"Hurry!"

"Suspicious individuals spotted!"

"Move quickly!"

The duty officer in the South Bay control room immediately sounded the alarm, and the night shift security personnel quickly began to mobilize... The security at South Bay Tower was very strict, with corresponding duty personnel on almost every floor.

Before the surveillance was destroyed, they remembered the floor numbers of the suspicious individuals, but as a precaution, the entire building's security had been mobilized. No one knew if this was misleading information.

Because everything happened too coincidentally.

When they pressed the elevator buttons, the surveillance of all twelve elevators was simultaneously destroyed.

No one knew which floor these people were really headed to.

"Ding—"

"Ding—"

"Ding—"

One elevator after another stopped.

The security personnel, on high alert and ready for action, fell silent when they saw the scene after the elevator doors opened.

The last elevator to stop reached the high-rise on the thirtieth floor...

This was the highest floor that could be accessed without permission... Every building was the same, the higher the floor, the higher the status and power symbolized. This was also the highest floor that security could reach, with a total of nine security personnel waiting for the elevator doors to open.

After the doors opened, a young woman was slumped inside the elevator, her forehead tilted, as if she were asleep.

No.

She was really asleep... because there was a slight snoring sound, looking extremely exhausted. This was the situation after all five elevators opened... the scene inside each elevator was the same.

Everyone looked at each other.

If the other party had even the slightest suspicion of intrusion, they would take the most severe action. But when the elevator doors opened, the other party was actually sleeping? What was going on?

...

...

At the moment he retrieved the fiery power.

Gu Shen began his action.

He entered the building without any danger this time. The security personnel were hypnotized, the entrance surveillance was destroyed, and no one knew he had entered... The ground forces of this building should have been withdrawn to deal with sudden emergencies.

If he guessed correctly, there were a large number of security personnel guarding the elevator doors on every floor.

After arriving at the building, Gu Shen placed a hand on his forehead, releasing the fiery power once again, and his mental power spread out. He vaguely saw wall after wall in his mind, a brief glimpse of the floor plan of this level.

Retracting his mental power.

Gu Shen quickly walked forward, turned right after entering the door, then left, and passed through a long corridor.

Gu Shen arrived at the power supply room, expressionless as he gripped the door lock.

"Sizzle~~"

He let go.

The door lock was melted.

He arrived at the power supply room and, after a moment of thought, used the fiery power on the main circuit breaker gate with two fingers.

"Sizzle!"

Sparks flew.

The high temperature directly burned the main circuit breaker.

As a result... the cold South Bay Tower was plunged into darkness in an instant.

The power was cut off.

The entire building was shrouded in darkness, and many overtime workers looked bewildered, facing each other, not knowing what had happened. This was an extremely rare situation.

"I don't know where the backup power supply is... According to the normal startup speed estimate, it will take at least 15 minutes. I probably have 15 minutes to act."

Gu Shen took a deep breath and did not hesitate, beginning his action.

Leaving the power supply room, he entered the safety passage and started running at full speed.

With the power cut off, it meant that all surveillance was also extinguished.

This 39-story high-rise, unless there was a major accident like a fire, no one would enter the safety passage. But to ensure safety, Gu Shen suppressed his breathing and tensed all the muscles in his body... He was not sure if there were any Transcendents among the security personnel, whether they would be sensitive enough to detect the sound of someone entering the building.

Even if there were, he couldn't afford to think too much.

Gu Shen's speed was extremely fast... Although he couldn't compare with the strong attack-type Transcendents.

But in terms of physical fitness, he far surpassed Transcendents of the same level.

With one hand on the stair railing, he leaped from one step to another, light as a bird, completing the climb of a whole flight of stairs with two or three large leaps... Perhaps it was the training of the Awakening Breathing Technique, he did not find these actions difficult. With just one breath, he climbed fifteen floors in a row. But when he took a breath, the sweat suddenly oozed from his pores, and a huge pressure came from all over his body. This was the first time he had fully extended the Awakening Breathing Technique and used his body under high load.

It was as if his blood had been drained, all sent to his heart.

His body turned into a huge pump!

In this situation, the potential of the Transcendent was stimulated as never before!

At this moment, Gu Shen realized that his understanding of the Awakening Breathing Technique by the Judgment was perhaps fundamentally wrong. It was not just a method of training the mind.

When the breath was tight, it was also a corresponding training for the body!

"Now is not the time for me to think about this..."

Gu Shen quickly regained his focus.

He immediately took a deep breath and took a second breath.

