Stay Right Here, I'll Go Show Off and Be Right Back

On the other two sides of the rooftop, Alice and Jill had just taken care of the snipers assigned to them.

Beside the helicopter, several special forces members stood with their backs against the wall. Carlos and the other two couldn't sneak over, so Alice rappelled down from the rooftop into the middle of the crowd and began slaughtering them. Jill picked up a sniper rifle to keep watch and shot dead one old hand who had been playing dead in an attempt to ambush them.

The moment the gunfire rang out, the remaining special forces members immediately became alert, raising their guns and firing at Alice.

Alice hurriedly dodged. Jill sniped another one, while Carlos and the other two crept over from the other side and opened fire from behind, efficiently taking out the remaining guards.

With that, the assault was a complete success. Only the helicopter pilot was still alive. The nameless extra entered the cockpit to take control of the situation, while Carlos fired into the air.

Rat-tat! Rat-tat-tat!

This was the signal they had agreed on, indicating that the operation had succeeded. Hearing it, the Black guy and the female reporter immediately rushed out of the school bus with Angela in their arms and ran toward the helicopter.

"Xiao, they got them! Let's get down there!" Jill let out a breath of relief, tossed aside her sniper rifle, and grabbed Xiao Miao's hand as she ran toward the elevator.

"Wait, Jill. Do you remember what I said in the church?"

Jill stopped in her tracks, cold sweat instantly breaking out across her back. The operation had gone too smoothly, and she had let down her guard. Thankfully, Xiao Miao had reminded her.

"Xiao, you mean...?"

Xiao Miao nodded.

If nothing unexpected happened, something unexpected was about to happen!

The two immediately picked up their sniper rifles and aimed at the plaza, trying to find the enemy hiding in the shadows. The next second, countless floodlights suddenly lit up.

A large number of searchlights hidden in every nook and cranny and inside the municipal building activated. Brilliant beams of white light tore apart the darkness, instantly driving away the night as though it had become daytime.

The sniper rifles' night-vision scopes were immediately overexposed and rendered useless. Xiao Miao and Jill instinctively shut their eyes and turned their heads, red spots lingering in the center of their vision.

Even Xiao Miao and Jill, who were so far away, were affected like this. Alice and the others, standing at the center of the light source, had it even worse. They almost instantly lost their ability to act. Only Alice was slightly better off; tears streamed from her eyes as she relied on the T-virus's power to recover quickly.

Dozens upon dozens of people rushed out from every corner, surrounding the helicopter from all directions. With dozens of guns aimed at her, even Alice was powerless to turn things around and could only raise her hands in surrender.

Angela, the female reporter, and the Black guy had even less ability to resist and were captured in an instant.

"We've been waiting for you, Alice!" Major Cain stepped out of the crowd and glanced at Bai Zhou among them. "And there are two little rats, too. Call them out."

As he spoke, he pointed at the radio on Alice's body.

Under Major Cain's mocking gaze, Alice slowly pressed the radio button, then suddenly shouted urgently, "Run! Find a basement and hide!"

She knew Xiao Miao might have a way, but she didn't want him to put himself in danger.

Bang!

Major Cain slapped Alice across the face, knocking her to the ground. Her radio fell and flew away across the pavement.

On the rooftop.

Jill looked at Xiao Miao. Seeing his confident expression, she immediately relaxed.

Xiao Miao signaled for Jill to stay calm, narrowing his eyes as he observed carefully. He was waiting to see what Bai Zhou would do.

The Umbrella Corporation was hunting Travelers of All Heavens. With control over surveillance across the entire city, they certainly would not overlook Bai Zhou. Whether Bai Zhou chose to resist or join them would affect Xiao Miao's next move.

Just as Xiao Miao expected, after teaching Alice a lesson, Major Cain walked step by step toward the handcuffed Bai Zhou. "Hello, Traveler of All Heavens. I'm not wrong, am I? You all have a similar aura. You're easy to identify."

Bai Zhou smiled, his gaze contemptuous.

Some Travelers of All Heavens came with an innate sense of superiority and looked down on natives of other worlds, especially villainous natives in high positions. Bai Zhou was one of those people.

He could laugh and chat with righteous natives, yet he utterly despised villainous natives.

Major Cain smiled, unconcerned by Bai Zhou's reaction. "Let's make a deal. Your arrival has shown us a wonderful future. Cooperation for mutual benefit is your only choice."

Bai Zhou continued smiling. He stepped forward, leaned close to Major Cain's ear, and softly said, "Go die, idiot."

The patterns on his combat uniform suddenly lit up. His strength instantly surged, snapping the handcuffs apart. Then he clenched his right hand into a fist and swung it at Major Cain's head.

