Electrotherapy, while effective on others, would be ineffective in restraining Harley Quinn. Far from restraining her, it would only excite her nerves, leading to more reckless behavior. She was even capable of detonating bombs in the confined space of a transport plane if pushed to a certain level of frenzy.
Some might wonder why Harley Quinn was brought into the Suicide Squad instead of finding other inmates as replacements. The answer is simple: it wasn't possible. Harley Quinn was a unique asset to the Suicide Squad. While not inherently powerful, and essentially suffering from mental illness, she could sometimes achieve astonishing results.
More importantly, she had powerful connections. Her transformation into Harley Quinn and her rise to Gotham's queen of crime were inseparable from one person: the Joker. As the Joker's sole companion, he wouldn't let anything happen to her. Amanda Waller's decision to include Harley in the Suicide Squad was also a subtle way of adding an ace up their sleeve.
Furthermore, Harley Quinn's combat abilities were not to be underestimated, even as an ordinary person. Rick had his own method for dealing with those with mental instability: a simple, direct stare. Initially, Harley would mock and retort, but with repeated exposure, she developed a conditioned response. Whenever Rick fixed her with a specific gaze, no matter how much she acted out, she would immediately calm down.
With Harley Quinn no longer a distraction, Rick calmly delivered the mission briefing. For these criminals who had experienced numerous high-stakes situations, this mission might have been the simplest. After all, in movies and animations, the Suicide Squad often found themselves battling alien starfish or confronting Reverse-Flash, and they even had a notable record of defeating a powerful ancient sorceress.
The main challenge of this mission was to infiltrate a country ruled by the demoness Sheng Zhu. However, they weren't tasked with directly confronting the primordial demon Bai Qi. Instead, they were to sneak into Cadmus Labs and destroy it from within. Merely destroying the lab would earn them a two-year sentence reduction. If they could download and retrieve relevant data from the lab, an additional four years would be added to their sentence. This prospect was quite tempting for individuals like Captain Boomerang.
Captain Boomerang was one of the earliest members of the Suicide Squad, practically a veteran. Through the accumulation of several minor missions, his sentence was nearly complete. If he could successfully finish this mission, he would be released soon. For inmates serving life sentences, like Killer Croc, undertaking such high-intensity missions could lead to their sentences being commuted to a fixed term, or they could make certain requests to the prison.
As the Suicide Squad members waited for the transport plane to reach its designated location, eagerly anticipating the task ahead, a violent tremor jolted them, raising their tension.
"What was that!?"
Rick immediately went to the cockpit to investigate. The response was a missile. Without any warning, Kutor had fired a missile at them. If the pilot hadn't been experienced, they might have already perished at sea.
One should not underestimate Bai Qi. While Bai Qi possessed powerful magic, it didn't mean he was entirely ignorant of modern ideologies. On the contrary, as a transmigrator, Bai Qi was acutely aware of the power of modern weaponry. Moreover, compared to magic, modern firearms were far more convenient. For instance, in terms of offense, a skilled mage might need years of dedicated cultivation to kill an elephant with offensive magic. Yet, an ordinary person with a firearm, without extensive training, could kill an elephant with a wild spray of bullets. In comparison, firearms seemed to have higher efficiency. Furthermore, learning magic required talent; those without it would remain Muggles no matter how hard they trained, and even forced cultivation would at best result in a magic apprentice. Those with talent and good teachers, like Xiao Yu and Tulu, were exceptionally rare.
Compounding this was Kutor's drastically declining population and extremely high illiteracy rate due to years of war. These were issues that required time and gradual effort to resolve. Even Bai Qi couldn't eliminate them overnight with magic. All he could do was provide the people of Kutor with the best possible living conditions and educational resources, leaving the rest to time.
While internal affairs were actively improving, external matters couldn't be neglected. Thus, Bai Qi, as the king of Kutor, made a momentous decision. Kutor absolutely lacked the independent military power to protect its nation and territory from invasion. Therefore, he would outsource national defense to a more capable third party. Don't find this unbelievable; reality can sometimes be more bizarre than fiction. Globally, there are numerous countries that outsource their national defense while maintaining only a small police force for domestic security. However, unlike other countries, the company Bai Qi chose was named Umbrella.
Although Umbrella Corporation was not officially Bai Qi's, in reality, Bai Qi held complete control over Umbrella, making him the ultimate mastermind. It would be more accurate to call it a transfer from one hand to another rather than outsourcing.
But then again, given Umbrella's technological capabilities, how could their missiles be so easily evaded? The answer, of course, was that Bai Qi had intended it. If he had eliminated this Suicide Squad too early, preventing Waller from failing her Cadmus plan, an unwilling Waller would only send more Suicide Squads composed of powerful criminals for a comeback. Instead of that, it was better to let them go for now.
In the cockpit, the pilot, after continuously dodging several incoming missiles, was at the absolute limit of his endurance. Continuing this way, being shot down was only a matter of time. Rather than be forced to bail out later, it was better to parachute out voluntarily now and have the transport plane make a swift retreat, thus avoiding further alerting the enemy.
No sooner said than done, the Suicide Squad members, fully geared up with their weapons and equipment and wearing life vests, jumped out of the aircraft one by one.
"I hate water, especially seawater."
Looking at the turbulent sea below, Copper Tiger's brow furrowed, making his already dark face even darker. He wasn't afraid of heights, he simply disliked water.