Shrouded Seascape

What is even that? Anna thought while looking up at the sky. How did the Foundation of the surface world manage to contain such a bizarre entity? If even that thing can be contained, does that mean that the Foundation of the Subterranean Sea has given them knowledge that is exclusive to them?

If the Foundations from both sides had connections in the distant past, then it'd be possible for them to contain that bizarre entity by joining hands. After all, the technology of the Subterranean Sea's Foundation was near the limits of what a human could do.

Anna had many thoughts while gazing at the peculiar scene in the sky.

Just then, the nested bubbles changed. It rotated and ascended. As it moved away, everything around it slowly returned to normal. The ground was restored, the flowing fresh water returned to the pipes, and the chaos was subdued.

Just when it seemed that everything was going to return to normal, a bright meteor in the night sky made Anna's heart sink slightly. The meteor grew brighter and brighter as it got closer and closer.

Even an idiot could guess that the meteor had come to deal with the bubbles.

"Clown, something's coming. Hurry up and hide!" Anna melted into the nearby wall.

Regardless of whether the meteor was the IMF's countermeasure or something else, Anna was sure to profit by allowing both sides to come into conflict.

The meteor was fast.

Just as the bubbles made contact with the glass dome above the site, the meteor collided with it. The sky was instantly pervaded by a dazzling red light. The red light vanquished the darkness, breaking the six-month-long polar nights.

Alarms blared throughout the site, and isolation walls descended, sealing off the site. The IMF staffers would be blind if the massive disturbance were to go unnoticed.

Anna immediately recalled that this alarm was what had allowed her to escape in the first place, and it was triggered by the commotion in the sky.

Anna squinted her eyes with difficulty and looked up, but the extremely bright light made it impossible for her to see what exactly had happened. Anna still had no idea whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for her.

As the bubbles ascended, the destroyed ground closed up. Everything down below was isolated from the bizarre phenomenon in the sky. Everything returned to normal, and the people inside the bubble seemed to have been released.

Many individuals rushed into the elevators, descending into the lower levels in droves. They were the combat teams sent to contain the Anomalies that 315 had released.

Looking at them walking past her, Anna recalled the torment she had to endure.

Want to catch me? Sure, let's see if you guys can still catch me once I've made things even more chaotic here! I'm having a difficult time, so there's no way you guys are going to have it easy! Anna snorted coldly.

Having made up her mind, Anna's figure rapidly descended and entered the containment cells of the Anomalies on the upper floors. Then, she proceeded to repeat what she had done down below.

The site personnel felt overwhelmed as Past Anna and Present Anna proceeded to release the Anomalies from their containment. To make matters worse, the clown would occasionally appear and stir up some trouble as well.

They had probably never imagined that something like this would happen to a polar site one day.

Boom!

A violent tremor ran across the floor beneath Anna's feet while she was busy making a hole in the ceiling using her corrosive flames. An explosion had occurred on an unknown floor down below.

The site personnel had completely lost control over the floor where Anna was located. There were Anomalies every where, and they were roaming around, doing whatever they pleased.

The site had become a powder keg with a lit fuse, and there was an impending explosion. To make matters worse, there were bizarre entities over the sky. It coil be said that humans were no longer in control over this IMF site.

Just then, a combat team member was torn in half by two Anomalies. Anna nodded with satisfaction at the sight. The overwhelming hatred in her heart was slightly assuaged.

Anna made holes in the ceiling and moved two floors until she saw the pregnant Li Lu being supported by Roy and a few other IMF members. They were in a hurry to move somewhere safe.

"Hurry, 315 has breached containment, and she has even demonstrated the ability to absorb Anomalies. Nowhere in this site is safe, and you two need to be transferred out first," Roger said while leading the way for the couple.

"I told you before that that woman is going to be a disaster! We should have just disposed of her the moment we caught her!" Li Lu exclaimed. She was particularly irritable at the emergency.

Roy suppressed his unease and said, "Actually, this is better. We can finally leave this place, and our child can be born in a safer location. As for 315, we don't need to worry about her. The organization will handle her."

They entered an elevator while talking to each other.

"Leave?" Anna caught an important keyword in their conversation. She beckoned at something behind her before catching up to the group.

This was a good opportunity to escape. If the airport were destroyed by the Anomalies, it'd be impossible to leave.

Anna had no plans of getting stuck in this uninhabited polar region and joining a battle royale against those Anomalies.

Upon arriving at the airport, the red light in the sky made everything clear to everyone—they were truly in an emergency. They cast curious gazes at the sky while the armed combat team members waved at them in a hurry.

They were puzzled about what was happening in the sky, but as members of the IMF, Li Lu and the others knew what to ask and what not to ask.

Li Lu had just stepped onto the airstair when Roy let go of her hand.

"You..." Li Lu muttered.

"He's not qualified, and I have to stay here, too," Roger said in a low voice, "You go first. I'll contact you once things have settled down here.

There were quite a few planes that could surely transport many people, but there was no way the IMF would do that. If they evacuated everyone, what would happen to this site and the berserk Anomalies?

Boom!

A deafening explosion echoed. Li Lu knew that Roger's words were just a nice way of putting things. If they couldn't stabilize the chaos here, everyone would die here.

"Remember, you must stay alive! The child must have a father," Li Lu said calmly before walking up the airstair.

Li Lu and some passengers boarded the plane with the others, and the aircraft soon began taxiing on the runway. The plane, illuminated red by the light in the sky, picked up speed and took to the sky.

As the plane got farther and farther away from the site, Anna's face emerged from beneath the aircraft's wing. She stared at the distant red light intertwined with the nested bubbles.

The sudden turn of events had allowed her to escape, but she still felt disgruntled at the fact that she couldn't witness the deaths of the people who had tortured her at the site.