"Hurry!"

"Suspicious individuals spotted!"

"Move out!"

The South Bay staff in the monitoring room immediately sent out a signal, and the night shift patrol staff quickly mobilized... The patrol of the South Bay Building was very strict, with staff on duty on almost every floor.

Before the monitoring was destroyed, they remembered the floor numbers the suspicious individuals pressed, but just to be safe, the entire building's security had been mobilized. No one knew if this was misleading false information.

Because everything happened too coincidentally.

When they pressed the elevator floor numbers, the monitoring of all twelve elevators was simultaneously destroyed.

No one knew what floor these people were really heading to.

"Clang—"

"Clang—"

"Clang—"

One elevator after another stopped.

The security personnel, on high alert, looked solemn, as if facing a formidable enemy. But when they saw the scene after the elevator doors opened, they all fell silent.

The last elevator to stop arrived at the thirtieth floor.

This was the highest floor that could be reached without authorization... In fact, every building was like this: the higher the floor, the higher the status and power it symbolized. This was also the highest floor that security could reach. There were a total of nine security personnel waiting for the elevator doors to open.

After the doors opened, a young woman leaned against the inside of the elevator, her head tilted, as if she were asleep.

No.

She really was asleep... because there was a slight snoring sound. She looked extremely tired. This was the situation after the five elevators opened... The scene inside each elevator was exactly the same.

Everyone looked at each other in dismay.

If the other party had even a hint of suspicion of intrusion, they would take the most severe action. But when they opened the elevators, the other party was actually sleeping? What was going on?

...

...

The moment he retracted Blazing Fire.

Gu Shen began his own operation.

He entered the building. This time, there was no danger. The security personnel had been hypnotized, the entrance monitoring had been destroyed, and no one knew he had entered here... The ground forces of this building had probably been drawn away to deal with the sudden emergency.

If he guessed correctly, there would be a large number of security personnel guarding the elevator doors on each floor.

After entering the building, he pressed his hand to his forehead, and Blazing Fire spread out once again. His mental strength expanded, and he vaguely saw wall after wall. A cross-section of this floor briefly appeared in his mind.

He retracted his mental strength.

Gu Shen strode forward, turned right after entering, then turned left, and passed through a long corridor.

Gu Shen arrived in front of the power supply room. He grasped the door lock expressionlessly.

"Chizzz~~"

He let go.

The door lock was burned and melted.

He came to the front of the power supply room, thought for a moment, and then attached Blazing Fire to two of his fingers, remotely manipulating the main switch.

"Zzzzt!"

Arcs of electricity splashed.

The high temperature directly burned out the main switch.

And so... this South Bay Building, as cold as a knife's edge, was left with only cold in an instant.

The power was cut off.

The entire building was plunged into darkness. Many staff members who were working overtime looked blankly at each other, not knowing what had happened. This was an extremely rare occurrence.

"I don't know where the backup power supply is... According to the normal start-up speed, it will take at least 15 minutes. I probably have 15 minutes to act."

Gu Shen took a light breath. He didn't hesitate and began his operation.

Leaving the power supply room, he went directly into the stairwell and began to run at full speed.

The power outage meant that all the monitoring systems were off.

In this 39-story high-rise, unless there was a major accident like a fire, no one would enter the stairwell. But to ensure his safety, Gu Shen lowered his breathing and tensed all his muscles... He wasn't sure if there were any transcendents among the security personnel, or if they would be sensitive enough to catch the sound of someone climbing the stairs.

Even if there were, he couldn't afford to think too much about it.

Gu Shen's speed was extremely fast... although he couldn't compare to a power-type transcendent.

But in terms of physical fitness, he far surpassed other mental-type transcendents of the same rank.

He held the stair railing with one hand, taking one big leap after another, as light as a large bird. Two or three big leaps were enough to climb an entire flight of stairs... Perhaps it was the result of tempering from the Jingzhe Breathing Method. He didn't feel strained to complete these movements. In just one breath, he climbed fifteen floors in a row. But as he released a breath, the tense sweat in his pores suddenly seeped out, and enormous pressure came from all over his body. This was the first time he had fully extended the breathing method and used his body at such a high load.

Blood seemed to be drawn away, all sent to the heart.

His body had turned into a huge pump!

Under these circumstances, the potential of a transcendent was stimulated like never before!

Gu Shen realized at this moment that the Adjudication Office's understanding of the Jingzhe Breathing Method... was perhaps completely wrong. It was not just a method for tempering the mind.

When one breath was held, that is, in the closed state of maintaining the breathing method.

The body would also receive corresponding tempering!

"Now is not the time to be thinking about this..."

Gu Shen quickly pulled back his thoughts.

