"Boom!"
Inside Rose Residential Complex.
The shock waves of the explosions lingered.
Terrifying waves of heat spread down the corridor toward the stairs.
Lu Mingwang's eyes were red from the smoke, streaming with tears. Luckily, he had been prepared when the explosion struck. Pinning his parents beneath his arms, he had thrown himself out through the doorway.
They had been lucky enough to escape the first blast.
But the second blast came soon after. Whoever was behind it seemed determined to cause a massive commotion, as though afraid they might fail to blow up the entire building.
"Son, are you all right? Don't scare your mother!"
"Bang!"
In the dim, smoke-choked stairwell, Lu Kun grabbed the door that had fallen onto Lu Mingwang and lifted it off, his face filled with anxiety.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Lu Mingwang coughed out a lungful of foul air. Fortunately, when he moved his arms and legs, nothing seemed seriously wrong. Even though his Sequence Talent barely enhanced his body, he had still undergone over a month of training camp.
Through the corridor windows, lightning and torrential rain were visible outside.
Everyone had rushed out of their apartments.
Old people, children, women, men-all of them charged downstairs screaming, heedless of anything else. Some were even naked or barefoot.
The people living here were, at the very least, members of Night Spirit City's middle class. Every one of them earned over a million a year. Every one of them was polished and prestigious outside these walls. Now, though, they fled in panic like refugees.
In the face of life and death, everyone was equal after all.
An overwhelming sense of guilt rose in Lu Mingwang's heart. If not for him, none of this would have happened.
"Mom, Dad, go downstairs first. I'm going up to save