was shoved into her hand, and then the person hurried away.

Xiao Huasheng stared blankly at the blue access card in her hand.

Then she could not hold back a smile. Without another word, she swiped open the door beside her.

Unfortunately, it was only a sealed room, leaving her excited for nothing.