Boom!

His fist tore through the air and smashed heavily into a translucent shield. It stopped less than three centimeters from Major Cain's nose, yet could not advance even a fraction further.

Major Cain stood there stiffly, not daring to move at all, as though he had been scared senseless.

Bai Zhou's expression changed. He hurriedly pulled back, muttered a few curses under his breath, and vanished amid a flash of white light.

He had actually retreated directly!

The sudden turn of events caught everyone off guard. Alice, Carlos, and the others stared wide-eyed at the place where Bai Zhou had vanished, stunned.

Where did such a huge person go? How could he suddenly disappear?

The special forces members parted to either side, and a young man in an Umbrella Corporation uniform walked out from the crowd.

"Major, I told you Travelers of All Heavens are difficult to communicate with. People willing to cooperate for mutual benefit, like me, are ultimately rare."

The young man snapped his fingers, and the translucent shield in front of Major Cain immediately disappeared.

Major Cain snapped out of his daze, taking two steps back and gasping for breath. His face visibly reddened.

Having embarrassed himself in front of so many subordinates, Major Cain was so humiliated he wanted to skin Bai Zhou alive. He even began to resent the young man who had saved him.

This guy clearly could have acted earlier. Why did he have to wait until the very last moment? Was he deliberately waiting to watch him make a fool of himself?

He wanted to shoot the young man dead, but the other man was now an honored guest of the Umbrella Corporation and could not be killed.

Major Cain, furious and flustered, pulled out his pistol and strode over to Alice, raising the gun at her.

After thinking it over, he couldn't bear to harm Alice, so he shifted his steps and walked over to the nameless extra, Nikolai.

Nikolai:...

What did that mean? Was he the only easy target here?

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang~~~

Major Cain pulled the trigger repeatedly, emptying the magazine. Poor Nikolai ultimately failed to escape the fate of a nameless extra, collapsing in a pool of blood with his eyes still open.

After venting, Major Cain was still not satisfied. He looked toward the municipal building and waved his hand. "Send in three squads. Drag those two little rats out for me. Take the man alive. As for the woman, do whatever you want."

A fully staffed special forces squad consisted of eight people. Three squads meant twenty-four men, advancing into the municipal building from three directions.

On the rooftop, Jill's palms were beginning to sweat. "Xiao, they're coming up!"

Xiao Miao gave Jill a reassuring look, set down the ruined sniper rifle in his hand, hitched up his pants, and strode toward the first floor.

"Jill, stay right here and don't move. I'll go show off and be right back."

Xiao Miao entered the fire escape while reaching out with his mind to touch the card.

[Character Card: Nemesis (Matt Addison)] transformed into a stream of light and flew into Xiao Miao's body without anyone noticing.

"Hisss~~~"

Xiao Miao took a deep breath. In an instant, countless memories flashed through his mind: being infected with the T-virus, being captured by the Umbrella Corporation, lying on an operating table and enduring all sorts of inhumane experiments...

At the same time, a terrifying power appeared out of nowhere and rapidly coursed through every limb and bone. His stamina seemed endless, as though a nuclear power plant had been installed inside his body!

"This level of physical ability! It feels pretty damn good. Hmm, 240 seconds of duration. That's enough!"

Xiao Miao had thought all Character Cards had a fixed duration of 180 seconds. It seemed there was another mechanism at work, which he would investigate carefully later.

Xiao Miao was now absolutely certain that the Nemesis Character Card was actually stronger overall than the Elf Princess.

The reason he had beaten it so easily was partly due to attack range and class advantage, but naturally, another factor was the wisdom to wield power.

In order to completely control Nemesis, this biological weapon, the Umbrella Corporation had thoroughly suppressed Matt Addison's intelligence through drugs and surgery, relying on a chip to control its actions.

But human intelligence was the key to mastering power. A rigid silicon-based chip could not comprehend the performance of a powerful carbon-based wetware system. With incompatible control systems, its combat power was greatly diminished.

Xiao Miao leaned over the railing and looked down. An entire special forces squad was climbing the spiral staircase, their tactical movements smooth and coordinated, clearly well-trained.

If he ran into them head-on, he would definitely eat bullets until he was stuffed.

Xiao Miao chose not to take the ordinary route and directly flipped over the railing.

On the spiral staircase, the soldier at the front stopped and made a tactical hand signal to those behind him. "Captain, I think I heard something strange."

"What sound?"

"Not sure. It sounded like something heavy falling from above."

The captain sneered. "Why not say the target jumped off the building? Stop slacking and keep moving."

"...Yes!"

The next second, a pitch-black figure descended from the sky!