Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

"Okay, this one will do."

She pulled out a huge Barrett M82A1 anti-materiel sniper rifle.

“Hmm.” Isaac nodded, then looked at George, who was making preparations beside him. “Report on the intelligence we have so far.”

"Yes, we have received information that the target was taken from Gomel in Belarus to the Khabarovsk border in Russia after being captured, and the tracker signal is currently showing that location."

“Okay, that’s a politically sensitive area. It’s best not to expose IW’s involvement in this. When Robert and I infiltrate Khabarovsk, you will only provide support with drones.”

"learn."

After reporting all the matters, George set about arranging a series of tasks.

A Comanche helicopter was parked on the deck, accompanied by the sound of its propellers turning.

The two boarded the helicopter, and as the ECS electromagnetic stealth system was activated, the helicopter disappeared from everyone's sight after a brief moment of distortion.

……

"By the way, Robert, what's the situation at home right now?"

It would take a little longer to reach the Khabarovsk border with Russia, and Isaac asked Robert about his family.

He spent the entire summer in Roanapura, occasionally calling home, and only getting a brief update when the maid came over.

"The master and madam are still the same as before. Miss Qianxia seems to be very dissatisfied that the young master has not returned home for so long."

"I think so too."

Qianxia calls him almost every three days, and sometimes she might call even when Isaac is in a gunfight with someone.

He's getting older, but he seems to be clinging to Isaac even more than before.

"What about those two brats? I hope they didn't cause any trouble."

Isaac was asking about Hansel and Greta, the two children rescued from Romania.

As time went on, the two mischievous kids became more and more naughty. Before, Isaac would ask, "Have you been good today?" Now, he would ask, "What trouble did you get into today?"

They're becoming more and more of a worry.

“Both young ladies have been very well-behaved lately,” Robert said with a smile. “Young Master must be a little lonely after being away for so long, he’s been clamoring to come to Thailand for a visit.”

"I haven't really spent much time playing with them since I brought them back. I'll go back and see them later."

The helicopter flew through the air and soon approached the Khabarovsk border.

Chapter 618: Murder & Rescue

Outside Khabarovsk, Russia, a massive, secretly constructed experimental base sits in the jungle.

Originally, this place was just a barren jungle, but Russia seems to have secretly built this experimental base for some kind of experiment.

The base is heavily guarded, with armed helicopters and military AS equipment present. The importance of its testing base is self-evident.

However, if you go inside the base, you can hear a girl's scream.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!"

"Behave yourself!"

On the operating table in the laboratory, a red-haired girl wearing a thin hospital gown was strapped to the operating table. She struggled incessantly with a pained expression, but the laboratory staff held her hands and feet down.

She already had several tiny needle marks on her arm, and she was wearing a strange device on her head.

Several researchers nearby, staring at the screens inside, asked, "Haven't you extracted the data from her brain yet?"

"Not yet, the situation of the 'listeners' is inherently unstable."

"Then increase the dosage."

“Okay, but if we increase the dosage further, I'm afraid the test subject might…”

"It doesn't matter. If this one breaks, there are other test subjects." The researcher patted the documents in his hand expressionlessly. "We just received some new test subject lists. Even if this one dies, we can still roughly determine the drug dosage data."

"it is good."

The researchers accepted the order and picked up the syringes placed in the container to begin drawing out the drug.

"no, do not want!"

The girl shook her head desperately as she watched the person with the syringe walk towards her. Her body was already overwhelmed after being subjected to a large number of inhumane drug experiments, and her mind was on the verge of collapse.

Since being abducted, she felt like she had come to hell.

Ignoring the girl's cries of pain, the researchers mercilessly plunged the syringe into her arm once more.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The screams arrived as expected, but the people at the research institute showed no sympathy for the girl's pained expression. They felt that sacrificing a girl for their ideals was worthwhile.

However, they were unaware that someone was already watching them.

……

Not far from the base, the Comanche, still in electromagnetic stealth mode, landed on an open area not far from the base. Although the aircraft's stealth capabilities are beyond doubt, the sound of the propellers spinning can still be heard if you get too close.

