Mystical Journey

Outside the hospital, within the surroundings of the dark grey blocks, the pedestrians and residents had been evacuated urgently. Only empty neighborhoods and houses remained while the crowds that had been dispersed were held back outside the separation lines. They looked on at the private hospital in the center from afar.

On top of a building, several people who were in charged stood on the edge of the roof, issuing commands while on-site.

One of them wore a white suit and looked as if he had just walked out of a ball. His platinum hair was combed out with a layer of hairspray. When the afternoon sun cascaded on it, layers of light were reflected faintly.

“Logan, how are the arrangements for each aspect?” asked the man quietly.

“Almost done. All of the powerhouses that I arranged have been hidden properly. The Remington household’s forces have been dispersed throughout a range and area of a hundred meters. The three main units of the Third Mechanical Army have complied fully with the first garrison to monitor and control the three aspects of the ground, underground, and sky. A single mosquito would not even be able to escape from here!”

A thin man stood on the side, and reported quietly.

“I just don’t understand why a single heavily wounded and disabled individual would require so much combat manpower? Can’t it be done just by entering and seizing him directly?”

“What you don’t understand is that this isn’t just a regular arresting activity but more of an exhibition of power. Moreover, we still don’t know the exact moves that he’s hiding up his sleeves,” the man shook his head slightly. He reached his hand out and tidied his four strange eyebrows before a smile appeared on his face.

“Anyway, there’s nothing wrong with being slightly more careful.”

He looked down. He saw a large army of black Miniature Mechs, who wore black badges and were dressed in the Remington forces’ military outfits, started to approach the hospital building gradually. They carried large black shields that were big enough to cover their whole bodies while marching forward slowly from all directions.

In the sky, Mech Soldiers from the Third Mechanical Army flew over gradually as well. Although most of them were Level One Mech Soldiers, since this was a small town, it was already quite impressive that they were able to assemble more than ten of these forms of manpower during these critical moments.

The people from the Intelligence Bureau had installed monitors and protective screen measures around the area. They had even installed simple laser interception networks in certain important areas.

Fila had previously held the post of the Commander in Chief of the Third Mechanical Army. Hence, he was able to assemble and loan the strengths of his subordinates currently. He had held the post of the director of the Intelligence Bureau as well. Once again, it was easy for him to obtain his own forces. However, he still refused to let his guard down because he could still remember the ambush that he had encountered in the radiation belt. A pressing feeling continued to stir in his mind because he was uncertain whether Nonosiva had actually planned that raid. After all, an average young person would never be able to grasp mutated skills like that. Yet regardless of whoever was controlling these things, he had no choice but to get rid of this lurking danger as soon as possible because of the arrangement of the crisis that would soon follow.

Although this was seemingly just another encirclement, it was also an opportunity for him to display his own strength.

With a wave of his hand, Fila had finally given the final order to attack.

He had spread an inescapable net, and had laid it out completely.

His style was to stand on the spot while he slaughtering others!

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Bang!

The door to the hospital room was pushed open at once. Following that, a black Miniature Mech soldier charged inside and aimed the barrel of its gun at a patient’s bed precisely.

“No one?!”

“Search!”

A Mech Soldier moved forward and pressed the bedding.

“The temperature is 28.5 degrees and there is still residual heat. According to the calculations of the temperature and the air conditioning, he should have left two minutes ago.”

“Open the residual body heat tracks and trace them.”

There was a brief clapping noise before the entire room immediately became completely bright red under the gaze of the Mech Soldier.

“Nothing! What’s the matter?!” There were no traces of residual body heat inside the room at all.

Suddenly, a bright red shadow flew downwards into its line of sight, and harshly fell on top of the Mech Soldier’s head.

There was a crisp cracking noise before the person’s neck was twisted and broken, killing him in the process.

The red shadow turned a few more times. When the other people were unable to pull the trigger in time, it disappeared moments later within the hospital room.

Bang bang bang bang!

Loud gunshots could be heard inside the hospital room while bullets flew about.

“Jamie!! Oh sh*t!”

Pfoo!

Another red shadow pounced over suddenly, and landed behind the other Mech Soldiers. Both of its arms shot forward. Then like two venomous snakes, it violently bit the back of both their heads.

There were two simultaneous cracking noises but it seemed as though only one was heard.

The armor plates on the back of both of these Mech Soldiers’ heads were pierced through by his bare-hand. He violently stabbed both of his fingers inside them, leaving two bloody holes.

Garen resembled a large bat that soared upwards after biting these two people to death. He then proceeded to hang upside down on the ceiling once again. Strange enough, the back of his body was able to absorb itself onto the ceiling as if he was a wall painting that was hung upside down.

The last remaining Mech Soldier below staggered about in an attempt to escape the room. However, it only managed to run a few steps away before feeling that the bottom of its feet had stiffened.

