"How did it suddenly end up like this?" The unexpected situation at the base left the remaining Boundary Breakers in stunned confusion. Those still alive no longer dared to log into the Virtual World after witnessing some of their colleagues being blown up by the login pods.
Some tried to flee, but the entire base had turned into chaos, with explosions everywhere. It no longer had the resources necessary for firefighting.
Others attempted to leave the base, but its entrance had already been welded shut. Contact the Virtual World Core? The Virtual World Core was already unable to allocate much computing power now.
Ultimately, under Lilith's violent invasion, the Virtual World Core chose to cut off the network entirely.
The advantage of this was preserving the base; the disadvantage was that they would be completely blind, while further exposing the Virtual World Core.
However, the re-exposed Virtual World Core had undergone network masking.
