In the depths of Hawk's pupils, two small suns burned fiercely!
He didn't deliberately control the precision of the beams; he suddenly spread his arms!
Buzz—Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
No longer precise cutting, but a wild barrage!
Two astonishingly thick, scorching light columns, like divine whips, violently poured forth from his eyes!
Where the light columns swept, massive stainless steel bioreactors were easily melted through and torn apart!
Scalding culture fluid and high-pressure steam mixed with priceless biological agents gushed out like a bursting dam!
Dense alloy pipes transporting high-risk chemicals melted, bent, and exploded like wax sticks before the high-temperature beams!
Propane, ethanol, chlorine gas... various deadly chemical vapors instantly filled the air!
Hawk's target precisely locked onto the voluminous liquid raw material and solvent storage tanks!
The heat rays directly struck the weakest welds or bottoms of the tanks!
Blinding fireballs exploded one after another!
A chain reaction began!
The terrifying shockwave from the explosion and flames hot enough to melt steel instantly engulfed Hawk's position!
He stood at the center of the storm, not only completely unharmed, but his body's surface even rippled with a subtle, water-like energy field!
The shockwave and high-temperature flames were drawn in like by an invisible vortex, surging madly into his body.
This feeling made him narrow his eyes slightly, as if enjoying an energy feast.
A few seconds later, he suddenly spread his arms!
"Here, have them back!"
The absorbed wild energy, mixed with his own power, erupted outwards from him in a massive surge!
A visible, translucent energy shockwave instantly expanded!
Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!!
As if flattened by an invisible giant hand!
The core factory building, already crumbling from Hawk's impact and heat ray damage, completely collapsed under this devastating energy burst!
Load-bearing columns twisted and broke, massive steel beams bent and collapsed like noodles, and the tens-of-meters-high factory roof crashed down with a deafening roar!
A fireball ten times more intense than before, mixed with thick smoke, shot into the sky, instantly illuminating the entire Pennsylvania night!
Just as the entire core production area turned into an irrecoverable inferno, Hawk's figure shot into the sky, hovering hundreds of meters high, looking down at his masterpiece.
The firelight illuminated his cold face.
But he didn't leave immediately.
He saw below, in the chaos, a factory emergency rescue team trying to approach the edge of the fire, attempting to control the spread of the flames towards the liquid chlorine storage area at the factory's edge.
If liquid chlorine were to leak on a large scale, the consequences would be unimaginable, immediately triggering a top-level biochemical disaster response.
Hawk's mind stirred, and red light flashed from his pupils. A heat ray, far more slender and precise than before, but highly concentrated with energy, instantly shot out!
It aimed at a critical support structure of an isolation fire wall between the liquid chlorine storage area and the core fire zone!
Hiss—Crack!
The support structure melted silently!
That thick, fire-resistant isolation wall, originally hoped to contain the flames, let out a wail as it collapsed inward with a crash, due to internal explosion impact and its own structural imbalance!
Towering tongues of fire, now unrestrained, roared like wild beasts, rushing towards that deadly liquid chlorine storage area!
High in the sky, Hawk clearly saw the desperate fleeing and terrified screams of the crowd below.
The liquid chlorine storage area had begun to heat up, and the characteristic yellowish-green smoke of chlorine gas began to seep out from the safety valves...
Hawk no longer lingered. His figure transformed into a blurry streak of light, instantly disappearing into the northern night sky, flying towards New York.
Time: 00:59.
Within minutes of his departure, a massive fireball mixed with toxic yellowish-green chlorine gas smoke shot into the sky, forming a chilling mushroom cloud-like plume!
The piercing, utterly desperate chemical plant disaster alarm blared throughout the entire area!
The shrill sirens of fire trucks came from all directions, but facing the double hell of the core area and the high-risk chemical zone, rescue seemed so utterly powerless!
TCRI's Pennsylvania factory's devastating explosion, fire, and potential high-risk chemical leak, along with countless chaotic phone videos and the towering flames from the factory, instantly flooded local social media and news websites, even in the dead of night.
The next morning, Wall Street opened.
TCRI stock, which had seen a slight rise the previous day due to "positive clinical data," plummeted 30% at market open!
News of the Pennsylvania factory's destruction exploded like a bombshell in the market.
This was not an unknown illegal secret laboratory; this was TCRI's public, important, multi-billion dollar production base!
The losses could not be concealed!
News headlines were filled with images and videos of the factory's destruction:
"*TCRI Flagship Factory Suffers Devastating Attack!*", "*Unknown Terrorist Attack Cripples Biotech Company!*", "*TCRI Stock Collapses!*"
Investors frantically sold off, the sell-off overwhelming.
Emilia watched the cliff-like plummeting green candlestick (green indicates decline in US stocks) on the screen, her anxiety long replaced by euphoria.
Her fingers flew, continuously adding to short positions amidst the crash, greedily sucking up the market's panic.
"Fall! Fall faster!" she growled, her account's losses instantly reversed, accumulating astronomical profits at an astonishing speed.
"Hawk... you madman! A perfect madman!"
TCRI's public relations team hastily issued a statement, attempting to characterize the attack as a "serious safety accident," vaguely denying a terrorist attack.
But the scene of destruction and eyewitness descriptions of "inhuman power" made the statement incredibly weak, instead exacerbating market speculation and panic.
After a brief struggle, the stock price continued to fall.
Location: Lane Group Safe House
Hawk watched the factory ruins footage playing on the financial news channel, and the horrifying TCRI stock chart on the adjacent screen, his face expressionless.
Emilia sent a concise encrypted message: "Harvesting. Continue?"
Hawk replied with an "Mm."
He then turned his gaze to another target – TCRI's large precision instrument manufacturing factory located in the outskirts of Houston, Texas, known as the "Precision Furnace" among factories of its kind.