I Am Extraordinary Alone
Chapter 126 - 125: Fail-Safe

Chapter 126: Chapter 125: Fail-Safe

Wei Tianyang rose to his feet and kicked open the folding door of the minibus, ready to jump out.

Li Songyan yelled from behind him, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Don’t be impulsive! Atlas is made up of professional mercenaries; they are just using the hostages to lure you into a trap."

Wei Tianyang roared, "They are no match for me!"

"Think about Yaha. Do you think they would just place Yaha in a safe corner, waiting for you to rescue her?" Li Songyan added.

Wei Tianyang froze; he hadn’t considered that.

All he needed to do was to dive into objective reality, find Yaha, and then kill everyone. Wouldn’t that solve everything?

"They are professionals. Trust me, Wei Tianyang, they will definitely keep Yaha in their grasp. Every time one of their men dies, Yaha’s life will be at risk too! And your abilities might have been grasped by the Sethiyan Federation; charging in blindly will only get her killed," Li Songyan advised.

Wei Tianyang said, "I can teleport directly to her side!"

"Don’t be naive. Yaha is surely safeguarded—it’s not just one gun aimed at her, and they might have rigged her with a trigger bomb. Touch her, and it’ll explode. Of course... that’s just my guess," Lin Yanqing also chimed in.

Wei Tianyang sat back down, muttering, "Damn it... you soldiers, always studying how to kill..."

"You’ve killed more people than I could in ten years of military service. Even if I retire, I won’t come close to even one ten-thousandth of your count," Lin Yanqing retorted sarcastically.

"They deserved to die; they should have never been born," Wei Tianyang spat back.

"Stop bickering. Let’s figure out how to locate Yaha, see what the situation is, then... then let Wei Tianyang do what he does best," Li Songyan said.

Lin Yanqing snorted, took off the smartwatch from her wrist, and threw it to Wei Tianyang.

"What’s this for?" Wei Tianyang asked.

"Put on this headset," Lin Yanqing replied, pulling out a small plastic box the size of a palm from her bag and opening it to reveal two earpieces.

"Once we get to Wuliang City, Li Songyan and I will find a high spot. I’ll control the birds to help you monitor PMC movements throughout the city while you sneak into the hotel to find Yaha," Lin Yanqing explained.

Wei Tianyang accepted the items. The watch resembled the ones Starbucks used to wear but had a round face and appeared slightly larger; the earpieces had small metal handles and felt ice-cold to the touch.

"After you find Yaha, don’t rush into action. Use the watch to take a video of her situation so I can see it on my phone. I’ll assess her condition and then tell you how to handle it," Lin Yanqing instructed.

Wei Tianyang shook his head, "That’s impossible; things seen in objective reality are all..."

Before he could finish, Lin Yanqing suddenly pounced, pressing her entire body against Wei Tianyang and covering his mouth.

She, like Yaha, smelled faintly of flowers, though her bust was larger, and the lines of her neck and collarbone were more defined.

"Zip it! Don’t mention that!" Lin Yanqing whispered.

The vehicle jostled, and Li Songyan turned around, "What are you two doing?"

"Keep your eyes on the road!" Lin Yanqing barked.

She sat back down and typed on her phone, then tilted the screen toward Wei Tianyang.

The screen read: Objective reality must not be known to others.

Mud Man had said the same thing. Although Wei Tianyang wasn’t a soldier, he viewed Mud Man as a mentor who had introduced him to the world of superpowers, even though they had met only once. Therefore, he was willing to keep this secret.

Seeing no objections from Wei Tianyang, who also didn’t inquire further, Lin Yanqing quickly typed another line: Does your teleportation rely on objective reality?

Wei Tianyang responded, "In any case, it can’t be captured on camera."

Lin Yanqing lowered her head and pondered. She certainly knew that in objective reality, people in subjective reality would only appear as dark, shadowy figures, and any recording devices brought along would fail to capture any images; photos and videos would only show a dark blur.

