Chapter 892: Chapter 471: The Price
Hawke is an experienced security elite.
His combat team serves dozens of mega-corporations simultaneously.
In the Kali Civilization, mega-corporations are almost equivalent to official institutions, deeply woven into every aspect of society, possessing immense authority.
Being able to serve mega-corporations is a dream that most people from the Kali Civilization aspire to from a young age.
Hawke cherishes this opportunity, always giving a hundred percent effort within the security team.
A week ago, Hawke’s efforts finally paid off. The supervisor privately spoke with him, promising that he would be promoted by the next evaluation, removing the “deputy” from his deputy team leader title.
Hawke was thrilled, until he received the mission to Dunk City.
This task seemed to only involve the simple act of retrieving a person from an apartment in the local city.
But Hawke did not expect that as soon as he and his team entered the city, chaos erupted.
The unrest quickly spread throughout the city, paralyzing various order-maintaining institution systems and equipment.
Upon witnessing the root of the chaos and discovering that it was actually deformed monsters,
Hawke and his team lost the courage to continue the mission, desiring only to flee the city.
However, they quickly received despair-inducing news from above.
Dunk City had been locked down, with intelligent systems that would destroy all unauthorized vehicles and life forms attempting to leave.
The only way for Hawke and his team to leave the city was by completing the mission.
And pray that their target was valuable enough to the researchers to make an exception and send a transport aircraft to take them away.
After the supervisor offered assurance: don’t worry, double the compensation will certainly be given to the beneficiaries—and then cut off communications.
Hawke and his team could only cling to the perhaps non-existent lifeline, barreling their way to the apartment building where their target, Cavert, resided.
Hawke’s team initially had nine people, divided into three combat groups.
However, by the time they reached the apartment entrance, only Hawke and one new security recruit following him closely remained.
The others either got lost in escape and lost communication or, after encountering those deformity monsters, began to grotesquely transform themselves after killing them.
Seeing such circumstances, Hawke made the determined choice never to retaliate against the pursuing deformed monsters—only to run away!
The apartment building stood nineteen stories tall, echoing with the roars or wails of deformed monsters.
But luckily, they seemed to all be in rooms; two who didn’t dare take the elevator, choosing instead to stair climb, didn’t encounter any deformed monster blocking their way.
However, after reaching the target floor and circling the corridor.
They found themselves unable to locate Cavert’s apartment!
“Was there a mistake in the data?”
Hawke murmured and checked the data on his helmet’s display, applying for communication.
However, the screen displayed a huge red cross.
This darkened Hawke’s face, and unwilling, he and the rookie confirmed each apartment again.
They indeed found none that matched the apartment noted in the data.
As if… right on this floor, the apartment didn’t exist.
Hawke considered the possibility that it was a layout issue, opening the two apartments numbered near that of the target apartment.
Both turned out to be empty.
One seemed a woman lived alone, the other was empty, clearly uninhabited for some time.
The data for these two matched what was on file.
No, if data was right, then where was the target apartment tucked between these two?
Hawke retreated from the empty apartment, realizing the complexity of the situation.
Thinking it over, he and the rookie headed down to the next floor to see if the layout might reveal something.
But as soon as they descended a floor, Hawke realized something was off.
Shouldn’t they have gone down a floor?
Why did his mark left on the above floor appear here?
Hawke swallowed, rapidly moving to the nearest door and checking its number.
Confirming it truly was the room number of the floor they had just left.
Hawke opened his mouth to say something, when he suddenly noticed more abnormalities.
Since starting the descent, it seemed as though silence engulfed his ears.
The cries of malformed monsters from inside and outside the apartment building.
Suddenly fell silent?
Hawke twitched his mouth slightly, stealthily drew a small knife, walking to the side of the corridor facing empty space, dropping the knife straight down.
Then, Hawke saw the knife suddenly vanish from sight after falling a certain height.
Furthermore, waiting a while, there was no sound of a heavy object hitting the ground.
This confirmed for Hawke that they encountered an anomaly only read about in science fiction.
“Is the world truly changing?”
“Even the contents of science fiction and horror stories are appearing?”
“Stay calm, stay calm.”
Hawke’s composure wasn’t poor considering the incomprehensible situation.
He still maintained calm thinking, even taking a moment to reassure the rookie’s mental state.
However, Hawke quickly found out it wasn’t just a matter of walking out of this eerie corridor or failing to find the target apartment.
Hawke noticed as time passed, his own body began showing signs of deformed meat bags.