Chapter 492: Wiped Out
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Midnight.
Lane sat by himself on the rooftop of a building and silently gazed at the full moon that hung in the sky. Beside him was the sa photo fra from before.
It was the photo fra seen previously in the revenge squad’s garage base. Lane took it out from the garage and kept it with him.
The night breeze brought a chill toward Lane. It seed as if a thought occurred to him as he suddenly held up the picture fra and wiped its surface.
As one of the most prosperous cities on earth, the scenic view of the moon and the starry night sky in New York City had long beco sothing that only existed in mory. Lane still had faint mories of gazing at the starry night sky as a child.
These days, the starry nightscape had been replaced by neon lights. Still, Lane continued to gaze into the tranquil night sky as countless thoughts flashed across his pensive eyes.
“Lane, I knew you’d be here.”
Lane suddenly heard the clear and crisp voice of a woman coming from behind him, accompanied by the sweet scent of perfu. The pink-haired lady had sat down beside him uninvited, her feet dangled over the edge of the building just like Lane did.
“What are you doing here, Christina?”
Lane asked without turning to look at her.
“I was just worried about you?”
The lady stayed silent for a mont before she ntioned with a smile, “I know how much work you’ve put in to infiltrate Blackwatch. I understand it’s not fair that you have to give up on the tournant, but unfortunately there’s no helping it.”
“‘Cain’ has plans of his own, all we need to do is to do as he instructs...”
Lane only smiled sourly as he heard this. “But my goal is to approach that BHB Combative Police Force officer called Brooke and deliver a swift end to him myself.”
Lane said in a low voice, “I was steadily approaching my target one step at a ti, but now I’m instructed to give up?”
“I’m sorry, I understand your built-up hatred and frustration.”
The lady shook her head.
Another strong breeze ca toward them that scattered her hair apart, revealing the hideous scar on her right cheek. She instinctively turned her face to the other side to shield her scar and happened to see the photo fra Lane held in his hands.
She reached for the photo fra and took it from Lane. Then she put it under the light and said, “I’ve heard about your past. The story is that your mother was held hostage by a robber and was killed by the BHB Combative Police Force while they were in the process of taking out the robber, is that it?
“Unlike you who specifically want to exact your revenge on Brooke, the reason I joined this Blackwatch resistance squad is that I want to bring an end to this company...”
A deep hatred surfaced in her eyes as she said this.
“I once ca from a wealthy family. My father was a businessman and his company specialized in collaborating with pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Johnson to supply drugs that alleviate the effects of cancer. However, Blackwatch’s cancer-targeted drugs had not only driven my father’s company to bankruptcy, he even beca knee-deep in debt...
“On a certain night, when we were surrounded by the debt collectors in our factory, my father forced our family to drink nitric acid...”
Lane was slightly shocked to hear this. All this ti, he knew that most of the mbers in this Blackwatch resistance squad had their families torn apart by the corporation. However, he never knew how Christina ended up like this nor did she ever tell anyone of her background.
It was only till today when he found out the origin of Christina’s grueso scar...
“But I resisted. The nitric acid ended up splattering over my face, but I never drank it.”
“As for my parents and my five-year-old brother, they...”
Christina choked up as she said this. She made herself pause for a mont before continuing. “I don’t know if Blackwatch is on the wrong for what they’ve done. All I know is that my father would never have been driven to bankruptcy if not for Blackwatch nor will my family be subject to such a horrible fate. I wouldn’t have ended like this either... Which is why I’ll destroy this company and bring an end to them. I’ll give my life for this cause!”
Lane opened his mouth and tried to say sothing, but the words failed to co out because he quickly realized that what Christina needed was not aningless words of comfort.
“So promise , Lane, let us fight together.”
Christina encouraged. “We have to unite and combine our forces. It’s only by doing this that we can stand a chance to defeat Blackwatch and exact our revenge!”
“I understand...”
Lane nodded and beca silent.
The two of them continued to stare at the sky this way until the first signs of daylight appeared on the horizon.
It was dayti.
...
Perhaps their conversation had caused a change of heart in Lane. Over the next few days, he slowly returned to his past self and stopped completely imrsing himself in firearms and combat training. Just like in the past, he would rendezvous with the team and discuss potential exploits of Blackwatch with the others and they would eat and drink beer together.
Upon seeing this, the mbers who were once in disagreent with Lane saw that their concerns were appeased. The sour atmosphere in the group had also subsided and was replaced by the peaceful atmosphere in the past.
However, there was a sudden change of events on the day the semi-finals of the fourth round comnced...
...
“Why isn’t Lamb here for the eting still?” On this day, four of the mbers apart from Lane were huddled together on a bench inside the usual garage. It was only Lane who was absent.
After they waited for what seed like forever and still saw no signs of Lane, they started to beco agitated and began speculating.
Christina, who was the leader of the group, frowned slightly. “Did Lamb oversleep? Wildfire, give him a call and see where he’s at.”
“I’ve called three tis, nobody’s picking up!”
Wildfire clapped his palms against the table repeatedly. “This idiot. He always picks up at the first ring whenever I call him!”
“This is bad, could Lamb have gone to attend Call of Duty?”
Digit sounded uncertain as he raised the thought that was on everybody’s mind as well.
“I don’t think Lamb would do sothing like this!”
Christina shook her head pointedly. “He must’ve gotten into so other accident. Digit, check his GPS coordinates!”
“Alright.”
Digit heeded the command and stepped over to the cluster of server machines. He used the computer to open several intricate software and started entering sothing in the search query.
“I’m hacking into the communication satellite network, hold on...”
The group started waiting impatiently.
