The "seminar" in the front hall had reached the most delicate moment.
Everyone's attention had been guided by the host to the "key case" about to appear.
And at this very moment—
"Boom——!!"
The huge decorative curved reinforced glass dome on the upper side of the venue was not cut by any precision tool, but brazenly smashed from the outside by a heavy object full of pure violence and wrapped in azure particle tail flames!
Thousands of glass fragments did not splash in all directions, but wrapped in some kind of force field, poured down like a deadly diamond storm in a fan shape towards the empty area in front of the screaming crowd below.
However, this seemingly disorderly and mixed pouring was like carefully planned, deliberately avoiding the main crowd gathering area.
But the visual impact and psychological deterrence were real and could not be faked.
Amidst the rain of fragments that instantly detonated a wave of exclamations and screams, a steel body painted in black, green, and purple, with rigid lines and a sense of power, crashed to the ground. The heavy impact made the entire floor seem to tremble.
The landing posture was a standard tactical buffer kneeling position. The shock absorption device emitted a low hum, and the raised dust and unsettled glass debris danced under the spotlight.
Arahato!
The chaotic venue abruptly fell into a brief, deathly silence at this moment, then replaced by louder screams, sounds of panic pushing tables and chairs, and shouts from some security personnel who finally reacted.
The official plainclothes agents disguised as waiters, attendees, and staff in the exhibition hall reacted quite fast.
Almost at the same time Arahato landed, at least six people leaped out from different directions, standard pistols or submachine guns already in their hands. The firearms were loaded with non-lethal or low-lethality ammunition equipped to deal with possible riots.
Two more quickly approached the podium, trying to establish a defense line to protect VIPs and that empty "key seat" area.
Their contingency plan indeed considered that some forces might take risks to snatch or destroy the "results," and even prepared a rapid reaction team to deal with small-scale armed conflicts, who were on standby outside the building at this very moment.
But the "riot" they expected was closer to chaos caused by commercial spies, radical organizations, or internal traitors.
At most, a raid by mercenaries carrying light weapons. Although Shenzhou was a forbidden place for mercenaries, if someone really got red-eyed and calculated intentionally at all costs, the Shenzhou officials couldn't completely avoid this situation.
But how could the intruder be "Arahato"!?
Why did this mysterious super individual, whose action pattern had been erratic in the past period but generally leaned towards "vigilante" and mostly targeted criminals, appear at such a high-tech medical seminar in such a violent and blatant way?
Wait... what is he after?!
More critically, they didn't know who Arahato's pilot was, or rather... what kind of life form state it was!
Those biological characteristic restraint devices, neural interference pulses, gene-level inhibitors developed against known high-risk targets or specific bloodlines like the Kaslanas... all these cutting-edge control means "effective against specific targets" were completely ineffective at this moment of ignorance!
They could only use conventional interception and killing plans for "human pilots possibly wearing advanced power armor," and the efficiency was greatly reduced!
And Arahato gave these agents no chance to encircle at all.
The moment the landing buffer finished, the armor plates on its shoulders and outer calves sprang open, revealing several small launch ports.
Not lethal weapons, but high-strength adhesive foam bullets and concussive sonic boom grenades with strong electromagnetic interference functions.
The adhesive foam shot precisely at the feet of the two agents flanking fastest from both sides, instantly expanding and solidifying, firmly sticking their calves to the floor.
The sonic boom grenades exploded at the edge of the crowd and in front of the defense line the agents tried to establish. Several agents who successfully bypassed the adhesive foam groaned, instantly lost their balance, covered their heads, and fell headfirst onto the hard but rounded solidified foam.
Further away, the crowd erupted into a brief turmoil. More than half of the people covered their ears, squatting or falling in discomfort.
Chaos intensified.
Arahato, as if having rehearsed thousands of times, erupted with dazzling blue light from its leg engine nozzles. The massive body rushed straight towards that empty wheelchair position—the direction where Yae Rin was about to be pushed out—with a swift speed inconsistent with its appearance.
"Stop it!" A plainclothes captain who seemed to be the on-site commander shouted in the communication channel.
While shouting, this captain had already completed the replacement of bullet types. Braving the sonic boom interference, he raised the special rifle in his hand, aimed at the leg joints of Arahato, and fired the armor-piercing ammunition just replaced.
"Bang bang bang——!"
Three bullets hit the leg joints of the rapidly moving armor quite precisely, but only splashed a string of sparks in the captain's stagnated eyes.
Arahato's armor was not made of ordinary materials! This general-purpose armor-piercing ammunition had almost no effect on Arahato, not even allowing the pilot to feel the kinetic energy of being hit.
Completely ignoring the shooting, Arahato continued to advance.
An agent who had been hiding behind a decorative column as soon as Arahato broke in suddenly threw a disc-shaped device—a non-lethal high-voltage electric net launcher.
Although non-lethal, at this moment, he had already adjusted the power of the electric net device to the maximum. Let alone electrocuting a person, even a cow would die if hit.
The electric net opened in the air, shrouding towards Arahato.
The vector nozzle on Arahato's back tilted slightly, and the body made an extremely agile lateral sliding step, avoiding the electric net by a hair's breadth.
At the same time, Arahato raised its left arm. A slender towing cable with a grappling hook shot out from under the arm armor, piercing through the heavy metal decorative frame on the side of the podium with a "clang."
Using this solid fulcrum to pull fiercely, the massive body accelerated and changed direction again, not only dodging the electric net thrown synchronously from the other side but also using this pulling force to fling itself like a cannonball towards the side door entrance.
That was exactly the direction of the preparation room where Yae Rin was!
"Target direction changed! Side door! Protect the target!" The commander's shout carried anxiety.
But their personnel stationed near the side door had just been distracted by the sonic boom grenades and crowd chaos.
The side door was pushed open fiercely from the inside. Natasha was pushing Yae Rin in a wheelchair, appearing as if she wanted to send her onto the display platform according to the original plan, but collided head-on with the violently charging Arahato.