Floating Island Incident (Final)

Boom.

The retreating convoy had barely gotten underway when it came under attack—not from bioweapons, but from humans. For a time, casualties were heavy.

"Watch out." While directing the others to escort the bioweapon experts away, Jill led a counterattack. Having fought on the front lines against bioterrorism for years, the BSAA Strike Team was made up of rare elites, and they quickly took down the attackers.

"It's those Gray Hounds bastards." When Jill and the others saw the attackers' corpses, their faces filled with fury. The Gray Hounds were a bioterrorist organization and an old rival of the BSAA.

"Rebecca, are you alright?" Shen Fei was calling Rebecca. Unlike Shen Fei's research institute, which was located far from the city on Terragrigia Island, Rebecca's institute was inside the city.

The difference was because Shen Fei's institute contained samples of various bioweapons captured by the BSAA. It would have been far too dangerous for such a facility to be located in the city. Rebecca's facility merely analyzed viruses, so as long as its defenses were sufficient, being inside the city posed no real danger.

"I'm fine. How are things over there? We're evacuating here." Rebecca had barely said that when several gunshots rang out over the phone, and then the call abruptly disconnected.

"Rebecca! Rebecca! Someone really has a death wish." After hanging up, Shen Fei immediately found Jill and roughly explained what had happened.

"I understand. I'll notify Chris right away." Jill began contacting Chris. In such chaos, Chris and the others' quarantine naturally came to nothing.

"I should go take a look myself." Shen Fei spoke as he prepared to pick up one of the Gray Hounds' weapons from the ground, but Jill immediately stopped him.

Jill then told Shen Fei that he should not casually pick up terrorists' weapons, just as soldiers should not casually pick up enemy weapons on a battlefield.

Shen Fei had always found it strange that in many foreign films he had watched, protagonists never picked up their enemies' weapons after killing them. Now, he finally understood why. It was for safety.

Terrorists were desperate men. There was no telling whether one of them might be clutching a grenade with its pin already pulled before dying, or have explosives strapped to his body.

Such incidents were rare, but every one of them caused additional casualties.

"Chris has already gone over. Don't worry, Rebecca will be fine."

"I understand." Realizing that Jill would never let him act alone, Shen Fei said this. Of course, it was only a delaying tactic. Even if Chris rushed over now, he would be too late. Besides, with the city crawling with bioweapon monsters, breaking through them would take considerable time.

But none of that was a problem for Shen Fei.

While Jill was calming the others down, Shen Fei took his suitcase into a car and drove away. On the road, he put on the Sling Ring. On an empty stretch where no one was in sight, he opened the Mirror Dimension, immediately stopped the car, and took a small cabinet out of his suitcase. Once he placed it on the ground, the cabinet instantly expanded. Inside were all kinds of weapons.

Pym Particles had the property of shrinking enclosed spaces along with everything inside them, so as long as he used Pym Particles on the cabinet, there was no need to use them on every individual gun.

"Magic combined with modern technology really is the way to go." Shen Fei could not help sighing as he took out the weapons. When he saw the Ant-Man Suit and Ant-Man darts inside, he considered it briefly before deciding not to use them.

Those two items were too sensitive. It was best not to use them.

After putting everything away, Shen Fei shrank the suitcase down to the size of a figurine and hung it from his waist.

The size changes caused by Pym Particles could be adjusted freely. If he had not been worried about exposing himself, he would not even have brought the suitcase before.

As for the car he had driven, Shen Fei simply tossed it into the Mirror Dimension.

"What a disaster." Appearing directly on the street beside Rebecca's research institute, Shen Fei listened to the constant gunfire, roars, cries, and screams coming from afar and let out a helpless sigh.

It was just like Raccoon City back then. Only, at that time, Shen Fei had been desperately struggling to survive. Now, he could watch it all as an observer.

He had no intention of saving those people. If it were Iron Man or Spider-Man, they would have done everything they could to help, stranger or not. But if Rebecca had not been in trouble, Shen Fei would probably already have boarded the departing ship with Jill and the others, coldly watching all this unfold.

"Looks like she's not here anymore." Within the Mirror Dimension, Shen Fei entered Rebecca's research institute and found only fallen guards and the corpses of several researchers.

"So many high-end instruments. S.H.I.E.L.D. really is filthy rich." Shen Fei sighed as he looked at the various cutting-edge devices inside the institute.

If the timing had not been so unsuitable, Shen Fei truly would have wanted to take all the equipment with him.

Finding Rebecca was the most important thing now. No matter how valuable the equipment was, it could not compare to Rebecca's life.

"Something must have happened with the military too. Otherwise, they would have deployed by now." A military force had been stationed at the far eastern end of Terragrigia Island ever since the island was built.

