Sharp sirens tore through the night sky of Queens.
Red and blue Police lights illuminated the 108th Block like a bizarre disco, but what flowed on this dance floor wasn't alcohol, but fear and blood.
"Damn it, what the hell is that thing!"
Patrolman Commander Miller of the NYPD 112th Precinct hid behind the door of a Police car, his hand clutching a Glock 17 trembling violently.
In front of him, in the middle of the street, stood a nightmare that seemed to have just crawled out of hell.
That ugly giant, nearly three meters tall, had muscles bulging like rocks, and the bone spurs on its back glinted with a cold, pale light under the street lamps.
It was gripping the bumper of a Ford Sedan with one hand, swinging it like a tree branch and smashing it violently into the surrounding shops.
"Bang!"
Glass windows shattered, shards splashing like rain.
"Fire! Everyone, open fire!"
The sergeant who had arrived as backup roared hoarsely into his radio.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Over a dozen pistols and shotguns spat tongues of fire simultaneously.
A dense hail of bullets poured onto the monster's body like rain.
However, the 9mm pistol rounds hitting the dark red muscle fibers and grayish-green cuticular skin only made dull thudding sounds, like hitting a thick rubber tire, and were then squeezed out directly by the tensed muscles.
Even the powerful 12-gauge shotgun shells did little more than leave shallow bloodstains on its skin, aside from enraging the Beast.
"Roar—"
Alexei turned his head, a deafening roar erupting from his split-jawed mouth.
A pair of eyes burning with green fire locked onto the Police who were firing.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
It began to stride, each step stomping a deep crater into the asphalt road.
Its massive frame unexpectedly exploded with a terrifying speed completely inconsistent with its size.
"My God..."
Commander Miller watched the mountain of flesh charging like a tank, his mind going blank and his legs feeling as heavy as lead, unable to move.
Just as the giant bone claw was about to crush him and the Police car door in front of him into scrap metal.
A grey afterimage flickered past the street lamp above.
"Hey, big guy."
A playful, voice-modulated voice rang out above Alexei's head.
"What's the point of bullying Police with water guns? Look over here."
Along with the voice, a cloud of white powder exploded in mid-air, accurately covering Alexei's face.
This was the high-concentration Capsaicin Powder Alice had just requisitioned from the kitchen of a Mexico restaurant.
Alexei let out a howl of pain, and his locked attack instantly deformed; the giant claw missed by several centimeters, grazing Commander Miller's scalp and slamming into the Police car's hood.
"Boom!"
The front half of the Police car flattened instantly, and the engine burst into a cluster of sparks.
Commander Miller was knocked to the ground by the blast wave, but he survived.
Scrambling away, he only looked back in terror after reaching safety at the savior who had suddenly appeared.
Atop the sign of a roadside shop, a slender figure crouched.
Wearing an ordinary grey hoodie and a strange Red and White Fox Mask on her face, she looked mysterious and dangerous against the backdrop of the fire behind her.
"Who is that?" Commander Miller muttered to himself.
"I don't know," the old sergeant nearby said, wiping away cold sweat and gritting his teeth. "But this might be our only hope tonight."
From above.
Alice ignored the shock of the Police.
At this moment, her World was a stream of purely rational data.
[Target Code: Alexei (Serum Berserker).]
[Threat Level: High.]
[Physiological State Analysis:]
Extreme Hyperthermia: Surface temperature has climbed to 72 degrees Celsius. To maintain this terrifying muscular explosive power, the cells in its body are undergoing an overloaded metabolic reaction.
It's like a nuclear reactor without a cooling system, liable to meltdown at any moment.
Pain Suppression: The nervous system has been taken over by the virus; conventional physical strikes cannot cause effective staggering.
Weak Point Lock-on: At the third to fifth cervical vertebrae, bone hyperplasia is incomplete, and a large number of heat-dissipating ganglia are exposed.
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