Chapter 88: Support Arrived

Then, before Aiden and the others could speak, the huge plant behind him actually bent down and swallowed him in one bite.

"This is…" Leon and Krauser didn't react in time, staring blankly at the plant that swallowed Javier.

But at this moment, Aiden had already taken out the last M72 rocket launcher and pulled the trigger, aiming at the Veronica virus plant.

WHOOSH!

The rocket directly hit that virus plant. However, after the explosion rang out, the plant was only blasted open with a gaping wound, oozing a liquid similar to blood.

"Retreat quickly." Realizing that even the rocket had no effect, Aiden immediately shouted.

But just as they had exited the greenhouse, the Veronica virus plant inside the room began to undergo a violent mutation, expanding rapidly in size in defiance of physical laws.

Very soon, a monstrous creature over ten meters tall, looking like a spider, broke through the greenhouse and appeared in front of Aiden and the others.

V-Complex.

"Trying to run now? Too late."

The monster's head, wrapped in exposed keratin skull plates, opened like petals, revealing only the upper half of Javier inside, screaming madly at Aiden and the others.

"All of you, stay here."

At this moment, taking advantage of its talking, Aiden suddenly raised his hand and shot Javier in the head. But he immediately remembered that Javier had already injected himself with the Veronica virus in advance, so he couldn't be killed off like in the original plot.

Sure enough, Javier laughed crazily again, "You simply can't kill me, you simply can't kill me. Now, let me show you my new power."

As Javier's voice fell, the exposed skull closed back up. Then, his huge spider-like body suddenly pounced toward Aiden and the others.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Aiden and the others could only shoot while retreating, but Javier, who had fused with the Veronica virus plant, couldn't even be killed by a rocket launcher, let alone the guns in their hands.

Even Aiden, who had activated his awakening and enhanced the bullets with psychic power, could only leave shallow wounds on Javier's body.

The only one who could cause real damage to Javier was Manuela. Her blood, like Alexia's, could cause burning and explosive effects.

Every wave of Manuela's hand caused a series of explosions on Javier's body, blasting him full of craters.

But Javier's body was too massive. Although there seemed to be many wounds, they didn't affect him at all. His regeneration speed was even faster than when he was in human form, and the wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, fortunately, perhaps due to the plant's nature itself, after fusing with it, Javier couldn't use the power of fire anymore. Although he gained other attack methods, it was still considered good news.

Soon, Aiden and the others were chased out of the villa by Javier and entered the jungle.

Inside the jungle, their situation slightly improved. After all, the trees served as natural cover. The massive Javier was hindered by the trees, and his pursuit speed slowed down.

At this point, Aiden and the others finally had a chance to catch their breath and discuss how to deal with him.

"Aiden, do you still have explosives on you?" Leon fired a few shots at Javier, then turned to ask Aiden. The explosives Aiden had given them earlier were all used up. Their effect was slightly better than Manuela's explosive attacks, but the quantity was too little to seriously wound Javier.

"You think I run a weapons wholesale business?" Aiden glanced at him and, while shooting at Javier, continued, "If I still had some, I would've used them already."

These high-purity explosives were hard to obtain. Only when he was in Roanapur, with enough money paid, did the Rip Off Church send him some.

Now, in his system space, he only had a few grenades and small-caliber ammunition left, since those things are small and don't take up much space.

"Here, take these." Aiden pretended to fumble behind him, then handed a few grenades to Leon.

"Better than nothing." Leon muttered and accepted the grenades.

"What about us?" Seeing Aiden give grenades to Leon, Roberta and Fabiola came up beside him.

"There's enough for everyone." Aiden also handed a few grenades to them.

However, these grenades had too little explosive content. Although the sound was loud when thrown, for the already transformed V-complex Javier, it was like tossing a firecracker next to him, just noise.

'If only Koko were here.'

After shooting another burst at Javier, Aiden suddenly thought of Koko. Although that woman was a bit crazy sometimes, she was undoubtedly a great teammate, because she could call in air support anytime.

But Aiden was just fantasizing. Right now, he was in the South American jungle, while Koko should still be in Roanapur doing business with Balalaika, thousands of miles apart.

"Ah! Koko, I really wish you could appear in front of me right now." Aiden sighed, then shouted out like venting.

And just as he finished speaking, Koko's voice actually came from deep within the jungle.

"Oh my, Aiden, I didn't know you missed me so much."