"After saving Rebecca, maybe I can get my hands on a few tanks." Shen Fei had always been interested in Dr. Hank Pym's tank keychain, but tanks were not easy to acquire, so he had never had the chance.

"Found her." Shen Fei quickly located Rebecca. On the rooftop of a building, she was among a group of around fifty heavily armed people. They were escorting a group of scientists toward a helicopter.

The Mirror Dimension truly was incredible. If Shen Fei had tried to search for Rebecca through real space, it would have been extremely difficult. The city was full of all kinds of Monsters, after all.

He had found these people only because their gunfire had drawn him over.

"This is a bit troublesome." Looking at the positions of those fifty fully armed men from within the Mirror Dimension, Shen Fei fell silent. Under these circumstances, rescuing Rebecca without exposing some of his abilities would be far too difficult.

"No choice." Realizing he could not hesitate any longer, Shen Fei immediately acted. He left the Mirror Dimension and appeared on the floor directly below where Rebecca was standing, then began using the Op-Op Fruit's abilities.

"ROOM, Trafalgar Law's abilities." A hemispherical enclosed space spread out. After enveloping Rebecca and the guard watching her, Shen Fei immediately took out three grenades, pulled their pins, and swapped the grenades' positions with Rebecca's.

"Ah!" The sudden shift in position startled Rebecca, but Shen Fei had no time to explain. He immediately pulled her aside to take cover.

Boom.

A huge explosion erupted overhead in the next instant, blasting a hole roughly three meters wide through the ceiling.

The explosion immediately alerted the people above, as well as the guards stationed by the stairs.

"We can't let them get away. They took a lot of viruses." Once Rebecca recognized Shen Fei, she had no time to ask what had happened earlier and immediately said so.

"I know." As Shen Fei spoke, he handed the other gun from his leg holster to Rebecca.

"Stay hidden." After giving that instruction, Shen Fei immediately charged out. The Desert Eagles in both hands fired at once. With his current physical abilities, even without using Devil Fruit powers or magic, taking out the fifty people upstairs would not have been impossible. If not for rescuing Rebecca, he would not have needed to use his abilities at all.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As always, every shot was a headshot. With the Desert Eagle's power, even bulletproof helmets were useless. At that moment, even dual-wielding firearms was child's play to him.

In moments, every enemy who rushed down the stairs or jumped through the hole had been dealt with.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

But just as Shen Fei tried to rush to the rooftop, the people above pinned him down with overwhelming firepower.

"I always thought Captain America's fighting style was flawed. Now it seems my thinking was flawed. If only I had Captain America's shield right now." The firepower above was too fierce, making Shen Fei think of Captain America's shield. Its bulletproof capabilities were absolutely first-rate.

"You really think I have no way to deal with you?" Shen Fei said as he hurled grenades upward with all his strength.

After he threw several grenades in succession, the fire from above finally weakened. But by the time Shen Fei charged up and killed the people there, he found that he was too late. The helicopter had already taken many scientists away. Those who had not been taken were shot dead. As for the cases containing the viruses, not a single one remained. They had likely all been taken away.

Standing before the body of someone she knew, Rebecca looked deeply saddened. But as a former STARS elite who had lived through the Training Facility, the Mansion, and the Raccoon City incident, she quickly regained her composure. The current situation was simply too similar to Raccoon City.

"Who were they?" Shen Fei asked.

"I don't know, but they seemed to be after the viruses and those experts," Rebecca said.

Since the BSAA and FBC had numerous research facilities here, virtually every virus could naturally be found on the island.

"Let S.H.I.E.L.D. investigate that later. We should get out of here first." Shen Fei took out his phone and called Jill.

Following Jill's directions, the two prepared to meet up with Chris and the others.

"Bastard." Watching the video of someone claiming to be the leader of the Gray Hounds, people from the BSAA, the FBC, and even a certain black one-eyed man at Triskelion Headquarters in Washington D.C. cursed almost in unison.

Unlike the truth behind the Raccoon City incident, which was still being concealed to this day, the Gray Hounds directly issued a statement claiming responsibility for this incident.

One benefit of being in America was that you could directly watch some terrorist appear on television and claim responsibility for something.

The resulting debate was over whether to use a nuclear weapon to destroy Terragrigia. The American Military strongly opposed it. Not only nuclear weapons—even Morgan, a United Nations official, proposing the use of the solar matrix satellite was rejected.

Terragrigia was not American territory, but the troops stationed on it were American.

With the military's strong opposition, along with its declaration that it would send people to eliminate every monster on Terragrigia Island—and that the operation had already begun—no one proposed completely destroying Terragrigia again.

However, the military's attitude aroused the suspicions of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s black one-eyed man. It was only an artificial island. He could not understand why the military was making such a big move. There had to be some unknown reason behind it.

"What is this thing? You've got to be kidding me." Shen Fei, who had infiltrated the military base to get some supplies, froze when he saw what was inside.