By then, the stars were already out. After their wild time underground, the group had lost track of the day and night, and evening had fallen.
Ahead lay a heavily fortified position.
Three machine guns stood on the position, along with numerous firing posts and countless fully armed bio-engineered soldiers.
"We can't get through," Hermione declared. "Even if I have the Invisibility Cloak, and Sister Ada has the Salazar Family's Strictness, so we can sneak in and cause some damage, there's no way all of us can make it through."
Just then, the pager on Ashley suddenly rang.
The leader of the US Soldiers had clipped it to Ashley's neck as soon as they met. There'd been no signal underground, but now it had finally connected.
A woman's voice came through the pager. "You're Ashley, the President's Daughter, right? We're with the Special Operations Group. We sent Agent Leon and two rescue teams, but we've lost contact with all of them. The third wave of reinforcements has reached the skies above the island. Please head to the evacuation point immediately and board the helicopter. Our helicopters will cover your breakout."
The instant she finished speaking, perhaps because the pager had built-in GPS, two American Black Hawk helicopters suddenly rose from below the cliff with a thudding roar!
Their target was the heavily fortified position!
America had already sent several helicopters and thirty soldiers to rescue Ashley, but they'd all been lost during the landing. Now that they'd detected Ashley's automatic signal, they were overjoyed—and this time, they struck with overwhelming force.
Rockets and missiles carried by the Black Hawks streaked down one after another. Explosions filled the position with smoke, hurling bio-engineered soldiers' body parts through the air!
A shrill alarm blared. Large numbers of bio-engineered soldiers charged toward the