Chapter 369: Chapter 258: Blazing Vengeance II

"Bang!"

He shouted too late.

As Miyata Junren ran through the safety door area, the alloy door descended again, knocking him down and pressing him to the ground.

And the descent of the safety door was so clever, leaving a gap that tightly pinned Miyata Junren immobile, without crushing him to death on the spot.

"Ahahaha! Ahahahaha!" That signature laughter echoed from the hallway broadcast, saturated with sarcasm, like a hunter toying with its prey.

The alloy door continued to heat up in the flames, and the floor temperature was extremely high too, making Miyata Junren like a piece of teppanyaki trapped under pressure, emitting sizzling sounds as his flesh was burnt to a pulp.

This process wasn’t instantly fatal; it was slow and excruciating, breaking him down into desperate tears and pleading, "I’m sorry, Zero! I’m sorry! I failed you and your friends, it’s all my fault! Please, let me go!!!"

The hallway monitor flashed with a red light, like a sinister eye, with someone behind it staring coldly through the lens at Miyata Junren.

The broadcast soon sounded again, delivering Qi Ling’s emotionless voice, with just a simple two-word command.

"Go die."

Amidst the increasingly fierce flames, Miyata Junren wept and howled, fully experiencing the process of his flesh and blood being burnt away, until his struggles grew smaller and smaller, dying in the Eden Garden that carried all his desires and ambitions.

Flames raged, smoke billowed.

The passage to the stairwell was completely sealed by the safety door.

The Moon Concealing Arm Blade required a massive amount of energy, and was currently showing instability, struggling to slice through the remaining safety doors.

Despite having the Dragon Flame Blood Code within him, granting Su Mo formidable heat resistance, it didn’t mean he could endure in the blaze indefinitely.

Moreover, the greatest danger of a fire scene isn’t the flames themselves, but the toxic smoke, which had started to fill the corridor, obscuring vision and compressing Su Mo’s breathing space step by step.

Su Mo cast a sidelong glance toward the nearby window, contemplating the idea of jumping out.

With his Quadruple Blood Code body, jumping from this height onto the ground below wouldn’t kill him, but it’d certainly cause prolonged pain.

Still, anything was better than being trapped in the fire.

Just as Su Mo was about to act, the hallway broadcast sounded once more. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Due to damage from the high temperatures, the broadcast had grown distorted, yet Qi Ling’s voice could still be distinguished.

"Clever Mo Mo, why not look at your feet?"

Su Mo instinctively looked down, discovering an iron grate on the wall by his feet.

He crouched down to examine it closely, finding a duct behind the grate, where he could feel the airflow.

Evidently, it was a ventilation duct running through the building, connecting to the outside.

Su Mo squinted and looked up at the monitor camera.

Whether due to being burnt or Qi Ling going offline voluntarily, the red light of the monitor was no longer visible.

Su Mo pondered for a moment, removed the iron grate, and crawled in.

The ventilation ducts in the administration building were neatly designed, connecting each floor together. Su Mo found the junction and kept climbing down, safely emerging on the first floor.

Su Mo ran to the open area, looking back at the building already engulfed in raging flames, ablaze as far as the eye could see, standing in the night like a gigantic pillar of fire.

The attack on the administration building was just one corner; other facilities in Eden Garden were also being attacked from above.

Drones zipped through the vast sky above Eden Garden, with missiles occasionally tearing through the air, followed by eruptions of firelight.

The place had descended into chaos, with children, teachers, and security staff all fleeing, panicked screams echoing everywhere, accompanied by the cries of children.

A security guard, in a panic, got into a parked car. Just as he started the engine, a teacher rushed to the window, clutching a child.

The teacher knocked on the window, pleading desperately, "Open the door! Please, open it! Take a few children with you!"

The guard ignored them, flooring the gas pedal to speed away from this troubled place.

But as he reached Eden Garden’s gate, death came upon him.

A drone locked onto the car, its machine gun began spinning rapidly, spraying scorching bullets.

"Boom!!!"

