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Chapter 51 - Chapter 51: The Task

Below this line is the continuation of the video taken of the agents investigation.

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Command Center: (A surprised tone of voice) Ruins? Agent, are you sure?

Agent A: Yes sir, I can confirm that if you can connect with the individual cameras of Agent {Reacted on request}(B) and mine you can see it.

Command Center: Understood agent, I've begun the process of connecting, please continue to go deeper.

Agent A: Yes sir.

After Agent A finished their call with the command centre, Agent B moved in camera's field of vision, inspecting a the giant stone pillar from left and right, while they kept shaking their head.

Agent B: Man, I have a really bad feeling bout this, I feel... if we move further, our lives will be forfeit.

Agent A: (Walking through the door frame between the pillars and heading towards the depths) Huh, well we can't go back until we at least find those passengers or an abnormal phenomena.

Agent B: (Sighs), okay, at least the money given by the company will be enough to suport my son to go to college.

The two agents continued their advance toward the depths.

The corridor structure behind the door frame was very different from the naturally formed tunnel outside the door frame.

It spilt into four directions.

Each kept the same width and height, about five meters.

There were various murals painted on the walls, and there will be ancient Greek texts every once in a while.

Although there was no fork in the corridor, the agents wasted some time moving along this road in order to allow the command centre see all the murals and text.

Five minutes later;

Agent B: (Loud sniffing) Hey, do you smell that?

Agent A: (Sniffing) Yeah~, it's kind of like someone cooked rotten eggs.

Both agents: Magma!

Agent A: (There was low light at the end of the corridor in the field of view) It seems like... that there is magma in front of us to light up the darkness.

Agent B: (Whistles loudly) Well, above us is a popular tourist visit location to see an active volcano.

Agent A: (Chuckling) Alright, I'm turning off the night vision.

Agent B: Ok.

The two agents turned off their night vision system.

The video screen was dim at first, but as Agent A's pace increased towards the light, the screen gradually brightened.

The agents came to a large lobby.

Agent A looked around.

The space becomes a rectangle.

The height, length and width are the same, about 100 meters.

The ground is made of neat marble bricks, and there are rows of giant statues of Ancient Greek soldiers on the right.

And right in front of the field of vision, there is still a stone pillar door frame similar to the entrance.

The abyss on the left hand side emit a deep red light, illuminating the hall where the agents are.

At the centre of the screen, there are several blood stains and clothes residues.

Seeing this, the two agents held their rifles firmly and stepped forward to check.

Agent A: (Breathing slightly heavier) It seems that there is in fact abnormal item here.

Agent B: (Tense tone) Ah...man, I think it's time for us to retreat. My sixth sense tells me this not good.

Agent A: (Use a hand gesture to signal Agent B to wait) Command centre we have confirmed the casualties of passengers. It should be caused by an abnormal phenomenon, What are your orders? Should we continue to explore?

Command Center: Good agents, we have already seen the real-time picture, if you decide that proceeding is dangerous, you can...*{Static}*

*Aaaaaa——!*

A deafening roar came.

Then, Agent A looked at the sound source.

A huge lion appeared in his field of vision, slowly walking out of the rows of statues.

It looks like a common lion in Africa. It can be seen to be a male lion by it's mane on the head and neck.

But the body size is more than seven or eight times larger than a normal lion,

Both eyes exuded the gloomy light of examining the prey, and he stared closely at the two agents.

Agent B: (Panicked voice) Man, it's time to retreat!

Agent A: (Voice raising) Command centre, can you confirm what we see!

Command Center: Agent, retreat quickly, and UBCS will take over next!

Agents A and B: Yes!

*Pop! Bang!*

The two agents began firing alternately, while they retreated towards the back corridor while covering each other.

*Aaaawww——! ! !

The 5.56 caliber bullets from the two agent's gun however did not cause any damage to the lion at all, and even made it even more angry.

His vision shook violently as Agent A turned his head frequently and ran.

*Puff!*

The sound came from a human body being stepped on by a heavy object.

In the video footage, Agent A had turned around and squatted to try and cover Agent B's retreat and shoot at the lion, but found...

Agent B had been crushed to death by the giant claws of the lion.

What?!?

Agent A screamed angrily, letting go of their rifle from their chest, freeing their hands and fumbled for a grenade.

*Flutter!*

However, before Agent A could pull the grenade ring, the lion jumped in front of him and directly threw Agent A's body using its giant claw fan.

*Grasp--!*

*Poof!*

At the end of the screen, Agent A made a parabolic motion in the air, and finally fell into the pool of magma at the bottom of the abyss on the left side of the hall.

The video ends there.

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Inside the car;

"This this."

When the old President Carlos saw the content of the video, he held down his glasses in disbelief, and exclaimed: "God! The army never told me that there is a ruin under the Santorini volcano, and there is a giant beast in the ruins."

"Mr. President." William replied quietly: "What you see their is only owned by Umbrella."

"Heee... I hope they can go to heaven."

Carlos closed his eyes and sighed to himself, as if feeling sad for what happened to the two agents and the passengers.

"..."

William didn't say much, but gave the old president time to relax.

The huge lion shown in the video is not difficult for a prepared UBCS to capture.

The only thing worth paying attention to is that there is an ancient ruin under the active volcano.

There is no need for William to come to Greece to deal with it himself.

But the truth...

When the two agents contacted the command centre in Athens and died, the system that had been silent for a long time also popped out.

According to William's systems original words:

[Detection of an anomaly that is difficult to contain. If the host's forces successfully contain all the anomalies in this incident. This system will give the host two chances to draw a lottery for the characters.]

After it said that…

There was no more.

The system did not mention which world the abnormal phenomenons originated from nor how many their were meant to be.

However, William also analysed from the minimalist discourse of the system that this containment operation will face much more then just what anomalies he has seen.

In other words, there are stronger enemies behind the giant lion.

So William and Andre brought a UBCS company equipped with AAES from the Troy base, plus Alphas equipped with five sets of biochemical armor.