"Open fire! Maximum power! Stop them!" Beacon's voice was as cold as iron. The fortress's turrets opened fire, lasers, missiles, and electromagnetic cannons weaving a web of death! However, the mechanical flesh beasts possessed terrifying defenses and regenerative abilities. Their shattered parts quickly reassembled under the enveloping dark purple energy!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The shield vibrated violently under the impact of the giant beast and the corrosion of the spores, and the light flickered!

"Ground! Black Snake Gang! They've gone mad!" On another screen, the scene was equally horrifying. The Black Snake Gang's thugs were no longer human! Injected with an overdose of "rage suppressants" mixed with unknown biological stimulants, their muscles bulged and tore their skin, their eyes bloodshot, and their mouths dripped with foul-smelling saliva. Like demons crawling from hell, they roared inhumanly. With speed and strength beyond human limits, disregarding casualties, they used their bodies and crude explosives to frantically assault the fortress's ground entrance! Behind them were the civilians of the Lower Town, held hostage and used as human shields! The cries, explosions, and frantic roars mingled together, forming a scene of hell on earth!

Lu Cheneng stood at the observation window of the main defense tower, gazing at the hellish scene below, at the civilians wailing amidst the shelling and madness, at the ever-widening cracks in the fortress's shields. A cold rage and a sense of powerlessness gripped his heart. His demonic blade hummed at his waist, growing more and more intensely, the hilt scorching hot, as if it yearned for slaughter and energy.

"Beacon! Suppress the fire! Avoid accidental casualties!" Lu Chensheng growled, grabbing the communicator at the same time. "Lu Chensheng calling the ground defense team! Organize an elite team. Objective: eliminate the hostage-taker and rescue the civilians! I'll lead the way!"

He no longer hesitated, turning and rushing out of the command tower. The moment the demon blade was unsheathed, a dazzling silver-blue light erupted from the dark blade. A violent energy flow swept through his body, temporarily suppressing the pain, but also bringing a deeper sense of tearing! He rushed into the ground battlefield like a human meteor!

Wherever the blade flashed, the drug-injected madmen fell like straw! The demonic blade not only severed flesh, but also greedily absorbed the violent vitality and chaotic spiritual energy within the madmen! With each absorption, the silver-blue light of the blade became more blazing, the bloodshot in Lu Chen's eyes became more intense, and the burning pain in the chip in his brain intensified! He felt like a shell about to burst with energy, but looking at the civilians behind him, who were being protected by the team and fleeing in fear, he couldn't stop!

"For the lighthouse! For freedom!" Under his leadership, the allies burst out with amazing fighting power and tore a bloody path through the crazy waves!

Suddenly, the fortress's energy shield let out a wail of strain! The largest mechanical beast, sacrificing half its body, finally broke through a massive breach! Dark purple bio-pulse spores poured in like a tide!

"The shield fails! Spores invade! Areas A and B are lost!" A shrill alarm resounded throughout the fortress!

At this desperate moment!

"Resonance virus...activate!" Wen Shifei's resolute voice sounded in the communication channel!

Buzz——!!!

An invisible data torrent, imbued with icy order and a fierce determination to "return to zero," surged violently from the fortress, flowing through all connected network nodes. Its target was the core of the chaebol's "beehive" system!

The effect is immediate!

The charging mechanical beasts froze as if paused! The dark purple energy veins on their bodies flickered crazily, emitting a piercing electronic noise like the wailing of countless people! Some of the beasts even began to kill each other, or turned their guns to bombard the chaebol fleet behind them!

The spore cloud that invaded the fortress seemed to have lost its vitality, falling and decomposing.

The crazy injectors of the Black Snake Gang, like puppets with their strings cut, collapsed to the ground in groups, their bodies twitching violently, foaming at the mouth, their vitality rapidly fading away - the virus not only attacks the "hive", but also attacks all targets that are deeply bound to the "zero" gene chain!

The battlefield suddenly fell into a strange stagnation! The balance of victory seemed to instantly tip towards the "Lighthouse"!

However, Wen Shifei's face in the studio instantly turned pale as paper! On the screen before her, the core data stream of the "Resonance Virus" was being frantically eroded and assimilated by a larger, colder, and more ancient will—the "Ark" signal! Far from suppressing the signal, the virus, like a piece of ice dropped into boiling oil, instantly detonated the signal's energy level!

"No... This is impossible..." Wen Shifei cried out in shock, his fingers tapping desperately on the keyboard, trying to cut the connection and initiate self-destruction! But it was too late!

Inside the fortress, the allies who had just been cheering suddenly clutched their heads and screamed in agony! Their eyes instantly became bloodshot, strange dark purple lines appeared beneath their skin, and their gazes became violent and chaotic! The mental pollution index instantly skyrocketed! The "Ark" signal was amplified a hundredfold by the virus, like a physical mental tsunami, sweeping across the entire fortress! Not even the energy barrier could completely block it!

Even more terrifying, the virus core before Wen Shifei, after consuming enough Ark signals, underwent a terrifying transformation! No longer a program, it transformed into a constantly rotating miniature seven-pointed star composed of dark purple and dark blue data! It broke through the physical isolation and hovered in the air above the studio, emitting a cold and seductive aura, like a living... beacon!

"It's calling... It's calling for the 'Watcher'!" Wen Shifei's heart sank to the freezing point, and she was instantly overwhelmed by a huge fear and self-blame! Her wisdom, the weapon she was so proud of, had become the catalyst that accelerated the arrival of the apocalypse! She felt like a sinner!

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