The Nevada Desert
Vrooooomm...
A convoy of seven armored humvees, six trucks filled with troops, and another four armored security vehicles drove through the arid desert of Nevada. This was the presidential convoy of current US President Elizabeth McCord making their way to the Doomsday Pillar located 90 kiloters west of Area 51.
The road they were traveling on had cracks and bumps and sotis they had to go offroad due to avoiding the reported areas, which were deed as hazard locations.
In the presidential car were President Elizabeth and her secret service guards, Jas Randall and his assistant.
Jas took notice of one of the n in black suits still wearing the black sunglasses staring at him. This man was giving off a stern and mysterious aura.
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President Elisabeth saw Jas' interest and said, "This is Mr. Richard, Jas."
"Hello Richard, nice to et you," said Jas, with a smile.
Richard, however, stayed silent as he stared at Jas Randall while occasionally looking outside at Nevada's desert.
President Elizabeth went on to say, "Don't worry about him, he doesn't like to talk much."
"I see. That's okay. Let's play a little ga while we're on the way. I'd like to take a guess where you served though before secret service. Are you from? Marines? Navy seal? Or maybe Deĺta?"
Richard remained silent.
"No reaction huh. Okay then. Secret services usually co from an agency background. So, that would either be the FBI or the CIA?"
Richard's brow slightly twitched when the word 'CIA' left Jas' mouth.
Jas put out a smile and said, "Okay, I'm sure you're from the CIA."
Elizabeth was a little impressed at how Jas guessed correctly, she said, "You're very perceptive, Mr. Jas. Where'd you learn that?"
"Hahaha, it's just the experience of an old successful businessman."
Jas was one of the nine dragons of Indonesia before the plague had struck. A title that was only given to the most successful businessn who conquered the market. He had to learn other things and the most important skill he had learned or one would even say his innate ability for an entrepreneur was the ability to read other people. Moreover, Jas had spent a dozen years in a wheelchair, countless people had tried to take advantage of him, so through the years, his ability to read people had been honed to the fullest.
"I've also heard that you've also had a background with the CIA, Madam President. You must be better at this than ," Jas said with a chuckle.
"Okay, Mr. Jas, Honestly, I'm not used to that title. Moreover, you're not a civil servant. I'd prefer that you'd call Elizabeth instead."
"Is that so? Well then, of course, Miss Elizabeth."
As a billionaire, Jas often socialized with important people such as her, so it's easy for him to talk comfortably with her.
Elizabeth indeed had co from the CIA. One of the things they had learned there were profiling other people. The ability to judge people's intent and personality even from just one interaction. She too felt Jas could be trusted.
"When will we arrive at the pillar?" Elizabeth asked Richard.
Richard answered imdiately without hesitation. "About 15 minutes, Madam President. We're only about 6. miles away from the site. In fact, if you'd take a look at the window, Madam President, you'd be able to see the pillar from here."
"Ohhh. You're right, I do see it," Elizabeth said, after looking at the window. She had seen photos of the pillar and how massive it was. But this was the first ti she had seen it in person. It truly was gigantic.
Jas remarked, "If we had traveled using the Punisher fast car or the Avenger hovercraft we would have been there a lot sooner, of course."
"Unfortunately, those vehicles are still prototypes and would still take months to complete," Elizabeth replied.
"Stop the car!" said Richard to the driver while his hand was on the electronic earpiece.
All the cars in the convoy imdiately stopped.
"What's wrong, Richard?" Elizabeth asked.
"The front Humvee has seen critters ahead."
"How many?"
"There's only a dozen of them, Madam President. But for your safety, we better change course."
"Okay," said Elizabeth, believing his bodyguard's decision.
The convoy changed directions toward a few kiloters to the north before turning back to the pillar on the west.
But it wasn't long after they had turned was another group of critters in front of them again.
"This is odd," exclaid Richard. "According to intel, there shouldn't be this many critters in these areas."
Jas vouched for what Richard had remarked since he had already made several trips from Area 51 to the Doomsday and this was the first ti he had seen this many critters. Jas then explained, "According to information from Alex, as ti passes, more of these critters will co out of the Abyss Gate. It has been more than a month since the gates have been opened and it seems that we have been lucky enough not to have encountered a lot of them, until today."
The dozens they had seen earlier had now doubled. It didn't look easy to continue avoiding them, hence, Richard thought it would be better to finish off these monsters before they multiplied further and beco a serious threat.