However, the basic logic of Wei Tianyang’s entry and exit from objective reality seemed different from other special forces...

Instant teleportation wasn’t a rare superpower; according to available intelligence, six nations’ superpower special forces possessed instant teleportation abilities, each based on different principles.

Some were simply fast, others quantumized their own bodies before floating to another place to reassemble...

Wei Tianyang’s teleportation undoubtedly had the broadest range; he could teleport from one city to another and could do so consecutively. It was a capability coveted by all countries, but nobody knew how it worked.

Now, from his brief remarks, Lin Yanqing had gleaned information that surprisingly involved the MSF-protected secrets about objective reality...

Lin Yanqing’s heart struggled...

"You could find a safe place to hide and secretly take pictures. Besides, I can’t contact you while you’re in there," Lin Yanqing said.

Wei Tianyang did not respond, and Lin Yanqing took his silence as assent.

"If you don’t find Yaha inside, don’t rush to act. You must have a basic understanding of the PMC and professional armies. These people are professionals; they double-check everything. Until you’re sure Yaha is safe, any action you take would be tantamount to indirectly killing her," Li Songyan also warned.

Wei Tianyang felt frustrated and irritable; he had never had to be so cautious when dealing with the regular army of Chicken Snake Country.

"Lin Yanqing, there’s some bad news..." Li Songyan began.

Before he could continue, everyone heard the sound of raindrops hitting the car windows.

In the morning, when Wei Tianyang and Li Songyan headed to Wuliang City, the sky was already drizzling. Now, re-entering Wuliang City, the rain had intensified.

The large raindrops battered the windshield with loud thuds, and the minibus drove into the area controlled by the clouds, suddenly darkening the surroundings.

"With such heavy rain, the birds might not leave their nests," Li Songyan said.

Lin Yanqing coldly scoffed, "Birds aren’t as delicate as you think."

Meanwhile, in Wuliang City Central Park, which appeared deserted, twelve squads, each consisting of four Atlas soldiers, were deployed every 500 meters. They were equipped with electromagnetic rifles and unreliable warriors, forming the first layer of encirclement.

And at every 1200 meters, six teams of snipers lay in ambush, working in pairs and equipped with Orion smart sniper rifles. These rifles had wide rectangular high-magnification scopes that could automatically zoom and calculate the bullet’s trajectory, wind drift, potential deflections after penetrating obstacles, and then display the actual aiming point on the screen.

Elizabeth was very satisfied with her deployment: three layers of insurance, and even more...

Of course, she wasn’t naive enough to believe that Wei Tianyang would obediently rush into the trap just because of a phone call. Moreover, considering his ability to teleport... he only had one chance to attack, and she had to make sure it was flawless.

Thus, she needed to provoke Wei Tianyang, make him lose his rationality. Based on intelligence analysis over the past few weeks, this 16-year-old boy often inflicted harm in passion, so enraging him was not difficult.

Those two teams of soldiers were just a diversion; the teleportation squads were scattered among them, ready to teleport away as soon as they spotted Wei Tianyang.

Her real trump card was the four armored vehicles deployed between two layers of the encirclement.

The railguns mounted on the vehicle roofs had an effective range of 1600 meters, accelerating a tank-caliber projectile to 1200 meters per second, capable of penetrating any armor at that distance.

Simultaneously, Yana, used as bait, was also the first step in the attack plan.

She would be strapped with explosive bombs, placed at the center of the encirclement. Wei Tianyang would definitely come to save her, and as soon as he entered the blast range, Yaha would be blown to pieces, simultaneously knocking Wei Tianyang to the ground.

If that could end the battle, it would indeed be perfect.

But if not, then the snipers and railguns would send him on his final journey...

Elizabeth looked at the map on her laptop, a slight smile curling at the corners of her mouth. She turned to Yaha, held by the arms of two PMCs, and said, "Hurry up and get her rigged with bombs. I have a feeling he’ll be here soon."