Seeing the little dragon fall, Jia Mao was really shocked and angry. In a moment of desperation, he didn't care about anything else and slapped Ding Meng.
Previously, no one had paid much attention to this man in a suit from Extreme Heaven Company. However, with this slap, the alloy steel plate on the ground was swept up by the wind from his palm, and like a stream of water, it flew towards Ding Meng.
This stream of water also contained two other powerful waves — Ren Zhan's Iron Palm and Butcher's fist. The three waves of heat energy merged into one and pushed out in a manner that could topple mountains and overturn seas.
This force was so strong that the person squatting next to it suffered. Four Eyes' underwear was instantly ignited. He stood up and jumped around, trying to put out the fire. Unfortunately, his underwear was too thin, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into ashes.
Looking down again, Four Eyes was sure that his eyes were not playing tricks on him this time. F * ck your mother, all the hair on my underwear is burnt, you bastards …
Jia Mao and the other two attacked together, but Ding Meng had already dodged faster than a rabbit. He did not even draw his sword. After landing, he rolled on the ground, then pounced forward. After landing, he rolled twice to retrieve his sword. The sword spun in the air and cut through the steel plate flying towards him. Then, he kicked off the wall of the corridor and used the rebound force to fly towards the elevator. His movements were shockingly fast.
"Chase!" Ren Zhan was the first to rush out.
Jia Mao and Butcher did not fall behind. The three of them rushed towards the elevator as fast as lightning.
"Quick, send Brother Xiao Long to the infirmary!" Qiang Wei pretended to shout from behind.
At this moment, the elevator doors opened. The marshal had just walked out, and before he could see what was happening, he felt a gust of wind that made him unable to open his eyes. Then, he felt a pain in the back of his neck, and the whole world was spinning.
Ding Meng reached out and grabbed the marshal's neck. Like grabbing a chicken, he carried him from the safety stairs to the sixteenth floor.
The sixteenth floor was naturally guarded by layers of security, but at this moment, the entire floor's defenses were malfunctioning. Even the alarm had not been triggered.
The door of the energy warehouse was ten meters tall, and its size was even larger than the outer entrance. The two alloy doors were opening at an extremely slow speed. The six mercenaries at the door looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.
Normally, one would have to go through identity verification to enter and exit this place, but this time, the door opened automatically.
Suddenly, a hologram automatically popped up on the wrist device. Ren Zhan's face hadn't yet been formed, but a voice sounded first, "Stop him …"
It was too late. Ding Meng, who was running wildly in the tunnel, threw the Marshal out like a shield. The six mercenaries didn't even have time to raise their energy guns when the Marshal's thick and heavy body smashed them to the ground.
Taking advantage of this gap, Ding Meng flew into the door and dragged the Marshal inside.
By the time Ren Zhan and the other two arrived, the door had already been closed again.
Jia Mao let out a long sigh. He could see that the door of the energy warehouse was at least 10 meters thick. Even armor would not be able to break it open.
At the same time, all the light sources in the tunnel went out with a hum.
"What's going on?" Jia Mao realized that the situation was getting worse.
Ren Zhan's expression was terrifyingly cold, "The entire building's control system has been rebooted."
Jia Mao immediately understood. When they came down, something had happened to the core hall on the twentieth floor.
"Go back!" Ren Zhan turned around decisively.
The reality was that the three of them couldn't go back. The safety stairs, elevators, and entrances to the sixteenth floor were all closed.
About three minutes later, the system was probably done rebooting. The light sources returned to normal, and the screens in the tunnel lit up again. Ren Zhan turned on his wrist device and sent the hologram to the connection at the entrance of the energy warehouse.
The system's voice said, "Insufficient authority, unable to activate."
Ren Tu said in shock, "Has everyone's authority been shut down?"
Ren Zhan quickly operated the wrist device. This time, it was not connected to the energy warehouse, but to the twentieth floor. His wrist device had special authority within the army. It could connect back to the core hall instantly without any restrictions.
The screens on the surrounding walls finally changed. At this moment, Jia Mao and Ren Tu's expressions changed as well.
In the core command hall, more than a hundred staff members were sprawled on the ground. A layer of milky white smoke seemed to pervade the area. Only three people were alive. Four-eyes was squatting in the corner, trembling. Yan Jie was limp on the ground, and Qiang Wei was standing in the middle, looking around.
"Qiang Wei, what's going on?" Ren Tu asked sternly. "What are you up to at such a crucial time?"
"He's not the real Qiang Zi."
Ren Zhan suddenly calmed down and silently watched the communication screen, "If I'm not wrong, his name is Nightmare."
"Nightmare?"
Hearing this name, Ren Tu sucked in a cold breath. He suddenly remembered something and said, "Some time ago, Huang Long brought a guy named 'Le Tian' back. I was curious, but I haven't seen this person since. There's no record of him leaving the space station. Could this Le Tian be Nightmare?"
On the screen, Nightmare suddenly raised his head and smiled strangely at the surveillance camera. "Ren Zhan, you have good eyesight. You actually recognized me."