After getting off the plane, Isaac and Robert quickly headed towards the base.

“Listen, the mission this time is to rescue the target and then eliminate all the witnesses,” Isaac said to Robert beside him. “Got it? Eliminate them all, leave no one alive, not even a deliveryman.”

"I understand."

"Good, I'll rush in first. Your job is to use a sniper rifle to headshot all the enemies trying to escape."

"Wouldn't it be too dangerous for the young master to go in alone?" Robert asked with some concern. "How about I go with you..."

"Staying here is less important than my safety; you should be more concerned about whether the enemy has been completely wiped out."

"Yes."

"Alright, then listen to my orders."

As the two approached the experimental base, Isaac pulled out a long, narrow object and pressed the switch on it.

"What is this?"

"The product I developed a year ago is a single-soldier EMP grenade."

As he spoke, Isaac threw the object in his hand into the air.

With a muffled thud, a large amount of electromagnetic radiation enveloped the test base, suddenly plunging the previously brightly lit base into darkness.

"what happened?"

"The power is out?"

"Activate backup power immediately, all troops on alert!"

The soldiers guarding outside reacted immediately. After all, these Russian soldiers were quite different from ordinary soldiers, and their training was far superior to that of the Colombian Revolutionary Army they had encountered before.

They quickly went on alert, but a dark shadow flashed by, and several 'crack' sounds were heard. In the darkness, Isaac snapped the necks of the guards.

Isaac initially used EMP grenades not only to prevent them from calling for reinforcements, but also to prevent them from escaping in vehicles; now all the electrical equipment has been burned out.

After taking down the soldiers in front of him, Isaac quickly ran into the laboratory.

Soldiers rushed to provide support along the way, but all of them had their necks broken.

Because the mission was sudden, he hadn't investigated the internal structure of the experimental base beforehand, which made finding people quite troublesome.

Fortunately, he could sense the aura emanating from people, so it only took him a short time to go through all of these places.

If the target is not found, kill everyone and search another location. If the target is found, prioritize rescuing them and then kill everyone.

Anyway, everyone at the test base is going to die. The difference between dying early and dying late won't be more than half an hour.

Perhaps it was good luck, but he spotted his target as soon as he rushed into one of the rooms.

Although it was dark inside, he still managed to spot the girl, Kurt Mira, lying on the operating table with a dazed look in her eyes, through his mechanical eyes.

"Are you a soldier?"

"How's the power supply going now?"

"What exactly happened? Do you know that this has affected our experiment's progress?"

Hearing someone enter, the group of researchers, in the dark and unsure who it was, assumed it was a soldier on duty. They then began questioning the cause of the power outage.

They were speaking Russian, and Isaac couldn't understand a word.

He vanished in the blink of an eye, pulled a small knife from his pocket, and stabbed everyone in the neck. Everyone in the room except the girl was dead.

After killing the girl, he walked to the operating table, cut the restraints binding her with a knife, and picked her up.

Feeling herself being lifted up, and with everything pitch black and unable to see the person in front of her, Mira whispered in Russian, "Who are you?"

“Sorry, I don’t understand what you’re saying,” Isaac replied in English.

"Who are you?" she asked again in English.

“The people who came to rescue you,” Isaac said.

"Save me?" The girl's glasses suddenly lit up, and she grabbed Isaac's shoulders, pleading loudly, "Please! Take me away from this place!"

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have come here."

Isaac carried her and ran out of the experimental base, taking the data from the corpse's hands before leaving.

Along the way, he saw a pile of headless corpses lying on the ground.

This wasn't Isaac's doing; Robert had his head blown off with an anti-materiel weapon.

Chapter 619: The Listener's File

"Young Master, has the person been reconnected?"

As Isaac carried Mira back into the forest, Robert continued to pull the trigger toward the base opposite them.

Every bullet fired would tear a soldier to pieces.

“We’ve found her,” Isaac said, handing Mira to Robert.

Robert took the red-haired girl in her arms, holding her light body. She could now see the girl's pale face and thin frame.

They were only captured for a day or two before being subjected to such inhumane treatment?

“You take him toward our helicopter, I have some things to take care of.”