Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 434: Direct Incision

Chapter 434: Direct Incision

Adam had to seize the initiative rather than fall into the enemy's tempo. Having received a huge confidence boost after defeating Succubus Beth, Adam now felt ready to alter his original plans.

He already possessed the power to act effectively on his own, so it was a massive waste to continue bringing everyone along with him, and it also made it easier for his enemies to predict what he was going to do next.

Hence, he was going to leave Shae in Sandrise City to attract all of the attention, while also assigning her sufficient protection to ensure her safety. In the meantime, he was going to carry out a surprise attack in the shadows. Shae was very quick to approve of this idea. She also understood that it was time to change gears, and she had to play a bigger role.

On behalf of the pawn shop, May promised to protect Shae to the best of her abilities, and Cowboy was assigned with the task of arranging Adam a flight to Komi, while Adam himself paid Guang Fei a visit.

"Are you putting me to work again?" Guang Fei cackled, and he was still looking in rather ill health, but he had clearly gained some weight compared with back when he was in Darvaza Prison, and his complexion was looking far better as well.

He was stroking the explosive device around his neck with a hint of mockery in his eyes, but Adam paid no heed to that as he said, "According to our agreement, you have to do my bidding during the election period."

"Fine. Who do you want to kill this time?"

Guang Fei fished some jerky out of his pocket as he spoke before chewing on it with a blissful look on his face. Ever since he came out of prison, eating had become his greatest hobby, and he always had some form of food on him.

Adam didn't reveal any of the details of his plan to Guang Fei. This man was completely untrustworthy, and he would sell anyone in a heartbeat as long as the price was right, but for this mission, there was no better candidate than him.

"Just come with me. You'll know once we get there."

Guang Fei cackled in response, seemingly intrigued by the mystery.

……

That night, Adam and Guang Fei were placed into a box that was completely isolated from the outside world, then transported in secret to Area 53 of Sandrise City. This was the largest aerial transportation central hub in Sandrise City, accounting for at least a third of the city's transportation of goods. Hence, both the public and private airports in the area were extremely busy.

The box that Adam and Guang Fei were in was loaded onto a cargo plane, and not long after it took off, it made a turn for the Pacific Ocean. After several hours of flying, the pre-set time arrived, and the box opened up on its own.

The two men emerged from the box, and Adam was fully equipped with his comprehensive set of prosthetics, while Guang Fei was wearing a g-suit outside of his normal prosthetics. The two of them opened the service door from the underside of the aircraft, then jumped out into the sky. Parachuting down from altitudes in excess of 10,000 meters was extremely dangerous, but it seemed to have been no more perilous than a stroll in the park for them.

They rapidly plummeted out of the sky before opening their parachutes, and at an altitude of several hundred meters, they discarded their parachutes before opening their paragliding wings, inspecting the undulating mountains and forests down below with their night vision goggles as they traveled directly toward their destination.

Meanwhile, another meeting was taking place in the Metaverse.

"Are you sure he's gone missing?"

"We haven't been able to track him down, and we highly suspect he's gone to carry out a new mission."

"He pulled up Herman's file prior to his disappearance, so we can presume that's his target."

"But we haven't even presented to him the bait that we've prepared yet. Could this be a coincidence?"

"In any case, I've already contacted them, I'm sure they'll know how to handle teh situation."

"According to past conventions, we should be able to use some unconventional methods. After all, he was the one who overstepped his boundaries first."

"I can't guarantee that."

"In that case, let's just wait and see what happens."

……

Adam was naturally unaware of everything that was happening behind the scenes. He was only focused on what was in front of him.

Komi was a tiny nation that was still ruled by a monarch, and the royal family was a puppet to the top dogs in Sandrise City, so they were constantly putting their own people through horrific treatment for the benefit of those in Sandrise City.

Adam's target was the human farm. Through his recollection of Herman's memories, coupled with the information provided by the pawn shop and his contacts in the northern congress, as well as the information secured from the black market in Shadow City, he had narrowed down the location of the human farm to a mountain park not far away from the nation's capital.

Technically, this was the royal family's private property, and it was home to a vacation resort, a ranch, a medicinal plant breeding base, and a research center set up by a world-class corporation in the medical sector.

It had an independent supply of water and electricity, as well as a resource transfer station, a luxurious hospital and sanitarium, and everything else one could ever ask for. There was even an aerial defense alert system, except it only raised the alarm after detecting approaching air-to-ground weaponry.

Both Adam and Guang Fei's prosthetic limbs did a very good job of concealing them, so they wouldn't have registered as any larger than seagulls on the system.

Even so, the two of them were still flying along cautiously at an altitude of below 50 meters, and after passing over many walls and wire fences, they descended onto the helipad on top of the hospital while cloaked in the darkness of the night right before the arrival of dawn.

Their landing was so quiet that none of the security units were alerted, and after removing their paragliding wings, Guang Fei examined the helicopter on the helipad to ensure that it could still be used.

Guang Fei had to have led a spectacular life 30 years ago. Otherwise, there was no way to explain his set of skills. Even though he was an old man now, he was still very nimble and efficient.

The two of them quickly snuck over to the entrance on the rooftop, where there was an alarm system that would be set off if anyone tried to break in by force.

There, Adam activated his neuron transmitter, and the signal encompassed the entire hospital, dragging everyone in it into Adam's psychic world.

The setting was Darvaza Prison.

Adam had only just fused as one with Mummy when over 100 psychic bodies suddenly appeared around him, most of which clearly belonged to organized military units.

Furthermore, they were very well prepared, launching a ferocious barrage of attacks as soon as they spotted Adam.

The cell area was instantly inundated by heavy artillery, tanks, missiles, and powerful explosives, reducing all of the buildings to rubble in just a few seconds.

Immediately thereafter, around a dozen adapters who were at least comparable in power to level six anomalies emerged, forming teams of three to five people before firing off barrages of attacks in a well-rehearsed fashion. At least 20 attacks were fired off every single second, blasting Sludge's giant body into pieces right after it was invoked.

They didn't give him any chance to catch his breath before the third wave of attacks arrived, consisting of formidable single-target attacks from three powerful adapters.

A bolt of lightning struck Mummy, charring half of his body black. A sword projection swept toward his neck in an attempt to decapitate him, and thankfully, he was able to dodge in time, but still lost a shoulder.

He invoked Hellhound, but before it could do anything, it was almost beaten to death by a mountainous hammer.

After that, he invoked Clown, which conjured up an army of clones that fired off their weapons in retaliation, only to have the majority of the clones wiped out in an instant by enemy fire.

Behind the main unit, the enemy had set up a military phalanx system with an incredibly high rate of fire, able to launch over 10,000 25mm exploding missiles to create a continuous storm of destruction with no blind spots.

The most fearsome attack was still yet to come from above. A Mother of All Bombs that was 10 tons in weight exploded at a low altitude, releasing scorching heat and terrifying shockwaves that razed all of the buildings in the area to the ground and almost destroyed Adam's psychic body in the process.

A man wearing a tuxedo and a monocle then rose up into the air, pointing at Adam with his staff as he scoffed in derision, "I thought you were supposed to be a formidable opponent, but you're just a weak piece of trash!"

As soon as his voice trailed off, what remained of Adam's psychic body suddenly flickered momentarily before vanishing from the spot.

Adam took a deep breath as he opened his eyes in the real world, and there was an excited look on his face.

The fact that an ambush has been set up here tells me that we're at the right place!