Lin Jianyuan rushed to the Containment Department at top speed.

The facility-wide alarm was already blaring while he rushed there, and everyone’s mobile terminals went berserk, with red warning lights flashing nonstop.

Among the flashing alerts, there was only one message:

“A severe anomaly has occurred in the Containment Department. All combat personnel, proceed to the Containment Department immediately to provide support!”

“REPEAT! A severe anomaly has occurred in the Containment Department! All combat personnel, prepare for battle! Proceed to the Containment Department immediately to provide support!!!”

Every emergency combat equipment locker along the way opened automatically, and all the combat personnel changed gear on the spot, rapidly arming themselves from head to toe with solemn expressions.

Only Lin Jianyuan ignored everything and kept running forward.

“Xie Yu! Xie Yu! Wife! Xie Yu!!!”

Lin Jianyuan shouted as he ran, but his roommate didn’t answer.

The bite mark on his palm was still there, but the imprint felt faintly hot and displayed crimson patterns.

Lin Jianyuan gritted his teeth, swiped open the high-speed elevator, and continued toward the Containment Department.

“Captain Lin! Your gear!”

Someone grabbed him and shouted a reminder.

Lin Jianyuan shook off his hand. “No need!”

But the man stubbornly chased after him. “Put your equipment on! It’s chaos over there! It’s not just the Evil Domain! There are countless other Aberrants too! Hurry up and put your gear on!”

Lin Jianyuan snatched the equipment from him and carelessly slung it over his shoulder.

The metal doors of the high-speed elevator slid shut, carrying a full load of combat personnel rapidly downward.

The elevator was too fast. Barely a second into the descent, Lin Jianyuan’s eardrums started roaring, as if someone were pounding his brain with a giant sledgehammer.

His body swayed, and the people around him immediately reached out to support him in concern.

“I’m alright.” Lin Jianyuan waved them off. “I’ll be fine once we get out of the elevator.”

But contrary to his words, he didn't feel better once they got out of the elevator.

The elevator stopped at the highest level of the Containment Department, and Lin Jianyuan immediately rushed out.

He barely took two steps before his entire world spun.

“Urgh!” He doubled over and vomited uncontrollably.

“Captain Lin!” Everyone around him turned pale with alarm and immediately began checking his SAN value and vital signs.

SAN value was normal, as well as his contamination concentration.

His pulse oximetry was also normal, but his heart rate was extremely high at 134 bpm. His blood pressure was also elevated at 166/97 mmHg.

“Captain Lin, don’t panic! We’re almost there!”

All the combat personnel knew about Lin Jianyuan’s relationship with the one inside the Containment Department. Right now, the entire department was practically collapsing, and that one was the only thing holding it together. Naturally, Lin Jianyuan had to be more anxious than anyone else.

“I… urgh!”

Lin Jianyuan raised his head and was about to speak, but another wave of violent dizziness smashed into his skull.

He bent over again. His stomach was compressed, and everything he ate for breakfast, including milk and fried eggs, came back up.

So noisy…

The people around him were horrified. Some gathered around to take care of him, while the rest continued hurrying toward the Containment Department.

Lin Jianyuan vomited until he was dizzy and disoriented, with tears filling his eyes from the physical strain. Through his blurred vision, he could only see the people beside him moving their mouths nonstop, but he couldn’t make out what any of them were saying.

So noisy…

It was incredibly loud, but he couldn’t hear anything clearly because there was too much.

Too many sounds. Far too many voices were tangled together.

Like a raging tide surging over him all at once and drowning his ears.

Lin Jianyuan couldn’t distinguish a single voice. It felt like someone had grabbed the back of his head and shoved him violently underwater. His chest felt tight and clogged, and stars exploded across his vision.

So… noisy…

So f**king noisy!!!

“SHUT UP!!!”

Lin Jianyuan’s eyes went bloodshot as he suddenly roared.

“SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! ALL OF YOU, SHUT THE F**K UP!!!”

Everything receded, like a tide pulling back, and everyone around him instantly fell silent.

The chaos inside his ears disappeared at the same time.

Lin Jianyuan no longer felt quite as violently nauseous, but he was still dizzy, weak-kneed, and unable to walk without leaning against the wall.

