From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 60 “Brilliant” Night Sky

surface.

It’s early morning on the East Coast of the United States, on the Pennsylvania side;

A large psychiatric rehabilitation center, located in an inaccessible area surrounded by woods, with complete facilities...

A little too complete.

An electrified barbed wire fence is erected around the edge of the sanatorium, and inside there are numerous guard towers, surveillance equipment, and even searchlights and armed patrols.

If we use military standards to protect patients with mental problems, there is always the suspicion of making a mountain out of a molehill.

At the main entrance of this healing center stands a stone tablet with the words "Sage Grove Spiritual Healing Center".

At this moment, on the sentry tower behind the main entrance;

"Ugh...I hate the night shift so much."

"I really like it. No one will care if I desert. It's so comfortable."

Two security guards wearing dark gray combat uniforms, complete with body armor and helmets, and holding 5.56-caliber firearms, chatted wordlessly while looking at the dark woods outside the power grid.

The armbands printed with the "V" logo and "Walter International" indicate that these two security guards and the Sage Grove Center are the assets and facilities of Walter International.

As for the militarized alert, it also revealed that this place was not a sanatorium, but actually a research center used for human experiments.

A security guard rubbed his eyes sleepily, then fumbled for a pack of cigarettes from the tactical bag hanging on his waist, and handed it to the guy next to him:
  "Are you coming?"

"Come."

The two security guards each lit a cigarette, and the sleepy security guard took a few puffs to refresh his lungs.

"Huh~!" Seeing this, another security guard exhaled smoke and said with a smile: "You didn't sleep during the day? You are so sleepy."

"I gambled a few times and didn't notice that I overplayed my time."

"Are you still gambling? Brother, please take it easy and don't lose this job."

"Don't worry, I'm measured...Wo Zefa...? Meteor?"

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After hearing a colleague talk about meteors, another security guard looked up and saw a "light spot" moving quickly in the night sky.

But before the two of them could fully enjoy this rare sight, the "meteor" seemed to explode on its own, ejecting hundreds or even thousands of "clones."

In an instant, the night sky became more beautiful.

But the two security guards had no intention of admiring the strange scenery above. Instead, they threw away their half-smoked cigarettes and held their firearms involuntarily.

Swish--! Swish——!

They saw a large number of missiles dragging their tail flames into the sky, rushing towards the thousands of "meteors", and then successively contacted and exploded with the outermost "meteors", directly lighting up the entire night sky.

boom-! boom-!

It took nearly two minutes before two security guards heard a violent explosion.

But two minutes ago, they both realized that it was not a meteor shower at all, but some unknown weapon. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to trigger the US land-based missile defense system.

It's just that there are too many "meteors" and the defense system cannot completely intercept them. Even though there are many false targets in the "meteors", the defense system cannot effectively distinguish them. The movement trajectories and heat dissipation of all "meteors" are similar. . The two security guards had no time to think about why the defense system failed, because they discovered that the "meteors" that broke through the interception network began to self-destruct one after another. Only one "meteor" that remained intact and dispersed the fire seemed to be...probably...heading towards the Sage Jungle. Research center attack?
  ! !
  One of the two people who noticed this possibility immediately took out a walkie-talkie to report the situation, while the other quickly ran back into the house and sounded the alarm, trying to alert other colleagues to the incoming "meteorite".

call out! ! ! !

As soon as the siren started to sound, the "meteorite" had already passed by the sentry building where the two security guards were located, and fell straight into the lawn of the research center.

However, before touching the ground, the "meteorite" actually buffered several times.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a strong earthquake, the "meteorite" successfully landed on the ground, and also exploded the soil and green grass at the impact point into the air.

"Boom! Tom!"

Before the aftermath subsided, the two security guards heard what sounded like a heavy hatch opening.

When they walked around to the other end of the sentry building and looked toward the impact point, they saw the "initiator" who had turned the east coast of the United States upside down...

Is it a cone-shaped metal warehouse about six meters high, with three sides measuring seven or eight meters? And it is painted in light gray with the "V" logo of Watt International printed on it.
  "Boom! Boom!"

Then two giants of four meters, two and three meters, wearing gray special combat uniforms, protective armor, and face-covering helmets walked out of the metal warehouse.

What shocked them even more was that these two giants were carrying ammunition boxes on their backs and holding three-barrel rotating machine guns in one hand...

But the more the security guards looked at it, the more they felt that the caliber and size of the two "machine guns" looked like 20mm rotating cannons?

What's the situation?
  When did the company fall into infighting?

But when one of the giants aimed the rotating machine cannon at the guard tower, the two security guards suddenly woke up and turned around and ran away without thinking.

Although they are also veterans, the monthly salary given by Walter can reach 1995... This was definitely a high-paying profession in the United States in 5.56, but using the 20mm in hand against the mm?
  Sorry, running away is the best option.

It's not that they don't abide by professional ethics, it's that a job worth five thousand dollars is not enough for two veterans to be willing to sacrifice their lives.

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The giant, or tyrant 001, who pointed the cannon at the guard tower saw that the two security guards had made the right decision, turned around, kept a distance of more than ten meters from "teammate" 002, and approached the research facility in the Sage Grove.

"Buzz!"

While the two tyrants were preparing to launch their official attack, the airdrop pod that led "them" to the airdrop instantly spontaneously ignited, and the flames were extremely dazzling. It seemed that a combustion-supporting substance similar to aluminum fuel was used.

The dazzling flames finally subsided after the metal was melted and splattered, leaving nothing to burn.

On the other hand, the actions of the two tyrants were unimpeded.

More than half of the armed security guards chose to disarm and run away, while the remaining half chose to believe that the guns in their hands could cause harm to the two tyrants.

"It's a pity" that 5.56mm can at most scratch or cause scratches on the protective armor's paint.

Even if it hits the special combat suit by chance, it will only cause an obvious dent, unable to penetrate, let alone cause effective damage to the tyrant.

So after the remaining half of the security guards saw the defense that was no different from that of an armored vehicle, and saw several colleagues being blown away by 20mm cannons, they suddenly scattered like birds and beasts and disappeared.

Next, Tyrant 001 stayed outside, and 002 prepared to enter the inside of the research facility... However, due to his height and size, it was difficult to move.

Fortunately, the tyrant was powerful enough to carry out "violent" demolition, allowing 001 to reach the goal of the trip, which was the local database of Sage Grove.

(End of this chapter)