"What's with those faces~? Don't tell me you're not happy to see me~? That makes me sad." Floating in the air with her arms crossed, the woman wearing some kind of combat suit under a lab coat, short brown hair, bald on top and with an athletic build asked in a falsely disappointed tone.

However, without saying anything, the quintet simply remained quiet, looking around attentively.

"What do we do?" Holding a weapon in a tense grip, Nalini asked quietly, her gaze moving from side to side inside the duct, seeing both ends already filled with other agents.

"What we do is obvious, we have to fight while waiting for the boys, then with their help we escape from here." Also with a weapon in hand, Emília replied to her with a furrowed look.

"Xiao?" Nalini asked, shifting her gaze to her.

With her eyes focused on the woman still in the air, Xiao replied without looking at her. "That's the plan."

"I see." Nalini said, swallowing hard, then taking a deep breath, she adjusted her grip on the weapon, adopting a serious look as if trying to ignore her nervousness.

"Don't you think we can win?" Vanessa beside Xiao asked, her eyes also focused on the woman hovering in the air.

Xiao said nothing for a moment, seeming to reflect before finally saying. "We have few chances."

"Few doesn't mean none, right?" Vanessa asked back.

Once again Xiao said nothing for a moment before speaking slowly. "...We need an opportunity, someone to take a risk."

"Oh..." Vanessa didn't know what to say, she wasn't willing to sacrifice herself and believed the same applied to the other girls.

"Are you done whispering among yourselves? If so, how about you just surrender without resisting, that will make my job much easier." Drawing their attention, the woman in the air, who until then had only let them talk, spoke again.

With silence being the only response she received, the woman shrugged. "Okay, fine by me, attack-"

And right at the moment she was about to order the attack, she was interrupted by a gunshot.

One of the robotic arms on her back moved quickly, intercepting the shot.

"Oh..." Without changing her expression, she merely stared at Xiao, who was pointing her weapon in her direction.

And at that moment, Xiao murmured calmly. "Go."

In response to her, the others immediately began to move.

Nalini pulled something from her bag and threw it on the ground in front of her, which in response immediately activated a shield.

Emília did the same, pulling something out and placing it on the ground between them, which activated and expanded, covering them inside an electric barrier.

Nina grabbed a bomb and threw it in the other direction, then handed the ring on her finger to Xiao.

And meanwhile Xiao ran straight toward the woman hovering in the air, her weapon firing continuously.

And Vanessa immediately rose into the air, her boots firing as she headed toward the agents near Xiao.

During that brief moment of silence, Xiao sent a message through the implant about what each of them would do.

Basically, while she and Vanessa would fight the woman, Nina, Emília and Nalini would stay inside what remained of the air duct and use a turtle tactic, eliminating as many enemies as possible while providing whatever support they could.

"Heh~" Laughing amusedly at seeing Xiao running toward her, the octopus woman didn't move, only her robotic arms moved, blocking the shots while the agents near her fired or ran toward Xiao.

Continuing to run, Xiao Xun'er blocked shots with her staff while those she couldn't were blocked by the circular barrier that surrounded her momentarily.

With that barrier appearing and disappearing, it was hard to use both the staff and the weapon, but she did so with perfect synchronization, her eyes darting from side to side and her body moving constantly amid waves of shots and people.

Slowly but surely, she was taking them down one by one, although most were still alive, especially those with clear genetic enhancements.

But from the air, Vanessa came as support.

While she herself was under attack, she fired at those aiming at her and from time to time shot at those surrounding Xiao Xun'er, all while maneuvering erratically in the air, dodging as many shots as possible.

But this proved to be a difficult battle, with her teeth clenched, she was pushing herself as hard as she could, and fortunately for her, she also had the support of the other three inside the air duct.

While protecting themselves behind the electric barrier and another barrier raised against one side, Emília, Nalini and Nina were also doing their best to eliminate as many enemies as possible.

Behind the shield barrier, Nalini fired from time to time, retreating when a shot ended up passing through the opening she made in the lightning barrier.

With their backs to her, Nina and Emília fired through the opening the woman with robotic arms had made, occasionally hiding by using the wall of the air duct as protection along with the lightning barrier.

Besides preventing the enemies from getting close to them, they were also trying to help Vanessa and Xiao.

And at that moment, after taking down one of the enemies that got too close with a strike of her staff, Xiao Xun'er finally achieved her goal of getting close to the woman.

With a quick spin on herself, her hand swung and with all her strength, she hurled her staff toward her.

In the air, the woman merely raised an eyebrow upon seeing that.

Unconcerned, she didn't even try to block the attack and simply moved her own hand to grab the staff.

Without effort, the staff stopped in her hand with a simple grip.

Looking at the black staff stopped just a few centimeters from her chest, the woman cast a neutral look at Xiao Xun'er. "Is that it? I thought-"

However, an explosion interrupted her.

The staff exploded, releasing an intense light along with electricity that spread in all directions.

With the ring's barrier protecting her from the closest arcs, Xiao Xun'er continued firing at nearby agents who were not affected by the explosion while glancing sideways.

In a few seconds, however, as the smoke dissipated, she saw the robotic legs still on the ground.

"Tsk." Clicking her tongue, Xiao Xun'er knew her attack hadn't worked.

In the dissipating smoke, the woman's figure slowly revealed itself, then her form became completely visible.

