Hijacking

With the plan set, everyone moved immediately.

Carlos's team used the terrain for cover, silently taking out several guards as they advanced toward the helipad.

Meanwhile, Zu Hao and Alice moved like two phantoms, using the building's intricate exterior decorations and drainage pipes to climb rapidly upward with agility and strength far beyond that of ordinary people.

In less than two minutes, they had reached the edge of the rooftop without a sound.

Zu Hao carefully poked his head up. On the rooftop platform, a sniper and a spotter were intently watching the firefight at the main entrance below.

Alice exchanged a glance with him, and they launched their attack almost simultaneously!

Alice pounced like a cheetah, her combat knife slicing precisely across one sniper's throat. Zu Hao, meanwhile, burst up from the other side and snapped the spotter's neck with a single twist.

The entire process unfolded in a flash, without making a sound loud enough to alert the enemies below.

Standing at the edge of the rooftop, Alice's golden hair whipped in the fierce wind. Her sharp gaze swept over the brightly lit helipad below and the security personnel waiting in formation. She said in a low voice, "I'll take care of the guards down there and clear the landing zone."

Zu Hao checked the PSG-1 sniper rifle he had just seized, fitted with a high-powered scope, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

He gave an OK gesture. "Go ahead. I'll cover you from up here."

Alice shot Zu Hao an irritated look, skillfully secured the fast-rope to the rooftop edge, then flipped over with agile grace and slid silently down the rope toward the platform below.

She landed as lightly as a cat, swiftly using the shadows cast by the helicopters and various equipment as cover. Her dagger and precise single shots took out four nearby security personnel before they could fully react. Her movements were clean and efficient, causing no widespread alarm.

She then quickly closed in on the helicopter, using its fuselage as cover before catching the last four guards outside the cabin door off guard and taking them out as well.

At that moment, Carlos, Jill, and the others had also broken through the weak front-line defense. Fighting as they withdrew, they reached the helipad and successfully rendezvoused with Alice.

Without pausing for even a second, Alice jumped into the helicopter cabin first, pressed the cold muzzle of her gun to the pilot's head, and ordered in a low voice, "Start the engine! Now! Immediately!"

The pilot shuddered violently, cold sweat instantly trickling down from his temple. Yet instead of obeying, he fearfully glanced toward somewhere outside the cabin, his lips trembling.

"Are you in such a hurry, Alice?"

A cold, smug voice suddenly rang out, echoing across the open helipad through loudspeakers.

Dr. Thomas Isaacs, dressed in a spotless Umbrella Corporation senior executive uniform, emerged from the emergency passage leading from City Hall to the rooftop, surrounded by a large group of fully armed security personnel wearing heavy body armor.

They quickly spread out, dozens of automatic rifles instantly trained on the helicopter and Alice's group, forming a tight semicircle with an overwhelming firepower advantage.

Dr. Charles was also held at gunpoint, utterly dejected.

Thomas wore a cold smile of certain victory, but his eyes warily scanned the dark corners around him as he demanded, "Alice, drop your weapon! Where is that Eastern companion of yours? Tell him to get out here too!"

Through the city's surveillance network, he had already learned of Zu Hao's existence and deduced that this mysterious man was the one who had taken out Nemesis with a sniper rifle.

Not seeing Zu Hao at that moment made him feel deeply uneasy and furious.

Bang!

A precise sniper shot from the highest point answered him.

Thomas's head exploded like a watermelon smashed by a heavy hammer, red and white matter spraying outward over the bodyguards beside him.

The sudden decapitation strike left the Umbrella Corporation forces frozen and confused for an instant.

The next moment, an even more savage metal storm, powerful enough to tear eardrums apart, rained down from above!

Standing at the rooftop edge, Zu Hao put away his sniper rifle and pulled out the Gatling gun he had seized from Nemesis.

The moment he pulled the trigger, a scorching muzzle flash half a meter long erupted from the barrel. Like Death's enormous scythe sweeping through wheat, the dense hail of bullets—so rapid that individual shots could not be distinguished—instantly shredded more than a dozen confused security personnel on the helipad, along with their heavy body armor.

Blood mist and chunks of flesh filled the air in an instant!

"Fire! Open fire! Suppress the rooftop!"

A man who looked like a squad leader, having finally reacted, roared himself hoarse. His voice was nearly drowned out by the barrage of gunfire.

The surviving security personnel were terrified, their faces drained of color. They did not even have time to dodge, much less retaliate; at most, they could only fire a few wild shots into the sky.

With the high ground and overwhelming firepower, Zu Hao perfectly suppressed the enemies below, creating an excellent opportunity for Alice and Carlos's team to strike back.

"Now! Take them out!"

Alice shouted as she, Carlos, Jill, and the others charged like tigers unleashed from their cages, launching a fierce counterattack the moment the enemy was pinned down and unable to raise their heads.

Her figure darted swiftly through the firelight, her twin pistols firing precise shots. Every bullet claimed an enemy's life.

Nikolai displayed the precise marksmanship of a special forces soldier, barely wasting a single bullet.

He calmly changed magazines, and every shot was followed by the dull thud of an enemy collapsing.

Jill and Carlos worked together seamlessly, their crossfire perfectly suppressing the enemies attempting to outflank them from the side.

Bella kept Angela firmly protected behind her.

Just then, the heavy sound of rotors came from afar, drawing closer like Death's whisper.

Two UH-60 Black Hawk armed helicopters belonging to the Umbrella Corporation came roaring in. Their powerful searchlights swept across the rooftop like swords, trying to pinpoint Zu Hao's position.

Without hesitation, Zu Hao put away the Gatling gun, which had run out of ammunition, and instead took an M72 rocket launcher already loaded with a rocket from his personal storage space.

He skillfully extended the launch tube, raised the sights, and steadily aimed at the cockpit of the lead helicopter.

Whup, whup, whup~

The helicopter's searchlight had just illuminated the rooftop when Zu Hao had already finished aiming.

He held his breath and gently squeezed the trigger.

"Drop your weapons! Surrender immediately..."

A cold command came through the helicopter's loudspeaker.

Whoosh!

A rocket streaking forward with a blazing tail flame answered it.

The rocket tore through the night sky like a meteor, crashing precisely into the helicopter's cockpit.

Boom!!

A violent explosion and a dazzling fireball blossomed in the air, and the helicopter instantly became a mass of burning scrap metal.

Fragments from the blast scattered like a rain of death, striking the vulnerable tail rotor and engine of the other helicopter beside it.

The second helicopter immediately began belching thick black smoke, its out-of-control body spinning as it plunged downward.

The pilot desperately tried to regain control, but it was all in vain.

The helicopter ultimately slammed into the ground, triggering a secondary explosion and a towering blaze that lit the surrounding streets as bright as day.

Zu Hao put away the rocket launcher, grabbed the fast-rope he had prepared in advance, and rapidly descended to the helipad like a special forces soldier.