I write obituaries for the gods

“Euclid’s weakness,” Jiang Zhengge said directly.

"Are you dreaming..." Ms. J was stunned. "You really intend to deal with an Alpha-level demigod?"

“Why not? What could be more proof of the Foundation’s decline than a dead member of the F Council?” Jiang Zhengge laughed.

“No, that won’t work,” Ms. J shook her head. “Listen, I hate Euclid just as much as you do. He killed my Johnston, and as his mother, I want to kill him more than any of you. But I must tell you that even if you know his weaknesses, you have absolutely no chance of winning against him.”

"What do you mean?" Hua Molan raised her eyebrows.

“For Euclid, his wisdom was far more terrifying than his superpowers,” Ms. J whispered. “And even more terrifying than his wisdom was his ruthlessness. The hawkish empire, which had never tilted in the past twenty years, was pushed to the brink of collapse in just a few months…”

“I thought we were the ones who pushed the foundation to the brink of disaster,” Jiang Zhengge said, narrowing his eyes.

“You don’t understand,” Ms. J shook her head, “you’ve all been used as pawns! And you’re completely unaware of it!”

"Stop talking nonsense," Jiang Zhengge stretched out his hand, "Give us his weaknesses, and that's the condition for peace talks."

“We don’t have any weaknesses about him,” Ms. J said. “Even if we did, it’s not something I, at my level, would know.”

“Then go talk to your superior,” Hua Molan said. “Hurry up, time waits for no one.”

Ms. J hesitated for a moment, but finally picked up her phone and made a call.

Jiang Zhengge's lips curled slightly. He looked down, took out his phone, and quickly typed:

"Speed ​​up."

"receive."

In the light rain, Lin Chen used a glass cutter to pry open the toilet glass and crawled out.

The cold rain lashed against his face, and the chilly wind from the 47th floor made Lin Chen's hands ache.

"He should have worn a sweater underneath..." Lin Chen grinned.

The torrential rain pounded on the city's skyline, creating a sea of ​​fog, through which colorful traffic streams appeared and disappeared.

Lin Chen jumped into the cold wind while praying that no one would be so bored as to look up at the sky.

"call!"

He rappelled down in the cold wind, quickly passing the 46th floor which was enclosed by iron plates, and landed on the outer wall of the 45th floor.

"I'm freezing! Do we get a winter allowance?"

“I can make you a hot bowl of instant noodles, do you want some?” Louis joked.

"Don't you dare put anything in there..."

Lin Chen shook his hands, which were red from the cold, took out a glass cutter, and drew a circle on the glass.

He pushed off with both feet, swung the rope, and kicked—

"Pfft!"

The glass shattered, and Lin sank to the floor of the 45th floor.

Internal network server area.

"Louis, I'm in. Where do I go?" Lin Chen cut the rope and pressed the earpiece.

"Give me an interface." Louis's voice was a little stammering.

"..." Lin Chen's lips twitched slightly. He avoided the surveillance cameras, randomly found a server, took out a USB drive, and plugged it in.

"Zizzizi..."

Amidst a faint electromagnetic interference, Louis's clear voice rang out:

"I'm in... Strange, I can't connect to the monitoring system. The system went down five minutes ago."

"It's not working?" Lin Chen frowned.

“I don’t know if it’s because of their cheap outsourcing, but this is a very important core area…” Louis muttered. “But I found the high-privilege host. Turn left ahead, go into the main control room, find the central control console, there’s an interface on it.”

"receive."

Lin Chen took out the USB drive and walked quickly along the transparent wall of the server room.

He quickly found the control room that Louis had mentioned, pushed open the door, and went inside.

Upon entering, Lin Chen saw two security guards lying on the ground in the server room.

His hand jerked violently, and the pistol projected out, pointing sharply to his side—

"Don't move."

Almost simultaneously, the cold muzzle of a gun was pressed against the side of Lin Chen's head.

As the two gun barrels crossed, Lin Chen glanced sideways at the attacker.

He saw a pair of deep blue eyes.

......

Chapter 129 "Tearing Apart" (First Update)

"......"

Inside the control room, Lin Chen felt the gun barrel against the side of his head, his expression indifferent.

The moment Lin Chen saw the bodyguard's corpse, he entered the "Mirage City" and saw the assassin hiding nearby.

He immediately projected and countered, bringing the situation to a stalemate.

"That seems a bit unfortunate," the assassin said calmly, his voice surprisingly clear, "You're here to steal too?"

"Who's speaking?" Lin Chen asked softly.

"Let me guess... you're from the Anomaly Investigation Bureau, right? Rapid Response Division One?" The assassin chuckled. "Not bad, managing to get here without triggering an alarm, you've got some skill."

The gun barrel, which had been pressed against the side of Lin Chen's head, dropped. Lin Chen immediately gripped the gun with both hands and continued to aim at the assassin.

This time, he saw the assassin clearly: he was wearing a raincoat and a bronze mask with a ghostly blue light shimmering from the gaps in the mask.

Lin Chen had only ever seen this enduring, deep blue in the eyes of two types of people: demigods, or symbiotes.

"Can't we pretend we've never met before?" The bronze mask spread its hands. "You take yours, I'll take mine."

