Magic City No. 1 Psychiatric Hospital

Dart seemed unsurprised.

"Big rewards always bring out brave men. With salaries that high, of course they'd do their best for their employer!"

"You've all switched to tranquilizer rounds, right?"

Liuguang was a little puzzled.

"Captain! Using tranquilizer rounds puts us in much greater danger! Why aren't we using regular ammunition?"

Dart sighed.

"These bodyguards are just ordinary people being kept in the dark!"

"We have specially made body armor. Ordinary bullets can barely hurt us!"

"Tranquilizer rounds are enough!"

Sly spoke up then.

"They're hardly ordinary people! They're the noble high-income class!"

"Goddammit! They make more than I do!"

"Captain! Why don't we join them too? No, seriously! I'm jealous!"

Nobody answered Sly. Everyone knew he was joking.

Clearly, they were already used to it.

Dart automatically filtered out Sly's words too.

"All right! Synchronize your watches and check your equipment. We breach straight overhead in ten minutes!"

At his words, all six squad members synchronized the Tactical Watches on their wrists.

Ten minutes later.

Bang!

The sewer's manhole cover was blasted into the air.

Several smoke grenades were tossed out of the opening right after it.

Alarms blared throughout the Manor.

The smoke stood out starkly in the moonlight.

More than half the bodyguards rushed toward it.

The Cityfire Squad members had already reached the surface under cover of the smoke.

A volley of pistol fire greeted them head-on.

Gunfire filled the entire Manor.

Sly flicked his wrist, and an enormous riot shield appeared on his arm in an instant.

He held up the shield and took the lead.

The squad members immediately fell in behind him, moving in perfect coordination.

Bullets struck the riot shield, throwing off showers of sparks.

The impacts left Sly's arm slightly numb.

"Too many! Too many! I can't take it!"

Following behind him, Dart wanted nothing more than to shoot him in the back of the head.

"When we get back, I'm going to ask Doctor to have Prison Doctor remove your vocal cords!"

Sly shuddered at that and immediately said,

"Captain, I was just worried you'd all be too tense. I wanted to lighten the mood!"

Just then, Xiao Yu's voice came through their earpieces.

"Captain! A large number of targets are heading your way. Move, now!"

At that, they immediately began relocating.

The bodyguards rushing over had yet to arrive.

Dart knew they would soon be discovered.

Through their Tactical Goggles, the smoke did little to impede them.

He glanced around and quickly made a decision.

"According to the intel, all the windows on the fourth and fifth floors have been sealed. We'll climb the outside wall to the third floor!"

He added one last thing.

"Be quick!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he took the lead and rushed to the wall.

At the same time, rows of extremely sharp teeth sprang from his gloves, looking like spiders' legs.

They allowed his palms to cling firmly to the wall.

Using these, they scrambled rapidly up the wall and reached the third floor in mere seconds.

Then every bodyguard in the Manor heard a message in their ears.

"The targets have entered the Villa. Those outside, guard the exits!"

Bang, bang, bang!!

A fierce burst of gunfire came from inside the Villa.

Clearly, the two sides had already engaged.

"Captain! The Villa's exits have been sealed off!"

Xiao Yu's voice sounded in their earpieces.

Just then, Liuguang's furious voice came through.

"Goddammit! Didn't you say they had no heavy weapons? Why have they even hauled out a relic like a Maxim that belongs in the ground?"

Sly sounded a little embarrassed.

"Ahem, according to the intel, the owner of the Villa is also an antique collector!"

"An antique collector owning an antique Maxim heavy machine gun from the Near-Ancient Era makes perfect sense!"

Liuguang immediately fell silent.

At that moment, Doctor was remotely watching the squad's combat feeds.

Hearing the ceaseless firing of heavy weapons, he asked Dart,

"Can you break through the suppressing fire?"

His voice came from the Bluetooth earpiece clipped to Dart's ear.

Dart answered without hesitation.

"We can, but there may be casualties."

At the other end, Doctor's assistant leaned close to his ear and whispered a few words.

After hearing his assistant out, Doctor ordered Dart to retreat over the microphone without the slightest hesitation.

Dart was silent for a moment, then said heavily,

"Doctor says to retreat immediately!"

Soon, a squad member blasted open the wall behind them.

They jumped out through the hole in an orderly fashion.

The Maxim heavy machine gun spat half-meter-long tongues of flame.

At the very front, Sly held up his riot shield to block the incoming bullets.

His arm soon lost all feeling.

The barrage had battered the riot shield to the verge of falling apart.

Only after everyone else had withdrawn did Sly jump through the hole last, keeping his shield up.

At that very instant, the riot shield, which could withstand explosives, shattered completely.

Fortunately, Sly had pulled out in time. Otherwise, he might have been riddled with bullets in an instant.

But the arm he had used to hold the shield was already a bloody mess.

The moment he landed, Liuguang hauled him over his shoulder and fled at a frantic pace.

Sly's faint voice sounded in their earpieces.

"Oh, mama! What a rush!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the sound of his voice.

If he could talk, he was still alive.

At the same time, the bodyguards spotted them.

Dart stepped up then, taking the lead.

A riot shield appeared in his hand.

Clang, clang, clang!

Countless bullets struck the riot shield, sending sparks flying.

More and more footsteps sounded around them.

The squad members retreated swiftly.

Using the satellite feed, Xiao Yu plotted an escape route for them.

Only once the entire squad had left the Manor did its bodyguards stop pursuing them.

On a secluded stretch of road, the Cityfire Squad looked rather bedraggled beneath the moonlight.

A white ambulance stopped in front of them.

The words "Magic City No. 1 Psychiatric Hospital" were printed on its side.

The door opened, and Xiao Yu waved them over from the driver's seat.

"Get in, quick!"

The ambulance sped away, its siren blaring.

Inside, Xiao Yu switched places with Dart, who took the wheel.

Xiao Yu gave Sly emergency treatment for his injuries.

"This will hurt a little! Bear with it!"

Xiao Yu said softly.

Then she undid Sly's cuff, revealing the arm beneath, which was bleeding nonstop.

The arm was covered in dark bruises from the impacts.

At the sight, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he checked Sly's chest and back as well.

Several bullets were lodged in the back of his body armor.

Thanks to the body armor specially made by the Prison Warden, the bullets had been kept out.

But Sly was clearly suffering too.

Traces of blood stained the corner of his mouth; he had clearly sustained significant internal injuries.

Xiao Yu gave him some emergency treatment.

With everyone silent, the ambulance pulled into a hospital on the outskirts of Magic City.

[Magic City No. 1 Psychiatric Hospital]