And the most obvious result of the attack was her clothes, with the upper part almost entirely burned away, her torso left exposed.

This included her breasts, with her large brown nipples fully on display.

But without caring about that, she simply tossed away the rest of her outfit while smiling. "Impressive, you really got me there, although as you can see, your attack didn't do much." On her white skin, only a few small injuries were visible.

Aside from a fleeting glance, Xiao Xun'er did nothing else as she continued firing.

Raising her eyebrows slightly and smiling amusedly at being practically ignored, the woman continued. "Well, let's finish-" However, stopping midway, she raised her gaze, right at that moment something was jumping through the cut air duct.

The moment she saw it was a man, the man in question quickly threw something in her direction.

Shifting her focus to it, she saw it was a holographic shield, which she defended against by simply striking it with her robotic arm.

Turning her gaze back to him, she then saw him now standing atop the piece of air duct, pointing a weapon in her direction while several other men were now with him.

"Oh, it's you." She said simply upon recognizing the faces of the five.

And the response she got from Jonathan and the others was several shots.

The energy bullets flew through the air, but Jonathan and the others saw how they were easily blocked by her robotic arms.

Receiving a quick message through the implant, they changed positions, while William moved to give cover to Xiao Xun'er, Jonathan moved to give cover to Vanessa, with the other boys descending from the air duct and joining the girls inside.

Stretching out his arm, his holographic shield that had been thrown far away finally returned as it snapped back into place on its own.

Raising it in front of him, he stayed below and near where Vanessa hovered.

Firing at those who got too close, he protected himself with his shield, with a few shots hitting his vest.

"Shit." Muttering quietly as another shot hit his vest, Jonathan found himself becoming increasingly overwhelmed, the enemies seemed endless, most of those he hit weren't taken down for good, they just got back up and kept attacking him.

Proof of that being the woman who at that very moment finally managed to get close enough to land a physical blow even after taking a point-blank shot.

Being a head taller and advancing with an intensity as if she wanted to crush him, the woman approached him with her arms raised in a hammer blow and fury on her face.

Raising his shield, Jonathan blocked her attack, which made him drop to one knee. "Fuck!" Knowing that fighting physically with someone enhanced was stupid, he didn't hesitate to immediately point his weapon at her.

But he didn't shoot her chest or head, he shot her foot.

"Argh!" As she screamed in pain, he took advantage of the moment and landed a kick to her knee, making her kneel.

But the moment she went down, he hooked the tip of his gun under her chin and fired.

With her head exploding in blood, Jonathan, full of adrenaline, didn't even have time to feel disgust before finding himself completely surrounded.

"Fuck!" With his barrier flickering more and more with each shot, he found himself forced to retreat.

Moving closer to where the others were, he received help from them until he could stay within Yusuke's lightning barrier.

"Shit! These sons of bitches just won't go down! At this rate we're going to die!" Holding the barrier with one hand, Yusuke said while firing from time to time.

Expanding his shield in front of him, Jonathan went back to covering Vanessa while his eyes briefly turned to where Xiao Xun'er and William were.

The two moved with synchronization and skill, demonstrating their proficiencies in dealing with the large number of enemies.

But it was also clear that this was useless, because with all the effort they made, it wasn't enough to hurt the woman with octopus arms, every shot they fired at her was easily blocked by the arms.

She remained there in the air with her arms crossed over her naked breasts and an amused smile, seeming to just be watching their futile effort.

'Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!' Growing more and more tired and with the others not much better off than him, Jonathan knew they were out of time, he sent a message to William and Xiao Xun'er to see if they had a plan.

And he was surprised to receive a yes as a response.

Just as he was about to ask what it was, the woman in the air spoke.

"That's enough, step back."

And with her words, the agents who were shooting or attacking like lunatics stopped, leaving them alone.

"Huff...Huff..." Breathing out tiredly through his mouth, Jonathan and the others near him found themselves surrounded by agents who were merely staring at them.

Looking ahead, he saw that the situation with William and Xiao Xun'er was the same, with the ground below where Vanessa floated also being the same, everyone looking up at her.

And he also noticed how all of them looked exhausted.

"Watching this useless effort of yours is fun, but I'm a busy woman, I have a lot of work." The woman said calmly, her eyes traveling one by one. "However, I am merciful, so I'll say it again, surrender without resisting and make my job easier, yes?" She said, raising her arm toward them and smiling.

However, just like the other times, all she received was silence.

At least for a few seconds.

"Uh...is there something I wanted to say, are we just ignoring the fact that she's got her tits out?"

Amid that tense atmosphere, Alex asked doubtfully, rubbing the back of his neck, in front of him, Yusuke silently nodded in agreement.

Something that made only Jonathan and the others, and even the enemy agents, look at him in silence.

"Uh...bad time?" Alex asked, scratching his chin, while Yusuke in front of him quickly shook his head, pretending to disapprove of his actions when he saw all those stares.

"Hahaha, you're funny, it's a shame someone so handsome has to die, and since you didn't answer me, I'll take that as a no." Laughing lightly, the woman said, for the first time doing something other than defending herself, she took a step forward with her robotic arms, intending to attack herself.

But it was at that moment that William shouted.

"Ivan!"

And in response, Ivan threw something toward a random group of enemy agents.

The woman only saw two small objects before they hit the ground, then, as she wondered what they were, a blue barrier rose up, trapping the agents inside.

And immediately following, an explosion erupted inside the barrier.

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