Tap, tap, tap.
Sporadic gunfire rang out. The clones previously used to attract the attackers had all been eliminated by the enemy.
Uchiha Kazuhiko also saw the mastermind behind the attack a squad of special forces soldiers with the letters 'USS' emblazoned on their chests.
The USS forces were a secret unit established by the Umbrella Corporation. Its members were death soldiers, brainwashed to obey and efficiently carry out orders without any emotion.
They were the most trusted death squad of the Umbrella Corporation.
Their mission was to protect the core secrets of the Umbrella Corporation from leaking, obliterate any crucial evidence unfavorable to the company, and covertly eliminate all personnel who might threaten the company's core secrets.
If Uchiha Kazuhiko hadn't played the Resident Evil game and been very interested in the Umbrella Corporation, even researching related information, he wouldn't have recognized their identity.
Now that he knew it was the Umbrella Corporation attacking him, Uchiha Kazuhiko guessed the reason.
They were probably afraid he would leak the important secrets of the Hive, hence sending this unit to carry out the mopping-up and silencing operation.
Uchiha Kazuhiko's face turned livid.
He never expected to be double-crossed by his employer, the Umbrella Corporation. Gnashing his teeth, he said,
"Very good, Umbrella Corporation. I remember you. You'd better hope I never get a chance to return here, or I will repay this debt."
He attached explosive tags to kunai. Uchiha Kazuhiko created more clones to distract the enemy while his main body, with the Sharingan active, used its powerful observational abilities to lock onto the positions of the hidden USS soldiers.
"For now, I'll just collect some interest."
Uchiha Kazuhiko took a deep breath, then suddenly leaped from his hiding spot. The kunai turned into streaks of cold light, shooting towards the enemy's current positions.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The kunai with activated explosive tags landed, triggering a series of explosions. Some unprepared USS soldiers were instantly blown to pieces.
"Take cover! Return fire!"
A USS commander, witnessing Uchiha Kazuhiko's counterattack, rolled for cover into the slopes outside the mansion while issuing orders to his subordinates via walkie-talkie.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
Several Gatling guns madly spewed bullets.
The dense barrage of rounds roared from their barrels, forming several lines of tracer fire, tearing up the area where Uchiha Kazuhiko was hiding.
Uchiha Kazuhiko didn't stay put.
Utilizing a ninja's super high mobility, he darted through the mansion, occasionally throwing kunai through windows or from under eaves, killing any USS soldiers attempting to storm the villa.
"Teams One and Two, maintain suppressive fire. Team Three, prepare rockets. Teams Four and Five, prepare to assault."
Unable to secure a quick victory, the commander adjusted tactics again, wanting to eliminate Uchiha Kazuhiko as soon as possible.
The USS soldiers didn't care about ammunition consumption.
Within seconds, they unleashed a massive volume of fire towards Uchiha Kazuhiko.
Simultaneously, a soldier shouldered a rocket launcher, aimed at Uchiha Kazuhiko's position, and pulled the trigger.
With a boom, a streak of fire shot through the air into a room in the mansion.
Facing such heavy firepower, Uchiha Kazuhiko didn't dare to take it head-on. He had no choice but to rely on high-speed movement to evade.
Another boom echoed as the previous room was blown to rubble by the rocket.
Using the dust raised by the explosion as cover, Uchiha Kazuhiko swiftly cut down several USS soldiers with his blade before retreating back into the mansion.
"Genjutsu: Temple of Nirvana Technique!"
Uchiha Kazuhiko formed hand signs, using a genjutsu he had learned from his teammate, Ikemoto Kaori.
Amplified by the Sharingan, pure white feathers drifted down slowly from the sky, lulling the unsuspecting USS soldiers into sleep.
"Compared to ninjutsu and taijutsu, genjutsu is even harder to guard against."
Strolling out of the mansion calmly, Uchiha Kazuhiko looked at the USS soldiers lying unconscious on the ground, unable to resist a sigh.
Then, drawing his tachi, he mercilessly executed them one by one.
Only after eliminating the last USS soldier did Uchiha Kazuhiko vent some of his anger.
He then headed to the city to take a taxi to a neighboring city.
A few hours later, Uchiha Kazuhiko arrived at the Umbrella branch office in this city.
Without a word, he directly drew his weapon and charged in, completely destroying this branch office and conveniently storing all kinds of precious materials kept here into his system space.
There wasn't enough time left to loot another city.
Uchiha Kazuhiko could only glare hatefully in the direction of the Umbrella Corporation's headquarters before choosing to leave this spacetime.
Returning to the Naruto world, Uchiha Kazuhiko simply washed up, changed out of his ninja outfit that was nearly in tatters, and began taking stock of the gains from this mission.
[T-Virus Original Strain], 0.15 gold coins, Quantity: 64 vials;
[T-Virus Antidote], 0.15 gold coins, Quantity: 28 vials;
[T-Virus Modified Type 1 Serum], 0.2 gold coins, Quantity: 11 vials;
[T-Virus Modified Type 2 Serum], 0.2 gold coins, Quantity: 7 vials;
[T-Virus Modified Type 3 Serum], 0.3 gold coins, Quantity: 4 vials;
[T-Virus Modified Type 4 Serum], 0.3 gold coins, Quantity: 4 vials;
[T-Virus Optimized Serum], 1 gold coin, Quantity: 1 vial;
[Century-Old Blood Ginseng], 1 gold coin, Quantity: 1 root;
[Century-Old Snow Lotus], 1 gold coin, Quantity: 1 flower;
...
[Natural Musk], 0.6 gold coins;
[Natural Bezoar], 0.4 gold coins;
By the time Uchiha Kazuhiko finished reviewing all the gains, he couldn't help but break into a wide grin.
Aside from keeping a few items like the [T-Virus Original Strain], [T-Virus Modified/Optimized Serums], and the [Century-Old Blood Ginseng], he recycled all the remaining items, netting him a full 98 gold coins.
The Umbrella Corporation truly lived up to its name as an international-level super monopoly in the Resident Evil world.
The items from just two branch offices were almost equivalent to the reward from a low-level Bronze rank mission.
It's true that robbery and arson yield the richest rewards. It almost made Uchiha Kazuhiko want to go back to the Resident Evil world and loot all of the Umbrella Corporation's warehouses.
98 gold coins, plus the 10 gold coins from completing the mission, meant Uchiha Kazuhiko now possessed a huge sum of over 100 gold coins for the first time.
Feeling immensely wealthy, he immediately opened the Pan-Universe Mall, ready to purchase some high-grade items.
Uchiha Kazuhiko's most urgent matter was to increase his combat power.
Currently, the quickest way to do that seemed to be relying on the BUG-level taijutsu, the Eight Inner Gates.
To open more gates, he needed an even stronger physique.
Therefore, his first choice wasn't internal cultivation techniques that could enhance energy absorption, but external body refinement techniques from the myriad worlds.
Under the system's filtering, a dazzling array of body refinement techniques appeared before Uchiha Kazuhiko's eyes.