"The higher-ups are alarmed, which means Chu Ling's time to control the building is running out."

Gu Shen lay prone on top of the elevator car, maintaining a state of near "silent extinction," holding still, every movement arrested, because even the slightest tremor would alert Chen Mo.

The elevator slowly ascended.

Fortunately... Chen Mo didn't detect his presence. Blazing Fire successfully concealed Gu Shen.

In Crow's estimation, Chen Mo was the only opponent worth taking seriously in the Chengxin Society. His strength was estimated to be at the peak of Deep Sea Level Eleven.

He was probably only a hair's breadth away from being granted a title.

If they fought, Gu Shen was well aware of his own limitations... His chances of winning were zero out of ten.

His probability of successfully escaping was also zero.

In the face of absolute power, any tricks or schemes were useless.

"I absolutely can't be discovered."

Gu Shen held his breath. Although his movements were frozen, his mind was racing... He didn't know if Chen Mo's choice of this elevator was a coincidence. If it was just accidental, then he still had a chance.

When the elevator stopped, Chen Mo would leave.

He could switch cars in the shaft. As the elevator descended, he could escape... The surveillance cameras in the Nanwan Building's elevator shaft had been completely cleared.

But the only problem was time.

Once a true Deep Sea took over the building, he would have nowhere to hide.

Was there enough time?

"The elevator is still rising... It seems he chose the 39th floor..."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. Seeing Chen Mo's choice of elevator, his speculation was confirmed once again. Sure enough, the most important secrets were stored on the top floor of the Nanwan Building.

Chen Mo was going to check it himself.

"Clang!"

The elevator arrived. Chen Mo didn't linger. He left directly and came to the red and silver glass door. The iris recognition system recognized his identity, and the door slowly opened.

Seeing Chen Mo leave.

The powerful sense of oppression that enveloped Gu Shen's heart finally disappeared... This man had given him an unprecedentedly strong sense of crisis.

If Chen Mo hadn't left the elevator car, Gu Shen wouldn't have dared to move even a finger.

He took a deep breath and jumped towards the other side in the darkness.

His body plummeted.

But the soft light of the Ruler of Truth enveloped Gu Shen, and a pair of smooth wings materialized on his back. The wings unfolded in the narrow, dark elevator shaft, and Gu Shen landed extremely gently on the top of the nearest elevator.

Chu Ling's reminder echoed in the darkness.

"My permissions are about to expire... There are 10 seconds left before Deep Sea completely takes over the building."

10 seconds?

The moment Gu Shen jumped, Chu Ling arranged for the adjacent elevator to float up and meet him. After landing, this elevator began to descend.

"Not enough time."

Gu Shen took a deep breath. He stretched out two fingers and gently twisted the cable.

Enveloped in Blazing Fire.

The smell of burning instantly spread out, and the cable was burned.

The moment the first cable was burned, the elevator made a dull sound in the shaft. This elevator was equipped with twelve steel suspension ropes. The breaking of one rope had no effect.

"Help me turn off the safety clamp system."

Gu Shen said in a low voice. Before he finished speaking, the Ruler of Truth's radiance had already enveloped his palm. He gripped the remaining steel cables tightly, and countless sparks burst out in the darkness.

By the time this elevator fell normally... Deep Sea would have taken over the building. Even if the surveillance cameras in the shaft were eliminated, it would be able to detect the abnormality of the elevator falling. In the current situation, special measures had to be taken.

"You're planning to burn the cables?" Chu Ling was surprised by Gu Shen's decisiveness.

Even she hadn't thought of this plan.

More than a hundred meters above the ground, free-falling from this height, the falling time was just over three seconds.

With only ten seconds of authority left, this was the fastest solution to leave the building.

There should still be guards on the first floor.

However, these guards were likely to be normal people... Using Blazing Fire to hypnotize them would only take a moment. As long as Chen Mo didn't notice Gu Shen's actions in the elevator shaft, escaping the building with this plan would be enough time!

"Boom—"

All twelve safety cables snapped!

The alloy car body, with a counterweight of two thousand pounds, slid down the dark shaft, a hundred meters high, like a metal block thrown heavily off a cliff. Gu Shen kicked down the alloy roof and fell into the car body of this large iron block, preparing to pounce out the moment it fell.

"With your current physical strength, you can't withstand this pressure..."

Chu Ling's voice was a little anxious.

"Trust me, turn off the safety clamp."

Gu Shen took a deep breath, and the radiance of the Ruler of Truth emerged, layers of silver light wrapping his calves. Because the alloy roof had been blown off, a strong wind poured into the elevator car, and he could feel immense pressure coming.

……

……

Thirty-ninth floor.

Chen Mo looked around, silently watching Ye Ningqiu's office... Everything here was quiet.

There was no trace of anything having been touched.

The monitoring also showed peace and tranquility, with no anomalies.

