Chapter 58: Hawk, Who Runs After the Robbery

How many seconds does it take for a building to collapse at its fastest?

The answers vary.

But here, at the Quantico military base, the Gamma Laboratory—already damaged by that gamma explosion incident involving Banner—could no longer hold on and began to collapse following a sudden, massive explosion from underground.

In less than five short seconds, the three-story Gamma Laboratory was completely reduced to ruins.

Dust and smoke roared, slamming with a clatter against the surrounding sheet metal.

The sheet metal rumbled from the impacts.

The emergency response team soldiers, who had just been preparing to rush in and kill the intruder, retreated rapidly; after watching the laboratory building turn into ruins in the blink of an eye, they fell silent for a moment and then swallowed in unison.

For no other reason.

Because if they had gone in a few seconds earlier, they likely would have been buried along with the Gamma Laboratory.

But after the shock and relief, the team members turned their gazes toward their captain in unison.

"Number 1, what do we do now?"

"...How the hell should I know?"

After a moment of silence, the emergency captain also said speechlessly, "Pack it up."

The team members were stunned.

"Huh!"

"Huh my ass, it's all collapsed, what else can we do, dig out the intruder's corpse?"

The emergency captain rolled his eyes.

He had expected a fierce battle.

As it turned out...

He hadn't expected it to be, well, such an anticlimax.

Just then, the lieutenant colonel who had just finished reporting to General Luo Si over the phone arrived on the scene in a jeep.

"Number 2, pack it up."

"Yes!"

The emergency captain said this to his deputy, then walked toward the lieutenant colonel while adjusting the assault rifle slung over his shoulder.

Before the emergency captain could salute, the lieutenant colonel's gaze fell upon the Gamma Laboratory, which had turned into ruins and was still spewing dust into the surroundings: "What happened?"

The emergency captain shook his head: "To be honest, I'm not entirely sure, but I can confirm there was only one intruder."

The emergency captain then repeated what he had learned from the lab personnel who had run out of the building, and then spoke about how the building collapsed just as he was about to lead his team inside.

Upon hearing that there was only one intruder, the lieutenant colonel's expression also became blank.

"Are you sure, just one?"

"Yes."

"Motherf..."

The lieutenant colonel instinctively let out a curse, feeling an unusual sense of absurdity: "No, it was just one person, how did he dare to do this?"

It wasn't as if the Quantico military base had never encountered an intrusion incident before.