This time, he climbed to the twenty-fifth floor. When he was changing his breath, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps and the conversation of security personnel.

"What's going on? What kind of ghosts are these people sleeping in the elevators?!"The error message I planted took effect... The security personnel at Nanwan Tower have yet to realize what has happened.

"If we manually start the backup power, it will still take ten minutes at the earliest!"

Hmm... Time is tighter than I anticipated!

"It's too late... Request Deep Sea's intervention!"

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.

He still didn't fully understand the extent of Deep Sea's power, but what he knew for sure was that once their network was deployed, his mission would become even more difficult. Time was of the essence.

He had to speed up, then speed up some more.

He continued to climb the stairs.

The thirtieth floor didn't have special access in the security passage... The climb was smoother than expected. Gu Shen had decided that if he encountered any obstacles, he would simply burn through them with blazing fire.

With the power cut, breaking through the security wouldn't immediately trigger an alarm.

"Thirty-nine..."

"Here we are."

Gu Shen moved gently, pushing open the door to the security passage and slowly made his way to the top floor of Nanwan Tower.

Before pushing the door, his psychic energy had already spread out, checking the area. It seemed that the security personnel didn't have the clearance to be here; the thirty-ninth floor was eerily quiet.

The thirty-ninth floor... There was a glass door that obviously required an iris or fingerprint scan to enter. Now that the power was out, all verification methods were ineffective.

Gu Shen placed one hand on the glass door.

He prepared to open it in the simplest and most brutal way.

"Sss!"

The blazing fire scorched the glass, emitting a boiling roar, but the surface of the glass didn't melt or shatter as expected. Instead, a layer of light red liquid emerged.

"Red silver..."

Gu Shen frowned.

The next moment.

The pitch-black lights suddenly turned on.

Brightness was restored in an instant, and the intense environment made Gu Shen somewhat uncomfortable. The silence was broken, and the faint sound of electricity in the light tubes was now piercingly sharp... It was terrifying.

From the start of his action to reaching the top.

It took no more than 3 minutes.

The power was restored, and the entire building was once again embraced by the warmth of light. All the employees breathed a sigh of relief because a reassuring voice sounded.

"Deep Sea has connected..."

And Gu Shen stood stiffly in front of the glass door.

The surveillance restarted.

The iris detection system began to operate.

His data was uploaded to the cloud and then delivered to the verification process. It was foreseeable what would happen next... Gu Shen was already considering the option of using the Measure of Truth to leap down from the thirty-ninth floor.

Deep Sea had taken over the building.

Gu Shen could feel countless eyes opening in the night, and all these eyes ultimately turned towards him, delivering their final report.

A "beep" sounded.

A piercing, yet not hostile voice rang out.

The indestructible red silver blast door slowly opened to both sides.

Gu Shen's forehead was covered in sweat; he didn't understand what had happened.

The door opened?

How did he pass the verification?

And... he looked up with difficulty, pressing the brim of his hat down as low as possible, casting a puzzled glance at the surveillance camera.

The thirty-ninth floor had no blind spots.

Had his entry not been captured by the surveillance?

The scene inside the surveillance room was calm... After the power was restored, the surveillance at every floor's entrance, including the security passage, was back online.

The thirty-ninth floor was peaceful.

As quiet as a frozen oil painting.

After Deep Sea took over, everyone was less tense, waiting for the analysis from Deep Sea's database... And the result was simple.

It was a power outage accident.

...

...

After waiting ten seconds.

There were no abnormalities.

The noise and restlessness downstairs slowly dissipated, and no one was trying to enter the thirty-ninth floor where he was.

Ten seconds. If his information had been captured, that time would have been enough for Nanwan Tower's staff to act.

But now, all was calm, which could only mean one thing.

"I haven't been exposed..."

Gu Shen slowly wiped the sweat from his forehead, more puzzled than shocked.

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"Why is this?"

He tentatively entered through the door, no alarm, no closing doors, the lights on the thirty-ninth floor were all on, peaceful, as if welcoming its master home.

It wasn't until the rustling sound of electricity at a work desk that his confusion was answered.

It was a forgotten communicator.

A familiar voice came from the communicator.

"Hello—"

"Hello—"

Since it was an old communicator, the owner of the voice symbolically tested it to see if the other party could hear.

Then.

"Sorry to keep you waiting..."

Gu Shen stood still, dumbfounded.

After the test was completed, that voice, with a gentle smile, blossomed like a flower in the deep night of the thirty-ninth floor.

"I'm back."