He immediately took a deep breath to replenish his second breath.

This time, he climbed to the twenty-fifth floor. While exchanging his breath, he heard hurried footsteps and the conversation of security personnel.

"What the hell is going on? What are these sleeping guys in the elevators?!"

His false information had taken effect... The security guards of South Bay Building had not yet realized what was happening.

"If we manually start the backup power supply, it will still take ten minutes at the earliest!"

Hmm... The time was more urgent than he had anticipated!

"It's too late... Request Deep Sea intervention!"

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.

He didn't yet fully understand what kind of power Deep Sea possessed, but he knew that once this network was deployed, his actions would be even more difficult. The time he had now was very short.

He had to speed up, and speed up again.

He continued to climb the stairs.

The thirtieth floor's access control was not specifically set up here in the stairwell... This climb was smoother than expected. Gu Shen had originally decided that if he encountered any obstacles, he would directly burn through them with Blazing Fire.

With the power cut off, breaking through the access control wouldn't immediately trigger an alarm.

"Thirty-nine..."

"Here."

Gu Shen moved gently, pushed open the stairwell door, and slowly arrived at the top floor of South Bay Building.

Before pushing open the door, his mental strength spread out in advance. It seemed that those security personnel didn't have the authority to come here either. The thirty-ninth floor was unusually quiet.

On the thirty-ninth floor... there was a glass door. It was clear that it required iris or fingerprint scanning to enter. Now that the power was cut off, all the verification methods were ineffective.

Gu Shen placed one hand on the glass door.

He was prepared to use the simplest and most brutal method to open the door.

"Chizz!"

Blazing Fire burned the glass, and it made a boiling roar. However, the surface of the glass didn't show the expected melting or shattering. A layer of light red fluid appeared.

"Red Silver..."

Gu Shen frowned.

The next moment.

The dark lights suddenly turned on.

The light was restored in an instant. The bright environment made Gu Shen somewhat uncomfortable. The silence was broken, and even the faint sound of electricity in the light tubes was so harsh at this moment... making one feel terrified.

From the start of his operation to reaching the top.

It had taken at most 3 minutes.

The power had been restored. The entire building had returned to the warm embrace of light. All the employees breathed a sigh of relief, because a reassuring voice sounded.

"Deep Sea has connected..."

Gu Shen, on the other hand, stood stiffly, staring blankly at the glass door.

The monitoring restarted.

The iris scanning system began to operate.

His data was uploaded to the cloud and then presented to the verification program. He could foresee what would happen next... Gu Shen was already considering the plan to use the Ruler of Truth to jump off the thirty-ninth floor.

Deep Sea had taken over this building.

Gu Shen could feel countless eyes opening in the darkness, and these eyes eventually looked at him, and gave a report after verification.

With a "beep" sound.

An ear-piercing, but not hostile, sound rang out.

That indestructible Red Silver blast door slowly opened to both sides.

Gu Shen's forehead was covered in sweat. He didn't know what was happening.

The door opened?

How did he pass the verification?

And... He raised his head with some difficulty, covertly casting a puzzled glance at the surveillance camera while keeping the brim of his hat as low as possible.

There was no blind spot on the thirty-ninth floor.

Wasn't his entry into this place... captured by the surveillance?

The scene in the monitoring room was calm... After the power was restored, the monitoring at the entrances of all the floors was restored, including the monitoring in the stairwell.

The thirty-ninth floor was peaceful.

As silent as a frozen oil painting.

After Deep Sea took over, everyone was no longer so nervous. They were all waiting for the analysis from the Deep Sea database... and the final conclusion was very simple.

This was a power outage accident.

...

...

Ten seconds passed.

There were no abnormalities.

The noise and commotion downstairs slowly dissipated. No one was going to enter the thirty-ninth floor where he was.

Ten seconds. If his information had been captured, then this time would have been enough for the staff of South Bay Building to take action.

But now, everything was peaceful, which could only mean one thing.

"I haven't been exposed..."

Gu Shen slowly wiped the sweat from his forehead. More than being surprised, he was more puzzled.

"Why is that?"

He tentatively entered the door. There were no alarms, the door didn't close, and the lights on the thirty-ninth floor were all on, peaceful, as if welcoming its master back.

It wasn't until the rustling sound of electricity rang out in front of a desk that his confusion was answered.

It was a forgotten communicator.

A familiar voice rang from the communicator.

"Hello—"

"Hello—"

Because it was an old-fashioned communicator, the owner of the voice symbolically tested it to see if the other party could hear.

Then.

"Sorry for the wait..."

Gu Shen stood blankly on the spot.

After the test was completed, that voice, with a gentle smile, bloomed like a flower in the late night of the thirty-ninth floor.

"I'm back."