But an odd feeling arose in Chen Mo's heart. It was the intuition of an extraordinary person, and it was extremely accurate. He felt that someone had been here.

If he believed his intuition, then he would need to... suspect Deep Sea.

Chen Mo was silent for a second.

Between Deep Sea and intuition... he chose to believe the latter.

He didn't believe that the power outage in the Nanwan Building, the cutting of the elevator monitoring, everything was just a coincidence.

The traces of human intervention here were too obvious...

Just then, there was a "crack" sound in the distance.

A very slight sound, but in Chen Mo's ears, it was like thunder. His expression instantly became serious, and he darted to the elevator front almost like lightning. The next moment, the alloy iron plate was blown off, and the young man wearing flip-flops gently leaped up, the cup of coffee in his hand not spilling at all, and lightly stepped on the top of the car.

He saw the dazzling arc of light in the dark shaft, and he also saw the section of the elevator car falling rapidly.

All the surveillance cameras in the shaft had been destroyed.

So that's it... hiding here.

Chen Mo looked down expressionlessly.

He lifted his foot.

And stomped down.

……

……

The instant Chen Mo disappeared from the thirty-ninth floor's monitoring, Chu Ling issued a warning.

"Chen Mo is moving!"

Gu Shen's expression was very ugly.

He couldn't figure out how this guy had noticed... Wasn't he being too sensitive?

He had clearly handled the objects and furnishings on the thirty-ninth floor very carefully, and he had also used Blazing Fire to eliminate mental traces. If Chen Mo hadn't noticed Blazing Fire's ability, then in theory, he couldn't have found any clues from the thirty-ninth floor.

Unfortunately, some people in this world don't act based on evidence.

Only on feeling.

Gu Shen, standing in the light, looked up at the end of the darkness where the arc of light had dissipated, the elevator car suspended on the thirty-ninth floor, seemingly suppressed by a huge force. In an instant, all twelve steel cables snapped.

Extremely fast!

Gu Shen had a chilling feeling of being chased by a meteor. Countless arcs of light fell in the darkness, as if these meteors were about to engulf him in the next moment!

But then there was a "thump" sound!

Like a great bell, rolling within the walls of the narrow shaft, shaking people's eardrums.

In the last of her authority, Chu Ling manipulated the system and activated the safety clamps in the elevator shaft.

"Too late—"

Only one thought was in Gu Shen's mind.

The safety clamp had caught the section of the elevator where Chen Mo was.

But only for a moment. The next moment, the man standing on the car, without any visible action, seemed to only exert a little force with his feet, and the layer of safety clamps that had originally firmly stopped the elevator shattered directly.

With a "rumbling" thunderous sound and a gust of wind, Chen Mo stepped on the falling elevator, arriving ahead of Gu Shen. The two sections of the elevator fell to the first floor almost at the same time. The two security guards guarding the hall looked at each other in astonishment. They only heard two loud noises, one after the other.

The elevator doors didn't even open.

A voice sounded.

"...Get out of the way!"

The elevator was kicked and shattered. The entire car was powerfully kicked out the moment it landed, like a football that had fallen from a great height. The man wearing flip-flops leaped out as he landed and swept his leg horizontally.

Countless fragments splashed.

The bent and broken elevator door struggled to open a small part, revealing Chen Mo, who was stepping on the broken pieces of steel. The cup of coffee he was holding had spilled a little, but his expression was somewhat gloomy.

The elevator was empty.

At this moment, the connection sound came again in Chen Mo's ears.

"Ding."

"Deep Sea has successfully connected and officially taken over the Nanwan Building."

Hearing this sound—

Chen Mo's originally calm hand, steadily holding the disposable coffee cup, suddenly clenched, slowly squeezing the paper cup into a wad of waste paper.

He realized that he had been tricked. If the current sound meant that Deep Sea had successfully connected... then what was taking over the building earlier?

Were all the previous deployments... just to tease him?

The key was that he had indeed been played around by the other party.

From beginning to end, he hadn't even seen what the intruder looked like... He didn't even know where that guy had escaped to.

"Deep Sea, investigate the extraordinary intruders currently in the Nanwan Building."

Chen Mo's voice was a little hoarse. He returned to the elevator and waited quietly for Deep Sea's reply.

In the brief silence.

He recalled everything that had been clearly planned meticulously.

The other party was likely backed by an extremely efficient team, and they had extremely strong data access capabilities. The moment the Nanwan Building requested access to Deep Sea, the intruder team took the opportunity to connect... This was the only reason he could think of why the monitoring had been normal.

But it didn't matter.

Now the building was back under his control.

The cat and mouse game had only just begun.

"Scanning... please wait."

Chen Mo waited patiently for several seconds. He had already prepared to kill his way up again. This time, no matter what method the other party used, they wouldn't be able to escape his pursuit.

Chen Mo's finger hovered in front of the elevator button.

Finally, Deep Sea gave a response.

"Nanwan Building, scan completed... No intruders found."