Lin Chen remained silent, still pointing his gun at the assassin.

He was on guard, wary of whether the assassin had accomplices, and wary that he might strike at any moment.

This assassin gave him a very dangerous feeling.

Seeing that Lin Chen did not respond, the bronze mask shrugged, then walked to the center console and inserted a USB drive.

He typed something rapidly on the keyboard, constantly searching for information.

Soon, the bronze mask pulled out the USB drive and tossed it back into his pocket.

"Alright, I'm done," the bronze mask said, pointing to the center console. "You can go now, I'm leaving."

Lin Chen continued to stare at him without replying.

Under his gaze, the shoulders of the bronze mask trembled slightly.

"That's so hurtful... Does your investigation bureau resort to passive-aggressive tactics?"

"Do you really have to chat with me?" Lin Chen's lips twitched. "Aren't you leaving after you're done?"

"Okay, bro, I'm leaving. Be careful, my black bug is going to be killed in fifteen minutes. Let's get out of here."

The bronze mask walked towards the door, but just as it was about to leave, it seemed to remember something, turned back, and placed a card on the ground.

"This is a Level 3 access card, a fake. In a moment, just swipe it in elevator number 15 to the swimming pool on the 27th floor, then transfer to elevator number 10 to return to the lobby normally. Don't make too much of a commotion, or I'll get arrested too."

"Next time I see Brother Ha, it's fine if I don't, I'll just give him the silent treatment..."

After saying that, the bronze mask disappeared through the doorway.

Lin Chen waited a while longer, and only after confirming that he hadn't returned did he walk to the center console and insert the USB drive.

“Louis, I’ve brought him in,” Lin Chen said in a low voice. “You find the location of ‘Whale Nest’ first, and I’m going to find Euclid’s weakness.”

"receive."

"By the way, I just ran into a colleague."

"Huh? Fellow travelers? What's that?" Louis was taken aback. "You can run into fellow travelers here?"

“Yes, the one wearing the bronze mask,” Lin Chen said. “Any clues?”

“The bronze mask…that’s quite obvious,” Louis said. “The natives of Raintown have this custom.”

The native inhabitants of Rain Town... Lin Chen frowned slightly.

A native of Raintown broke into the foundation's server room to steal data?

The water is getting increasingly murky.

"..."

While thinking, Lin Chen quickly found the hard drive containing "Euclid's Weakness" based on the images he saw from the "newsboy".

This hard drive was stored on the "Ecological Observation" shelf. If there were no target, a normal intruder would never imagine that such top-secret information would be hidden here.

Lin Chen removed the hard drive and quickly returned to the main control room.

"Did you find it?" Lin Chen looked at the screen.

“Found it…” Louis said. “Strange…”

"what happened?"

“Too easy,” Louis murmured. “The file wasn’t even really encrypted. You know how it feels? It’s like you’re carrying a bunch of lock-picking tools to a door that supposedly holds a dragon’s treasure, only to be met with a rusty little lock.”

"You mean, someone wants us to help slay the dragon?" Lin Chen frowned.

“That’s right,” Louis said.

Who could it be? A hawk?

Is it the same "native resident of Rain Town" from before?

"It's not important. Just complete the mission objective and deal with whatever comes your way," Lin Chen said.

"Yes, we are extracting intelligence."

As the snowflakes flashed by, a top-secret document appeared on the screen in front of Lin Chen:

WHALE-1.02, site number "NEST".

The coordinates are located on the seabed of the Southeast Sea!

It's located just south of the Space Islands! It's also south of the Iron Cape Bridge!

“There aren’t many project documents about Whale Nest, and only one recent experiment, codenamed ‘Tear,’” Louis said softly. “The date is…”

Lin Chen had already seen the date.

It was the day the Iron Cape Bridge collapsed!

His hands clenched slightly into fists, and the sweat on his palms resembled sparks about to ignite.

Lin Chen had long known that the tragedy was inextricably linked to the foundation, but when the evidence appeared before him, the burning anger still surged up.

"...An experiment was conducted using recent sources of emotional sedimentation to create a subspace tear. The result: failure. The navigation beacon could not withstand the subspace erosion and disintegrated prematurely; the tearing effect surfaced into the real world..."

“That was a failed experiment,” Louis said softly. “After that experiment, ‘Whale Nest’ remained silent for a long time until recently when it began to restart…”

Louis's voice suddenly stopped.

“Listen, Lin Chen, you have to evacuate,” Louis said quickly. “The monitoring system is performing a self-check and will be back up soon. They’ve detected the problem and are sending people over.”

"receive."

Lin Chen pulled out the USB drive and strode towards the door.

As he passed the Level 3 access card, he hesitated for a moment, but ultimately picked it up.

After dealing with the Rain Town guerrillas during the "scorched earth" campaign, Lin Chen, for some reason, developed a natural sense of trust in the Rain Town natives.

Furthermore, if he doesn't take the elevator, he'll have to go back the way he came, which would actually make him easier to spot given that security has already been triggered.

"drop."

Using the Level 3 access card provided by the bronze mask, Lin Chen easily unlocked Elevator No. 15 and pressed the button to go to the swimming pool on the 27th floor.