Chapter 1 The Presidential Palace Under Siege

The assassin squad's entry into the presidential palace was merely the first step of their mission. With numerous guards inside, they needed to complete their task before the main force of the city defense army arrived.

Although the guards outside the presidential palace didn't trust the city defense army at the moment, it wouldn't take long for them to clear up the misunderstanding.

The assassin squad had less than ten minutes!

Da-da-da!

Guards poured in from all directions, using their lives to block the path of the evolved beings, but they were not made of steel. The evolved warriors quickly suppressed them.

One of the leading evolved beings forcefully dug a bullet out of his shoulder with his fingers, and his wound healed rapidly.

This bloody scene stunned the guards, and a sense of despair washed over them.

The evolved warriors far surpassed them in both vitality and combat power. In the many evolved being assassination attempts that had occurred in various countries since the world changed, almost no one had managed to escape!

Only one EU commander had survived an assassin attack, but he was severely injured. Moreover, could the protective measures of the EU high-ranking officials be compared to those of a small country like Mofila?

If the EU's high-level protection was an impregnable fortress, and the evolved being assassination was a difficult passage carved through it, then Mofila's level of protection was like a dilapidated earthen wall. It was simply too easy for the evolved warriors to break through!

Click!

Crack!

With the sound of synchronized magazine changes, the evolved warriors advanced toward the basement with a clear goal.

Sonan held a high position in Mofila, almost second-in-command. The entire capital held no secrets from him. He knew the location of the basement under the presidential palace like the back of his hand. In the event of an attack on the president, he would definitely go there for emergency shelter.

Bang!

Just then, a muffled roar sounded. One of the evolved beings in the advancing pack had his right leg suddenly explode. He staggered and fell, bone fragments and blood splattering everywhere.

"Sniper! Take cover!" someone shouted from among the evolved beings. They sped up, not even attempting to rescue their downed comrade, callously tossing him two high-explosive grenades and disappearing into the corridor at the end of the first floor hall.

Whoosh!

Presidential palace guards swarmed over, raising their guns at the evolved being whose right leg had been blown off, roaring, "Lie down! Surrender!"

The evolved being roared wildly and detonated the grenades!

With a deafening bang, chunks of wall and dust rained down, and the guards scattered in disarray.

A few seconds later, the survivors got up, looking at the mangled remains on the ground, and couldn't help but feel lingering fear.

Decisive, fierce, and ruthless to both enemies and themselves.

"These madmen, don't they know fear?" someone exclaimed. "Could it be that evolution changes not only the body, but also makes one's personality savage, violent, and cruel?"

His question was destined to go unanswered.

Retro-evolution had no effect on personality or the brain. The reason these evolved beings were so fierce was because... they were Bai Jingyan's subordinates.

Bai Jingyan's utterly ruthless attitude toward everything was well reflected in these people.

Although the presidential palace was heavily guarded, in the face of these evolved warriors, the guards' defense line was simply not worth mentioning.

This was a war between two species, a dimensional strike.

Even with the added support of powerful firepower and numbers, the hundred or so guards were unable to keep the assassins from breaching the defenses. Gunfire and screams echoed throughout the presidential palace, and the corridors and halls were filled with corpses with shattered heads and twisted limbs.

The assassins infiltrated the intersection between the first floor and the basement as easily as a hot knife through butter. After paying the price of a dozen lives, they finally arrived at the entrance to the shelter.

Behind them, a trail of blood paved with countless corpses was a shocking sight.

Ahead was a steel vault door, which appeared extremely thick. An evolved warrior fired two shots, but the bullets only left shallow marks on the door.

Snap!

Two assassins pulled out several white grenades, stuffed them into the small grooves of the vault door, and pulled the pins.

Inside the steel door, the president and several generals, protected by a dozen guards, were sweating profusely, their eyes fixed on the steel door.

"Mr. President, rest assured, I have already notified the legions outside the city to come in. These assassins are only a few dozen in number, and they are not carrying large-scale heavy weapons. They simply cannot break through the basement... We just need to wait for reinforcements to arrive..." A general tried to ease the tense atmosphere, but at that moment, a loud bang suddenly came from outside the door.

Bang!

The entire steel door trembled slightly, then went silent.

"Heh, grenades can't..." The general smiled, but the next second, his face changed.

He saw a section of the steel door turning red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a wisp of high-temperature cyan smoke rising from the red-hot area!

The steel door was burning!

From the outside, flames raged in the area where the grenades had exploded in the grooves of the steel door.

Ordinary grenades could not do this. The grenades that had just been detonated were special thermite grenades. The high-temperature flames they produced could reach 3,000 degrees Celsius, while the melting point of steel was around 1,500 degrees Celsius. This meant that in just a few seconds, the seemingly indestructible steel door would be melted through!

Crack!

Crack!

The raging flames quickly engulfed the entire steel door. The hard steel became soft and drooped down. The steel door was burned through, and soon, a pool of high-temperature molten steel appeared on the ground, leaving the basement completely defenseless!

"It's over!"

At this moment, those hiding in the basement had only one thought in their minds.

The evolved assassin rushed in madly. They easily disposed of the guards surrounding the president and the others, and then violently subdued all eight high-ranking officials, including the president!

The president looked at the wolfish assassins and was about to speak when he was knocked unconscious by an assassin's rifle butt to the neck.

Looking at the situation in the basement, the evolved assassin nodded in satisfaction. He took out his communicator and sent a message to Bai Jingyan.

"The presidential palace is under control!"