Chapter 60: Hawk, Targeted by General Ross

By the time General Thaddeus Ross arrived at the Quantico military base, the intrusion alarm had already been deactivated.

Hmm.

It was truly deactivated this time.

But the matter did not end there; on the contrary, the base command center was brightly lit at this moment.

They had lost face big time this time.

Someone had not only infiltrated their base with ease, but even demolished one of their buildings, and then, damn it, retreated unscathed.

The most important point.

They had now, damn it, lost the trail of that intruder.

"What do you mean you lost him?"

"We lost him in the dense forest twenty kilometers south of the base."

"What about our helicopters?"

"At night, in the dense forest, our helicopters couldn't descend at all."

"Shit!"

The lieutenant colonel slammed the table in a rage: "Send all our men out, helicopters too, we must find this damn guy."

The deputy hurriedly acknowledged and jogged away.

Just as the lieutenant colonel stood with his hands on his hips, watching the first-person views from the helicopters and the search teams sent out on the big screen, a low voice came from behind.

The lieutenant colonel jumped, turned around instinctively, and then saw General Ross, whose face was as dark as ink at this moment.

"Gen, General..."

"There was only one intruder, and you still managed to lose him. Impressive."

General Ross said with a smile that didn't reach his eyes.

The lieutenant colonel opened his mouth but didn't speak, instead letting the soldier sitting at the computer pull up the footage of the intruder's escape.

General Ross looked toward the big screen.

Coming into view.

The intruder standing in the smoke could not be identified at all under the glare of the searchlights, and then, with a single leap, he instantly jumped into the forest and vanished rapidly.

General Ross was stunned as he watched this scene.

The next second.

He looked at the lieutenant colonel: "You said just now that only the Gamma Building was invaded?"

The lieutenant colonel nodded hurriedly.

"Yes, General. Not long after this intruder entered, the Gamma Building collapsed. We originally thought he was a bomber, but unexpectedly, just as I was reporting the latest situation to you, this guy suddenly darted out from under the ruins."

"..."

General Ross did not speak, but while quietly listening to the lieutenant colonel's report, he had someone repeat the surveillance footage of Hawk leaving the base with that single leap.

Single person, clear objective, Gamma Building, inhuman dodging ability, astonishing jumping ability.

General Ross's eyes flickered.

"Did other cameras capture the intruder?"

"The technical team is currently checking the surveillance."

"Have you located the intruder?"

"...No."

The lieutenant colonel instinctively looked at the deputy who had just returned. Seeing the deputy shake his head, he remained silent for a moment, then braced himself and reported to General Ross: "He disappeared in the dense forest twenty kilometers south of our base, and we are still looking."

Upon hearing this, General Ross nodded.

The next second.

He did not speak, but walked outside: "Send men, dig up the Gamma Building for me as fast as you can."

The lieutenant colonel shuddered and hurriedly stood at attention: "Yes!"

But, saying that was one thing; by the time the heavy machinery actually arrived, cleared the ruins, and dug out the corpses buried inside, it was already dawn.

The helicopters that had flown all night had also returned to the base.

However, the pilots rested, but the helicopters did not. After switching to new pilots and refueling, the helicopters took off once again, radiating outward from the base in all directions, attempting to find the trail of the intruder who had been so arrogant last night that he had practically taken a dump on their Quantico Marine Corps.

The soldiers at the base were the same.

The soldiers who returned last night rested, and another batch of soldiers was swapped in, also scattered into the dense forest around the base.

It had the air of a massive three-day search.

However...

General Ross did not go back to rest either, but sat in his car, sitting in the car not far from the ruins of the Gamma Building, leaning against the back seat with his eyes slightly narrowed.

Just then.

The adjutant sitting in the driver's seat, after a phone call came in and he said "uh-huh" a few times, turned his head to look at General Ross, who was resting against the back seat.

"General, a call from the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D."

"...Hmm."

General Ross slowly opened his eyes, reached out to take the phone handed over by his adjutant, and placed it to his ear.

"This is Ross!"

"General Ross, I heard Quantico was quite lively last night."