Two days later, Manhattan Airport Ground Station, Military Transport Field.
Bert Raul stood at the reception gate wearing a black trench coat. He had a thin mustache, looking relatively young but exuded the aura of a seasoned man. However, despite his rugged appearance, he seemed somewhat anxious at the moment, glancing at the time intermittently and surveying his surroundings.
Behind him trailed a man, the same bodyguard who had been knocked unconscious by Tyckus. There were bruises around his eyes, not from Tyckus but from Bert himself.
After waiting for quite a while, Bert Raul finally saw a flying car approaching in the distance.
The car stopped in front of Raul, and Reno emerged from the vehicle. "Bert Raul?"
"Mr. X?" Bert Raul asked, glancing back at his bodyguard.
The young bodyguard nodded and said, "He's the leader."
Bert Raul turned to Reno. "Where is my daughter?"
Now he cared about his daughter.
Given the low cost, Bert Raul was still willing to care about his daughter.
Stepping back, Reno opened the car door, revealing Elizabeth tied up in the back seat. Sitting beside her was Wang Yile, holding a gun to Elizabeth's head.
"Dad!" Elizabeth shouted.
Before Bert Raul could speak, Reno slammed the car door shut.
"What about the ship?" Reno asked.
Raul pointed behind him. "It's in the hangar. Give me my daughter, and the ship is yours."
"That's not enough. I remember saying we also need legitimate identities," Reno said.
Bert Raul nodded helplessly and raised his terminal. "I've prepared the four fake identities you asked for. Just give me the terminal, and I'll input them for you. You can freely come and go in the name of my company's employees."
With that, data began transferring to Reno's terminal. After accepting and checking it for any tracking devices, Reno nodded in satisfaction. "I'm sorry, but I can't give your daughter back to you right now. She has to accompany us for a trip. I promise she'll be returned to you when we're free."
"You bastards!" Despite expecting such a response, Raul looked surprised and furious.
Honestly, everyone was acting, and they were doing it well.
But someone wasn't acting.
At that moment, Raul's bodyguard behind him suddenly spoke, "Boss, there's a problem."
"What?" Raul looked at the bodyguard, puzzled and impatient.
The bodyguard replied, "When they stole the car, I saw more than four people, at least seven or eight."
Reno and Raul froze simultaneously.
Raul slowly turned back, looking at Reno with suspicion. Suddenly, he realized something and ran backward, shouting, "They haven't been fooled! Open fire!"
At the same time, Reno also made a swift turn and jumped behind the flying car. As he did, laser beams struck the ground where Reno had been standing earlier.
Suddenly, the reception station, which had seemed deserted, was swarmed with soldiers from various positions. They aimed their guns at Reno and started shooting, ignoring Raul. A misdirected beam pierced through Raul's leg, creating a large hole, and he fell to the ground, wailing. Fortunately, the bodyguard finally reacted and rushed over to shield Raul behind a pillar.
"Damn it, they're our own people!" Raul shouted angrily. "Damn it, Blakem, do you want to kill me too? I'm not someone you can just dispose of!"
In the distance, a slender officer looked at the scene, hearing Raul's words clearly. Then, he emotionlessly raised his terminal. "Confirmed, Raul should have a backup plan."
"Don't let him die then," a hoarse voice came through the terminal.
"Understood," the slender officer said through the communicator. "Attack the kidnappers, rescue the girl, and... stop friendly fire."
The accuracy of the attack increased significantly. Laser beams shot towards the flying car, which was specially reinforced and couldn't be penetrated immediately. However, Reno and Wang Yile couldn't raise their heads due to the continuous gunfire, and Elizabeth was screaming inside the car.
"Drive, get out of here!" Reno shouted.
Wang Yile quickly crawled to the driver's seat and started the vehicle.
Just then, Elizabeth suddenly slammed against the car door, using her head to push it open, and rolled out of the car.
"Damn it, get back here!" Wang Yile wanted to grab the girl, but the relentless gunfire prevented him from sticking his head out. Meanwhile, Reno had already gotten into the car from the other side, and Wang Yile could only drive away.
Elizabeth ran towards her father like mad. The bodyguard hurriedly rushed over to hold her and took her behind a pillar.
"Thank God you're safe!" the young bodyguard shouted.
For him, saving Elizabeth again after losing his employer once meant a lot, salvaging his professional career.
At the same time, a large number of soldiers rushed out.
All the guns fired at once towards the sky. Even Wang Yile's energy acceleration couldn't dodge the dense gunfire, and the metal shield was distorted and deformed. Some military vehicles also rushed out from the rear, and soldiers clamored to board them.
As they launched their pursuit, gunshots suddenly rang out in the distance.
