Apocalyptic Lord: Heroes of Might and Magic Descend

Chapter 59 The Cataclysmic Day for Ordinary People

In my previous life, on the day the catastrophe occurred.

Lin Mo sat at his workstation and typed code as usual.

Project manager Wang Zhen's voice boomed from behind: "Lin Mo! Have you finished revising the requirements? The client is waiting!"

"Almost done, it'll be ready in a bit!" Lin Mo was too busy to even look up and speak.

Work, work, work. After a long day, I get some sleep and then continue working the next day.

This is the life of a young person.

Finally, after more than an hour, Lin Mo finished the code he was responsible for, and it compiled successfully.

Just as he was about to get up to find the project manager, he suddenly felt a violent shaking beneath his feet.

The monitor fell over, the water glass overturned, and the documents were scattered all over the floor.

Some people screamed, some fell down, and some shouted "Earthquake!"

The shaking lasted for more than ten seconds before it stopped.

Like her other colleagues, Lin Mo hid under her workstation.

At that moment, he looked up and saw a crack in the office ceiling, from which dust was falling in a soft rustling sound.

All the lights went out, and the white light of the emergency lights looked particularly pale in the smoke.

"Are you alright? Is anyone hurt?" Wang Zhen's voice came from a corner, filled with barely concealed panic.

"I'm fine." Lin Mo crawled out from under the table and patted the dust off his head.

His hands were trembling from the surge of adrenaline.

At that moment, he glanced out the window and froze.

It suddenly got dark.

The black sky looked as if ink had been poured on it, so thick it seemed unreal. The sun at four in the afternoon had disappeared, replaced by three enormous moons hanging in the sky, with purple nebulae slowly swirling behind them.

"What is that?"

"The moon? Three moons?"

Is this the end of the world?

The office erupted in chaos.

Some people took out their phones to take pictures, some squatted on the ground and cried, and some tried to make phone calls, but the phone screens displayed "No Service".

Some people wanted to go downstairs immediately, but found that the elevator was malfunctioning.

"Don't panic!" Wang Zhen's voice cut through the noise. "Go down the stairs! One by one!"

His voice was trembling, and Lin Mo could tell that Wang Zhen was also afraid.

But as a manager, he couldn't show it.

The crowd began to move towards the stairwell.

Lin Mo walked in the middle, with Chen Jie, a short-haired girl from the technical department, in front of him, holding a pen in her hand.

Behind them were Xu Bing and Zhang Lei from the operations department, a man and a woman who usually loved to contradict each other in the office, but now they were like two frightened quails, shrinking their necks and following closely behind the person in front.

Hu Zhigang walked next to Lin Mo. He was a veteran employee of the technical department, in his forties, with a beer belly. He usually had a nice-natured demeanor, but at this moment his face was pale and beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead.

The stairwell was narrow, and people were crammed together, making the descent very slow.

In the panic, some people fell down, and others cursed, creating complete chaos.

The air was thick with the mixed smell of dust and sweat, making it hard to breathe.

Lin Mo held onto the stair railing, walking down the stairs step by step, shoulder to shoulder with others.

He counted the floors: the twelfth floor... the tenth floor... the eighth floor... the sixth floor... the fifth floor... the fourth floor.

The crowd became even more dense on each floor.

Some people were shouting "Don't push!", some were shouting "Hurry up and move!", and some said nothing, just desperately pushing forward.

When we got to the second floor, the stairwell was blocked.

The sounds coming from below were not only chaotic, but also interspersed with faint screams.

"What's going on down there?" someone asked, but no one answered, because nobody knew.

The screams lasted for more than ten seconds, then stopped abruptly.

Lin Mo gripped the stair railing tightly. All he could see were countless backs of heads. As for what was happening below, no one knew.

Meanwhile, those above were still pushing their way down.

Finally, the people below moved. It turned out that someone had closed the fire door on the first floor, and now that it had been reopened, the crowd below surged out like a school of fish finding an exit.

Having finally made it down to the first floor, I rushed out as soon as the door opened.

This made Lin Mo and his group's spot much more spacious. They followed the flow of people down to the first floor, and suddenly more than a dozen people in the lobby ran back in panic.

"Run, run!"

"Monster! Run!"

Before anyone could react, a person suddenly froze, motionless, and was quickly covered by a layer of ice from behind.

This scene was extremely horrifying.

A person was rapidly frozen.

The next moment, the person was hit by something and exploded into a pile of frozen bits of flesh with a crack.

slap~

Another person was hit by something, and one of their legs was pierced through. They fell to the ground screaming in agony.

If you look closely, you can see that one of his legs is frozen, so he can't get up and is struggling and screaming.

slap~

His head was hit, like a watermelon struck by a bullet.

This time, many people saw it clearly; it was an ice pick.

The ice spikes launched at high speed not only possess extremely strong destructive power, but can also freeze people rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people were dead.

Some were frozen solid, others had holes pierced through their bodies, and they lay on the ground howling in agony, clearly doomed.

Upon seeing this, Lin Mo ran back without saying a word.

Not only him, but anyone with a sound mind knows that something is wrong on this floor. So many people came down before, they're probably all dead.

Continuing up the stairs was not an option; the people behind didn't know the situation and were still pushing their way down. Now was not the time to explain, so I called a few of my colleagues and we ran down the stairs next to us.

Go to the basement level.

No one remembers how they got down there, and then they heard terrifying screams coming from the basement.

When a person is in a state of extreme fear, their mind goes blank.

Including Lin Mo himself.

When he came to his senses, he realized that he and several colleagues had hidden in a room on the basement level.

Manager Wang Zhen was frantically locking the door.

This is a maintenance room for the building's piping and equipment; there is also a rest room next to it.

"What...what should we do?" Chen Jie's voice came from the side, trembling with sobs.

I guess he was terrified.

Wang Zhen turned his head with difficulty and glanced at the people behind him.

His usual sternness was gone, replaced by a look of utter disarray and fear: "Don't panic, there's a way."

He then said, "Wait...wait for someone to come and rescue us."

No one refuted.

Because nobody knows what to do.

The maintenance room was quiet at the moment, with only the white light of the emergency lights buzzing overhead.

None of the men who had escaped here spoke; none of them knew what to say.

They all collapsed to the ground.

After a few minutes of silence, Xu Bing spoke up: "What...what were those monsters just now?"

No one could answer him.

Zhang Lei leaned on his shoulder, sobbing softly, while Chen Jie hugged her knees and buried her head between her legs.

Hu Zhigang kept rubbing his hands together; his palms were sweaty.

Wang Zhen leaned against the wall, his eyes closed, his lips moving, occasionally taking out his phone to check, probably to see if the signal had been restored.

Lin Mo sat in the corner, as flustered as everyone else.