Floating Island Incident (End)

Boom.

The retreating convoy had barely set off when it was ambushed—not by bioweapons, but by human attackers. In an instant, casualties mounted.

"Watch out." Jill ordered the others to evacuate the biochemical experts while leading the counterattack. Longtime veterans of the biochemical frontlines, BSAA's Strike Team were elite through and through, and they quickly took down the assailants.

"It's those bastards from the Gray Hounds." Seeing the corpses of the attackers, Jill and the others were filled with rage. The Gray Hounds were a biochemical terror organization, old adversaries of the BSAA.

"Rebecca, are you okay?" Shen Fei was on the phone with Rebecca. Unlike Shen Fei's lab, located on Terragrigia Island far from the city, Rebecca's lab was right inside the urban area.

The reason for this difference was that Shen Fei's lab housed various biochemical weapon samples captured by the BSAA—too dangerous to keep in the city. Rebecca's facility only analyzed viruses; as long as defensive measures were solid, being in the city posed no real risk.

"I'm fine. How about you? We're evacuating over here." Rebecca had just said this when several gunshots crackled through the phone, and then the line went dead.

"Rebecca? Rebecca. Someone's asking for death." After hanging up, Shen Fei immediately found Jill and briefed her on the situation.

"Got it. I'll notify Chris right away." Jill said, already contacting Chris. In the midst of this chaos, Chris's quarantine naturally fell through.

"I'd better go check on her myself." Shen Fei said, bending down to pick up a weapon from a fallen Gray Hound, but Jill stopped him at once.

She told Shen Fei it was best not to pick up terrorists' weapons, just like you don't grab enemy guns on a battlefield.

Shen Fei had always wondered why, in so many foreign movies he'd watched, the heroes never picked up enemy weapons after killing them. Now he finally understood—for safety.

Terrorists were desperate men. It was hard to guarantee they hadn't been clutching a grenade with the pin pulled before death, or that their bodies weren't rigged with explosives.

Such incidents were rare, but every single one caused extra casualties.

"Chris is already on his way. Don't worry, Rebecca will be fine."

"I understand." Shen Fei said this when he realized Jill wouldn't let him act alone. But it was just a delaying tactic. Even if Chris rushed over now, it might be too late—and the city was crawling with biochemical monsters. Breaking through them would take time.

For Shen Fei, though, none of that was a problem.

While Jill was calming the others, Shen Fei grabbed his suitcase, got into a car, and drove off alone. On the road, he put on the Sling Ring. When he spotted a stretch with no one around, he opened the Mirror Dimension, then immediately stopped the car. He pulled a small case from his suitcase, set it on the ground, and it expanded. Opening it revealed an array of weapons.

Pym Particles had the property of shrinking objects in enclosed spaces, so by applying them to the case, he didn't need to shrink every gun individually.

"Magic combined with modern tech—that's the real way to go." He couldn't help but sigh as he took out the weapons. Spotting the Ant-Man Suit and Ant-Man darts inside, he hesitated briefly, then decided not to use them.

Those two items were too sensitive. Better to leave them untouched.

After packing everything up, he shrank the suitcase to keychain size and clipped it to his belt.

Pym Particles allowed for free adjustment of size. If he weren't worried about exposure, he wouldn't have even brought the suitcase in the first place.

As for the car he'd driven, he simply left it in the Mirror Dimension.

"What a mess." Appearing directly on the street beside Rebecca's lab, listening to the distant gunfire, roars, and screams, Shen Fei let out a helpless sigh.

It was just like Raccoon City back then—except back then, Shen Fei was struggling desperately to survive. Now, he could watch it all as a bystander.

He had no intention of saving those people. If it were Iron Man or Spider-Man, they'd go all out to help even strangers. But him? If Rebecca hadn't been in trouble, he'd probably already be boarding an evacuation ship with Jill and the others, watching coldly from the sidelines.

"Looks like she's already gone." Inside the Mirror Dimension, Shen Fei arrived at Rebecca's lab, finding only fallen guards and a few researcher corpses.

"So many expensive instruments. As expected of S.H.I.E.L.D.—deep pockets." Seeing the lab's latest equipment, Shen Fei couldn't help but remark.

If the timing weren't so bad, he'd really want to haul all this gear away.

But finding Rebecca was the priority. No matter how valuable the instruments, they couldn't compare to her life.

"The military must be having problems too, or they'd have deployed by now." A military force had been stationed on the far right of Terragrigia Island ever since it was built.

"After I save Rebecca, maybe I can grab a few tanks." Dr. Hank Pym's tank keychain had always caught Shen Fei's interest, but tanks weren't easy to come by, so he'd never had the chance.

