CHAPTER 788: CHAPTER 412: RETURN TO REALITY

The intense space fluctuation made everyone unsteady, the world spinning madly.

"Ah! It’s collapsed! It’s really collapsed!"

The survivors were instantly plunged into extreme terror, instinctively huddling down or desperately clutching onto any fixed object nearby.

Some held onto the person next to them tightly, as if bidding a final farewell.

Only Cheng Jiashu remained standing tall, as if he had anticipated this moment long ago.

He murmured to himself, with a hint of relief and marvel in his voice:

"This Inner World has finally been completely blown up."

Though he admired the destructive power of those two monsters, he wasn’t particularly surprised by this outcome.

After all, Deep Red Eye was merely a fledgling world at its inception, utterly unable to withstand that level of devastation.

After a prolonged dizziness, the violent trembling ceased.

It wasn’t clear how much time had passed, yet the anticipated fall and impact didn’t occur.

Those who were crouched down or clutching pillars slowly lifted their heads, staring blankly.

Woo— Woo—

Ear-piercing alarm sounds echoed through the whole floor.

But the catastrophic disaster of the building collapse didn’t happen.

"Am I... not dead?"

Xu Hao muttered to himself.

Suddenly, he noticed an odd sensation in his arms. A quick glance made him scream out:

"Gang Leader, what are you trying to do?"

At this moment, both he and Chen Chen were tangled together like a pair of desperate lovers in an incredibly awkward position.

"I should be asking you; are you trying to strangle me with such force?"

Chen Chen’s face was flushed red, nearly out of breath.

Both quickly separated as if shocked by electricity, showing unabashed disdain on their faces.

In the darkness, coughing and faint talking gradually emerged.

The survivors scattered across the building started to stand up, observing their surroundings with uncertainty.

The fog that blocked their vision had completely disappeared.

The emergency lights in the corridor flickered, outlining the surroundings in dim light.

The cement debris and clutter remembered from before were nowhere to be seen.

The floor beneath was immaculate, the ceiling above intact, and the walls smooth and level.

The writhing tentacles and crimson flesh that used to sprout from them were gone.

Everything was so peaceful, it felt almost surreal.

Whoosh—

A gust of wind swept some papers, swirling around the corridor.

Everyone looked; the meeting hall doors were wide open.

The wind poured in from there with a glimpse of the enormous hole smashed into the floor-to-ceiling window.

Have we really returned to reality?

As they looked at the familiar scene before them, the same thought appeared in everyone’s mind.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, a scream erupted, causing everyone to nervously grip their weapons.

Following the sound, a leader from a surviving external force was pointing at a corpse in the corner, his face pale.

Then, further corpses were gradually found throughout other areas.

Seeing this, everyone let out a sigh of relief.

It seemed that with the collapse of the Inner World, those who perished inside had returned to reality.

These bodies were like a cruel testament proving that everything before wasn’t an illusion and that they hadn’t fallen into an even stranger space.

Then, a Noah Organization official approached a wall, discovering shallow dents and some minor cracks left on it.

It seemed to have suffered some intense external force.

Reaching out to touch it, it felt cold and real.

The building looked far from unscathed, but definitely not like the trash heap it had been in the Inner World.

They couldn’t figure out what had really happened.

But at least those terrifying monsters had completely vanished.

A sense of relief after surviving a disaster finally began to spread through everyone’s hearts.

The tense nerves at last relaxed for a brief moment.

Bam!

A deafening explosion suddenly sounded, causing the whole floor to tremble violently again.

No!

Everyone shuddered with fear, their hearts rising to their throats as they looked towards the source of the sound with horror.

There were still two more terrifying monsters tirelessly continuing their battle.

To their shock, they had fought from Inner World all the way back to reality.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Two figures shot like cannonballs, crashing through partition walls with unstoppable momentum.

Finally, they smashed through the floor-to-ceiling window of the chairman’s office, both plunging into the night sky outside the building.

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Gao Jin held a black umbrella, standing at the edge of the roof terrace of the office building.

Beneath his feet lay an Abyss-like urban gorge, where streams of car lights formed rivers of light flowing along slowly.

All around, towering skyscrapers flashed neon signs.

Huge LED ads cast bizarre reflections on the wet glass outer walls.

Luo Lie’s gaze remained locked onto the Noah Building across.

The steel beast that was pitch black, as if it devoured all light.

The hem of his trench coat blew fiercely in the high-altitude winds.

Strands of rain dampened his hair, sticking to his forehead.

Making his already furrowed brow look even more grave.

The communicator was still filled only with the dead noise of electric currents.

The internal battle, the target’s safety, all remained unknown.

This passive waiting anxiety felt like an invisible hand, gradually tightening around his heart with the passing time.

Just then, a sudden "bam" echoed.

The shroud of darkness over the Noah Building was torn sharply by the unexpected explosion.

Gao Jin’s pupils contracted sharply.

He stared as two figures shot out fiercely from the broken opening on the ninety-ninth floor curtain wall.