Era 2137, Germany, Waltham Sector, Second Space Station, Keon City.
Was there an explosion?
He couldn't remember clearly.
Belgrade slowly woke up from his coma, with Kazumiko still lying in his arms. Before he could even catch his breath, he found a militant aiming the muzzle of an assault rifle right at them. Belgrade shuddered in fright and immediately performed what they called a "tactical evasive maneuver." To put it plainly, he just dodged the enemy's strafing fire. The Solar System Federation Committee gave these movements fancy, flowery names. Just remembering them during training was hard enough, let alone thinking about them later. However, Belgrade seemed to remember them clearly, even though memorizing these names exhausted the rest of the squad. Joseph claimed their difficulty was "comparable to ascending to heaven."
At this moment, Judy leaped down from the floor above, circled behind the militant, and slit his throat with a single stroke. In fact, inside the building, she had already killed five enemy troops in the dark amidst the thick smoke. Afterward, she found a random window, thinking that as long as she could get out, she didn't care if she got hurt—staying inside meant certain death anyway. She jumped down without a second thought, unexpectedly running right into Belgrade and the others.
The three of them "fled" frantically while firing back at the enemy troops. Edward also joined their team at this point. Belgrade was a sniper, so he was terrible at close-quarters combat and struggled in this round. However, Judy was a master of close combat. As the team's vanguard, she was extremely agile and could take out a large group with an assault knife in minutes. Of course, Edward lived up to expectations as well. Although he was a support role and a "rookie" unfamiliar with the battlefield, he played an indispensable part in the team. Before long, he drove a new model off-road vehicle manufactured by Hummer out of an old warehouse.
Actually, this off-road vehicle was broken inside the warehouse and couldn't be driven at all; the engine smoked as soon as it started. But Edward pushed himself to his limit and fixed the broken engine within two minutes. He then dove into the car and, risking a gasoline tank explosion, drove it out. The instant the rear of Edward's car cleared the exit, a bullet hit the explosive pack next to the gasoline tank—which Edward had placed in advance—instantly detonating the fuel tank.
Belgrade stuffed Judy and Kazumiko into the car, then grabbed the door handle and vaulted in through the window himself. The group drove the car and fled rapidly.
Meanwhile, Joseph and Ankalia had already taken a helicopter "temporarily requisitioned" from the police and arrived at the Waltham Sector—North Great German Third Air Station. The very moment they stepped off the helicopter, the local police helicopter behind them was shot down by militants. By then, they were standing safely on the ground. Seeing the actions and posture of these lunatics who seemed to say, "When I get ruthless, I even beat myself up," the two were truly scared silly.
"What the hell?! Are these militants not afraid of exposing themselves? Attacking secret police like us is one thing, but they dare to attack the local police?! Don't they know how fast the local police investigate?!"
Or perhaps the local police were just ignoring it?
How was that possible?
Oh well, forget it, escaping alive was more important. What the local police did or planned was none of their business. Anyway, these lunatics were truly entities who dared to provoke anyone when they got vicious.
By this time, Belgrade's group had also arrived at the air station. They urgently booked tickets and then blended into the crowd. They certainly couldn't apply for a private flight; otherwise, it would be easier for the enemy to spot and destroy them.
They found their seats and sat down. The spacecraft took off very smoothly. As Germany was the earliest country to possess space flight technology, their pilots were all highly experienced. Although the war had caused the loss of many excellent pilots, most pilots chose jobs like ship captains after retiring, which made Great German Aviation increasingly famous.
Subsequently, the spacecraft performed a maneuver called "Atmospheric Border Extra-Axial Core Twisted Directional Adjustment Level Flight," then flew into the solar system's "Dark Matter Universe," which is the space between two planets.
However, what they didn't notice was that the enemy seemed to have planted people at the air station long ago. It was just that after the squad blended into the crowd, this hunter seemed to have lost his prey.