Seeing that Manuela, that foolish girl, was about to come into contact with the V-Complex, Javier quickly pulled the pin from the smoke grenade in his hand, and then, using all his might, threw the smoke grenade with all his strength.
The white smoke became a wake, arcing gracefully through the air. The smoke grenade caught up with that foolish girl Manuela's steps.
It successfully rolled to her feet, and a thick cloud of white smoke suddenly began to spread, obscuring Manuela's vision and completely enveloping her in the rolling dense smoke.
"Legendary Hero Appearance"—
This buff skill not only grants three smoke grenades invisibility but also gives the thrower a superhuman jumping ability. In other words… Javier can now perform a jump comparable to a superhero!
So,
"I'm coming!"
"1… 2… 3… Ready, jump—!!!"
Without any hesitation,
Javier quickly ran to gain momentum, adopting a triple jump posture, and in the final step, he leaped with all his might. At this moment, a miracle occurred.
Javier's entire body seemed to be covered in a faint white light, becoming incredibly light. With just an easy jump, he actually soared ten meters high, almost reaching the height of the V-Complex.
"Bang—!"
A cloud of dust splattered on the ground.
Like a cannonball fired from a barrel, Javier's black figure also rapidly plunged towards the rolling white smoke where Manuela was. This was truly a jumping power that only a superhuman could possess; ordinary people could never reach such a level.
"Thud!"
With a muffled sound,
Javier, this cannon, successfully shot into the rolling white smoke at a perfect angle, rolled a few times on the ground, and then stood up.
His gaze also instantly caught sight of Manuela fumbling in the smoke. Suppressing his urge to get angry, Javier took a deep breath.
The incomplete Breathing Technique ability was activated again, accelerating the functions of his entire body. His skin immediately entered a red-hot state.
"Don't run around!"
"I'm here, hurry and leave this ghost place with me!"
Javier rushed forward and grabbed Manuela's slender arm, speaking in a very displeased tone.
Upon hearing Javier's words, Manuela was startled, and a hint of dissatisfaction flashed across her face. She bit her lip, wanting to struggle free from Javier's arm.
But unfortunately, Javier would not allow this foolish girl to make a mistake a second time. Therefore, his grip was like iron tongs, holding her tightly. Manuela struggled for a long time but not only failed to shake him off, but it also made her feel a bit of pain, making it impossible to break free!
"Javier, don't worry about me…"
"Please, I am already a dying person. Let me do the last thing I can. Let me stop my father who has fallen into madness."
Seeing that she couldn't break free from Javier's restraint, Manuela quickly pleaded, wanting Javier to let her go. She wanted to end her own life.
However… Javier's attitude was more resolute than anyone else's. He had come all the way to this godforsaken place to save this foolish girl. If she died, wouldn't his trip be in vain? Javier would never allow such a losing deal to happen.
"No!"
"Manuela, death is not your only option. Besides… as you said, you are one of the culprits in the murder of those fifty innocent young girls."
"Your father is the mastermind, and you are an accomplice. Don't think of escaping the sins you've committed with such a ridiculous death as self-termination. Death… is not the best punishment for you. You must live… to atone for the mistakes you made in life."
"Mistakes made while living should be atoned for with a living life. Don't try to use death as an excuse to escape reality. I've seen too many people like you. So… live for me, I won't allow you to foolishly die—!"
For the first time,
Javier sternly reprimanded Manuela, also calling her a sinner.
If he didn't scold this girl awake, this foolish girl would still continue to seek death, so he had to use even more severe and cruel language to shatter her foolish ideas.
"Come with me…!"
With that,
Javier completely disregarded Manuela's wishes. He directly wrapped his arm around her slender waist, sliding it to the back of her knees, and scooped up the foolish girl in a princess carry.
It was very easy. Manuela's weight was much lighter than Javier had imagined, almost like a rag doll. This also indicated how much Manuela had suffered from the virus in recent years.
Not only mentally, but also physically, she was so weak that she seemed as if she would shatter and disappear with a slight force, as fragile as porcelain. She was truly an indescribable child.
Despite having such a fragile body,
The resilient willpower she contained was astonishingly powerful.
Perhaps, this was the miracle of life, like the weeds by the roadside that are crushed and trampled, enduring wind and rain without dying or disappearing, always standing up straight!
"Thump, thump, thump—!!!"
After holding Manuela,
Javier took a deep breath, greased his feet, and ran backward at full sprint. Manuela could not die here, and of course… he didn't want to die here either!
However…
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!!"
Upon discovering that his daughter had been abducted again by these Americans,
The drug lord Idalgo, controlling the V-Complex from behind, let out an extremely terrifying roar. He glared at Javier, who was like an ant below. This damned yellow-skinned monkey had abducted his precious daughter twice. Unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable!
"Die…!"
"Boom… Splat… Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!!"
After an internal roar,
The drug lord Idalgo directly controlled the V-Complex to attack. Its four colossal, pillar-like limbs plunged fiercely into the ground, and tendrils of plant tentacles rapidly shot into the earth, then quickly spread towards the direction Javier and Manuela were fleeing!
Earth Escape (Earth Escape means Earth Escape, which is a type of earth-burrowing technique)…
This was an ability Alexia also used at the Antarctica Research Institute. The plant tentacles she controlled could easily burrow into the ground, dig at incredible speed, and launch surprise attacks when the target had difficulty reacting.
