[Buzz—Emergency notification! The illegal intruder has destroyed the elevator control permissions! The target is moving towards floor L18! Repeat, the target is moving towards floor L18!]
"Beep—"
The moment the Terminal connected, a man's furious roar came from inside:
"Intruder! What on earth are you trying to do?!"
Hearing this voice, the corners of Pardofelis's mouth parted into a malicious arc.
"Me~ I'm planning to go to the nineteenth floor and turn all your precious databases... into electronic fireworks!"
"No one paid attention to you messing around on the second floor!" The man's voice was distorted with anger. "But the nineteenth floor?! You're looking for death!"
"I'm looking for your 'deadline'!" The banter on Pardofelis's face instantly vanished, her voice as cold as ice. "If you have the capability, then come stop me! Stop just barking incompetently at your broken Terminal!"
Before her voice faded, she suddenly smashed the Terminal in her hand fiercely against the elevator wall.
"Bang—Crash!"
The Terminal was smashed to pieces amidst a piercing shattering sound.
"Like ignoring me? Then... you all have to pay the price for me!"
After saying that, the elevator jerked to a sudden halt.
"Ding—Floor L18 arrived."
However, just as the elevator doors opened a crack, many people wearing combat uniforms were already standing outside the elevator.
Each of them was holding a firearm, and the densely packed muzzles were all aimed at her.
"Intruder! Give up your resistance!" The leading man shouted sternly. That voice was exactly the one on the phone.
"Heh, so it's you."
After hearing this voice, Pardofelis gave a disdainful light snort. Subsequently, she elegantly flicked a one-eyed Cipher's Coin from her fingertip.
Hum—
Time instantly stagnated, and all movements froze.
Pardofelis slowly walked up to the man, dangerous light flashing in her cat eyes.
"Before... you were quite arrogant, weren't you?"
After saying that, she stared at the firearm tightly gripped in the man's hands and whispered softly:
"I can make this man's firearm in front of me explode directly the moment he fires, bursting forth with enough power to heavily injure him!"
[Credits -10,000]
"Deduct it, deduct it, I have plenty!"
Hearing the system's prompt tone, Pardofelis didn't care in the slightest. Immediately after, her figure shuttled quickly among the frozen security team members, and she fiercely poured a straight punch into each person's abdomen.
After finishing all this, she returned to her original position. Following that...
The coin fell back into her palm.
The delayed time began to flow anew!
"Ugh ah—!"
"Pfft—!"
"Cough—!"
Miserable howls, blood spitting, and muffled groans exploded almost simultaneously! Over a dozen security team members were as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, turning into human cannonballs and smashing fiercely against the walls and ceiling in various twisted postures! An even more unlucky guy directly smashed through the reinforced glass, screaming as he plummeted into the void beneath the eighteenth floor!
"Wha...?!" The leading man's pupils suddenly shrank to pinpricks, his brain going completely blank!
What happened?! His men... how did they all meet their demise in an instant?!
"Tsk," Pardofelis shook her hand, her cat tail sweeping contemptuously through the air. "Seeing you yell so loudly earlier, I thought you could really fight. In the end... just this? You're simply a bunch of trash, serves you right for always being in this security position."
"Bastard!!" Hearing this humiliation, the man's eyes instantly turned blood-red. "Who the f*ck are you calling trash?! I've clearly only stayed in this position for ten years!!!"
After saying that, he abruptly raised the muzzle and pulled the trigger with a roar.
"Go to hell—!"
Boom—!!!
But the instant he pulled the trigger, it was as if a miniature bomb had been stuffed inside the gun barrel.
Blazing flames and metal fragments violently exploded. The man didn't even have time to let out a miserable scream before he was fiercely blown away by the berserk shockwave. His charred body, emitting green smoke and electric arcs, smashed heavily at the end of the corridor, his life or death unknown.
"The effect is not bad~"
Seeing this scene, Pardofelis nodded in satisfaction. Without even looking at that lump of charred coal, she walked straight towards the stairwell leading to the nineteenth floor.
Just as she stepped into a spacious corridor—
Hum! Clack!
Heavy alloy gates on both sides instantly closed together, sealing her in an airtight metal cage!
Bzz—!
Immediately after, a white high-energy laser shot out from the end without warning, sweeping closely along the ground at an astonishing speed!
"Oh?" Pardofelis raised an eyebrow with interest. "Laser corridor? Movies reflecting reality?"
After saying that, she just leaped lightly, and the laser narrowly swept past under her feet.
"First laser." She landed and chuckled softly. "I wonder when the classic movie trope will come, the death grid."
Before her voice had faded, a laser grid composed of densely packed white lasers lit up at the end of the corridor!
This grid was like a net used by the grim reaper to harvest lives, carrying an all-destroying hum as it advanced rapidly towards Pardofelis's direction.
"This isn't right, is it? Why is the second one the death grid? Not paying much homage to the movies, huh."
Seeing this scene, Pardofelis shrugged somewhat helplessly, and then walked towards the fatal grid, turning a blind eye to it.
Sizzle—!
The laser passed through her body without any hindrance, just like passing through a holographic phantom, not even cutting off a single strand of cat hair.
Afterwards, she walked straight to the gate at the end, looked up at a hidden camera above, and revealed a sweet smile.
"Have you seen enough? You don't really think this kind of toy can hurt me, do you? Also..."
She reached out and pointed at the heavy gate in front of her.
"That layer of invisible laser grid behind the door is set up quite insidiously, huh? Specially waiting for people who phase through walls to cast themselves into the net?"
After saying that, she leaned forward and easily passed through the tightly closed alloy gate.
Outside the door, just as expected, pressing tightly against the doorframe, hovered a layer of almost invisible fatal laser grid. Anyone who phased through the wall and came out, as long as they relaxed even a little, would instantly be cut into pieces by this laser grid.
Unfortunately, what it waited for was only a demigod of trickery who had long seen through everything.
And at this time, the patrol robot phalanx that had already been waiting in strict formation outside the door immediately erupted with dense firepower. Energy beams intertwined and converged, instantly submerging the position where Pardofelis had just appeared.
However, after the hail of bullets poured down for several seconds, it came to an abrupt halt.
Because, in the line of sight of the patrol robots, the target... had disappeared the moment she passed through the gate.
...
[Core Database Storage Tier] Floor L19.
The air was filled with the humming of running servers and the unique smell of air conditioning. Technicians in uniforms shuttled between the massive server cabinets like worker ants, performing maintenance, completely oblivious to the impending danger.
At this time, the concealed Pardofelis quietly appeared at the entrance. Looking at this floor full of servers before her, the corners of her mouth slowly curled into a curve of excitement.
"Found it~"
Subsequently, she spread her hands, and a large handful of EMP Grenades flashing with cold metallic light appeared out of thin air in her palms.
"Dear Apex Entertainment..." she whispered softly, "the 'electronic fireworks show' I prepared to bring you... is about to begin. I wonder, will you like this form of entertainment?"