"Beep!"
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
The moment the piercing alarm sounded over Quantico Military Base, the soldiers on duty, those resting in their barracks, and even those who had already gone into town for R&R, all showed expressions of shock and bewilderment.
The next second.
They reacted.
"Holy sh*t!"
"Combat alert."
"Enemy attack."
"Jesus Christ, what's happening?"
"Are the islanders attacking again? No, wait, this is Quantico, not Pearl Harbor."
The soldiers were stunned, but after reacting, they quickly entered combat readiness.
After all, this was Quantico.
It was the Marine Corps Base, not to mention the nearby Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy and Langley Headquarters.
Almost three seconds after the combat alarm sounded, the first soldier appeared, followed closely by the second, the third…
"Clatter!"
"Where?"
"Gamma Lab."
"F*ck."
A Lieutenant Colonel, hearing that the former Gamma Lab was under invasion, immediately cursed, putting on his clothes as he ran towards the door, and pulling out his phone to make a call.
The call connected quickly.
"Hello!"
A low voice came from the other end of the line.
"General, Gamma Lab has been invaded."
"…"
On the other end of the line, General Thaddeus Ross, who had just left the Pentagon and gotten into his car, couldn't help but be stunned upon hearing the news.
Good heavens.
What did he hear?
Gamma Lab was invaded?
How was that possible?
Gamma Lab was in the Marine Corps Base at Quantico; how could anyone possibly invade it?
Because he could hardly believe the news, General Thaddeus Ross, after a moment of stunned silence, couldn't help but say,
"Say that again, where was invaded?"
"Gamma Lab."
"Sh*t!"
Thaddeus Ross's hanging heart completely sank.
"What's going on?"
"The Emergency Response team has already gone, and I'm on my way."
"…"
Thaddeus Ross took a deep breath, loosened his tie, and patted the driver's seat: "Quantico, quickly!"
The driver nodded, floored the accelerator, and immediately started speeding right under the noses of two Capitol Police officers nearby.
The two Capitol Police officers looked at each other, bewildered.
At the same time.
The Base's Emergency Response team had also arrived at the Gamma Lab, which was surrounded by corrugated iron.
Loud booming Impacts continuously echoed from inside Gamma Lab, while the secret experiment personnel who had been inside Gamma Lab were running out, looking terrified and panicked.
The moment they ran out, the arriving soldiers pounced on them, grabbing them like chickens and pulling them aside.
"What's the situation inside? How many invaders are there? What do they want?"
"I don't know, I don't know anything."
"One, he's after the gamma stone."
"…"
The Emergency Captain looked at the experiment personnel who had revealed the information and fell silent.
The other soldiers also looked at the experiment personnel with disbelief.
"You just said… one?"
"Yes, just one."
The experiment personnel still had an expression of extreme terror on his face: "But he's not human, he just punched through the wall, and bullets couldn't hit him. The soldiers who shot at him all died."
Everyone looked at each other.
At this moment, a soldier who was helped out by the experiment personnel, appearing only injured but not dead, spoke up in agreement: "What he said is true, there's only one invader."
The Emergency Captain's gaze instantly fell on the supported soldier.
"Soldier, report the situation."
"Just as he said, there's only one invader. He seems to be after the gamma stone. Our bullets couldn't hit him at all. He killed almost all the soldiers who shot at him instantly."
"What about you?"
"Didn't you hear what I said?"
The injured soldier, now seemingly on the verge of a mental breakdown, roared at the Emergency Captain: "He killed all the soldiers who shot at him."
In fact, he had also fired at that time.
But…
His gun suddenly jammed the moment he opened fire, and no bullets were discharged.
It was precisely because of this that Hawk, at the last moment, didn't take his life, but instead shattered one of his legs to make him lose his combat ability.
But the other soldiers who fired and the armed experiment personnel inside were not so lucky.
Just as Hawk had said before.
Once the valve of slaughter is opened, killing will no longer be a choice, but merely a matter of quantity.
However, Hawk was still restraining himself.
At this moment, Hawk had already arrived at the Underground Room of the Gamma Lab building.
He saw the excavated hole in the Underground Room at first glance.
With a thud.
Hawk, wearing a hood and a medical mask, jumped directly into the hole.
Immediately after.
He saw an excavated passage. The ground of the not-so-wide passage still had tools like pickaxes remaining.
Good heavens, how primitive.
No.
It should be intentional, after all, not all of the Military are of one mind.
Hawk thought to himself, his gaze then falling on the stone walls on both sides of the passage.
That's right.
This was the stone he had seen in Dr. Connors's lab.
Just then.
In Hawk's Little Universe, following a Phoenix cry that echoed through the Little Universe, a piece of information was transmitted to Hawk.
"Devour."
"Just let you refine it."
"That's simple."
Hawk processed the message.
He had originally thought he would also have to act as a miner, to excavate these stones that, for some unknown reason, had absorbed gamma rays after the explosion at Gamma Lab.
But…
He just needed to place his hand on them, burn his Little Universe, in order to allow the Phoenix in his Little Universe to absorb the gamma nium stored within the stones.
This…
Was fantastic.
Hawk's face lit up with joy, and he prepared to start absorbing.
But just as he was about to start, his gaze suddenly shot towards the hole he had just jumped down from.
Hawk directly blasted an empty punch towards the hole.
Boom!
The hole leading to the Underground Room collapsed under his punch, and under the might of this punch, smoke and dust, accompanied by an Impact, instantly swept through this excavated but not very deep passage.
But this dust could not affect Hawk in the slightest.
He did this mainly because he didn't want the people above to disturb his upcoming work.
Now it was good, he could absorb with peace of mind.
Hawk thought to himself, without hesitation, placing his hands on the stone walls on both sides.
The next second!
Little Universe burst forth!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
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