socalfunplaces Chapter 724: Detonation
Chapter 724: Detonation
The moment Ivy understood his meaning, her face instantly turned bright red.
She glared at him cutely before whispering furiously, "How can you say something so indecent in public?"
Silas looked entirely unashamed.
"It was my wife who started the dangerous conversation first," he replied calmly.
Hearing his unusually sharp tone, Ivy blinked slightly.
Only then did she realize that perhaps she had genuinely touched a painful subject.
Normally, Silas resembled an affectionate golden retriever around her and almost never became upset, regardless of what she did.
Taking a small breath, Ivy finally softened.
"Alright, alright," she muttered helplessly. "I admit my mistake."
Silas’s expression eased slightly afterward, although he still leaned closer and whispered quietly, "You still need punishment."
The moment Ivy heard that sentence, her ears turned even redder.
Meanwhile, while everyone inside the party remained immersed in warmth and laughter, someone elsewhere was preparing something far more sinister.
Tammy had already decided to activate the chips planted throughout Ivy’s base.
In reality, those hidden devices were not ordinary chips at all.
They were bombs secretly created by the superior beings themselves.
Once activated simultaneously, the entire base could potentially collapse into chaos.
Late into the night, after the party finally began winding down, Ivy eventually returned with Silas toward their apartment.
At that moment, Ivy was still mentally preparing herself for whatever "punishment" Silas had been teasing her about earlier.
However, before either of them could even settle down properly... Boom!
A deafening explosion suddenly echoed throughout the area.
In an instant, Ivy’s expression changed drastically.
At the same time, the temporal storage urgently warned her,
[The bombs are planted underground. If you want to suppress the chain detonation, you must immediately spread your aura across the entire base.]
The moment those words entered her mind, Ivy instantly closed her eyes.
A terrifying aura exploded outward from her body.
Sweat immediately appeared on Ivy’s forehead as she desperately extended her aura farther and farther throughout the entire base.
Every second mattered.
If even one bomb fully detonated underground, the resulting chain reaction could potentially destroy everything and everyone inside.
However, using the suppressant once again came at a heavy cost.
Thin streams of blood slowly seeped from the corners of her eyes and trickled down her pale cheeks.
At the same time, blood stained the corners of her lips, forming a stark contrast against her already exhausted face.
Not to mention, she had not yet recovered from the sacrifices she had made earlier.
When Silas heard the bombs detonating, his first thought was that Ivy had rushed toward the danger.
Panic surged through him as he hurried over. However, when he finally found her, he froze in place.
Ivy stood there with her eyes closed.
Blood flowed from her face, yet her expression appeared strangely peaceful.
The sight was so unsettling and heartbreaking that it left Silas completely stunned.
Without hesitation, he wrapped his arms around her.
"What happened, Ivy?"
Ivy merely shook her head.
She did not answer. Instead, she continued focusing on whatever she was doing.
Seeing this, Silas immediately understood that she was occupied with something important.
Gritting his teeth, he closed his eyes and began channeling his healing energy into her body.
Warm green light flowed from his palms. Unfortunately, it was completely useless.
The blood continued flowing. Nothing changed.
A frown formed on Silas’s face. ’Why isn’t it working?’
For the first time, he realized that ordinary healing energy might not be the solution.
Without wasting another second, he contacted Alana.
The moment Alana arrived, she immediately understood the severity of the situation.
Alana pressed her hand against Ivy’s shoulder. Brilliant healing energy surged into Ivy’s body.
Yet the result remained exactly the same. The blood continued flowing. Nothing improved.
Only then did Silas realize that the problem was not the lack of healing energy.
The true issue had to be something else entirely.
As countless thoughts raced through his mind, he found himself at a complete loss.
’I need to do something, but what?’
A few moments later, Ivy finally opened her eyes.
Looking at Silas, she spoke softly.
"Someone planted chips throughout the entire base. Those chips triggered the bomb detonations."
The moment those words left her mouth, silence descended.
Silas’s expression darkened. "It was most likely Benny’s work."
Alana slowly nodded. "I agree."
However, neither of them said anything else.
After all, Benny was already dead.
Even if they wanted to vent their anger, there was nobody left to punish.
With that thought in mind, they could only focus on whatever new problems might appear at any moment.
Meanwhile, the superior beings waited eagerly for news of the base’s destruction.
Their objective had been simple. They wanted to injure as many humans as possible and reduce Ivy’s credibility.
However, to their surprise, they soon discovered that, apart from a handful of bomb detonations, almost nobody had been harmed.
Even after checking the casualty reports herself, Ivy realized that only around fifty people had suffered injuries from one of the explosions.
Hardly anyone had died.
Although there had indeed been one individual who was left half-dead, the overall damage was far lower than expected.
More importantly, nobody in the base blamed Ivy.
Instead, they reached an entirely different conclusion.
They believed that hidden terrorists had somehow infiltrated the group and planted the explosives.
Hatred toward those unknown terrorists quickly spread throughout the base.
The anger became so intense that people voluntarily began searching for anyone suspicious.
As a result, several individuals who genuinely intended to cause trouble were discovered and captured.
Ironically, Ivy ended up benefiting slightly from the incident.
However, such a small victory was nowhere near enough.
Only one thought remained in her mind.
’If I ever get the chance, I will find those superior beings myself. And when I do, I will make them pay.’
At that very moment, the superior beings were thinking something remarkably similar.
They were growing increasingly frustrated.
Time and time again, Ivy managed to escape every trap they prepared.
Some of them had even begun wondering whether she possessed some mysterious ability that allowed her to avoid danger altogether.