This time, the gunfire wasn't like the singular sound of laser guns but resembled the popping of beans, erupting like thunder in the sky.
Accompanied by the thunder was a hail of bullets like a raging storm.
It was Tyckus, holding the heavy Fire God cannon, appearing on a distant rooftop, joyfully shouting, "Come on, you turtle sons, taste the power of grandpa!"
The roar was loud, but the result was disappointing.
The bullets rained down on the soldiers, illuminating them with a shimmering glow as they managed to block all the bullets.
Seeing this scene, Tyckus was stunned. "McGlen bulletproof armor?"
McGlen bulletproof armor was a specially made bulletproof vest. Its ceramic shell and electrostatic field could withstand most ballistic attacks, making it the best ballistic protection suit. However, it had a flaw: it had no resistance to laser weapons whatsoever. Additionally, its high price made it unpopular in the market, and most armies did not use it.
Unexpectedly, it appeared in the Tianhe Fleet's army.
Of course, they all knew that the sample gun had fallen into the hands of the enemy. How could they not be prepared?
A soldier, braving the bullet rain, fired at Tyckus. Tyckus squatted with a strange howl, and countless lasers grazed over his head.
The planned sudden attack, with a furious storm-like assault, did not catch the enemy off guard, but Tyckus was directly countered.
Fortunately, at that moment, a precise beam of light flashed from the sky, hitting a soldier charging forward. The laser pierced through the bulletproof armor, burning a transparent hole in the soldier's body.
"It looks like someone needs my help," Nora's voice came in my ear.
"Just didn't expect them to be so well-prepared, but luckily, I'm prepared too," Tyckus said, taking out a remote control from his body. With a gentle press, a flying car automatically came from a distance. After lighting a cigar for himself, Tyckus walked over confidently, pulled open the car door, and took out something from the car.
Several large boxes of ammunition.
20mm armor-piercing steel-core rounds.
The Bazuru multi-barrel Fire God cannon had various calibers and could automatically switch various types of ammunition. At the moment, Tyckus was holding the largest caliber rounds, which were almost the size of shells.
The reason why real ammunition weapons could achieve thousands of rounds per second was that all the bullets used a special technique to greatly reduce the caliber, compressing them into a large bullet cluster. After firing, they would burst into hundreds or thousands of micro-bullets, creating a huge area-sweeping effect and resulting in a terrifying rate of fire of thousands of rounds per second.
It looked somewhat like buckshot, but in essence, it was very different. The former fired small pellets after being launched, relying on inertia to injure the enemy, while the latter accelerated the firing speed by concentrating multiple bullets in the same time frame through a bullet cluster. Therefore, in terms of range and lethality, it was far superior to buckshot.
However, the 20mm armor-piercing steel-core rounds Tyckus was using were solid, without the so-called bullet clusters. Each bullet carried tremendous killing power. Of course, it was impossible for such bullets to achieve a rate of thousands of rounds per second, but it didn't matter; several thousand rounds per minute were already enough.
Tyckus caught the ammunition belt and connected it to the Fire God cannon. Carrying hundreds of kilograms of ammunition boxes, Tyckus confidently walked towards the battlefield.
Completely ignoring the lasers fired by the soldiers, Tyckus stood there, occasionally hitting Tyckus, but only burned a patch of black on his powerful muscles.
Tyckus laughed loudly as if nothing had happened:
"I'm going to beat you all back to your mothers' wombs!"
He raised the gun.
The gunfire struck again, and the 20mm armor-piercing steel-core rounds began to sweep wildly.
Each bullet was like a miniature missile, exploding on the ground with a loud bang. The powerful penetration force could create a large hole in a building with just one bullet.
However, the McGlen bulletproof armor was indeed the strongest bulletproof armor of this era and could withstand even this. The soldiers' bodies occasionally flashed with amazing light when the bullets hit them, which was the electrostatic field forming a web of electricity to block the bullets.
But while it could withstand the powerful penetration force, it could not completely dissipate the terrifying kinetic energy.
The overflow of energy from the 20mm armor-piercing steel-core rounds, in continuous shooting, passed through the soldiers like a tide, making them tremble and vomit blood. A soldier who was hit dozens of times in a row was even thrown into the air and died on the spot before landing.
Being shaken to death alive!
With immense power and completely unreasonable tactics!
Tyckus, carrying the Fire God cannon, roared madly: "Ah!"
In the wild roar, the piercing rain of bullets ravaged the entire scene in the most insane and unreasonable manner.
Meanwhile, Nora, Claire, Modi, and several others appeared from various directions, firing continuously at this side. However, the combined power of everyone was not enough to match Tyckus, who was suppressing the whole world by himself!
"Retreat, retreat quickly!" a sergeant shouted in horror, completely frightened by Tyckus's brutal tactics.