The night falls solemnly, the night sky covers half of the world as the sun departs,
Although the sea of lights of human civilization is brilliant and bright, outside the urban area, the night still maintains its most primitive appearance, dark, vast, and boundless.
Lake Superior is as silent as the sea as far as the eye can see at night.
One of the five Great Lakes in North America, it has the largest freshwater lake in the world, with the fourth largest water storage capacity covering 30 centimeters of the combined area of North and South America.
Somewhere on its frozen western shore, hundreds of kilometers from downtown Minneapolis,
A whole area of facility buildings stood quietly at night.
Surrounded by a research institute-like building, factories, workshops, warehouses, and a central open space, everything in this facility is tightly surrounded.
Backed by a vast lake, it is located alone in a deserted and remote place in the nearby land.
"That's it?"
After driving through the wilderness and arriving at night, and closing the car door, Celica looked at the buildings not far away with only outlines in the night.
"It looks like it should be right. It's the same as what the agent said."
Confirming the equipment, confirming the physical condition, and getting ready for battle, Ryder spoke calmly.
"A reconnaissance detection device that does not match any model on the market. If the opponent has at least one B-level or above technician, we may not be able to deal with it."
The mechanical bird picked up the 'sentinel' that had been pulled out along the way. The action was about to begin, and the smile on Xion's face no longer appeared, but instead showed the calm edge of a participant.
"It really makes people wonder how in reality companies are involved in things involving so many participants?"
"Don't worry about insignificant things. We are just here tonight to complete the agent's commission and hold the guys in the factory for 40 minutes to give the ace time to sneak in and investigate."
Reminding him of the rules for participants to accept entrustments, Celica told him the contents of the tasks they were responsible for tonight,
"Remember to limit the scope of the battle to the vicinity of the factory as much as possible and prepare for action."
After saying her last request, her cheetah-like figure rushed directly towards the factory, silently and swiftly in the dark night.
And in the same flash, various night vision auxiliary equipment were activated, and everyone else followed her footsteps.
He also opened his dark eyes, and Fang Ran's figure followed at the end, approaching the factory in a stealthy manner with everyone else. The speed of the participants was very fast even without vehicles.
Under the night, the outline of the research institute grew larger and was already very close at hand.
Seeing that the target was approaching, everyone was ready to speed up and rush in to create chaos.
But at this moment!
Haiji warned, Fangran's dark eyes moved, and Celica, who was running at the forefront, suddenly stopped suddenly, and at the critical moment, he shouted to everyone behind him:
"Everyone stop!!"
Then the next second, an arrow with flames pierced the night sky without any warning!
The sound of sound was harsh, and the nails penetrated the ground and the roar of explosions followed!
Bang-boom!!
During the roar, when they heard the warning, they stopped suddenly and set up defenses. Annabelle, Lynn...including Fangran, everyone blocked the impact of the air wave.
Raising her armor in front of her face, Celica watched as this familiar attack destroyed the spot they almost passed by just now.
Taking advantage of the situation to disperse the smoke and dust, she did not think about the useless question of how she was discovered. She raised her gaze coldly and looked at the figures jumping out of the research institute factory at this moment.
one two three four five six!
A strong lineup of six B-level participants!
But rather than the numbers, what Celica looked at first was the woman among the six who was holding a flaming bow condensed with supernatural powers and wearing technological goggles with her hair tied up.
and a man next to him who looked expressionless.
"Hermia, Isibode."
The moment she saw the two of them, Selika narrowed her eyes and spoke in a deep voice,
"Long time no see, but unfortunately, we are not in the same team this time, Selika."
As if they were very familiar, the indifferent man named Isibald greeted Celica,
At this moment, standing at the back, Fang Ran lowered his dark eyes and looked at the familiar figure standing in the front among the six people.
Rufus Russell!
"How did you find this place!?"
Unexpectedly, the new CEO of the empire that he wanted to arrest the night before was right in front of him. Rufus looked at Fang Ran and others at this moment, but asked in disbelief without any pretense,
Then after seeing that Selika and others had no intention of answering,
His expression darkened, and his words were cold and threatening:
"Although I don't know who hired you and how you found this place, don't think you can leave easily tonight!"
After the words fell, the moment I heard him speak like this,
The man named Isibald beside him raised his hand in an instant without any warning, and a strange-shaped metal weapon whirled around and made a numb cutting sound.
With lightning speed! The explosion hit Fang Ran, the lowest ranking person present!
This guy!!
Even though he was a high-ranking B-class person, he did not hesitate to use this sneak attack to attack a C-class person. He knew that rather than being despicable, he just thought it would be a good deal to kill a C-class opponent directly because of his interests first.
Seeing that powerful B-level sudden attack, I knew that I was the only one who could take care of that young man.
Selika frowned and was about to take action to block the blow.
But a figure is faster than her!
Boom——
The delicate and glamorous female figure stood in front of Fang Ran for a moment, her superpower was activated, and the thrust of the jet directly knocked away the sneak attack.
Sparks were flying, and her face was filled with coldness and danger. Annabelle stared at Isibald's location, activated her abilities under the specially made heels, and went straight to kill him without any nonsense!
And almost at the same time, the woman who raised the long bow condensed with flames in her hand, and her face was covered by the eyepiece, was preparing to block the attack.
The dark and transparent space ball suddenly enveloped her!
The moment she noticed the high-risk power of swallowing space, Hermia dodged directly. The ground she was standing on disappeared and a flat circular pit appeared out of thin air.
Then before he could stand still, he saw the energy weapon firing beams rushing towards him!
At this moment, whether it was Celica, Ryder, or Xion, they were all surprised by Annabelle's assistance and strong counterattack just now, and Lynne who did not hesitate to take action.
The operation that was originally planned to be launched after sneaking into the factory suddenly started.
Without any hesitation, the technological armor was activated on her body. Selika turned into a stream of light and charged while speaking decisively to the combat communication:
"Separate the battlefield! Don't worry about winning or losing, just delay as much time as possible!"
On the other side, Isibald did not expect anyone else to be so kind to help. While avoiding the black spikes that rushed towards him, Isibald calmly and indifferently spoke to Rufus who hired them:
"Leave her to me. You have people deal with that C-level kid first and suppress them with numbers."
Needless to say, Rufus waved his hand before facing Celica's blade-like figure, and then the technological equipment started to set up a force field light wall for defense!
On the other side, Ryder and Xion also faced two other B-level opponents. Black beam powers and mechanical birds appeared around them in the night!
"Boy! Find a way to get in by yourself, and then get out of here quickly!"
And listening to the combat communication channel, Selika's brief words of cold reminder came, which was different from the time at Coast Manor.
Fangran's black eyes widened as he watched a Class B charging towards him fiercely this time!
Under the silent dark night on the shores of Lake Superior, on the wasteland near the mysterious institute's factory, a melee among the participants was about to break out.
The factory investigation to recover tens of billions of dollars suddenly begins!