Fury surged through him. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and cursed, “What are you all standing around for?! Move! Didn’t you hear the alarm?! Get the fuck to the Containment Department and provide support!”

Then he casually grabbed two large, muscular combat personnel nearby and ordered, “You two! Carry me!”

The two muscular guys: “Huh?”

Lin Jianyuan snapped, “What the hell are you ‘huh’-ing for?! Move!!!”

As he spoke, he hooked one arm around each man’s shoulders and forcibly hoisted himself up between them.

The two muscular guys: “…”

The professionally trained strongmen ×2 finally reacted. They immediately hauled their A-class combatant up and sprinted toward the scene.

At the Containment Department.

The inverted spire, forever cut off from daylight, now looked like it was smothered beneath storm clouds.

No. Looking more closely, what hung over everyone’s heads wasn’t cloud cover at all.

It was a mass of dark crimson patterns.

Slowly writhing. Constantly swelling. Like some living creature with a life of its own.

The director was frantically mobilizing every available force as cold sweat poured down his forehead. He never imagined the situation could deteriorate this dramatically in only a few short minutes.

The good news:

The Evil Domain was pulling its weight. When all the Aberrants below S-class broke out of containment, the Evil Domain immediately expanded its territory and sealed off every possible route of escape.

The bad news:

It couldn’t eat them fast enough, and the Evil Domain was irritated.

Clearly increasingly irritated.

Rapidly becoming incredibly, unbelievably irritated.

Everyone could sense the S-class Aberrant’s terrible mood. And by then, a highly corrosive acid rain was already falling from the sky.

Every drop that hit the ground began to sizzle, let alone what it would do to a human body.

There was no doubt, it was digestive fluid leaking out of control.

The director’s expression changed drastically, and he immediately grabbed his communicator and issued emergency orders.

“WATCH OVERHEAD! PROTECT YOURSELVES AND ALL CRITICAL EQUIPMENT!”

But issuing orders alone was already too late.

The director personally grabbed a protective suit and prepared to charge into the front line.

“Old man, stop right there.” A hoarse voice suddenly came from behind him.

“Lin Jianyuan?! You’re finally here!” The director froze, then turned around in delight, only to see Lin Jianyuan standing there deathly pale and drenched in sweat.

“What happened to you?!” The director was horrified. He blurted the question out and instinctively reached over to support the swaying Lin Jianyuan. “What’s wrong with you?!”

“I’m fine.” Lin Jianyuan pushed him away. His throat was hoarse as he said in a low voice, “What’s the situation now? Are the cells still usable?”

“Yes!” the director said quickly. “The engineers already finished the emergency repairs! The electrical circuits are back online, but the bronze circuit still isn’t working!”

“Got it.” He replied, then strode forward.

With the inverted spire at its center, dark crimson patterns covered the entire sky above the Containment Department.

That gloomy and dark-red sky, dripping acid without pause, was so familiar because it once gently sheltered Lin Jianyuan from wind and rain.

Where is Xie Yu?

Lin Jianyuan looked around, but there was no sign of Xie Yu anywhere. All he could see were countless Aberrants fleeing in every direction, along with flesh-pink intestines thrashing wildly through the air.

The intestinal tubes writhed like crazed tentacles, whipping and smashing around with no pattern whatsoever.

Some Aberrants were slammed violently against the walls and shattered on impact. While others were wrapped up, lifted high into the air, and thrown upward. From somewhere above came the muffled sounds of chewing.

Xie Yu was up there! But how was he supposed to get up?

Lin Jianyuan roared, “EYEBALL!”

But the damn eyeball didn’t activate.

Lin Jianyuan pulled it out and discovered that it was trembling violently and completely stiff.

It wasn’t just the eyeball, too. All the little toys were rigid and frozen, like chickens frozen stiff with fright.

Rank suppression.

Lin Jianyuan wasn’t an Aberrant himself, so he couldn’t experience the suppressive effect of a rampaging S-class Aberrant on every Aberrant below S-class.

What now? How was he supposed to get up there?

Up into that dark crimson sky to wake his lover and make him calm down?