"Found her." Soon, Shen Fei located Rebecca—on the rooftop of a building, with a group of about fifty heavily armed men. They were escorting a batch of scientists to a helicopter for extraction.

He had to admit, the Mirror Dimension was incredibly useful. If he'd searched for Rebecca in the real world, it would have been a nightmare—the city was packed with monsters.

He'd only found these people because the gunfire had drawn him in.

"This is troublesome." Watching the fifty armed men's positions from the Mirror Dimension, Shen Fei fell silent. Under these circumstances, saving Rebecca without revealing some of his abilities would be nearly impossible.

"No choice." Realizing he couldn't hesitate any longer, Shen Fei acted. He left the Mirror Dimension, appearing directly on the floor below where Rebecca stood, and activated the Op-Op Fruit's power.

"Room. Shambles." A hemispherical enclosed space expanded, enveloping Rebecca and the guard above her. He pulled the pins on three grenades, then swapped them with Rebecca's position.

"Ah!" The sudden shift in location startled Rebecca, but Shen Fei had no time to explain. He grabbed her and pulled her aside.

Boom.

The next moment, a massive explosion erupted above, blasting a three-meter-wide hole in the ceiling.

The blast immediately alerted those on the roof and the guards by the stairs.

"They can't get away—they took a lot of viruses." Once she saw it was Shen Fei, Rebecca set aside her shock and spoke urgently.

"Got it." As he spoke, Shen Fei handed her the other gun from his holster.

"Stay hidden." After a brief instruction, he charged forward, Desert Eagles in both hands firing simultaneously. With his current physical condition, even without using his fruit power or magic, taking out the fifty above wasn't impossible. If not for needing to save Rebecca, he wouldn't have used his abilities at all.

Bang bang bang.

Headshots, as always. With the Desert Eagle's stopping power, even ballistic helmets were useless. At this moment, even Yan Shuangfei's legendary skills paled in comparison.

In moments, the enemies rushing down the stairs and dropping through the hole were all eliminated.

Bang bang bang.

But just as Shen Fei was about to rush to the rooftop, he was pinned down by suppressive fire from above.

"I always thought Captain America's fighting style was flawed, but now it seems my thinking was the problem. If only I had a Captain America shield right now." The fire from above was too intense, making Shen Fei involuntarily think of the Captain's shield—its bulletproof capability was absolutely top-tier.

"You really think I have no way to deal with you?" Shen Fei said as he grabbed grenades and hurled them upward with force.

After several consecutive grenades were thrown up, the fire from above finally weakened. But by the time Shen Fei charged up and killed the people up there, he realized it was too late—the helicopter had already taken many scientists away. Those who hadn't been taken were shot dead, and as for the virus containers, not a single one was left; they must have all been taken.

Standing before the corpse of someone she knew, Rebecca's expression was deeply sorrowful. But having been a former STARS elite who had endured the Training Facility, the Mansion, and the Raccoon City incident, she quickly regained her composure. After all, the current situation was very similar to Raccoon City.

"Who are they?" Shen Fei asked.

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

Because BSAA and FBC had a large number of research facilities here, it was only natural that almost all viruses could be found in this place.

"We'll leave it to S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate later. Let's get out of here first." Shen Fei said as he took out his phone and called Jill.

Under Jill's guidance, the two prepared to rendezvous with Chris and the others.

"Bastard." Watching a certain someone on the video who claimed to be the leader of the Gray Hounds, BSAA, FBC, and even the one-eyed black man at Triskelion Headquarters in Washington almost simultaneously cursed.

Unlike the truth of the Raccoon City incident, which had been hidden all along, this time the Gray Hounds directly issued a statement claiming responsibility for the incident.

One of the benefits of being in America was that you could directly watch some terrorist on TV taking responsibility for something.

This sparked a debate over whether to use a nuclear weapon to destroy Terragrigia. The U.S. military strongly opposed this—not just the nuclear weapon, but also the suggestion from UN official Morgan to use the Solar Matrix satellite, which was also rejected.

Although Terragrigia was not U.S. territory, the troops stationed there were American.

With the military's strong opposition, and after they stated they would send personnel to eliminate all the monsters on Terragrigia Island and had already taken action, no one proposed completely destroying Terragrigia anymore.

However, the military's attitude aroused suspicion from the one-eyed black man at S.H.I.E.L.D. An artificial island wasn't worth such a large-scale military operation; there had to be some unknown reason behind it.

"How could there be something like this? Are you kidding me?" Having infiltrated a military base to grab some supplies, Shen Fei was instantly stunned when he saw the situation inside.