He lowered his head to look. Only then did it realize that a thick layer of ice had frozen the legs of his Mech without him even noticing. Moreover, this icy layer was spreading at a speed that even the naked eye could see.

He suddenly felt as though he could sense something. He raised his head immediately, and looked at the ceiling but it could only see a red shadow rushing towards his face at the final moment.

Garen used one hand to press onto the Mech Soldier while a gush of frighteningly intense cold air was suddenly released from his entire body.

Ever since his Living Secret Technique had broken through Level Seven, both his Cold Radiation and Cold Chaos abilities were upgraded. He could release extremely cold temperatures of -20 degrees unexpectedly, allowing him to quickly freeze and delay the movements of the Mech Soldiers when his enemies were helplessly panicking. At the same time, although these individuals were initially well-trained combat soldiers, when they were affected by the Cold Chaos’ mental confusion effects, they would become easily spooked and anxious during the state of disorder. This allowed Garen’s surprise attacks to succeed smoothly.

He floated down, and landed gently while his complexion remained pale.

Slaughtering numerous Mech Soldiers in a row by force was not an impressive feat. The troublesome part was having to pierce through the Miniature Mechs that were worn by the Mech Soldiers. Although these things did not have particularly strong defenses, their fingers would suffer great harm if they penetrated it with bare hands.

Garen raised his hand. Solid icicles had frozen both of his forefingers due to the frigid air. Coupled with the quick movements of his hands, he was able to penetrate the Mech Soldier’s armor. However, his palm and wrist had suffered slight fractures because of this.

“There are gunshot noises here! Hurry, hurry!!” Loud yells echoed outside.

Tch!!

The left wall was suddenly penetrated by a ray of red light that was shooting towards Garen’s face. It was an armor-piercing projectile! Like a red line, the miniature armor-piercing projectile directly pierced through multiple layers of walls.

Garen somersaulted, and narrowly dodged the shooting armor-piercing projectile. However, he still felt a violent, burning pain on his face at the same time. A cold sensation that was tinged with burning heat quickly spread from the wound on his face and onto the other parts of his body.

“It’s poisonous!”

He added one Potential Point to his Vitality immediately. His Potential diffused quickly to rapidly suppress the poison from spreading.

Garen dragged the corpse of a random Mech Soldier and violently smashed it against the wall on the opposite side. Next, he rushed out of the hospital room door.

Just as he had exited the room, two shrouds of fiery red fluttering light shot over from the right side of the stairs.

Boom boom!

When both of the intense flames exploded, Garen’s body was sent flying brutally as he was unable to react in time.

Bang bang bang bang!

The Big Mechs outside had started raking the whole area with machine gunfire. Heavy-duty machine guns swept across the hospital in a frenzy.

Bullet holes pierced through the walls. On the white walls, the bullet holes resembled black snakes that were rushing towards Garen.

Garen rolled over again and discovered that his entire body was charred black from the explosions. He had just crawled up before he saw two strings of bullets inching towards him. The corridor of the entire hospital was shot up, and covered in a thousand holes while rays of sunlight cascaded in through the numerous bullet holes on the other side.

The ground of the entire building made violent crashing noises as if it was roaring.

His ears were filled with buzzing noises. Other than the noise of the bombs and machine guns, he could not hear anything else.

Garen stared fixedly at the black chain of bullets that was quickly moving towards him from the bullet holes. He dodged, and crouched down to evade the assault of the bullet chain before a series of noises that came from running Mech Soldiers suddenly echoed from the stairs behind him.

Bang!

He immediately moved, just before a ray of red light pierced through the floorboards below. It formed a pillar of fire that was more than a meter tall when it burst through.

The whole hospital started to burn.

“Arson?” Garen’s face remained indifferent because he was not afraid of death. He could not even clearly remember the number of times he had stared death in the face. Nonetheless, it was not his style to simply die here.

Miniature Mechs were not afraid of the scorching flames at all. It was easy for them to endure high temperatures of a few hundred degrees. However, the same did not apply to Garen because he had a flesh body. It was clear that the other party intended to burn him alive here.

Columns of bursting flame constantly exploded from the ground. Garen continuously dodged the flame pillars on the floorboards. With a few somersaults backward, he bounced towards the stairs at the back. He leaped gently, like a fish that had just jumped out of the surface of the water, before coincidentally landing on the head of a Mech Soldier that had just charged through the stairs. He sandwiched it with both his legs before twisting and breaking his enemy’s neck with a ‘crack’. He pressed downwards with the tip of his toes. Then, he swiftly pulled the trigger on the machine gun in the Mech Soldier’s hand. He supported himself against it and jumped before evading the shooting sweep that followed.

Boom boom boom boom!

After numerous consecutive gunshots, all of the bullets landed accurately on the head of the Mech Soldier upstairs while Garen was somersaulting.

It only took a single encounter for all five of the Mech Soldiers upstairs to be killed.