Ren Zhan coldly said, "I didn't expect it to be you at first, but to poison so many people in an instant, I can't think of anyone in outer space other than you who has the ability to poison so many people."
Ren Tu also realized that Ding Meng had not appeared to ambush a mere Xiao Long. Instead, he had lured the three of them away so that Nightmare could make a move on the staff in the command hall.
Once these workers fell, the King of Nightmares could easily restart the central system, trapping everyone on the spot.
"So you're in cahoots with Ding Meng. You double agent." Ren Tu was quite angry.
Nightmare smiled sinisterly. "I'm not in cahoots with anyone. Don't forget, I'm an important guest that your Commander Huang invited back."
"What are you trying to do?" Ren Zhan asked coldly.
Nightmare smiled. "Since I'm a guest, and I've come to Meteor City, I can't return empty-handed, can I?"
Ren Zhan sneered. "I'm just afraid that you won't be able to get anything. In the end, you might even get yourself involved."
"You don't have to worry about that." Nightmare smiled even more happily. "Since I can come in, I'm confident that I can take something away."
After saying this, the surveillance screen was immediately cut off. The screen was full of flickering pockmarks.
Jia Mao could not help but ask, "Is there no way for us to go up?"
Ren Zhan muttered, "This guy clearly came prepared. We can't go anywhere in a short amount of time."
Jia Mao was obviously not stupid. After thinking for a moment, he said, "If he really is Nightmare, then Qiang Zi would have been killed by him a long time ago."
Ren Zhan said, "Nightmare doesn't have the ability to deal with Qiang Zi."
Jia Mao was silent for a moment. Then he sighed. "Miss Bing wasn't talking nonsense."
Ren Zhan asked, "What did she say?"
Jia Mao sighed. "When we set off, Miss Bing repeatedly warned us to be careful of Ding Meng. We were too careless. I really didn't expect that Ding Meng was not even Qiang Zi's match."
Butcher suddenly said, "If Qiang Zi is dead, then Dai Yi should still be on the twenty-first floor."
Jia Mao understood what he meant. "But now that everything has been closed, we can't go to the twenty-first floor."
"No!"
Ren Zhan replied coldly. "We won't be trapped for too long. When Boss comes back, whether it's this Ding Meng, Nightmare, or Dai Yi, they will all die."
He had come to this conclusion too early. At this moment, on the first floor of the energy warehouse, Ding Meng was looking around.
The warehouse of the Sky Wolf Corps was far beyond his expectations. The interior of the warehouse was not like the warehouse of a starship, which was filled with neatly arranged alloy shelves filled with all kinds of supplies.
Instead, it was like the metal passageways inside a starship. The passageways were extremely narrow, allowing only three people to pass through side by side. The walls on both sides looked like they were made of crystal, but in reality, they were embedded with huge alloy drawers. To open them, one had to have the corresponding password and password.
The passageways extended in all directions, and the number of drawers was uncountable. There were probably tens of thousands of them on the sixteenth floor alone. The scale of the warehouse was truly astonishing.
Ding Meng was not in a hurry. He took out a high-grade healing mixture and played with it in his hand. He looked at the general lying on the ground with great interest.
The general's fall was not light. Many of the bones in his body were broken, and a large amount of blood was flowing from his mouth. There was no way he could stand up.
Ding Meng squatted down in front of him and said calmly, "I'll tell you one thing. Sadler, Vader, Julie, and those people who tried to kill me in the Falcon Spaceship are all dead."
If this had happened a few months ago, the general would not have taken Ding Meng seriously. But now, he knew very well that Ding Meng was no longer the "ignorant person" he used to be.
"What do you want?"
The general gritted his teeth, and beads of sweat kept seeping out of his forehead. He was quite tough. Although the pain was unbearable, at least he did not kneel and beg for mercy.
Ding Meng asked, "Back at the Black Gold Base, even Julie did not manage to escape. How did you do it?"
The general gritted his teeth and said, "When you and Vader took off with the Mystic Bird, I knew something was wrong. I did not go to the mine. Instead, I flew behind you."
Ding Meng wanted to laugh. This guy usually looked cold on the outside, but in reality, he was very afraid of death. He did not go to rescue Julie. Instead, he slipped away first.
The general said, "You should thank me. Actually, I saved you that time."
"Oh?" Ding Meng was a little curious.
The general panted and said, "After I flew onto the transport ship, I found out that Baines and Rebeca had personally driven the Falcon Spaceship to kill you."
"So what?" Ding Meng stared at him.
The general said, "The Swordfish spaceship that you and Vader took away will be caught up to by them sooner or later. And there is no way you can escape."
Ding Meng had to admit this. Even though Xin Jie was so heaven-defying back then, the Swordfish spaceship was still shot down by the Falcon Spaceship in the end.
The general continued, "I checked the departure records of the Swordfish spaceship and the Falcon Spaceship on the transport ship. I found that you escaped in the direction of nebula TCP121. That is the Norse Empire's observation area."
Ding Meng asked, "And then?"
The general gritted his teeth and said, "I sent a quantum distress signal to the nearest space station of the Norse Empire when no one was paying attention."
Ding Meng was stunned. He could not figure out the general's reason for doing this.