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"Boom, boom."
Even from the school park, the muffled explosions could be vaguely heard.
"Whoosh, whoosh."
Before everyone could figure out what was happening, dozens of Viking Fighters, marked "fx" and "b65," streaked over the city.
Then ten assault-type MS units flew rapidly toward the coast, their hulls wrapped in the emerald light emitted by their antigravity engines.
"What—what's going on?"
"Could the military be conducting an exercise?"
"It's been over ten years. I've never even seen Troy conduct a large-scale exercise."
The students and teachers who witnessed this were still somewhat dumbfounded. They couldn't believe Halifax City had actually come under attack.
Everyone in the world knew that Umbrella possessed private troops and fleets. Halifax City's outskirts also housed Umbrella's first military base—and the largest military base on Earth.
There was simply no country or organization bold enough to take the initiative and provoke Halifax City, a country within a country on Canadian soil.
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"Ivan." Siya rose and looked east before asking Ivan, "Do you know what's going on?"
Ivan also stood and looked east, his brows slightly furrowed. "I don't know, but there's one thing I can say for certain: Halifax City has definitely come under attack."
"Wri—" The moment Ivan finished speaking, a shrill air-raid siren rang throughout the city, urging everyone inside to evacuate immediately.
The Hive and a dense network of defensive passages lay beneath Halifax City, and this was no secret within Umbrella.
The Engineering Team had also built civilian air-raid bunkers. Over the years, security personnel and the police had informed the citizens that if Halifax City came under attack, they could take shelter in these bunkers.
Hearing the air-raid sirens, along with the increasingly fierce battle and explosions, the students and teachers finally realized that this was no exercise. Halifax