Suddenly, a thick pink intestinal tube twisted upward with an Aberrant wrapped inside it.

Lin Jianyuan didn’t hesitate. He lunged forward and wrapped both arms around the intestine, which was swollen dozens of times larger than normal.

Damn! So slippery!

The instant Lin Jianyuan grabbed on, he went shloop and slid straight down, so he had no choice but to cling tightly with both arms and both legs.

The ground grew farther and farther away…

The rapidly intensifying sensation of being lifted into the air made Lin Jianyuan’s scalp go numb, and his arms and legs started trembling uncontrollably.

“LIN JIANYUAN!!!”

A furious roar came from below.

Shi Shaoning!

It was Shi Shaoning, who didn’t manage to leave work in time and turned around to work overtime for the ten-thousand-and-first time!

“ARE YOU TRYING TO DIE?! DON’T GO UP THERE!!!” Shi Shaoning roared!

Lin Jianyuan couldn’t worry about that anymore. He could only cling desperately to the flying intestine, squeeze his eyes shut, and yell back, “MIND YOUR OWN F**KING BUSINESS!!!”

Shi Shaoning: “???”

The flying intestine continued ascending.

Lin Jianyuan felt like he was riding the tallest drop tower in the universe. The difference was that there was no safety harness, and he could actually fall to his death.

His entire body shook uncontrollably. His teeth clenched and knocked together, making humiliating little chattering sounds.

Luckily, no one could hear.

Luckily, this high up, no one except his wife would be able to hear him.

“Xie Yu…” Lin Jianyuan forced the two syllables out with a trembling voice.

The flying intestine in his arms suddenly twitched, making Lin Jianyuan’s eyes light up. Full of hope, he raised his head and looked up, only to see a gigantic bloody maw hanging in midair.

The maw was eating another Aberrant. But after hearing Lin Jianyuan call his name... It stopped eating the other one and immediately lunged over to eat him instead!!!

Lin Jianyuan: “?”

Lin Jianyuan was horrified. “No, no, no! Wife! Wait! Wake up a little! Wife!!!”

He screamed in fright. His arms and legs loosened involuntarily, and his whole body went shloop down the flying intestine!

His shirt was ripped open from the friction, and the slick, mucus-covered intestinal wall pressed directly against his lower abdomen.

The cold, slippery sensation made Lin Jianyuan shudder from head to toe.

Shi Shaoning was right. Maybe he should go back down first!

Lin Jianyuan thought in terror.

Unfortunately, his wife gave him another surprise as a section of intestine shot through the air!

It darted out like lightning, wrapped around his waist in an instant, and carried him straight up into the sky!

Lin Jianyuan: “…”

There really was no need to give him this kind of special treatment.

“W-Wife… Baby, baby!” Lin Jianyuan raised his head, trembling.

What soft and adorable digestive system? There was nothing like that left in sight.

There was only one bloody maw suspended in the air.

An aircraft carrier! That big! A bloody maw!!!

His instinctive fear was completely uncontrollable, and Lin Jianyuan felt utterly humiliated this time.

How could he be wrapped up by his wife’s intestines, carried into the sky, and still be scared enough to tremble?!

Th-th-th-that's my wife! My wife!

My wife would absolutely never hurt me!

He at least had that much confidence!

Lin Jianyuan took a deep breath and tried his hardest to keep his teeth from chattering too loudly.

As he rose higher and higher, more intestines surged toward him. They wrapped around him, as if countless tubes thick and thin were coiling tightly over his body like enormous pythons.

But precisely because such a massive pile of internal organs wrapped him up so tightly, he was completely protected from the endless acid rain falling from above.

Not a single drop touched him.

I KNEW IT!!!

I KNEW MY WIFE WOULD NEVER HURT ME!!!

His wife definitely just wanted to see him. She was only in a bad mood and wanted to fish him out of the crowd so she could act spoiled, kiss him, and hug…

hug… him…

The next second, Lin Jianyuan was thrown directly into the enormous bloody maw.

Gulp.

Lin Jianyuan: “…”

Everyone on the ground: “…”

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

THE EVIL DOMAIN ACTUALLY ATE LIN JIANYUAN AAAAAAAAAAH!!!