Chapter 699
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The power system was interrupted and the hall plunged into darkness . The only thing visible was the flames burning on the platform just above the hall . Burning droplets dripped from the edge of the platform continuously and the burning thick smoke gathered above like heavy clouds .
*Cough cough . . . * Norman pushed down the stone slab on his chest and stood up with his rifle .
The polyethylene bullet-proof plate on his chest was cracked and pressed against his ribcage . He called out the hologram screen and deactivated the front armor . He heard the sound of air being filled as he ripped off the armor in front of his chest .
Dust was everywhere .
"Garrett!"
Norman who regained his breath, opened his helmet mask and shouted .
"Damn! Bill!"
"Cough, I'm not dead . I'm here . "
The sound came from the radio channel .
Upon hearing the sound, Norman immediately turned on his tactical flashlight, searched around, and soon saw a hand sticking up in the gravel pile .
Norman ran to it with his rifle . He moved the stone pressed against Bill and pulled him out of the rubble . Under the driving force of the kinetic skeleton, this weight was nothing at all .
"Sh*t, my leg would've been gone if I was there a bit longer . " As he collapsed by the side, Bill gritted his teeth and extracted his deformed right leg armor .
Then Norman rescued three other comrades one after the other, but he didn't find his captain Garret .
"Garrett! Damnit, where are you?!"
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The life signal detection device was on the captain who happened to be missing . Norman anxiously scanned the captain's previous position, but the blast had already sent Garret to God-knew-where . Not to mention he could be dead or alive!
"What about the mission?"
"Bill, you go with Sean and Freddy to the captain's room . Jim and I will stay here to search for the captain!"
"Okay!" Bill nodded and gestured to his comrades .
"Wait!"
"What happened?"
"Be careful . " Norman looked at him in the eyes and said seriously, "Our enemies aren't just zombies . "
A few figures suddenly dashed in from the entrance . Norman, Bill, and others immediately raised their rifles .
Both teams aimed at each other .
Tactical flashlights under the muzzle forced him to narrow his eyes; he couldn't see who was at the door .
Just then, a hoarse voice entered the communication channel .
"Friendly . "
Norman was taken aback . He immediately confirmed the presence of green dots on the map then lowered the rifle in his hands .
It seemed that after the explosion, they were in a coma for some time, and at this time, the reinforcements arrived .
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From the digital camouflage kinetic skeleton, the other team was indeed the Marines, the primary task unit of Celestial Trade . Norman, like Captain Garrett, was transferred from the Marines to the Rapid Response Force, so they were on familiar terms .
But what he hadn't expected was an unexpected person behind the force .
Jiang Chen!
Celestial Trade's boss! Why would he show up here?
Soldiers entering the hall divided into two teams - a team to open the life detection device to join the search and rescue work, and the other team stayed by Jiang Chen's side .
Under the protection of more than a dozen Marines, Jiang Chen walked up to Norman .
Norman put down his rifle, stood up straight and saluted .
"What happened?" Jiang Chen glanced at the fragments around the place and asked in a deep and concerned tone .
"We broke into the hall and cleared the zombies . The captain heard a cry for help and walked over, but someone detonated a bomb," Norman immediately reported .
Jiang Chen nodded and remained silent, but he looked directly above the hall platform .
The interior decorations were ignited and the fire had begun to spread . Even across a distance of ten meters, he could still clearly feel the rising heat waves .
After a brief silence, Jiang Chen suddenly laughed, shook his head and said to himself .
"It seems my approach was too merciful . "
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"Sir?" Norman asked with confusion .
"Nothing . I just think that treating some villains should be like treating zombies . Before they cause any more harm, shoot them, regardless of the consequences, and make their heartbeats stop . . . Sergeant Norman, do you agree with me?"
All along, Jiang Chen hadn't cared too much about the Kurofune . Or, even if he cared, he didn't invest too much energy to investigate .
Takeda Pharmaceutical was a Nippon-owned company and was a reputable firm in the country . However, there was a high risk of executing military operations in developed countries, not to mention that FBA and CIB had been involved in the investigation . So, Jiang Chen also didn't concern himself with it . He sent a Ghost Agent, but he didn't authorize her to execute a capture, or infiltrate and carry out other illegal espionage activities . Instead, he simply wanted her to gather intelligence…
Originally, he thought "Kurofune" would be restrained by the Nippon government to some extent, but he was wrong .
Although affiliated with the government, they obviously didn't completely listen to the government .
After all, counting on a bunch of terrorists who wanted to destroy humans was impractical from any perspective .
Soon, the Marines dragged Garrett out from the rubble .
"Still alive?" Jiang Chen asked .
"His life signal is active, but it's weak and he needs urgent medical treatment," replied the soldier who carried the stretcher .
"Go quickly . "
"ROGER!"
The fire was spreading ablaze, and the soldiers beside Jiang Chen stepped forward and whispered to him .
"The fire is out of control, Commander, please retreat . "
Jiang Chen nodded and said nothing . He turned and left .
Escorted by a soldier, Jiang Chen returned to the helicopter . Looking at the cruise ship, the fire had spread to the middle of the cruise ship . The cruise ship was like an alcohol lamp floating on the high sea .
Two hundred survivors curled up on the deck of the rescue boat with no joy of survival on their faces - there was only deep horror .
Three thousand tourists in total, who had bought tickets to enjoy the holidays, hadn't expected such hellish terror to break out on the Pacific Ocean on this beautiful day .
A child wailed to his mother, a man gently patted a woman's back and said words that couldn't even comfort himself . Medical staff on the deck traversed throughout the crowd, checking their bodies and injecting Future Biology's anti-T virus vaccine . . .
The evacuation was successful; some were wounded, but no one was fatally hurt .
The worst off was Sergeant Garrett - the explosion damaged his spine . He would probably have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair…
The fire was becoming more ferocious . Once it reached the fuel tank, the cruise ship was likely to explode . In order to prevent themselves from being affected, the helicopters and rescue boat evacuated immediately .
Jiang Chen looked expressionlessly at the cruise ship disappearing . Just then, his phone suddenly rang .
He picked up .
"Hey . "
"Among the survivors was a man called Zhu Tianyou . When we found him, he was being tied up in a bathtub full of water . When he was rescued, he was unconscious . We suspected he might be associated with this terrorist attack, so he's under intensive care and being monitored by our medical staff . "
"You did well . Send him to New Moon Island, and I will personally ask him . "
"Yes!"
After he hung up the phone, Jiang Chen called Ayesha .
"Order the Ghost Agents to go to Nippon . Within a week, I'd like to see the President of Takeda Pharmaceutical appearing in the interrogation room on New Moon Island . "