"Toot!"
"Toot!"
"Toot!"
The piercing alarm resounded over the Quantico Military Base. Whether it was the soldiers on duty, those returning to their barracks to rest, or those who had run into town for a break, they all wore expressions of shock and surprise.
The next second.
They reacted.
"Holy shit!"
"Battle alarm."
"Enemy attack."
"Jesus Christ, what's happening?"
"The Japanese are attacking again? No, wait, we're in Quantico, not Pearl Harbor."
The soldiers were momentarily stunned, but quickly shifted into combat mode upon realizing the situation.
After all, this is Quantico.
The Marine Corps' base, no less, and the nearby FBI Academy and Langley's headquarters.
Almost three seconds after the battle alarm sounded, the first soldier appeared rapidly, followed by the second, third...
"Whoosh!"
"Where?"
"Gamma Laboratory."
"Fuck."
A colonel, hearing that the former Gamma Laboratory had been breached, cursed angrily. While putting on his clothes and running to the door, he pulled out his phone and dialed a number.
The call connected quickly.
"Hello!"
A deep voice came from the other end of the line.
"General, the Gamma Laboratory has been invaded."
"..."
On the other end, just leaving the Pentagon and getting into a car, General Thaddeus Ross was momentarily stunned by the news over the phone.
Good heavens.
What did he just hear?
The Gamma Laboratory was invaded?
How is that possible?
The Gamma Laboratory is within the Marine Corps base at Quantico, how could it have been breached?
Because he found it hard to believe, General Thaddeus Ross asked again.
"Repeat that, where was invaded?"
"Gamma Laboratory."
"Shit!"
Thaddeus Ross felt his heart sink.
"What's going on?"
"The emergency response team is on its way, and I'm heading there now."
"..."
Thaddeus Ross took a deep breath, loosened his tie, and patted the driver's seat: "Quantico, fast!"
The driver nodded, slammed the accelerator, and started a high-speed chase right under the noses of two Congress Police officers.
The two Congress Police officers exchanged looks at the scene.
Meanwhile.
The base's emergency response team also arrived at the Gamma Laboratory, enclosed by metal sheets.
Inside the Gamma Laboratory, the constant thundering sounds of massive impacts echoed, while the secret experiment personnel who had been inside ran out in panic.
As they ran out, the soldiers who had arrived grabbed them like chickens and pulled them aside.
"What's the situation inside, how many intruders are there, what do they want?"
"I don't know, I know nothing."
"One person, he's after the Gamma Stone."
"..."
The emergency team leader gazed silently at the experiment personnel revealing information.
Other soldiers also looked incredulously at the personnel who had spoken.
"Did you just say... one?"
"Yes, just one."
The personnel still had a terrified expression: "But he's not human, he shattered the wall with one punch, and bullets can't hit him, all the soldiers who shot at him are dead."
Everyone exchanged looks.
At this moment, a soldier supported by an experiment personnel, appearing injured but not dead, spoke up to confirm: "Everything he said is true, there is only one intruder."
The emergency team leader's gaze immediately fixed on the soldier being supported.
"Soldier, report the situation."
"Just as he said, there's only one intruder. He seems to be after the Gamma Stone, and our bullets can't hit him. He killed almost all the soldiers who shot at him in an instant."
"What about you?"
"Didn't you hear what I said?"
The injured soldier, looking like he was on the verge of a breakdown, shouted at the emergency team leader: "He killed all the soldiers who shot at him."
In fact, he had fired as well.
But...
His gun jammed at the moment of firing, and it didn't shoot any bullets.
Because of this, Hawk didn't take his life at the last moment but shattered one of his legs, rendering him unable to fight.
But the rest of the soldiers who fired and the armed experiment personnel inside weren't so lucky.
As Hawk had previously said.
Once the valve of slaughter is opened, killing becomes not a choice, but a question of numbers.
However, Hawk was still restraining himself.
At this moment, Hawk had already reached the basement of the Gamma Experiment Building.
He immediately saw the excavated hole in the basement.
With a thud.
Hawk, wearing a hood and medical mask, jumped straight into the hole.
Next.
He saw a newly excavated tunnel, with remnants of pickaxes and other tools on the not-too-wide tunnel floor.
Good heavens, how primitive.
No.
It must be intentional because the military isn't always of one mind.
Hawk thought, his gaze shifting to the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel.
Indeed.
It was the same stone he had seen in Dr. Connor's lab.
At that moment.
A phoenix cry resonated in Little Cosmos, and a message was transmitted to Hawk.
"Devour."
"Just leave it to me for refining."
"That's simple."
Hawk processed the information.
He originally thought he would have to play the miner to extract the stones, which for reasons unknown, had absorbed Gamma Rays after the Gamma Laboratory explosion.
The result...
All he needed to do was place his hand on it, ignite his Little Cosmos, and allow the Phoenix within the Little Cosmos to absorb the Gammanien stored in the stones.
This...
Was fantastic.
Hawk's face lit up with joy as he prepared to start absorbing.
But just as he was about to start, his gaze snapped to the hole he had just jumped into.
Hawk threw a punch towards the hole, suspending in mid-air.
Rumble!
The tunnel entrance to the basement collapsed under his fist, smoke and shockwaves swept across the not-too-deep tunnel.
However, the smoke didn't affect Hawk at all.
He did this mainly to prevent anyone from disturbing his next task.
Now it's fine; he can absorb in peace.
Hawk thought without hesitation, placing his hands on the stone walls on both sides.
In the next second!
Little Cosmos erupted!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
...