Without his Willpower, it was impossible for him to confront the enemy directly. He could only rely on his speedy movements to dodge the potential Willpower assaults. Currently, the only thing that he could depend on was his powerful battle skills, and great physical fitness.

While the rest had yet to react, Garen operated a Mech Soldier and ran towards the part of the building with the thickest bearing walls.

While running, he quickly stripped the Mech Soldier of the Miniature Mech that it was wearing and placed it on himself.

These Miniature Mechs were different from the ones in the radiation belt. They were considered as boosting-type Mechs that could be worn separately. They could increase the defense and power of the wearer. They were even fitted externally with certain communication devices that were used for detecting and probing.

Just as he had put it on, Garen could instantly hear noises coming out from the pager inside the Mech continuously.

“Wolf Five, Wolf Five, move forward to the second floor to assist immediately. Use the vertex bomb to destroy the second floor. Try your best to catch him while he’s still alive, if possible!”

Garen did not reply verbally but pretended to pant hoarsely and respond ambiguously instead.

He glanced at the blinking red dot on the board. Those were the numbers, and locations of all the Mech Soldiers.

“Catch me alive? Hehe.” A cold expression appeared on Garen’s face. He knew that it was very likely that the other party was planning to seize him to take the Rainbow Stone techniques that he had obtained.

If they had gotten rid of him on the spot in the beginning, perhaps he would not have an escape route now. However, the order to catch him while he was still alive gave him a lot of empty space to move around.

He moved his hand backward and removed the fixed-point hand grenade from the waist of the Miniature Mech and pressed it against the right wall.

Garen ran forward quickly.

Boom!

Stretches of fiery red flames shot out and exploded behind him. After dodging the flames and explosions, he returned to his previous location at the hole-ridden area. He exchanged the machine gun in his hand for an armor-piercing projectile model. He aimed it precisely at the wall on the other side of the hole-ridden room and shot it directly.

Red lines were shot out.

Boom!

The armor-piercing projectile penetrated the wall and accurately hit the body of another Mech Soldier that had just passed by. Perhaps it had struck the ammunition bundle on its body because suddenly, a large explosion occurred. It sent intense tremors throughout the entire second floor.

“Damn!”

The sound of a cursing man echoed from the pager.

“He’s just an injured cripple!”

The corners of Garen’s mouth curled into a cold-blooded arc.

He rolled across the floor and moved his hand backward to remove another armor-piercing projectile. He aimed it accurately so that it would pierce through the wall before shooting it outside the hospital.

In the sky outside, the Cockpit of a Big Mech was penetrated by that shot. It fell down crookedly, making a crashing noise before turning completely silent.

Garen’s speedy movements allowed him to enter the hospital and get rid of more than ten Mech Soldiers by using armor-piercing projectiles. Occasionally, Garen would replenish the armor-piercing projectiles that he had used. He managed to shoot down five or six Big Mechs outside.

On top of the command building outside.

The expression on Fila’s face remained unchanged as he continued to wave his hand.

“Everyone, withdraw! Abandon the mission to seize him alive, just demolish everything!”

“But…” Beside him, Logan’s eyebrows were knitted together tightly as he attempted to open his mouth to speak.

“Do you still not understand? Within ten minutes, the thirty Miniature Mech Soldiers that entered were completely slaughtered. Five of the Big Mechs outside were killed as well! That Nonosiva is truly not the pushover that we had imagined,” huffed Fila coldly.

“Send the Elite Team forward,” Logan gritted his teeth and said. “That’s a yearly profit of hundreds of millions!” The Mechanical Army that he was part of spent three hundred million a year. If they were able to seize this technique, its effects on the interest of the Mechanical Army would make anyone emotionally affected.

Fila’s mind turned cold. Despite just being relieved of office recently, some of his initial subordinates had stopped listening to his orders already.

“Do as you please. But if something happens, don’t blame me for not reminding you! Besides that, my men won’t leave anyone alive.”

“Commander, I don’t have a choice. Our military allowances have been cut each year. Although this sum of money may be insignificant to you, it’s still a large sum of income for us!” said Logan softly. If it was not for the money, Fila’s instructions would not be able to truly stop him either as he was currently the Commander in Chief.

Fila sighed coldly. He glanced at this man who was previously his groveling subordinate who had now matured into an individual who had dared to look him in the eye.

He turned around because he could not be bothered with looking at him anymore. He stuffed his hand into the pocket of his shirt immediately and walked towards the exit downstairs.

“I hope that you won’t mess it up.” Once they were in this state, there were no survival routes left for a minor force like Nonosiva. He did not have to watch anymore.

“Don’t worry!” A smile appeared on Logan’s face. He rearranged the microphone at the corner of his mouth. “Powerhouse Team, forward! He’s just a lowly piece of garbage with Level One Willpower. If you’re unable to seize him despite that, all of you can just die!”