This continues Lieutenant Adam's video log.
The target building is on the third floor.
Adam, leading four USS and Delta operatives, crossed the lobby to the stairs on the other side of the apartment building, resumed a compact formation, and continued to move upward.
As they moved higher, the number of rebel and Delta corpses increased, and all had died from the anomalous phenomenon known as 'War Ghosts'.
Judging by the number of shell casings near the bodies, they were killed instantly, with almost no chance to resist.
Arriving at the outer platform of the fifth-floor lobby, everyone crouched down, maintaining vigilance.
In the first-person perspective of the video, Adam held his gun in his right hand, and with his left hand, he silently gestured to the Delta operatives and four USS members on how to proceed.
Immediately.
One Delta team remained on the outer platform, observing movements downstairs.
Another Delta team and two USS members advanced to the sixth floor to ensure the safety of the rooftop evacuation route and to look out for the current anomalous phenomena.
Adam would lead the last Delta team and two USS members into the fifth-floor lobby corridor, heading to the room of the two trapped individuals.
After Adam finished giving orders, the footage continued to move, and the sound of walking was much softer than before.
They passed through the double solid wood doors and entered the lobby.
This area was also in disarray, seemingly abandoned long ago due to the war, with floating dust and debris appearing in the screen's view.
They continued to advance.
Passing through the intricate corridors, the group arrived outside the room indicated by their locator.
Adam gestured for the two USS members to stay outside and had the Delta operatives open the door.
Subsequently, everyone lined up neatly against the left wall of the door, with the foremost Delta operative raising his right hand as a signal.
Three.
Two.
One.
"Click—" With a sound, the door opened easily.
Four Delta operatives surged into the room, Adam followed closely, and the remaining two USS members guarded the door.
The room was a standard two-bedroom, one-living room apartment.
On the dusty living room floor were boot prints from Delta single-person equipment.
Judging by the chaotic footprints, these supposedly elite Delta operatives had lost all discipline, appearing as if they were frantically fleeing for their lives.
To 'scare' elite special forces like this indicated that the anomalous phenomenon had exceeded the scope of understanding.
However, these footprints also indicated the whereabouts of the two trapped individuals.
The bathroom.
Adam then motioned for the four Delta operatives to step forward and communicate with the trapped individuals.
However, before they could even act.
"Bang! Bang bang!"
The trapped individuals in the bathroom discovered Adam and his group, and a large number of bullets pierced through the wooden door, sending debris, rubble, and dust flying.
Adam and his team quickly crouched down.
At the same time, a Delta operative loudly warned the trapped individuals in the bathroom, stating that those in the living room were friendly forces.
However, the barrage of gunfire did not stop.
"Click! Click!" Until the sound of an empty magazine echoed from the bathroom.
Hearing this, Adam and his team immediately kicked open the already shattered wooden door and surged into the bathroom in groups.
The two trapped individuals were clearly in extreme terror; even though their rifle magazines were empty, their index fingers were still tightly pulling the triggers.
Adam and his team immediately disarmed them by force, and one of the more clear-headed trapped individuals frantically exclaimed:
"Run! They can get under our skin! Everyone's dead! Team B is all dead! We need to leave quickly!"
And at that moment.
"Lieutenant." A low report came through Adam's and his team's comms from the Delta operative guarding the platform:
"Scans show quite a few… quite a few 'people' are gathering at the third-floor platform; they must be the anomalous phenomena."
Adam immediately ordered: "Don't startle them for now; first, rendezvous with us, and then we'll evacuate together!"
"Understood."
Immediately after, Adam contacted the UH-60M pilot: "This is the rescue team, requesting extraction!"
"This is transport squadron, estimated arrival over target building in two minutes."
Upon receiving the reply, Adam and the other four Delta operatives prepared to leave with the trapped individuals.
The trapped individual who had regained consciousness followed the group obediently, but the other person resisted fiercely, shouting:
"No! I want to stay here! It's safest here!"
With no other choice, Adam, controlling his strength, knocked him unconscious, then carried him over his left shoulder and quickly retreated.
The group moved rapidly through the corridor, preparing to go to the sixth floor via the other staircase.
During their run, intense gunfire suddenly erupted in the corridor, likely from the four Delta operatives left on the platform engaging with the anomalous phenomena.
But the gunshots quickly faded, and as the corridor returned to silence, a muffled "woo—" sound was heard, like some animal or thing was… wailing.
The group stopped.
Because they knew those four Delta operatives had been instantly 'dealt with'.
They turned around.
Adam's mask scanning function showed a large number of… 'people' emerging at the end of the corridor.
Just as Rebecca had predicted, they could not be observed through the naked eye, thermal imaging, or other visual means, but they could not remain 'invisible' under dynamic detection and scanning functions.
They had naked human outlines, both male and female, and they stopped when they saw Adam and his team.
This proved that they at least possessed consciousness.
Seeing this situation, Adam immediately ordered everyone to continue a rapid retreat.
Subsequently, the group retreated quickly in a formation with four Delta operatives and the clear-headed trapped individual in front, Adam carrying the other trapped individual in the middle, and two USS members providing rear cover.
During this time, Adam turned his head to look back.
He saw that those 'people' ran extremely fast, opening their mouths to wail, and completely ignored the Gauss flechette rounds from the two USS members.
One of the 'people' stood out, charging directly at a trailing USS member.
However, it seemed unaware that the USS members at this time were super-soldiers, clad in bio-armor, continuously injected with T-serum, and possessing psychic abilities.
The USS member dodged the impact with a sidestep and instinctively released a psychic shockwave at that 'person'.
With a "boom!"
That 'person' was directly thrown back by the USS member.
But more anomalous phenomena surged towards the two trailing USS members.
Seeing this, Adam handed the trapped individual on his shoulder to a Delta operative for transport, and he focused on assisting his teammates in dealing with the anomalous phenomena.
It was precisely because of Adam and the two USS members' cover that the Delta operatives and the trapped individuals successfully reached the sixth floor, rendezvoused with the other team, and proceeded to the rooftop.
Adam and his two teammates fought and retreated, and during this time, an anomalous phenomenon had close-range physical contact with one of the USS members.
But the anticipated situation of being directly penetrated did not occur; instead, that USS member was sent flying, and their bio-armor withstood a considerable impact.
After Adam helped up the downed USS member, he and the other USS member, relying on their bio-armor and superhuman physical qualities, reached the rooftop in just over ten seconds, successfully boarding a waiting UH-60M.
Subsequently, this UH-60M rapidly ascended, evading the pursuit of the anomalous phenomena, and then formed a flight formation with two other UH-60Ms to return to base.
The video log ended.
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