Yes.
Right on the cliff below his feet, connected with the mountain.
Hawk can feel it, and he's quite sure of it.
Because...
He saw it.
The interior of the mountain beneath his feet was completely hollowed out, forming a massive dome about a hundred meters high.
Platforms and corridors crisscrossed within like a spider web, connecting one area to another.
Inside, there were no windows, no natural light, only artificial cold light illuminating everything.
There was not even sound, only the sound of breathing and footsteps from people.
One by one, staff in white coats held tablets in their hands, with no communication between them, not even eye contact, simply watching the incubators in front of them like robots, making their records.
And inside those clone incubators was none other.
It was Hawk.
Many Hawks.
Hawks of all ages.
Hawk's Sixth Sense swept through them without any fluctuation, internally feeling no anger, just a sense of absurdity rising up.
The next second.
He no longer hesitated.
Boom!
At the moment Hawk lowered his gaze, the scorching Phoenix Beam instantly shot out, blasting out a very neat circular hole in the ground beneath his feet.
The hole extended internally as the Phoenix Beam continued to shoot forth.
Hawk's body also plummeted rapidly until, with a bang, the dome of the laboratory within the mountain fractured, accompanied by the descending Phoenix Beam, Hawk appeared suspended in the vast laboratory inside the mountain.
The piercing alarm of the clone base suddenly blared.
On the ground below, one by one, expressionless staff members heard the commotion and instinctively looked up to see Hawk suspended above their heads.
Their expressions still unchanged, instead of seeing Hawk, they showed a slight smile, then collectively turned around without hesitation, pressing the self-destruct buttons of the clone incubators in front of them.
The next moment.
Accompanied by the blinding orange-red light from the uncontrollable flames spewing out of the clone incubator.
The explosion happened.
Boom, boom, boom, boom——
One after another, the orange-red flames erupted, precisely timed, engulfing the seemingly death-unafraid staff, and connecting with the opposite exploding flames to form an even more terrifying blaze, sweeping through the vast cloning area before them.
In just the blink of an eye, the entire cloning area was filled with flames, and as if finding a vent, they quickly surged upwards, roaring out through the newly created hole by Hawk.
The flames burned brightly like a torch atop Huailuo Canyon's peak.
Hawk did not stop any of it.
Because even if these people didn't self-destruct, he would have, and now their self-destruction saved him the trouble.
Besides.
A bunch of little Karas, he had no mood to talk to them.
Surrounded by flames that couldn't harm him at all, Hawk hovered in the fire, gazing at the doors that fell around the clone area as the alarms went off, scanning them and precisely locking onto one of them.
"Eye Impact!"
"Boom!"
The door shattered, the flames wreaking havoc in the clone area as if finding another outlet, roaring into the passage behind the opened door like a fire dragon.
The next second.
Terrible screams echoed from the passage as eight security personnel rushed to the sound of the alarm, only to face the rushing flames head-on, turning into small fire figures, instinctively dropping their weapons and screaming, turning to flee with all their might.
This door led to the clone memory infusion area.
Rows of clones sat in specially designed chairs, helmet-like devices covering their heads, eyes moving rapidly under closed lids, facial muscles occasionally twitching.
Like the cloning area, staff in large white coats were present here as well.
Except the staff seemed more human here, laughing and chatting as though unaffected by the alarms and explosions from the cloning area.
Until——
Six small fire figures screamed as they pushed through the door, stumbling out from the passage, finally scaring the staff inside.
The first fire figure to emerge fell to the ground, its flaming right hand weakly raised, throat convulsing, seemingly seeking help.
But he couldn't utter any words.
Most importantly.
Hawk had arrived too.
Boom!
Under the scorching Phoenix Beam, the fire figure trying to ask for help instantly vaporized, Hawk still dressed in a suit, looked gentlemanly as ever, gazed at the memory infusion area and the shocked expressions of the staff, smiled slightly: "Surprise!"
In that moment.
Hawk's eyes once again turned crimson, the scorching Phoenix Beam draping this already bright area with a red veil.
Ten seconds later.
The memory infusion area became clean, no clones, no staff, no corpses, only rows of clone chairs and various electronics on the floor remained to prove many people were once here.