Chapter 344: Chapter 343: Disaster Strikes from the Sky While on a Plane
On a privately-owned island, Li Xuanyu had been staying there with five other members of the Madman Organization for a week.
The island was vast, home to an expansive villa with numerous supplies and even some leisure and entertainment facilities, ensuring that living here would not be boring.
In the early hours of the morning, around four o’clock, Jones and his comrade Jamie were playing games in the monitoring room when suddenly an alarm sounded.
Their pupils shrank, and after exchanging a glance, they immediately pulled up the surveillance feed on the computer.
A red dot appeared within the radar’s detectable range above the island, steadily moving closer.
"Notify Second Sister immediately, there’s a situation," Jones said right away.
Jamie dashed out, and moments later Li Xuanyu and the others gathered together with grave expressions.
"At this speed, it should be a helicopter. It will arrive in no more than five minutes," Jones reported.
Jie Er asked, "Second Sister, could it be Boss Tang?"
Li Xuanyu shook her head and said, "No, if Boss Tang was coming, he would’ve informed us beforehand. He wouldn’t just appear out of nowhere like this."
"Right, it’s likely we’ve been discovered."
"Do we move our position?"
"Check to see if there are any other cruise ships or similar approaching on the sea, to confirm if it’s just this helicopter appearing."
The group thought clearly and analyzed decisively.
Two of them even geared up for battle.
Jones activated the island’s radar system, and after scanning in all directions, he said, "There’s nothing unusual on the sea, only this helicopter approaching in the sky, Second Sister, what should we do?"
A fierce light flashed in Li Xuanyu’s eyes as she said without hesitation, "Take it down."
"GO! GO! GO!"
Jamie and Jie Er yelled excitedly, rushing out of the monitoring room at great speed towards an underground base.
Upon opening the base’s door and entering, they activated the base’s defense system.
If outsiders were here, they would be shocked, for this small privately-owned island was actually equipped with an anti-air missile system.
"It must be that kid from the Sun Family who sold us out," Jie Er said with a grim face.
Jamie nodded and said, "That’s right. Will has already been taken care of by Tang. Only the one from the Sun Family knows that Boss Tang owns two private islands, and he must’ve found out about this place."
"Let’s kill him. If it weren’t for his and Will’s betrayal of our organization a year ago, we wouldn’t have lost those three brothers."
As they talked, their actions didn’t slow down, and soon they had the anti-air missile system up and running. After obtaining launch authority and entering the password, the missiles locked onto a specific area in the sky, waiting for the target to appear.
Meanwhile, Li Xuanyu, Jones, Wang Lei, and Umekawa Taro were also fully armed with modern weapons and melee arms, entering combat-ready status.
"Messing with me was your biggest mistake. Do you know my status in Sky Net? Or how powerful the backing I have is? Wouldn’t it have been better for you dissolve after being encircled a year ago, rather than regathering to seek your own deaths?"
Barely clinging to life and his body controlled by toxins, Zhang Yunlong, who couldn’t use any of his cultivation, sneered as he watched Li Xuanyu and the others get ready for battle.
Umekawa Taro showed no mercy, smashing Zhang Yunlong’s face with the butt of his gun, immediately causing a bloody gash to form.
Zhang Yunlong’s eyes held a venomous glare as he said to Umekawa, "I’ll remember you!"
Umekawa Taro cracked a smile and slapped him twice, "I have to admire your toughness. After all this time you can still talk tough. Impressive."
"Second Sister, the target has entered range, please give your instruction!" Jie Er’s voice came through the walkie-talkie.
Li Xuanyu said, "Lock the target, let’s see how close it gets first."
"It’s already locked, we can take it down anytime," Jie Er said confidently.
Li Xuanyu grunted, but said nothing.
After a tense wait of about a minute, the whirring sound of a helicopter grew louder as it approached, the bright lights visible in the sky.
"Fire!"
Following Li Xuanyu’s command, the silent island erupted with a thunderous boom.
The island trembled slightly.
The next instant, a streak of flame shot up from somewhere on the island, locking onto the helicopter in the sky with astonishing speed and streaking towards it.
In the sky, aboard the helicopter.
Beside the pilot flying the helicopter, there were a dozen other people in the cabin.
Zhuge Hong sat together with an uncle from her clan.
Opposite them was Sun Xingyu with twelve special team members cultivated by the Sun Family.
This team was not only skilled in using various modern weapons and equipment, but each member was also a Martial Artist with strong individual combat capabilities. They were the elite of the elite among mercenaries and constituted the backbone of the Sun Family’s strength.
As the helicopter discovered the island and continued to approach, Sun Xingyu thought of Boss Tang’s way of doing things and couldn’t help but look grave as he suggested, "Miss Zhuge, should we land on the sea and quietly board the island before carrying out a surprise search and rescue operation?"
Zhuge Hong shook her head, "That’s too much trouble, just land directly on the island, and don’t worry about anything else."
After speaking, her face beamed with strong confidence.
As long as she found Zhang Yunlong’s whereabouts, no matter who the enemy was, she was confident she could rescue him.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, a sharp whizzing sound reached the ears of everyone in the plane.
Zhuge Hong and the uncle beside her were the first to hear this sound.
Sun Xingyu was the third.
His face changed dramatically, his pupils shrank sharply, and he yelled loudly, "Be careful!"
At the same time, the pilot controlling the helicopter shouted a warning, "Damn it, there is an anti-air missile system on the path!"
Amidst his words, the pilot, unflinched by the crisis, quickly launched countermeasures with the aircraft’s weapons.
However, although the helicopter was a military model purchased by the Sun Family, the weapons it carried were not particularly advanced and failed to intercept the incoming anti-air missile.
The only consolation was that the pilot’s superb flying skills allowed the aircraft to dodge the first missile attack.
But as more whizzing sounds came continually, Sun Xingyu felt his scalp tingle.
Zhuge Hong and her clan uncle were also on high alert, their bodies emanating a field of Protective Gang Qi invisible to the naked eye, ready for any unforeseen incidents.
"Open the cabin door!" Sun Xingyu roared.
The pilot obeyed the command.
Sun Xingyu said to Zhuge Hong, "Miss Zhuge, we should jump into the sea and board the island. It’s no longer safe here."
Without waiting for Zhuge Hong’s agreement, he grabbed his gear and rushed out of the cabin, disappearing into the vast night.
The uncle from the Zhuge family had a flash of sharpness in his eyes but showed a hint of panic on his face.
Belonging to the Hidden Sect World, although he was a lofty Cultivator, he had heard that the technology wielded by the Mortal World was incredibly powerful, and high-energy weapons were sufficient to kill even strong Martial Artists like them.
But he couldn’t swim, and the thought of jumping from such a height terrified him.
Zhuge Hong, however, was very decisive. She pulled on her uncle’s arm and said, "Listen to him!"
With that, she rushed forward.
At the same time, the members of the Sun Family’s elite team on the helicopter who reacted quickly also jumped out of the cabin.
Just after leaping out, Zhuge Hong saw a light flash before her eyes.
In the dark void, a dazzling burst of light suddenly exploded.
"Boom!!!"
The next moment, a huge explosion resounded above.
Her expression drastically changed as she hurriedly looked up only to see the helicopter engulfed in a massive fireball. The terrifying explosion’s shockwave, carrying a multitude of fragments, surged in all directions.