Second Act

"That was a direct and clear message." Hearing the voice from the radio, Teddy smiled and said, "Everyone, get ready; they're going to attack us!"

"Won't we surrender?"

"The active destruction of the world through nuclear devastation is a means to push the world towards rebirth and renewal. The enemy doesn't understand that, Mike. We have to make them see it once we kill them and get the other key."

At this moment, the black-eyed man named Mike spoke again: "Is it possible they are also at Neil's and Cesar's bases?"

As soon as this comment came out, the audience fell silent, and everyone's eyes focused on Mike, making him a bit nervous.

"I'm just speculating based on what that voice said on the radio."

"Probably not."

In fact, Teddy's eyes lit up when he heard this, but after thinking for a while, he still didn't believe they were the same people.

"I recognize that voice may be that of a that of a fair, reasonable, and honorable leader who follows an optimal pattern of justice in leadership. Maybe it's an organization built by a branch of the army, so they won't harm the children. Take them to the center of the square. All those who don't want to fight and defend our beliefs can do what that voice said and pray that what it mentioned is the truth."

After hearing that, everyone turned their heads and looked at each other. No one was sure if they should abandon everything they had worked for and leave their lives in the hands of complete strangers. Therefore, they didn't want to surrender.

"I'll move the children to a safe place!"

At that moment, Teddy took the radio and said, "You have been here before. You've lived through this moment before. We don't want to believe that, right? We don't want to accept circularity. But believe me when I say, My friend, we are in a loop."

A dead silence was heard in the room, and everyone immediately began to move with weapons in their hands and an extremely nervous expression.

...

In the lush urban terrain, trash and dust flew through the air, but it didn't cause any significant movement or sound.

Training time and a lot of experience showed their performance, especially today. In just a few minutes, an elite group led by Dominic crossed the streets and reached the grounds near Teddy's base.

Although the main base was in a shopping center, they had covered much more ground. Perhaps it was because the place where Dominic was moving wasn't that important, but only two staff members patrolled this side.

Also, due to the small number of people, this place was also chosen as a major breakthrough point.

Looking at the patrol routes of the two people ahead, Dominic looked at the fence with several gaps, observing the patrol routes and the reach of the two.

The speed and frequency of patrol by these two people were very uncoordinated, covering at least two-thirds of the intersection area. There were many areas that couldn't be detected, but this wasn't too much for those who hadn't been trained in strangeness.

When the two guards' view was out of range of the railing, he quickly advanced. When he was about to approach the railing, his body moved quickly down, and with Stuart's help, he jumped and hid in a nearby place before the guard moved his vision to his position.

At the moment, the plan was to eliminate the outer guards so that the soldiers could enter without major problems and the team in the air could carry out the main attack.

The whole process was smooth and fluid, and in less than ten seconds, Dominic and three other figures entered.

The guard, who directed his attention to one side, only looked towards the outer wall in the distance, and after seeing that there was nothing unusual, he turned to patrol in another direction.

Dominic waited silently with his hand raised in the sky in the shape of a fist, and after confirming that they weren't caught, he signaled Stuart to help the others enter while he pulled out a knife that shone with a cold light and quickly looked and waited.

The guard above the watchtower hadn't lowered his gaze to see below the inner wall, so he didn't realize that people were entering on his left side.

At this moment, many guards were concentrating on the main entrance and the roofs of the shopping center, while some cars were being moved to the side.

With a murderous intent overflowing from his eyes, Dominic picked up a piece of gravel from the ground, lowered his body more, and walked along the wall under the upper tower where the guard was. After waiting a few moments, he threw the stone in his hand with enough force to generate an alert.

Bang!

The stone hit the wall, emitting a crisp sound, and the guard patrolling this area at that moment clearly heard the crisp sound.

"Huh?"

Hearing this abnormal sound, the guard immediately became alert and slowly walked to find the source of the sound, but all he could see was a piece of dead wood fallen on the ground and nothing else.

"Hey, what are you doing standing there, you bastard?"

Just when the guard thought that only stones were falling, a shout suddenly came from behind him.

Turning his head to look, he saw his companion in a high place, standing on the pipe, holding a rifle in his hand, and greeting him.

To this, the guard responded with a finger on the trigger of his standard weapon and scolded, "Don't bother me; don't talk to me, bastard. We could be attacked at any moment; we need to be alert."

"Hahaha, do you think someone will attack us?"

Hearing this question, the high guard got annoyed, pointed his middle thumb at his companion, and went to patrol elsewhere.

But just as he turned around, he suddenly thought of something, turned his head, and said, "By the way, remember tonight..."

But just halfway through the conversation, the high guard was surprised to find that there was no one in the newly emptied place.

He couldn't help but stick his head out and shout, "Hey, where are you? You won't hide in that corner and masturbate, you damn pig?"

But when his voice came, there was no response after, even after a while.

"What's going on?"

Seeing this situation, the high guard frowned slightly. Obviously, he was still chatting with his companion at that moment. Why did he suddenly disappear? Thinking that the other party hadn't heard him, he shouted again while going down the stairs, "Hey, someone..."

Whoosh!!

But just a second after he opened his mouth and in the middle of the stairs, a sound of wind was heard from his bottom right, and a black shadow appeared in the corner of his eye, interrupting what he was going to say next.

The high guard turned his head to look, almost unconsciously. Before he could see what the black shadow was, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, followed by a sharp pain and dizziness.

He covered his neck with the palm of his hand, only to realize that there was a dagger there at some point, and the scarlet blood soaked his palm and clothes in the blink of an eye.

"Where did the... dagger come from?"

Such a question flashed in the guard's mind, and the next second his body fell forward uncontrollably and then fell to the ground between the watchtower and the inner wall where Dominic's team had entered.

A second after the corpse fell to the ground, a pair of large hands grabbed his ankles and dragged him back, disappearing into the shadow in the blink of an eye.

And the remaining traces of blood were quickly covered by a layer of sand and gravel sprinkled underneath.

All this was seen by several snipers in the distance, who were located at the heights of several buildings outside the cult's base.

Only a few minutes had passed since the other party started, and now, without firing a single shot, two members of the cult were killed in the blink of an eye. Such stealth and killing skills are not possessed by common survivors.

The sniper's visor was unintentionally lowered to another part of the enemy's shelter.

The man named Stuart also reached the back of the last guard in that watchtower, strangled a man from the side, and then continued to walk into the depths of that hut.

Seeing that the other party had finished dealing with that, the sniper's forehead couldn't help but sweat coldly.

When the initial plan was obviously a stealth attack while the helicopters were approaching, he thought it was just to eliminate some peripheral enemies as much as possible and shoot to attract attention and force the people inside to ask for rescue.

It can be seen that the current performance is clearly aimed at destroying all the enemies inside without causing the greatest possible damage.

The sniper who was aiming now belonged to the soldiers who had recently joined the organization, but one thing he knew was that this force was one of the most stable and powerful, possibly in the world.

"The community leader is incredibly bloodthirsty."

Thinking of these dangerous people who lived in the camp below for several days, the sniper couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

Such a group of people is not only a threat to the cult but also to anyone who would be their enemies in the future.

At that moment, the sniper unconsciously looked at the sight of his rifle. If he fired a shot at that moment, he would definitely make the two people inside and the cult fight directly and, at the same time, generate a noisy battle.

Shaking his head, the sniper focused on the designated area and soon heard a voice in his earpiece: "Zz... Eye Nine communicating to Mother, give me a vision of what I have ahead."

"Zz... Son Nine here, Mother, you have two people if you walk through the middle of the wall; there are no clear targets looking in that direction; you can proceed once our people position themselves in the watchtower."