Anna, who was diving, suddenly stopped. After thinking for a while, she controlled a ball of corrosive flame to move towards the door. The green flame circled inside but did not touch anything.
Then, everything began to reverse. The rotten flame in the containment room followed the path it had taken before, returned to Anna and disappeared.
Anna, whose waist had been completely sunk into the ground, returned to the surface at the same time. At the same time, the heavy alloy door of the containment room that had been melted by the corrosive fire healed and closed again.
Then a new cycle began. Anna, who was diving, suddenly stopped. After thinking for a while, she controlled a ball of corrosive flames to move towards the door. The green flame circled inside but did not touch anything.
Anna kept repeating her movements in the same place, and there was no sound around her, as if in a pantomime.
Everything in the room was cycling between the starting point and the end point, as if it was going to continue until the end of time.
Ten short yet long minutes passed, and the situation finally changed. Anna, whose body kept moving underground and on the ground, finally sank into the ground above her waist.
With only a pair of eyes exposed above the surface, Anna looked at the empty containment room in the distance in confusion, thinking to herself, "This shouldn't be empty. Did I miss something?"
She knew that the IMF was such a huge organization that it was impossible for them to build an empty building one kilometer underground for no reason.
She now doubted whether Lucius had been lying to her.
"Should I open the other two doors?" Anna thought about this very dangerous action.
She knew this was very dangerous, but she had almost no choice now.
This station is located in the polar region. If I want to leave here, I can only use flying tools. If I don’t completely mess this place up, even if I can escape from here, I won’t be able to get far.
You have to know that there is no living person within 500 kilometers of this place.
"Da~" With the sound of leather shoes landing on the ground, the clown in a neat red suit appeared in front of Anna accompanied by colorful paper fireworks.
Now he got a top hat with brilliant purple sequins from somewhere and put it on his head.
The clown took off his hat and bowed to Anna very gentlemanly, revealing the empty space behind the mask.
There is nothing inside this dress, it is just floating in the air like a haunted creature. This clown has no real body at all, or maybe this dress and the mask are the real body.
"Speak up, what's the situation up there?" Anna asked it.
The clown put his hat back on and shrugged helplessly. He quickly flipped his right hand with a white glove and a magic cloth with a star pattern appeared in his hand.
The magic cloth gently covered Anna, and when she came to her senses, she found herself back on the sixteenth floor.
When she raised her head, she let out a quick and convulsive breath. The scene before her was definitely beyond her imagination.
The small hole that was previously corrupted by her corruption flame has now become a huge flare, and the entire seven layers above have now collapsed to form a huge cavity.
The broken ceiling, corpses, and various strange anomalies were floating in the air as if there was no gravity.
The wailing and roaring, the crackling of broken wires, and the sound of flowing water pipes mixed together into one sound.
"You did all this?"
Hearing Anna's words in disbelief, the clown quickly raised his finger and shook it gently.
All previous sounds disappeared in an instant, and everything seemed to have returned to the starting point before it got out of control.
"Did you do this?" The clown came to Anna, holding the poker card with these words written on it.
"Shh! Quiet," Anna mouthed silently into the mask.
Such an abnormal phenomenon immediately reminded Anna of the door she had just opened on the bottom floor and the emptiness behind the door.
She now realized that there was obviously something in there, but she just couldn't perceive its existence.
Lucius's negative description from before appeared in Anna's mind again.
"It is not round, it is not square, it has no intelligence, but it is not stupid, it is not a living thing or a plant, it is not heavy, it is not dead, and it cannot rub against anything."
This anomaly, which posed the greatest threat to the entire site, was actually released by Anna.
But Anna is now in a dilemma. She released this thing to deal with the IMF, but now she doesn't even know what it is or what its capabilities are. So how can she use it to escape
"Da da da~!" A heavy shaking sound suddenly came from the distant corner.
Anna winked at the clown next to her, then her body trembled rapidly and shrank into the wall next to her.
The moment the clown took out the magic cloth to wipe himself, a tank-like robot came from the corner in the distance.
This floor was obviously completely under the management of machines. This huge robot slowly walked over, and the various detection devices on its head were scanning the entire space continuously and without blind spots.
But it clearly didn't have the ability to scan the wall, and didn't find Anna.
As the thing trembled and slowly disappeared around another corner, Anna poked her head out from the wall.
At this moment, she clearly felt that something was wrong. She had already made such a big fuss before, but the IMF actually had the time to send robots for daily patrols
According to the normal script, shouldn't the various combat teams that work in perfect harmony with each other start to encircle and attack themselves and the escaped anomalies from all directions
The abnormality now immediately reminded her of what she had just released.
Anna thought for a while with a frown on her face. She walked up to the reappearing clown and reached out to grab its neck, but her arm easily passed under the clown's mask and she didn't touch anything.
Seeing that the other person had no neck, Anna had no choice but to give up and lower her voice to the lowest level.
"I don't care what your purpose is in approaching me. At least we are in the same boat now before we escape. Let's work together to get out of here first, and then we can talk about what happens after we get out of here."
The other party's previous actions have already demonstrated trust. In this case, if we can find an anomaly who can barely express goodwill, we must make good use of it.
The clown nodded briskly, picked up the hat on his head and put it directly on Anna's severed hand.
"Snap~!" Accompanied by the crisp sound of a salute, the hat was taken away, and Anna's severed hand was actually reattached.
Before Anna could be surprised for a few seconds, she saw the wrinkles on the new hand and the various calluses on the palm.
"This is not my hand. Where did you get it?"
(End of this chapter)