After about ten minutes had passed, Digit suddenly turned to them and let out a sigh, a look of relief washed over him as he said, “Lamb’s cell phone signal shows that he’s still in his rented house and hasn’t left.”
“So, you’re saying that this guy simply overslept?”
Christina felt a weight lifted off her chest. She got up and made a light-hearted joke. “I’ll go get him myself. I’ll make sure to give him the proper punishnt for being late to our important eting!”
“Hold on, Kraken...”
Before Christina finished, Digit suddenly turned around from his computer and noted suspiciously. “Kraken, there’s so suspicious activity outside...”
They all turned to the high-definition surveillance cara live footage mounted to a wall in the garage. The caras broadcasted live footage of the view outside the garage and they saw several n dressed in black standing outside. These people had heavy cloaks and hoods that concealed their appearance and were slowly advancing toward the garage entrance.
“This is bad!”
Christina took out her gun without so much as a second thought as she barked the order, “Everyone, get ready to evacuate using the secret passage! Hurry up, they’re almost here!”
“I’ll lock the gate!”
A scrawny little man in the group sprinted toward the entrance in an attempt to seal the gate before the enemy could enter. Before he could get the job done, he heard soone crying out after him from behind, “Get back here!”
“Ah?”
The scrawny little man turned around wearing a blank expression. The next second, he saw a column of flas erupting in front of his eyes and his body was flung into the air. Before he had ti to register what was happening, his consciousness faded away nearly instantly...
“Boom!”
A trendous explosion tore through the garage gate. The fiery sparks filled out nearly half of the garage in a matter of seconds. Christina and the others managed to get behind a table just in ti as the heavy and deafening rupture of the explosion rang in their ear!
The space in the garage beca unbearably hot!
After the dust had settled, the three of them erged from the pile of rubble while coughing violently. It was only when Digit tried to pull himself up on his feet when he realized that his legs were turned into a mash of at underneath a collapsed pillar!
“Ah, my leg! My leg!”
Digit cried out imdiately.
“Digit!”
Christina charged over and gave her best attempt at lifting off the pillar but it would not budge no matter how much she strained her muscles.
“It’s no use! Kraken, get out of here with Wildfire!”
When Digit realized the severity of the situation, he shoved Christina out of the way and produced a gun which he aid in the direction of the gate that had been blown apart. “Hurry up and get out of here, I’ll hold them off! Go!”
“Digit...”
Christina was hesitant in abandoning her courage.
“Go, hurry up!”
Digit scread at the top of his voice and pointed the gun at his temple, “I’ll kill myself if you still don’t go!”
“Let’s get out of here Christina!”
The also heavily-wounded Wildfire managed to pull himself up and imdiately went to get Christina. They took off toward the small room at the other end of the garage!
As soon as they opened the wooden door leading to the room, four figures in black robes appeared outside the warehouse. Before they even set foot in the garage, Digit had opened fire!
“Bang bang bang!”
A barrage of gunshots rang across the garage as Digit belted a stream of curses at them, “Co get you piece of sh**! You better take out or else I’ll...”
“Swish!”
The sound of an unidentifiable weapon firing sliced across the air, imdiately cutting off Digit mid-sentence!
Christina turned around instinctively just in ti to witness Digit’s head bursting open like a waterlon. She saw the red at of the fruit splatter all across the floor!
The unmistakable gunshot had to co from the electromagnetic weapons owned by Blackwatch!
Christina imdiately realized what was happening. There was only one possibility, they were betrayed!
“Lane, how dare you betray us!”
Christina was not the only one who made the connection, Wildfire connected the dots as well. When he saw the figures advancing toward them, he shoved Christina into the room without any hesitation and bellowed like a beast, “Lane, you don’t deserve to live!”
Wildfire held his fingers on the trigger and fired away like a mad man!
When Christina heard the barrage of gunshots from outside, she quickly silenced the mixture of emotions racing across her mind at the mont and lifted off the toilet bowl to reveal a secret passage hidden underneath. She entered the secret passage and put the toilet bowl back in its natural position.
Within seconds, Wildfire was turned into target practice with countless bullet holes riddled across his body. The robed n charged into the room after that.
“Clack!”
The one leading the charge was a woman in high heels. She surveyed the room upon entering and imdiately sensed sothing below her. She stomped down with her foot on a certain tile that unwound certain chanisms in the room to reveal a hidden passage before them.
The lady in charge took off her hood and revealed her beautiful and captivating appearance underneath.
Nobody would ever expect such beauty and grace hidden underneath this mask of violence seed to be a match made in heaven. The two elents were blended to perfection, part poison mixed with vodka to form the perfect concoction...
“Inform squad two that our target is escaping through a secret tunnel!”
The lady turned around and shouted orders at the crew behind her, “Keep her alive at all cost. I want to know just who this mysterious ‘Cain’ is and what makes him think that he can oppose Blackwatch!”
“Got it, Chief Sara!”
Chief Sara’s crew responded imdiately and bolted out of the room, leaving her by herself in the room.
Chief Sara pondered for a mont before lifting off her robe to reveal an eloquent, custom-fitted combat suit underneath. She took out a black object attached to the suit and flicked the cap off using her thumb!
“Tick!”
The safety pin popped out its shell with just a gentle pull. Chief Sara imdiately tossed the all-black spherical object with one arm and sent it rolling down the tunnel!
After this, she bore a brittle smirk and proceeded to step out of the garage.
“Boom!”
An enormous explosion followed as soon as she stepped out of the garage, the violent shockwave caused by the explosion made the air in the vicinity tremble. On the chief commander’s combat suit, one could make out the text printed across her chest that read B.S.S.!
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