The V-Complex's body was massive, and its movement speed was relatively slow. To catch a prey like Javier, who was like an ant, it could only use such plant tentacles for attack.
"Boom—!"
And the next second,
Those seven or eight plant tentacles suddenly burst out of the ground, instantly appearing behind Javier and Manuela. Each plant tentacle was as thick as a water bucket. If accidentally caught, a human's slender arm would be instantly twisted like a pretzel, with blood splattering.
Moreover, these plant tentacles were incredibly fast. Even if Javier used the Breathing Technique to accelerate his body's functions, reaching the lightning speed of a sprinter like Usain Bolt, he still couldn't shake off the pursuit of these plant tentacles. On the contrary, they were almost upon Javier's back, with only tens of meters between them.
What to do?
He's going to be caught!
"Da da da da da da—!!!"
"Da da da da da da—!!!"
And at this moment,
Two immediate gunshots rang out. Looking up sharply, it turned out to be Krauser and Leon. Krauser, with his injured arm, held an AKM assault rifle with one hand, using the single-shot mode's low recoil to provide fire support for Javier and Manuela.
Although the attack wasn't very powerful,
It effectively slowed down the advance of the seven or eight plant tentacles behind them. Their speed suddenly decreased, giving Javier and Manuela plenty of time to escape, and the distance widened significantly again.
However,
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
The drug lord Idalgo had no intention of letting Javier and Manuela go like that. After the two escaped the range of his plant tentacle attack, the drug lord Idalgo immediately controlled the V-Complex to attack again. The spores in its abdomen wriggled, and spherical objects, like plant spore bombs, rapidly shot out.
"Gurgle…"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!!"
Like countless stars, the spores rapidly plunged towards the ground, creating massive explosions the moment they hit, truly terrifying like mortar shells, blasting deep craters into the solid earth.
As a Emperor species of the T-Veronica Virus runaway type, the V-Complex could not use blood biological flames like the perfectly fused Alexia.
It couldn't control flames, but it could manifest them through these spore bombs, because the flames bursting from inside the spores were essentially no different from biological flames.
The only difference,
Was likely just reduced efficiency and power.
And on the escape route of Javier and Manuela, it had completely turned into a bombardment zone for the V-Complex. One after another, spore mortar shells rained down.
They rapidly exploded around Javier, and the splattering gravel (gravel means shattered rocks or gravel) scratched Javier's skin on his limbs, but fortunately, he didn't take a direct hit from any spore bomb.
Otherwise, he would have already turned into a puddle of mud.
There was no other way but to keep running quickly.
However, this couldn't go on forever. Without large armed vehicles for attack, such as tanks and helicopters, it would be impossible to cause any damage to the V-Complex before them!
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
"Damn it… Damn it…"
Seeing Javier and Manuela escape the range of his spore bomb attack again, the drug lord Idalgo, fused with the V-Complex, let out an angry roar, absolutely furious and completely falling into a frenzy.
The red tumors on his body wriggled. This time, the drug lord Idalgo directly controlled the V-Complex to use its scorpion-like poisonous stinger arm to smash fiercely towards Javier's direction.
He tried to use this terrifying stinger to instantly smash Javier into smithereens. His frenzied emotions made him completely forget that his daughter Manuela was still beside Javier.
It seems…
The virus's influence on his sanity was becoming increasingly severe—!
However,
Just at this moment,
The long-awaited support had arrived. Above the Amazon Rainforest, a series of sky-shattering hurricane roars suddenly echoed. The rainforest rustled loudly.
The high-speed rotation sound of helicopter propellers, "Da da da da da da da," approached. Javier and the others quickly looked up. It was precisely the support troops sent by the government, the air force units dispatched by the Colombia government after receiving orders from the United States Government.
A total of three black armed helicopters,
Unfortunately…
They were not the Apache armed helicopters Javier was familiar with, but rather conventional armed helicopters capable of carrying small teams. That's right… Apache armed helicopters are not something every country possesses.
The Colombian government's armed forces were not as strong as imagined. After all, if they were that strong, they would have long since cleared out the drug lords within the country and wouldn't have been led around by the drug lord Idalgo.
But armed support,
Is better than nothing.
"…"
"Da da da da da da da…!!!!"
With the arrival of the armed helicopters,
A black air-dropped weapon crate with a parachute slowly descended. That should be for providing firepower to Javier and the others on the ground.
Not only that,
From the three black armed helicopters, dozens of air force soldiers continuously jumped out. Black parachutes unfurled, looking as magnificent as divine soldiers descending from the sky.
"Click—!"
"Da da da da da da da—!!!!"
"Whoosh… Boom, boom, boom!!!!"
The button switch was pressed,
The three black armed helicopters finally launched their attack. The high-speed machine guns mounted on the helicopters rapidly spun, spewing a continuous stream of flames. Large-caliber bullets mercilessly swept across the V-Complex's massive body. At the same time, there were also volleys from beehive rocket launchers, causing numerous explosions to erupt on the V-Complex's body, slowly blossoming like flowers.
Finally…
These attacks broke through the V-Complex's defenses, making it let out painful wails. But… precisely because of this, the true battle had just begun. Next, they would likely have to face the V-Complex's furious counterattack.
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
With an angry roar,
First were the soldiers descending like black mushrooms.
The attacked V-Complex looked at the slowly descending air force squads, and instantly, it once again expanded its wriggling abdomen. A dense barrage of spore bombs rapidly shot out, like a sky full of sparks, all heading towards the air force squads.