"Don't worry, Madam President, our ASV team in front would deal with these monsters easily. Troops, ready!" said Richard through his earpiece giving orders to the other convoy. He then reassured the president, "These Humvees are all made from the toughest materials solely to protect the most important figure in the US. We'll be fine, Madam President."
The convoy stopped and all the vehicles ford a line with the four ASV taking up positions in front. The entire army in the truck and humvee got out and took the line of fire.
Na: M1117 Guardian
Type: Armored Security Vehicle (ASV)
Used: 1999
Weight: 12,410 kilograms
Length: 6.0 ters
Width: 2.6 ters
Height: 2.6 ters
Passenger: 5 people
Maximum speed: 101km / h
Main weapon: 40 mm Mk 19 grenade launcher, .50 caliber M2HB
Additional weapon: M240H dium Machine Gun
Four grenade launchers and a .50 caliber machine gun fixed its sights on the dozens of small, rolling monsters toward these troops. But before the little monsters got within shooting range, Richard got new information.
"South side!"
Jas ca out of the humvee and turned his gaze south. He picked up a binocular and found dozens more critters approaching from the south; it seed that their numbers were still growing.
"This seems to be the group of critters we had encountered earlier. They seem to be chasing us."
Richard coordinated with Captain Marcus, the commanding officer of three platoons totaling 150 soldiers. The 4 ASV vehicles split into two lines, facing west and facing south, while the three platoons divided into three, two guarded the front along with the two ASVs, while the last platoon made its way to the rear, guarding the humvee of President McCord.
Jas didn't want to stay still and ca out of the vehicle to watch the fight. He was confident he could handle himself because he was also an earth realm fighter. Since that evolution, Jas had felt that all the remnants of the bone ailnts he had faced during those years in the wheelchair were gone. He now had the sa fighting capability of other earth realm fighters.
Jas, along with Richard and ten secret service guards, guarded the armored humvee that the president was riding on. In no ti at all, they were ready to fight hundreds of critters that were coming in from two directions.
Captain Markus shouted, "Ready! Shoot!"
The ASV launched its grenade launcher in the middle of the critters.
"SSSHTTT SSHHTTT SHHTTT SSHTTT
KABOOMM !! KABOOO !! KABOOMM !! KABOMM !!!
The sea of critters seed to have made holes in the area where the grenades exploded. They had split apart due to the shockwave and the strength of the explosion. Next ca the .50 caliber machine gun in action.
TTARRATATATATATATAT TRTATAATATTAT
The rain of high caliber bullets also made holes in the tough skin of the critters. Only one in three critters had made it into the firing range of an army force after the barrage of the machine guns. And at that ti, these marines were ready to give these monsters from the abyss hell.
"Soldiers! Fire at will!" shouted Captain Mark.
"Give em' hell!" The soldiers answered in unison.
"Fire! Die! Kill them all!"
Tratatatatatat Tratatattata Tratatatattata
Another rain of bullets from the assault rifle M16 with 5.56x45mm NATO rounds hit the remaining critters, but it wasn't strong enough to penetrate the critters' spiked skin. Fortunately, so of these troops were equipped with the new X16 weapon that used high caliber .50 cal bullets.
BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!!
The shower of high caliber bullets and grenade launchers eliminated the monsters in the open field in just a matter of minutes. Although there were so critters that had reached the soldiers themselves, they were easily picked apart since all these three platoons were experienced peak stage mortal realm fighters. The hundreds of critters finally split apart and fled.
After things had cald, Elizabeth got out of the humvee and looked at the aftermath. The yellow wilderness had been filled with corpses of critters and dozens of soldiers were chosen to find and collect the spirit stones.
Captain Markus, a man with a large body and a long mustache, looked proud at the success of the company he had led. "Hahaha! They're retreating boys! We've given 'em hell!"
The rest of the soldiers cheered at this victory. While they were laughing, however, Captain Mark noticed the rising dust in the distance.
"Incoming! From the south!"
Richard replied, "Critters again?"
"It doesn't seem like it. Even if there were hundreds of those little monsters, they wouldn't blow dust like that. It's sothing big. "
The soldiers got into positions once more and were on high alert.
"What a monster!" said Captain Markus.
The monster arriving had the face of a bull with two giant horns protruding from its head. It got ready to charge with its body that was as large as a truck.
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