An earth-shattering roar echoed from nearly a hundred meters overhead, heard by the police officers at the building's entrance and even the crowd of onlookers farther away.
All eyes turned to the sky in unison.
They saw a small, dark speck of a figure fly directly out from the shattered floor-to-ceiling window and hover in mid-air.
Immediately after, a volley of red laser beams shot out from the room, but the dark figure dodged them all at high speed.
Seven or eight more dark figures shot out, leaping down.
They leaped from thirty stories up without a moment's hesitation—obviously, this was no suicide attempt. They were prepared.
Triangular metal wings sprang from the backs of all seven or eight of them. Like birds, they carved a gliding arc through the air, rapidly closing in on the ground.
