NABC Chapter 449 449: Threat
Chapter 449 449: Threat
"Everyone, please try to be a bit faster. Anyway, that's what I wanted to say..."
Alain closed the dialog box, then stood in the center of the Core, waiting for Monika's possible reply.
Upon learning that the cooperation plan between Monika and Core Mita had highly likely been exposed long ago, Alain called Misha to hurriedly gather everyone...
To charge directly into the Core.
Time really could not be delayed any longer.
But having said that, it would probably take some time for Misha and the others to return home from the hospital.
Alain took a deep breath, forcing himself to calmly stare at the email interface.
The last email displayed was still stuck on the line: [Yang Wanhua knows your plan].
Since it wasn't impossible for emails to be monitored, Alain didn't send anything deeper. But thinking about it carefully, Monika's past "Riddler" behavior also helped him out at this moment.
Alain flipped through the chat history with Monika, realizing he hadn't let Monika know the crucial information gap—the fact that the Security Guard had turned into the Security Assistant.
If even the cooperation plan could be known, then Monika's past actions of helping him could be said to be completely exposed. Even the emails might be exposed...
"Yang Wanhua... that woman..." Alain increasingly felt the terror she represented.
He looked back, glancing in Mina's direction.
The indigo-haired girl was groping for something near the Master Brain's shield. Her leisurely appearance relieved Alain's chaotic state of mind. Alain rejoiced that the one who came with him this time was the big-hearted Mina.
"And... maybe, the situation isn't that bad yet." Alain persuaded himself.
Who is Monika? She opposed him for so long and helped him for so long; there was no reason she wouldn't have prepared some backup plans.
Furthermore, Monika had told him that she indeed had a backup plan, and the cooperation with Alain was just an extra bonus.
Alain had thought she was just saving face back then, but right now, he especially hoped... that what Monika said was true.
"Your backup plan better be reliable..."
Alain lamented that ever since Monika asked him to treat her as a Mita last time, he had indeed done so. Now, regarding his feelings for Monika, she wasn't just a simple partner. Alain truly hoped Monika would be safe, just like a Mita.
If possible, to reach that hopeful future together with him and everyone else.
"You must be okay..."
"Alain!"
At this moment, Mina called out loudly from beside the Master Brain shield.
Alain followed the voice and found the girl pointing incredulously at a certain corner of the Core.
"What's wrong?" That place was in Alain's blind spot, so he walked over quickly to Mina's position.
The next moment, he sucked in a breath of cold air.
Where the two of them were looking was a slightly dim corner. The lights of the Core couldn't illuminate that spot. Even so, a deep purple rift that had torn open at some unknown time was deeply imprinted in their eyes.
"What... is this thing?" Alain said slowly.
In the gloom, that deep purple rift seemed to tear directly across their retinas. It wasn't just a simple model collapse, but something deeper...
"Underlying code collapse?" Alain uttered a technical term.
He hurriedly looked at the Master Brain protected inside the blue shield... the numbers on it still remained at 95%.
Then he looked at that torn rift...
Rumble—
Immediately following was a vibration that spread throughout the entire Core.
"Eek!" Mina almost fell. Alain was quick-eyed and deft-handed, catching her, but his worried expression did not ease.
Ka, ka ka...
The bad situation didn't end there. Alain looked back at the rear, where climbing sounds were emerging.
Those viruses that had originally been at peace with them also fell into a certain restlessness. They seemed to be rejoicing, or encouraging, or celebrating victory...
Subsequently, all the viruses cast their scarlet gazes toward the two uninvited guests in unison.
Worms, wriggling their bloated bodies; Spider Monsters, manipulating those eight legs... Black Spheres, floating elegantly in mid-air.
Although their methods of movement differed, without exception, they were slowly approaching them.
"Alain." Mina shielded him from the front, taking out an electric saw from who knows where.
Alain glanced at the progress bar. Through his interactions with Mina, it had also reached 25%.
He drew his Greatsword.
Of course, even if he didn't have 25%, he would have 2D Mita use a cheat to directly summon the Greatsword.
Alain warned himself to calm down. Although things were approaching one after another, panic was useless... He took a deep breath, his restless heart calming down with each deep inhalation...
First, he looked at that rift.
The progress bar inside the Master Brain hadn't changed, which meant that wasn't the Cartridge's progress bar? No. Alain quickly rejected that. Since Core Mita mentioned the connection between the Core and the Cartridge, she wouldn't speak without basis.
Then, why did a rift on the verge of collapse appear in the corner of the Core? Could it be...
"The 93% progress bar is fake?" Currently, this was the only possibility.
Then why didn't the rift appear before, but appeared now? What Alain could think of was that previously, these signs of collapse were all covered up. Then why aren't they covered up now?
Alain reached an answer: "Because there is no need to cover it up anymore."
Alain looked ahead at the swarm of viruses slowly approaching them, revealing their fangs. Alain touched his pocket and looked at himself in the mirror.
Undoubtedly, it was Monika's appearance.
This meant that Monika could no longer suppress the viruses. In other words, her permissions had been stripped by Yang Wanhua?
Alain's expression grew profound, and the hand holding the sword gradually tightened.
Combining the current three matters:
The viruses revealing their fangs at them; the cooperation between Core Mita and Monika having long been known by Yang Wanhua; the process of the progress bar not corresponding to the current situation, meaning [Fake Progress Bar]...
Alain arrived at an extremely outrageous, yet undeniable possibility:
Yang Wanhua used the information gap of knowing about Monika and Core Mita's cooperation to release false information to the two collaborators: a fake progress bar, thereby confusing the audio-visuals.
And now, the true progress bar should have reached an extremely terrifying state, making it unnecessary for Yang Wanhua to continue hiding the information gap, so she just released it directly.
Alain guessed it was at least over 95%.
As for Monika's situation...
Although he didn't want to admit it, Monika should have already been buried in Yang Wanhua's hands.
Beep~
An email was sent over. Alain opened it to check. He discovered it was actually an email from Monika?!
Entering his line of sight was a picture. It was... shattered colorful mosaics.
Coral brown, bright red, black, and—
Emerald green.
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