pjbooks Chapter 286 No Cooperation, Back to Where It Came From
Chapter 286 No Cooperation, Back to Where It Came From
The air in the conference room froze instantly.
Campbell's face turned red.
He spent twenty years in government work, working his way up from the Congressional Office to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Even when the apocalypse came, his bureaucratic nature never disappeared.
"Are you threatening us?" Campbell's voice rose a half octave.
"Don't misunderstand, I'm just stating the facts," Night Owl corrected.
"Where is your manager?"
Campbell slammed his hand on the table.
"I want to see Lin Fan. I want to talk to him directly. A deputy has no authority to make this decision."
Night Owl glanced at him, his gaze calm.
"I'm sorry, you're not qualified to request to see Young Master Lin. Furthermore, every word I say represents Young Master Lin's opinion. And also..."
"You only have 24 hours to think it over. If you've made up your mind, come find me. If you haven't, go back to where you came from."
After saying that, Night Owl ignored them and got up without hesitation, walking towards the door.
"You—" Campbell was surprised that the other party would be so disrespectful, and he stood up abruptly, wanting to reprimand them.
But before he could even speak, Howard, who was sitting next to him, grabbed his arm.
Campbell turned his head to look, and Howard shook his head slightly.
That means... tell him not to act impulsively.
Campbell took a deep breath and sat heavily back in his chair.
Without turning his head, Night Owl pushed open the door and went out.
In the corridor, a key logistics staff member following behind him whispered, "Brother Xiao, aren't you afraid of driving people away by being so tough?"
"Forced to leave?" Night Owl sneered. "Where can they go? They're cornered now. Those monsters outside won't be so polite as to negotiate with them."
"But Cheyenne Mountain is, after all, an official figure—"
"What official?"
Night Owl continued walking, saying disdainfully.
"The US is almost gone, and they're still putting on airs with me. Do they really think we need their few hundred men?"
The logistics backbone fell silent.
In reality, he knew very well that Night Owl's tough stance was not due to blind confidence.
Raccoon City now has the confidence to do so.
One is that biological defense wall, then there is Lin Fan's own combat strength, and the stable survival system.
As long as they possess these three things, Raccoon City will remain the safest and most enduring gathering place.
In this way, it becomes clear who is asking whom for help.
Just as Night Owl stepped down into the lobby and was about to attend to other matters, a young man in his early twenties rushed in through a side door.
"Brother Xiao! Brother Xiao!"
Night Owl stopped and recognized the man as Xiao Chen, the technician in charge of monitoring the base's radar and drones.
"What's wrong?"
Xiao Chen ran up to him, bent over, and took a couple of breaths:
"Brother Xiao, the drone... the drone has captured something."
"What's so surprising?"
"A giant creature has landed on the west coast."
Night Owl frowned.
A giant creature?
What haven't the Americans seen since they suffered their first disaster?
Zombie hordes, mutated beasts, the split forms of the Shoggoth...
How big?
Xiao Chen's face looked very bad; he didn't know how to describe it, so he could only say:
"You should... come and see for yourself."
Without saying much, Night Owl followed Xiao Chen quickly through the corridor and arrived at the monitoring room on the first floor of the municipal building.
The room was small, with six screens hanging on the four walls. Two of them displayed real-time surveillance of the area around Raccoon City, while the other four showed remote footage transmitted by drones.
At this moment, all three monitors present were standing, staring at the same screen.
No one spoke.
Night Owl walked to the screen, puzzled.
The footage comes from a long-endurance drone cruising over the California coastline.
The camera was shot from an altitude of approximately two thousand meters, tilted downwards, and the view covered a stretch of coastline and a highway extending inland.
However, in the center of the screen, two huge black silhouettes are moving inland from the coastline.
The owl's first reaction was that there was a problem with the scale.
"Mark the reference points," he said.
Xiao Chen operated it, and the distance ruler and ground reference were superimposed on the screen.
A bus that had overturned on the road appeared next to two black silhouettes.
The bus is approximately twelve meters long.
And those two black silhouettes...
Each one is dozens of times the size of a bus.
The owl's pupils contracted sharply.
"Zoom in."
The camera zooms in.
The image gradually became clear.
Those were two octopuses.
Do not,
At this moment, describing this creature as an "octopus" is no longer appropriate.
While their overall outlines resemble those of an octopus, the details are completely unlike those of an octopus.
It was entirely black, covered with countless keratinous scales.
Eight thick tentacles braced against the ground, leaving deep craters with each step.
The suction cups on the tentacles are covered with eyes of varying sizes.
Those eyes were all open, and they were moving around strangely.
And their main body...
The spherical head appears to be over 100 meters tall.
One hundred meters.
That's the height of a thirty-story building.
Night Owl stared intently at the screen, motionless for about five seconds, before asking in confusion:
"Can you simulate their movement direction?"
"It's unclear at the moment, but it's definitely inland."
Xiao Chen swallowed hard and pointed to the directional arrows superimposed on the screen.
"Based on the current path, if we don't change direction... it will enter our warning area in about six hours."
Upon hearing this, Night Owl's heart skipped a beat, and he said nothing more. Instead, he turned and hurriedly left.
"Brother Xiao, where are you going?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Find Mr. Lin."
……
The owl practically trotted through the corridors of the municipal building.
Raccoon City is now operating smoothly, with several staff members responsible for allocating supplies walking around in the corridors.
Seeing Night Owl's hurried appearance, the group was taken aback.
Since the establishment of Raccoon City, Nite Owl has always been the most composed one.
There are very few things that could make him show such an expression.
The owl headed straight for the temporary training ground behind the municipal building.
This training ground was originally a parking lot for the municipal building. After being cleared out, it was transformed into a daily training area for the base personnel.
At this moment, Lin Jianguo was standing in a corner of the training ground, watching Dai Damei, Sato Saori, and several other young people conduct close combat training.
He was wearing an old gray jacket, his hands in his pockets, looking relaxed.
If someone didn't know better, they might think he was just an ordinary middle-aged man sunbathing.
But everyone in Raccoon City who knows the truth is...
This seemingly harmless middle-aged man is second only to Lin Fan in the entire city.
"Mr. Lin!"
The owl's voice came from behind him, and Lin Jianguo turned around.
Seeing the expression on Night Owl's face, his brows immediately furrowed.
"What happened?"
"Mr. Lin, please come with me. There's something I need you to look at."
Lin Jianguo didn't ask any more questions and left with Night Owl. Soon, the two returned to the testing room.
Night Owl pointed at the screen: "Mr. Lin, look at this."
Lin Jianguo stood in front of the screen, his gaze fixed on the image.
A few seconds of silence.
Then he turned to look at Night Owl: "Is this live footage?"
"Yes, it was captured twenty minutes ago. We've been continuously tracking it."
Lin Jianguo looked back at the screen, his gaze lingering on the two giant, dark outlines for a long time.
His expression was calm, but a subtle emotion flickered deep in his eyes.
How did they manage to land?
Looking at the two unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar figures, Lin Jianguo was somewhat surprised.
He had previously learned from Lin Fan that these two giant creatures lived in the deep sea.
But now, they've actually come ashore.
Did he manage to get ashore on his own, or was it because of Lin Fan?