Chapter 581: Chapter 265: Area 51_2 Chapter 581: Chapter 265: Area 51_2 “`
Four hand grenades detonated simultaneously, and the power of their explosions began to layer together, forming a giant blast circle and igniting a vast sea of flames. This sea of flames spread rapidly, not only enveloping the American officers in the room but also sparing neither the American soldiers nor the security personnel in the hallway outside.
After the explosion ended, the remaining American soldiers clumsily entered the room, only to discover severe damage inside. On the floor, the American commanders, charred all over, had been killed by the hand grenades. Then, they heard coughing from the adjacent room. Upon entering, they realized the coughing was coming from inside a wall closet. They cautiously opened the closet and found a man and a woman bound together.
These two were none other than the high-ranking official of the US government and the Hollywood rising starlet, whom Yan Fei had knocked out and hidden in the closet. They had luckily escaped the recent explosion and were awakened by the smoke it produced, which caused their coughing. But now they lay there completely naked, exposed to the gaze of the military soldiers in an extremely indecent posture, which left them feeling utterly ashamed…
In the most critical moment, Yan Fei, piloting a drone, had arrived at the Paradise Palace Grand Hotel and entered the room where Yang Qi was still asleep on the bed, oblivious to the unfolding events. When Yan Fei encountered the American commander, he threw several hand grenades, killing a high-ranking American officer. Of course, at this moment, Yan Fei was unaware that the hand grenades he had carelessly thrown had actually killed a senior American military leader.
Yan Fei jumped from the building, and the drone rushed to his aid. Carrying Yang Qi, Yan Fei made it back to the drone cockpit. After placing the still-unconscious Yang Qi on a small bed in the cockpit, Yan Fei finally eased his mind. This mission to rescue Yang Qi in the United States, which Yan Fei had thought would be straightforward, turned out to be a plot against him. However, after various twists and turns, the outcome was still good, as Yan Fei had successfully saved Yang Qi without a scratch.
Having completed his primary task in the United States, and with the US forces surrounding the Paradise Palace Hotel mostly wiped out, Yan Fei's rage had mostly dissipated, so he saw no further need to stay there.
After launching a series of savage attacks, the drone finally revealed itself to the remnants of the US forces. But the American military had lost all their heavy weaponry and were utterly incapable of attacking the drone. Therefore, the drone shot upwards and, under the angry gaze of the remaining American soldiers, flew towards the west of Las Vegas. In a very short time, the drone disappeared into the western sky.
The drone soared quickly to an altitude of 25,000 meters. After eluding the view of the US forces on the ground, it unexpectedly veered and headed south toward Las Vegas.
During the previous escape, Yan Fei had been alerted by the Auxiliary Brain, while hidden in the underground fissure, to the presence of upgrade essential items for the drone. However, since the drone was off, Yan Fei had no idea what constituted the upgrade essential items identified by the Auxiliary Brain and collected all the items within sight into the Universal Space. Now that the Auxiliary Brain had started working, it hadn't indicated that the upgrade essential items had been collected, meaning none of the items Yan Fei harvested were the required upgrade essentials.
So now, with the Drone Energy Points replenished, Yan Fei decided to revisit that location to find the actual items necessary for the drone's upgrade. After Yan Fei piloted the drone westward from Las Vegas, no one could have guessed that he would backtrack, returning to the area of the southern underground fissure.
Soon, the drone reached the site Yan Fei had previously marked. Before it even descended from the 25,000-meter altitude, Yan Fei noticed a large expanse of buildings to the right of the underground fissure. His vision had been obstructed inside the fissure, and he hadn't expected so many buildings nearby.
Not far from the underground fissure, there was a barbed wire perimeter fence. Inside the fence were numerous buildings of all kinds. Among these buildings was a large parking lot filled with numerous vehicles, including some that even Yan Fei didn't know the purpose of. Next to this vast parking lot was a wide and standard airplane runway that, Yan Fei estimated, could accommodate the takeoff and landing of all types of airplanes in the world.
Within this vast area cordoned off by barbed wire, there was a constant patrol and vigilance by a large number of armed personnel carrying weapons. In some concealed places, there were many anti-aircraft radar installations and air defense capabilities. The underground fissure where Yan Fei had been was less than 2,000 meters away from the buildings within this region, measuring the direct distance.
In the Quantum Radar's scan, Yan Fei discovered that the area below was entirely hollow. Inside, there were many people busily moving about. The underground space was immense, and even the Quantum Radar couldn't determine just how deep it went.
Stumbling upon such a heavily guarded cluster of buildings in the desolate wilderness, Yan Fei grew curious. He proceeded to enter the coordinates into the Auxiliary Brain's database and looked up the location on the map. To his surprise, he found that this area was the famously mysterious Area 51 of the United States, the so-called secret military base rumored to house aliens.