From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Surface.

It was early morning on the east coast of the United States, on the Pennsylvania side;

A large psychiatric sanatorium, located in an area surrounded by woods and sparsely populated, with all kinds of facilities...

Some are too complete.

The edge of the sanatorium is set up with electrified barbed wire, and there are many sentry towers, monitoring equipment, and even searchlights and armed patrols inside.

If you use military standards to guard against patients with mental problems, there is always a suspicion of making a fuss.

At the main entrance of this sanatorium, there stands a stone tablet with the words "Sage Grove Mental Rehabilitation Center".

At this moment, on the sentry tower behind the main entrance;

"Wow... I hate night shifts so much."

"I like it very much. No one cares if I desert, how comfortable."

Two security guards wearing dark gray combat uniforms, complete with bulletproof vests and helmets, and holding 5.56 caliber guns, chatted while looking at the dark woods outside the power grid.

The armbands with the "V" logo and "Water International" indicate that these two security guards and the Sage Forest Center are assets and facilities under Water International.

As for the militarized alert, it also reveals that this is not a sanatorium, but actually a research center for human experiments.

A security guard rubbed his eyes sleepily, then fumbled for a pack of cigarettes from the tactical bag hanging on his waist and handed it to the guy next to him:

"Want one?"

"Here."

The two security guards each lit a cigarette, and the sleepy security guard took a few puffs to refresh his lungs.

"Huh~!" Seeing this, the other security guard exhaled a puff of smoke and smiled: "You didn't sleep during the day? So sleepy."

"I gambled a few times and didn't pay attention to the time and played too much."

"Are you still gambling? Brother, take it easy, don't ruin this job."

"Don't worry, I know my limits...Wozefa...? Meteor?"

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After hearing his colleague talk about the meteor, the other security guard looked up and saw a "light spot" moving quickly in the night sky.

But before the two of them could enjoy this rare view, the "meteor" seemed to explode automatically, ejecting hundreds or even thousands of "clones".

In an instant, the night sky became more gorgeous.

But the two security guards had no intention of appreciating the strange beauty above. Instead, they threw away their half-smoked cigarettes and held their guns involuntarily.

Swish! Swish!

They saw a large number of missiles dragging their tails into the sky, rushing towards the thousands of "meteors", and then touching and exploding with the outermost "meteors" one by one, directly lighting up the entire night sky.

Boom! Boom!

After nearly two minutes, the two security guards heard the violent explosion.

But two minutes ago, they both realized that it was not a meteor shower at all, but some unknown weapon, otherwise it would not have triggered the US land-based missile defense system.

It's just that there are too many "meteors" and the defense system cannot intercept them all. Even if there are many false targets in the "meteors", the defense system cannot effectively distinguish them. The movement trajectories and heat dissipation of all "meteors" are almost the same.

The two security guards didn't think about why the defense system failed, because they found that the "meteors" that broke through the interception network began to explode one after another, and only one "meteorite" remained intact and dispersed the flames. It seemed... probably... It was heading towards the Sage Jungle Research Center?

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The two people who noticed this possibility, one immediately took out the walkie-talkie to report the situation, and the other quickly ran back to the house to sound the alarm, trying to remind other colleagues to pay attention to the "meteorite".

Whoosh! ! ! !

As the alarm sounded, the "meteorite" had already passed the sentry building where the two security guards were located and fell directly onto the lawn in the research center.

However, before it touched the ground, the "meteorite" actually buffered several times.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a strong shock, the "meteorite" not only landed successfully, but also blew the soil and green grass at the impact point into the air.

"Bang! Boom!"

Before the aftermath subsided, the two security guards heard a sound like a heavy hatch opening.

Going around to the other end of the sentry building and looking at the impact point, they saw the "culprit" that had turned the east coast of the United States upside down...

Is it a conical metal warehouse about six meters high and seven or eight meters long on three sides? It is painted light gray and printed with the "V" logo of Water International

"Boom! Boom!"

Then two giants of four meters two or three, wearing gray special combat uniforms and protective armor, and wearing face-covering helmets, walked out of the metal warehouse.

What surprised them even more was that the two giants were carrying ammunition boxes and holding three-barreled rotary machine guns in one hand...

But the more the security guards looked at them, the more they felt that the caliber and size of the two "machine guns" looked like 20mm rotary machine guns?

What's going on?

When did the company fall into internal strife?

But when one of the giants aimed the rotary machine gun at the sentry tower, the two security guards suddenly woke up and turned around and ran away without thinking.

Although they were also veterans, and Walter's monthly salary could reach 5,000...this was definitely a high-paying job in the United States in 1995, but going against the 5.5 in his hand?

Sorry, running away is the best choice.

It's not that they don't abide by professional ethics, but a job of 5,000 US dollars is not enough for two veterans to be willing to sacrifice their lives.

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The Tyrant 001 pointed the machine gun at the giant in the sentry tower, or rather, saw that the two security guards had made the right decision, so he turned around and kept a distance of more than ten meters from his "teammate" 002, approaching the research facilities in the Sage Forest.

"Hiss!"

When the two Tyrants were preparing to launch the attack, the airdrop chamber that brought "them" to complete the airdrop suddenly ignited, and the flames were extremely dazzling. It seemed that a combustion-supporting substance similar to aluminum fuel was used.

The metal was melted and splashed, and finally there was nothing to burn, and the glaring flames finally subsided.

In contrast, the two Tyrants' actions were unimpeded.

More than half of the armed security guards chose to surrender and flee, and the remaining half chose to believe that the guns in their hands could cause damage to the two Tyrants.

"Unfortunately", the 5.56mm can only scratch the paint of the protective armor or cause scratches.

Even if it hits the special combat uniform by chance, it will only cause an obvious dent, unable to penetrate, and even unable to cause effective damage to the Tyrant.

So the remaining half of the security guards, after seeing the defense that was no different from that of an armored vehicle and seeing several of their colleagues being blown up by 20mm machine guns, immediately scattered like birds and beasts and disappeared.

Next, Tyrant 001 stayed outside while 002 prepared to enter the interior of the research facility... but due to his height and huge size, he was unable to move.

Fortunately, the Tyrant's power was enough to carry out "violent" demolition, allowing 001 to reach the target of this trip, the local database of the Sage Forest.