Chapter 1344
The moment the words left his mouth.
The colossal jumbotron hovering over the stadium violently flickered.
The screens, which had previously been split to show the other competitors, synchronized perfectly.
The terrifying visual of Pod 10, drowned in green chemical fog, violently hijacked every single pixel of the main display.
Pod 10 was now the sole focus of the entire world.
Standing outside the control sector, Nicholas’s expression was glacial, his long fingers resting elegantly on the keys of his military-grade laptop.
He hit the Enter key.
Every digital artery in the stadium now belonged to him.
The entire world had no choice but to watch Pod 10.
Because that was all he was going to let them see.
On the screen.
Serena stood amidst the shattered ruins and toxic vapor, slowly lifting her piercing gaze.
Those devastatingly cold, obsidian eyes stared down the camera lens, looking as though they were piercing straight through the monitors and into the souls of the millions watching.
Her crimson lips curled upward, forming a deeply arrogant, mocking smile.
“Is this what Severia considers a fair competition p>
Her tone was deceptively light, but it landed like a brutal, open-handed slap across the face of every single executive on the Severian Syndicate Council.
And the second those words echoed through the arena.
The massive broadcast screen shifted again.
It split into a picture-in-picture format.
Violently broadcasting the live security feed of the VIP control room directly onto the global stream.
Inside the control room, there was absolute, unmitigated panic.
The same elite Severian officials who had just been sitting on their thrones,
believing they held the lives of the competitors in the palms of their hands, were now publicly melting down.
One executive, his face purple with rage, was pointing a trembling finger at a technician and screaming, “Shut it off! You useless trash p>
Another was hyperventilating, completely soaked in sweat, shrieking, “What are you standing there for?! Pull the plug on Pod 10 p>
Others were physically shoving technicians aside, desperately clawing at the
keyboards with shaking hands.
Their pathetic, cowardly, utterly humiliating panic was broadcast to the entire planet
in glorious high definition.
The stadium audience went ballistic.
The global internet streams basically caught fire.
Back in Pod 10.
Serena looked incredibly bored. She glanced down at her handheld.
terminal and casually tapped ne
the
glass screen with a pale finger.
Instantly, the heavily encrypted operational logs from the Severian
serve ne
were mirrored onto the elet
stadiums jumbotron.
Every single line of code, clear as day.
[10:05, Pod 10 broadcast signal manually severed]
[10:07, Pod 10 floor hatch opened, live specimen deployment: 5]
[10:34, Ventilation gas valves opened, execution origin: VIP Suite 01]
The undeniable, irrefutable proof was shoved right into the faces of the entire world.
There was no room for PR spin.
This wasn’t a technical glitch. It wasn’t an unfortunate accident.
It was the deliberate deployment of bio-engineered monsters and chemical weapons.
It was premeditated murder.
It was a blatant, televised assassination attempt at an internationally sanctioned event!
The stadium descended into total anarchy.
“That’s straight-up attempted murder p>
“Oh my god, they actually dropped bio-weapons and nerve gas into her pod p>
“And Severia has the audacity to call this a tournament p>
“The fact that the Severian government would deliberately target a foreign
competitor like this makes me sick p>
“And what the hell were those five mutant things?! Those aren’t human! Someone needs to investigate that immediately p>
“We want answers! The world demands an explanation p>
“Investigate them! Burn the whole organization to the ground p>
The Severian officials realized they were completely, utterly ruined.
A middle-aged executive practically shoved his way in front of the camera, snatching a backup PA microphone. Drenched in cold sweat he screamed with a trembling voice it’s faker This is
is all
hackers have tampered with our backend data p>
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