North American Detective: I am Proficient in All Kinds of Gun Quick Draws-Chapter 555 - 319 The Downfall of Lucifer Part 2

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Commands were issued one after another.

All landed Marine squads received the order to attack simultaneously.

"Move, move, move! All the mechanical door programs inside have been sabotaged! Force your way through and secure everyone inside!"

Under the leadership of several officers, roughly a dozen squads, over a hundred fully armed men, stormed the base through its surface entrance on the island.

「Aboard the warship.」

Amon appeared expressionless, but he was actually waiting with intense anxiety for feedback from the soldiers.

According to intelligence from the informant codenamed Gabriel, to maintain secrecy, the base had few armed guards; its primary defensive force consisted of non-human experimental subjects. As for the base's self-destruct system, all the keys had to be gathered to activate it.

He hoped everything would go smoothly.

Whether Gabriel lived or died didn't matter to Amon. This informant had been planted by a faction of the FBI controlled by his superior. Now, he held little value and might even be silenced if he survived.

Amon's real target was the pharmaceutical formulas and data. As long as he could get his hands on those... Amon saw a chance to become a high-ranking official in the newly established National Security. This would allow him to rise above tens of thousands in the United States Federation and become a truly influential figure in the public eye!

While Amon's thoughts ran wild.

「Inside the base.」

Dr. Sean watched the soldiers swarming in on the monitors, a cold sneer playing on his lips.

They had even mobilized the Marine Corps. These people had no idea about the true terror of the base.

He felt relieved that the base's defense system was not completely integrated with its internal system. Otherwise, if the defensive area's monitoring fell into the hands of hackers, they might genuinely have been doomed.

He waited until all the soldiers had surged through the wide-open electronic doors into the base.

Dr. Sean took out a pager and issued an order, "Begin charging the large magnetic field! Open the control gates for cells one through five!"

His subordinates, unaware they had been abandoned, remained at their posts. Following Dr. Sean's orders, they rapidly typed on their keyboards, opening one heavy iron door after another. Simultaneously, electric currents began to flicker along the base's internal walls...

The oblivious Marine squads, advancing as if through undefended territory, pushed into the base's inner sanctum.

There, they finally came under fire. A group of masked, armed personnel positioned above the massive circular hall opened fire on them. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Caught off guard, several soldiers fell to the ground. The remaining soldiers immediately returned fire, laying down suppressive volleys while taking cover throughout the hall, establishing a crossfire with their superior numbers.

Thanks to their well-trained coordination and teamwork, a few screams echoed from above, and then silence fell.

An officer was puzzled. This weak?

Before this operation, they had all followed orders and written their last wills. However, the wills didn't disclose the mission's true objective, stating only that they were participating in a military exercise.

But judging by the current situation, the enemy seemed weak. The other officers felt similarly.

After exchanging glances and reporting in, they prepared to push deeper into the facility.

They noted many scattered chairs and uncollected files around them.

They were about to reach their mission objective.

Over a hundred fully armed soldiers, on command, advanced in an assault formation, each covering the other.

Just then, a soft thud sounded.

One of the point men, crouched and preparing to move up the stairs, was suddenly slammed against the wall by an invisible force, as if glued there. His weapon, seemingly drawn by a powerful magnet, crashed against the corridor wall with a dull THUD.

Before anyone could react, all their weapons were wrenched from their grasp, flying towards the surrounding walls. The advancing soldiers, weighed down by metallic gear, were also pulled against the walls, one after another, ending up in a crushing 'embrace'.

That wasn't the worst of it. The unluckiest of them was a soldier who screamed in agony as a stray pen flew through the air and embedded itself in his buttock.

"FK!"

A few officers at the rear were fortunate enough to be outside the magnetic field's range. But it was their first time encountering such a situation, their first time seeing such a scene. For a moment, they had no idea how to respond.

Just then, violent tremors and sounds echoed from the passage they had just traversed.

An officer, clutching a pistol, glanced back. His expression shifted drastically. "Enemies! Hordes of them!"

"Fire!"

They shot repeatedly. Their bullets struck the monstrous, human-like figures in prison garb, whose muscles bulged as if about to rip through their skin. The shots merely caused the creatures to stagger momentarily. Then, pressed forward by their comrades from behind, they continued their rush towards the soldiers, who were like fresh meat to them.

In moments, the area was filled with screams and splattering blood.

A blood-soaked transceiver lay on the ground, still squawking a message from the warship: "This is Warship G772, report your situation! Repeat, this is..."

But, apart from the sickening sounds of contented chewing, no soldier remained to answer the call.

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「On the warship.」

Amon and the general listened to the last screams and gunfire coming from the transceiver, their faces turning the color of liver.

Over a dozen elite squads, wiped out in under a minute! They hadn't even had time to send back a message!

Just then, a communications soldier rushed to the General, "Sir, radar detected a strong magnetic disturbance originating from the base just over a minute ago. We suspect an active magnetic field inside!"