I, the warden of Delta, am a science popularizer and advocate for nuclear peace and friendliness.

Seven minutes later, in the suburbs...

At a maximum speed of 130 meters per second, seven minutes is enough to cover a distance of more than 50 kilometers.

Jacob felt his lungs burning, and the stinging pain from the exoskeleton spread from his limbs to his torso, making him groan involuntarily.

But he finally saw it!

On the horizon at the edge of the field of vision, the outline of the GTI branch gradually became clear. It was a huge complex consisting of several main buildings and dozens of auxiliary buildings, with the outer fortifications gleaming with a cold, hard luster in the setting sun.

According to the original plan, the branch should have been in chaos by now, the garrison should have been lured out, and the defense system should have been breached. At least that's what Jacob planned.

But the reality was quite different. After seeing the situation at the GTI division, Jacob's pupils dilated suddenly.

At the gate, large numbers of soldiers were returning to base in an orderly fashion, with armored vehicles and troop carriers lined up and entering the gate. Judging from their neat formation and relaxed demeanor, they didn't seem to have just been in combat... more like they were completing a routine patrol.

At that moment, the commander's smiling face, which had been in the conference room, suddenly flashed through his mind, and his brows furrowed sharply.

"I've been tricked." The thought flashed through Jacob's mind, and he felt a chill run down his spine.

His plan to lure the enemy away from their stronghold was seen through by that bastard from the very beginning! The commander merely stepped in himself to give the branch a heads-up.

It must have been Houston from that branch who connected the line, it must have been him!

Jacob realized the terrible thing. If he wasn't mistaken, it meant that GTI had anticipated Hafk's attack on the division.

"Stop!"

Before he could think any further, a loud shout interrupted Jacob's thoughts.

Two figures rushed out from the ruins of the building on the side, blocking his path of advance from the left and right.

On the left was a burly white man with a buzz cut, over two meters tall, and on the right was a lean black man with sharp, eagle-like eyes, holding an M700. The two were Smith and Frank, who were lying in wait here.

They seemed to have received orders long ago and had been lying in wait there for some time.

Even more deadly, GM's figure had already appeared a hundred meters behind, his scarlet pupils locked onto Jacob.

A three-way encirclement.

"You run pretty fast." GM twisted his neck, his red cloak fluttering in the wind.

"It's a pity that it ends here."

Frank didn't speak, but simply lowered his center of gravity slightly, keeping the gun barrel pressed against Jacob's chest.

Jacob stopped, his chest heaving violently; the effects of the exoskeleton had worn off.

He scanned the three people in front of him: one at the peak level and two at the top elite level. His chances of winning were almost zero.

But Jacob's lips curled into a strange smile, a scene that seemed extremely abrupt to the three of them.

"Three guys against one of me," he said breathlessly, his voice hoarse. "GTI really thinks highly of me, huh?"

GM approached slowly, his voice deep.

"You have value, President Hafk. You're far more useful alive than dead. What do you think would happen if the news of your arrest were made public at the World Congress?"

As soon as he finished speaking, GM suddenly darted out and disappeared from the spot, leaving only a blur.

In an instant, he covered a distance of 100 meters, his solid right fist whistling through the air as it slammed straight toward Jacob's face.

The latter dodged to the side, his fist grazing his cheek, the wind pressure stinging his skin, but before he could retaliate, Frank's bullet arrived.

boom!

A level 5 bullet precisely blocked Jacob's dodge path, forcing Jacob to retreat, his back almost touching the direction of GM.

"Good teamwork," the GM commented casually, before delivering the next punch.

Boom!

A dull thud rang out, and the punch landed squarely on Jacob, sending him flying. His level six armor, unable to withstand the strain, was completely destroyed.

He staggered to his feet, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and suddenly grinned maliciously.

"Hahaha! Hehehehe!"

He didn't continue fighting, nor did he try to break through. Instead, he turned his gaze to the rising sun and mumbled something, but the distance was too great and the sound was drowned out by the noise of battle. However, GM understood his lip reading.

"Sky……"

What sky?

Almost simultaneously, the GM's crisis perception system went into overdrive, alarming. Not from the enemy in front of them, but from the sky!

He looked up abruptly, and in the brightening sky, a tiny point of light was rapidly growing larger.

"It's guided!" Frank was the first to react. His sniper's dynamic vision allowed him to see the outline of the object. A supersonic guided missile was diving down at nearly Mach 3.

The target isn't the branch office, but this place.

"Scatter!" Smith roared, but it was too late.

The missile's terminal velocity was so high that the entire process, from detection to impact, would take no more than five seconds. Most critically, this location was still seven kilometers from the edge of the deployment's defensive perimeter, and the deployment's interception system hadn't yet extended that far.

Jacob laughed, a crazed and ferocious laugh; this was his last trump card.

He reached down and removed the life detector from his wrist, which was emitting a dangerous red light.

Jacob spread his arms and embraced the sun, murmuring softly...

"Now, the sky belongs to... Hafk!"

The red light in GM's eyes surged to its limit, and he unleashed his peak speed. He pushed off the ground with both legs and flew towards the guided missile like a cannonball, as if preparing to intercept it with his own body.

The next second, the world was swallowed by white light.

boom--!!!!

The shockwave from the explosion arrived before the sound, the earth bulged up like ocean waves, and the surrounding building ruins were instantly vaporized!

A fireball with a radius of over two hundred meters shot into the sky, and a mushroom cloud slowly bloomed in the twilight sky.

Frank and Smith, who were closest to the explosion's epicenter, didn't even have time to scream before being reduced to ashes in the thousands of degrees of heat.

The powerful shockwave threw GM flying, his fate unknown.

At that moment, almost none of the four people present escaped unscathed; they were all engulfed by the towering flames.

The branch office was not greatly affected; at most, it was grazed by the shockwave.

Shi Yu walked out of the GTI branch's command center, looked up at the blazing mushroom cloud on the horizon, and clicked her tongue in amazement.

"Good heavens, is Hafk conducting a military exercise? He's just randomly launching guided missiles."

After glancing at the direction of the explosion, Shi Yu's mind raced, and he rushed over. He found the guided missile somewhat suspicious and decided to investigate.

His exceptional neural perception told him that something truly remarkable was happening quietly behind his back.

"I have to take a look at it."