How many seconds does it take for a building to collapse?
The answers vary.
But here, at Quantico Military Base, the Gamma Experiment Building, which was already damaged by Bruce Banner's gamma explosion, could no longer hold up and began to collapse with a sudden, massive explosion from underground.
In less than five short seconds, the three-story Gamma Experiment Building was completely reduced to ruins.
Smoke and dust billowed, crashing against the surrounding iron sheets with a clanging sound.
The iron sheets rattled loudly from the impact.
The Emergency Response Team soldiers, who were just about to rush in and kill the intruder, quickly retreated, then watched the experimental building turn into ruins in the blink of an eye. After a moment of silence, they all swallowed their saliva in unison.
No other reason.
Because if they had gone in a few seconds earlier, they would have been buried with the Gamma Experiment Building.
But after the shock and relief, the team members all looked at their Captain.
"Number 1, what do we do now?"
"...How the hell should I know?"
After a moment of silence, the Emergency Captain also said helplessly, "Fall back."
The team members were stunned.
"Ah!"
"Ah my ass, it's all collapsed, what else can we do? Dig out the intruder's body?"
The Emergency Captain rolled his eyes.
He had thought it would be a tough fight.
But...
Unexpectedly, well, it was very anticlimactic.
Just then, the Lieutenant Colonel who had just called General Thaddeus Ross to report also arrived here in a jeep.
"Number 2, fall back."
"Yes, sir!"
The Emergency Captain said to his deputy, then casually walked towards the Lieutenant Colonel, holding his assault rifle.
The Lieutenant Colonel didn't wait for the Emergency Captain to salute; his gaze fell on the Gamma Experiment Building, which had turned into ruins and was still spewing dust: "What happened?"
The Emergency Captain shook his head: "Frankly, I'm not very clear, but I can confirm that there was only one intruder."
Then the Emergency Captain recounted what he had learned from the experimental personnel who ran out of the building, and then mentioned that just as he was about to lead his team in, the building collapsed.
Upon hearing that there was only one intruder, the Lieutenant Colonel's expression also became dazed.
"Are you sure, just one?"
"Yes."
"Motherf..."
The Lieutenant Colonel instinctively blurted out a curse, feeling an unusual absurdity: "No, just one person, how dare he?"
Quantico Military Base had not been without intrusion incidents.
But...
Those foreign elements all came in groups, and most of them were dealt with before they even entered the true gate inside the Base.
But no matter what, they all knew that Quantico Base was a team dungeon.
Good heavens.
You came to raid it alone?
What were you thinking?
The Lieutenant Colonel expressed his difficulty in understanding.
The Emergency Captain also spread his hands, then turned to look at the collapsed Gamma Experiment Building, and thought of a possibility: "Maybe this was a suicide mission. The other party's target was this experimental building, and they never intended to return when they came."
Hearing this, the Lieutenant Colonel thought for a moment and nodded.
"That's the only explanation."
"Damn!"
"I even notified General Ross! I knew I shouldn't have notified him."
After nodding, the Lieutenant Colonel's face suddenly changed as he remembered the urgent call he made to General Ross when he came over. He felt terrible.
If only he had known the intruder was on a suicide mission, he would never have made that call.
Uh...
At least not so urgently. Now it's good, he has to call again.
The Lieutenant Colonel sighed inwardly, while instructing his deputy to notify the Base control room to lift the alarm, he took out his phone again and called his superior, General Thaddeus Ross, once more.
The call connected quickly.
"Report!"
"General Ross, the intruder is dead."
"Dead?"
General Thaddeus Ross, who was urging his driver to rush to Quantico, was once again stunned.
"What happened?"
"The intruder's identity is temporarily unknown, but he was alone. The Gamma Building has collapsed. Currently, it is presumed that he was on a suicide mission..."
"Boom!"
"Holy shit!"
Just as the Lieutenant Colonel was organizing his words to report to General Thaddeus Ross, suddenly, another earth-shattering roar echoed from the ruins of the Gamma Building.
The next second.
He saw the figure that seemed to have burst out of the ruins, following that loud noise, in the wreckage currently illuminated by the searchlights, and was completely stunned.
The Emergency Captain standing nearby gasped in disbelief.
But he quickly reacted.
"Enemy attack."
"Fire, fire!"
"Bang bang bang, bang bang bang!"
After the Emergency Captain reacted first, the other emergency team members who were just about to fall back and leave also reacted. Their muzzles instantly aimed at the figure standing in the ruins, vaguely visible in the smoke, and pulled the triggers of their guns.
At the same time.
The intrusion alarm, which had just been deactivated at the Base, blared again.
The piercing alarm sound caused a hint of confusion to flash in the eyes of the soldiers who had just assembled and then disbanded.
What's going on?
Didn't the alarm just get deactivated? Why is it ringing again?
Just as they were considering whether the Base control center had pressed the wrong button, the sudden sound of gunfire made them realize something.
"Shit!"
"Another intrusion."
"Quick, quick, quick!"
"Bang bang bang, bang bang bang!"
Hawk's figure kept flashing back and forth over the ruins of the Gamma Experiment Building.
Beneath the ruins, the last wisp was drawn into his possession under the traction of his own Little Universe.
Hawk then looked forward at the soldiers who were continuously firing at him, and the soldiers who were rushing towards him from not far away.
And...
The rumbling tanks driving towards them and the armed helicopters slowly ascending with the sound of their propellers turning.
It was very clear.
He had completely stirred up a hornet's nest.
However...
My business is done. Next, I just need to find a place to consume what I've gained this time.
Hawk thought, then looked at the gradually dissipating smoke and dust around him, raised an eyebrow, showed no reluctance, and as he turned and bent his knees, accompanied by the further collapse of the ruins beneath his feet, his whole body shot into the air like a cannonball.
The next second.
He then traced a graceful parabola in the air under the searchlight's pursuit, landing with a whoosh in the forest outside the Base.
Alright.
The quick-strike mission has been completed. It's time for the next step.
The wind is strong, time to split!!!
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