Hearing Koko's voice, Aiden was stunned at first, thinking he had misheard. Then he quickly turned toward the direction of the voice and saw, not only Koko and Valmet, but also Balalaika, Dutch, and Revy from the Black Lagoon Company.

But Aiden noticed both Revy and Balalaika had unpleasant expressions, which confused him.

"You all came too?" Aiden fired a longer burst at Javier, then loudly asked.

"We came for a vacation," Revy said. "Big Sis Balalaika said you were in South America, and she happened to be on break, so she invited us along."

"But this vacation's not going so great, ran into this thing right away."

As she spoke, Revy glanced at the terrifying V-complex body, then joined the fight with her handgun. After shooting a burst at Javier, she realized it did almost nothing.

"Koko, how long until your support arrives?" Revy turned to ask her.

"Should be soon." Koko looked at her watch.

"Then tell them to hurry up." Aiden looked at the closing-in Javier and said, "We don't know how much longer we can hold on."

"Don't worry, we'll deal with it together." Koko confidently smiled at Aiden, then raised her gun and shot at Javier.

Truthfully, confidence was great, but the newly joined group offered minimal help. The damage they caused together was far less than Manuela alone.

After all, none of them brought heavy weapons, half of them were using handguns.

But as Javier was increasingly corroded by the Veronica virus, his intelligence began to degrade severely. It became hard for him to focus on a single target, he kept switching targets among the group.

This greatly reduced their pressure, and they even had time to chat again.

"How did you all find this place?" Although Aiden was pleasantly surprised by their arrival, he was curious why they came.

"We met Garcia in Sena Town," Balalaika said.

"Master." Upon hearing Garcia's name, Roberta stayed calm, but Fabiola suddenly called out, "How is he now?"

"He's fine. Rock is taking care of him in the car. But his father's dead, killed by a monster," Revy cut in.

"What?" Not only Fabiola, but Roberta also cried out in surprise.

"When we got there, Sena Town was already a hellscape, monsters eating people everywhere," Dutch said while retreating to reload.

Hearing that, Manuela, who also retreated to rest, instantly understood, this must be her father's doing again. She immediately abandoned her last sliver of hope for her father. Without taking a break, she went all out using her special ability on Javier. In an instant, explosions erupted continuously across Javier's body.

To be honest, although Javier fused with the Veronica virus plant, he's still far inferior to Alexia. Especially after his mind was corroded by the virus, he was attacking purely by instinct. He only had a few attack patterns, which were quickly figured out.

For Aiden and the others, aside from the fact that they simply couldn't kill him, there was no more pressure.

Now, what they had to do was stall him, stop him from running wild, and wait for the support Koko mentioned to arrive.

About ten minutes later, Koko suddenly stopped shooting. She pressed the earpiece on her ear, listened for a bit, then said to everyone, "Support's here. Everyone, spread out."

Hearing her reminder, everyone instinctively scattered. Soon after, a loud roaring sound rang out from above.

They looked up in the direction of the sound and saw an armed helicopter flying toward them.

"Longbow Apache."

Seeing that armed chopper, Aiden was a bit surprised. He thought it would be another bomber.

Noticing his confusion, Koko leaned in and whispered into his ear, "This isn't T-country, it's the Amazon rainforest, deep inland. Bombers can't fly in here; they'd have to cross multiple national air defense zones."

"Then your attack helicopter doesn't need to be identified?" Aiden asked.

"Of course not. Compared to bombers, helicopters are far less threatening," Koko smiled. "Besides, we also have our own company in Colombia. We've got certain privileges."

"Alright then." Aiden had nothing more to say.

While the two were talking, the armed helicopter had already flown above them. The pilot, seeing the monstrous thing on the ground, was shocked. He'd never seen anything so terrifying.

"Can this thing even be killed?" the pilot shouted over the comms.

"Of course. It's just a carbon-based lifeform. Don't dawdle, take it down!" Valmet urged the pilot.

"Alright, don't rush, ma'am. I'm locking on now," the pilot replied while adjusting the helicopter's position, aiming at Javier. Then he pressed the fire button. The rocket pods on both sides of the Apache unleashed a barrage of rockets at Javier.

In just a few seconds, both rocket pods had fully unleashed their payload.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

After a series of explosion sounds, Javier was directly blown into pieces.

Just like that G-virus fusion mutant in Roanapur, Javier also couldn't withstand direct attacks from large-caliber weapons.

"Dad..."

Looking at Javier covered in flames, Manuela knelt on the ground, crying out in grief. Aiden walked to her side, knelt halfway down, and gently pulled her into his arms.

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