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Chapter 255 - Chapter 5: Ming Yu's Goal

Walking alone in the empty corridor, Ming Yu couldn't help but feel a little excited.

It was not unexpected that he could get here. But to get here so easily was a bit surprising to him. ME Corp's defenses were much weaker than he had anticipated.

Originally, he had been prepared to deploy his Lunar Abyss Armor and fight his way through. After all, a little over a year from now, ME Corp would be a place where even an S-rank Valkyrie had to tread carefully.

But looking at the completely scrapped Titans behind him, Ming Yu's assessment of Anti-Entropy couldn't help but drop a little lower.

If Welt didn't show up, you could bundle the rest of Anti-Entropy together and they still wouldn't be a match for Cocolia's orphanage. Any ordinary S-rank Valkyrie from Schicksal could carve a path through them seven times over. Ahem, and that's not intentionally excluding a certain white-haired loli.

Using the power of the Divine Key only in its Dustless Sword form, while not as powerful as the Lunar Abyss Armor form, had only left Ming Yu somewhat fatigued, far from reaching his limit.

Suddenly, Ming Yu's advancing figure paused slightly, the expression under his mask couldn't help but change.

From the information transmitted by Jizo Mitama, the Chariot-class Honkai Beast among the three had already been eliminated, and even the other two were in a precarious situation.

As expected, ME Corp still had some strength; they couldn't be underestimated. In that case, he needed to speed things up on his end.

Nodding to himself, Ming Yu's pace quickened.

Entering the laboratory area and looking at the bottles and jars on the test benches, Ming Yu felt a headache coming on. While someone dedicated to scientific research might be very interested in these reagents, perhaps even too excited to move, for Ming Yu, it was just a headache.

But fortunately, his goal did not lie here.

The research staff had already received the invasion alert and evacuated in advance. There was even uncleaned equipment and ongoing reactions on the lab tables.

After a quick scan to confirm there was no danger, Ming Yu paid these things no mind. He was just here to get what he wanted, not simply to cause destruction.

Although he didn't understand the significance of these things, pure destruction was unnecessary.

His gaze passed over the lab benches, and he saw his objective for this trip.

Hurrying to the center of the lab area, Ming Yu's fingers touched the control keyboard of the terminal. The dim screen showed that the terminal was off, but the slight residual heat from the machine indicated it had been in use not long ago.

Rebooting the terminal, Ming Yu opened his right hand, and a long black sword appeared in his grasp. The Key of Corruption revealed its form inside ME Corp for the first time.

Looking at the verification interface on the screen, Ming Yu's heart stilled. He took a deep breath, and the Jizo Mitama in his right hand rose slightly. The dark blade took on a transparent, illusory quality, and ink-black flames danced merrily upon it.

"Slash!"

With a sharp cry, the black longsword passed straight through the projection screen and the terminal's body.

There wasn't a single crack on the terminal, but the screen suddenly flashed with countless lines of garbled code. In just a few seconds, firewall after firewall was forcibly broken, and the highest level of authority was opened to the wielder of the Key of Corruption.

The firewalls that Anti-Entropy had placed on this terminal alone would have been enough to hold back the world's top hackers for a significant amount of time, long enough for Anti-Entropy to launch a countermeasure.

But before Jizo Mitama, which wielded the supreme power of corruption, all of this was useless. One after another, the virtual barriers were utterly shattered by the power of corruption.

Without wasting precious time, Ming Yu immediately began searching Anti-Entropy's database for what he wanted, an ocean of data flowing before his eyes.

A faint smile curved under his mask, his black eyes reflecting the screen's soft glow as words like "Herrscher," "Nagazora," and "Gem of Conquest" flashed by.

......

On his way out, Ming Yu truly managed to be unseen and unheard, not alerting anyone.

Although the Honkai Beasts were almost completely eliminated, the impact they caused had not yet subsided, and large areas were in ME Corp's surveillance blind spots. Unless Ming Yu deliberately wanted to be high-profile, it was basically impossible for anyone to find him.

Looking down at the chaotic scene at ME Corp below, Ming Yu felt a wave of complexity in his heart.

Even though he had calculated that ME Corp would suffer considerable damage and had prepared himself to accept it, seeing it with his own eyes still made Ming Yu feel terrible.

Once glorious buildings were now in ruins, the giant corpses of Honkai Beasts lay to the side, and rescue mechs shuttled back and forth nonstop...

Even if someone told him that ME Corp had no casualties, Ming Yu would not believe it.

"If there is a judgment after death, a person like me probably deserves to go to the eighteenth level of hell."

With a few bitter laughs, the light in Ming Yu's eyes dimmed.

Shaking his head, Ming Yu temporarily cast aside those feelings of loss. Since he had something he had to accomplish no matter the cost, why would he be afraid of getting his hands dirty?

With a sudden flap of his faint cyan wings of light, Ming Yu's figure shot upwards, flying into the dark clouds, leaving the wreckage of ME Corp far behind.

In the piercingly cold wind, a gray cloak fluttered. Orange flames licked at it. In the flickering firelight, black ashes scattered, and the gray cloak grew smaller and smaller, completely dissipating into the world in just a few moments.

......

In an Anti-Entropy building, after listening to the report from the man in the suit, the blonde woman on the screen frowned deeply and asked, "There was only one person, and you couldn't even hold them?"

"The opponent had the ability to control Honkai Beasts, and our troops were tied down by them. Moreover, the opponent was very strong; even the Titan units couldn't stop them."

The man in the suit lowered his head. Although his tone was sincere, the dissatisfaction in his words was almost palpable.

It's not that we didn't try, it's that the other side was too fierce. Even the Titan units failed, what could we do?

If you're so capable, you go and stop them. What's the use of picking on us?

Hearing the subtext in the suited man's words, Cocolia's gaze sharpened, and the displeasure on her face deepened.

"Forget it, you did your best. Tally up the losses as soon as possible, prioritize the cleanup work, and provide generously for the families of the dead and injured."

With a soft sigh, Cocolia's tone softened. For now, if she wanted to control ME Corp, she still needed this man.

But seeing the undisguisable smile in the suited man's eyes, a sharp glint appeared in Cocolia's own.

It was time to bring ME Corp completely into her hands.

As her gaze swept over the report about the intruder, Cocolia's eyes became somewhat distant.

Black Fox, World Serpent... what on earth were those people planning?

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