The car’s gas tank was hit, exploding into a fiery inferno, flames consuming the vehicle.

The guard, by a stroke of luck, wasn’t instantly killed in the blast, but screams erupted as he lay in the driver’s seat, unable to open the heavily deformed door, and he was burnt to a crisp.

In the chaos, a young girl had gotten separated from the others, clutching a doll, crying in fear.

A drone was headed towards her, diving at high speed.

Su Mo activated bullet time, sprinting towards her, shielding her beneath him, while the Frenzied Corpse Rigid Bone emerged to protect her.

However, the anticipated explosion didn’t occur.

The drone zipped overhead, creating a rush of turbulence, then opened fire with its machine gun.

Not far away, a middle-aged worker was struck by bullets from the machine gun, his body torn to shreds by their tremendous force, collapsing into a mist of blood and flesh.

The scene left Su Mo momentarily stunned, cautiously surveying the surroundings.

Outside the dormitory building, a dorm manager was locked onto by a drone, machine gun bullets creating explosive trails in his wake, rapidly closing in.

During his escape, the dorm manager accidentally collided with another girl, causing both to tumble to the side.

Instinctively, the dorm manager grabbed the girl, using her as a human shield in front of him, crying out in terror.

The girl stared at the firing drone in despair, wailing in fright.

At that moment, the high-speed rotating machine gun abruptly ceased, the whistling bullets stopping short in front of them, and the drone soared overhead.

The dorm manager was stunned for a moment, thinking he was saved, and pushed the girl aside, staggering towards cover.

"Boom—" He had only run a few dozen meters when an air-to-ground missile descended from the sky, blowing him to unrecognizable pieces.

The girl, unscathed in the rain of bullets, successfully hid behind cover, clutching her head and sobbing uncontrollably.

The mathematics teacher Su Mo met earlier in the day was also fleeing.

Having only started his job for two days, encountering such a situation left him completely bewildered. Being quite elderly too, he couldn’t run fast, and ended up alone, lagging behind.

With a piercing whistle, a drone hovered in front of him, the machine gun barrel began to spin, ready to unleash deadly bullets at any moment.

Terrified, he trembled to his knees, helplessly facing the cold machine.

A scanning beam suddenly emerged from the front of the drone, sweeping across his face.

Mere moments later, the machine gun barrel halted its rotation.

The drone moved on, flying up to a nearby teacher.

This time, the machine gun fire unleashed its full force, riddling the target with holes.

Within Eden Garden, the Scythe of the Death God composed of drones swung ruthlessly, harvesting human lives one after another; each gunfire or missile launch signifying the disappearance of a life.

During Su Mo’s daze, he suddenly heard the crying voice in his arms, "Brother... I’m scared..."

He snapped back to reality, retracting the Frenzied Corpse Rigid Bone, and picked up the little girl in his arms, running while soothing her, "Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, brother will take you to a safe place."

Su Mo carried the little girl swiftly out of Eden Garden to a refuge shelter, where many survivors were gathering.

Children huddled together, crying, while teachers held them tightly, trembling as they tried to comfort everyone, yet they too were deeply frightened.

The staff and guards had not fully recovered from their shock, trying to maintain order at the scene, advising everyone to wait for rescue from the Public Security Bureau’s ground forces.

Eden Garden had now become a sea of flames, the fire raging high into the sky, painting half the night sky red.

Just as order began to improve, a massive drone swarm flew in their direction, causing a wave of panic.

Yet this time, the drone swarm didn’t dive into the shelter to slaughter, not sparing a glance at them, simply flying overhead and vanishing into the night.

Su Mo watched the direction the drones disappeared to, deep in thought.

It wasn’t until the soft sobbing caught his attention that he remembered he was still holding a child, handing her over to a nearby teacher: "Stay hidden here, the Public Security Bureau’s ground forces should be arriving soon."

The teacher reached out and took the little girl, her pale face filled with fear, but she nodded bravely.

Su Mo exited the shelter, gazing into the night sky, his gaze seemingly piercing through the darkness, watching someone...