People were like this. When there was something they desperately wanted but had little hope of obtaining, they suppressed the desire in their hearts. They might wait ten or twenty years. Rather than patience, it was more like helplessness.
But once there was great hope, it felt like a cat clawing at their heart. Even waiting one more second became agony.
So Howitzer decided he could wait no longer. Ever since he had received the so-called Tyrant serum from Evenson, he felt the Obelisk was already within reach. Though he had waited sixty years, he no longer wanted to wait even a moment.
After completing the deal with Evenson, he eagerly selected nineteen subordinates and enhanced them. These men had all been rigorously chosen by him. Not only were they utterly loyal to him, but to maximize their combat effectiveness, they were all elite soldiers with strong bodies and extensive combat experience.
Howitzer mobilized the entire branch. Within two days, he equipped the twenty-man Felified Human squad, including Rome, according to Evenson's recommendations. After a brief period of coordination, they set out.
The commander of this operation was also a trusted subordinate carefully selected by Howitzer: Yinsen Müller, an expert in commanding special operations whom Hydra had spent great effort cultivating. He was the man who had posed as a major.
Although the Felified Humans were the main force in this operation, they were only responsible for fighting the US Army head-on. The initial covert infiltration and the search inside the warehouse still had to be carried out by ordinary people.
Thus, four ordinary people also took part in the operation. Aside from Commander Yinsen, there was a professional hacker responsible for disrupting the US Army's surveillance system during the infiltration and opening the warehouse's coded door.
The other two