"Grab onto anything you can reach!" David shouted with all his might, his voice instantly swallowed by the roar of the apocalypse coming from behind.The pitch-black giant wave hit them without mercy. Millions of gallons of wastewater, a mixture of human feces, methane gas, and toxic mud, crashed into the concrete wall of the AgriGen facility's B3 floor. The hydraulic pressure of that underground tsunami immediately crushed the corporate building structure previously claimed to be impenetrable.Thick laboratory glass shattered into pieces with ear-piercing explosions. Dirty water swept in like a starving monster, swallowing everything in its path. Giant security servers exploded instantly as water soaked their circuits. Sparks flashed wildly in the damp air. Emergency alarms shrieked in panic down every hallway, creating a symphony of absolute chaos.David, Isabella, and Mei Lin were swept away by the brutal current. They tumbled along with piles of wet trash, dead rats, and metal deb

"The main elevator shaft doors on the executive floor have just been forcefully breached, Chancellor Vane! Someone managed to crawl up here!"A security commander's panicked voice echoed from the intercom speakers mounted on the hallway ceiling."How many rats are left from that sewer?" replied Chancellor Vane's voice from the same speaker. His tone sounded incredibly calm, slow, and full of arrogance. "Is it the woman with the sword or the crippled assassin?""Neither, Sir! It is Dan Miller! He is alone and dragging his body toward your office right now!""Excellent. Pull all guards back from that hallway. Let him come to me," Vane's cold laugh rippled through the sterile air. "I want him to hear the sound of this machine singing from behind my door.""But, Sir, he just killed—""I said pull your troops back, Commander! Let the poor father listen to his son crying from outside."The intercom connection cut off with a sharp click.At the end of the dark elevator shaft, a pair of hands

"I prefer to be called father, Vane."David Vexley spat dirty blood onto the ruined white carpet. The sentence came out extremely hoarse from his dry throat. The man gritted his teeth, ignoring the stinging pain tearing at his right knee. With a final burst of desperate strength, he dug his broken fingers into the carpet, trying to drag his body crawling forward toward Arthur's operating table."Dad is coming, Son. Hold on," David whispered. His breathing rattled like a machine running out of oil.However, having moved barely a handspan, a large shadow blocked the light above him.THUD.The steel-plated boot of one of Vane's elite guards slammed squarely into the center of David's spine. The stomp was incredibly hard, pressing the former king's body flat against the floor. David's already cracked ribs groaned in despair. His mouth opened wide gasping for empty air, unable to let out a scream of agony because his lungs were pinned and crushed.<

Chancellor Vane's finger pressed the red button with full force, locking the fate of a family on the brink of destruction.BEEP.An incredibly loud and ear-piercing long tone erupted from the metal collar on Arthur's neck. The indicator light that had been blinking slowly now changed into digital numbers glowing blood red.Thirteen, twelve, eleven. The countdown had begun."Your time is up, Miller Family!" Vane shouted with an incredibly discordant laugh. The man threw his detonator to the floor, then turned around quickly. "You can enjoy your family reunion in hell!"Vane dragged his glass-splintered leg toward the large bookshelf in the corner of the room, trying to find access to his private emergency elevator."Elena, go after him! Don't let him escape!" David roared from the floor, spitting dirty blood onto the carpet.Elena raised her heavy assault rifle, aiming the barrel at the fleeing Vane's back. "You're not going anywhere,

"Die, you Bastard!"Elena's stifled scream broke the suffocating silence inside the executive room. After the brutal and sickening struggle that had just occurred, there were no more words of arrogance from Chancellor Vane's lips. The middle-aged man had bled to death on the carpet. The only remaining sounds in the room were the crackle of fire devouring the remnants of the drone near the glass wall, blending with David Vexley's breathing. The mortal father's breath sounded extremely harsh, rattling from his throat exactly like a broken whistle clogged with thick fluid.In the corner of the room, the security guard who had pinned Elena down earlier was still shocked to see his commander dead with a torn neck. That shock became his fatal weakness.Elena didn't waste a single second. The Mafia Queen, her survival instincts rekindled, grabbed a solid ceramic flower vase lying near the table leg. With her remaining desperate strength, Elena swung the vase and smashe