BOOM!!!
The tremendous explosion drew everyone's attention. Morris lost all his earlier composure. If anything happened to the Black Door, he, as the highest-ranking person on-site, would have to bear all the consequences.
When that happened, being fired would be the most merciful punishment.
The players, meanwhile, were utterly baffled, including Shen Qing and A Big Old Sow.
So what exactly had happened? Let us turn back the clock a little.
Outside the institute where Vax Corporation was researching the Black Door, Fat Jack and Vira watched the players from an abandoned building.
Vira said in some surprise,
"These must be the Otherworlders everyone's been talking about lately. I never expected them to break through Vax Corporation's defenses like this."
Fat Jack nodded slightly.
"But this really is the best way for Otherworlders like them to break through."
Then Fat Jack went downstairs for quite a while before returning to their vantage point overlooking Vax Corporation.
Vira asked,
"What did you go off to do?"
Fat Jack smiled.
"Just seeing if there was anything I could do while I was at it."
Vira asked in confusion,
"What are you planning?"
Fat Jack said softly,
"Whatever Vax Corporation wants to do, I intend to stop them. I just didn't expect an opportunity to come so soon."
Soon, Vira spotted a mechanical worm crawling out from beneath their building and wriggling toward the wreckage near Vax Corporation's institute.
Next, Vira watched the silver-white mechanical worm crawl over to the wreckage of one of Vax Corporation's mechanical soldiers and burrow inside. Immediately afterward, the scrapped mechanical soldier actually stood up, completely intact.
Even the damage to its body had healed.
Watching the mechanical soldier enter the institute, Vira asked,
"Are you trying to..."
Fat Jack said,
"Destroy what they're calling the breakthrough of