The First Director of Scientific Research answered the questions from the audience below slowly and leisurely. He had never felt panic, for he was rarely confused or distressed by his inability to answer questions raised by others. He knew he was invincible. He had no name; his only title was "First Director of Scientific Research." He was already reluctant to come to this chaotic place from his distant hometown, but unfortunately, they kept pestering him with questions. Although he never panicked about not being able to answer, he was tired of this gray life. He understood that the Seventh Base could be exposed to the world at any moment, so he had no intention of working seriously for the Solar System Federation Committee. He was tired of hiding mysteriously every day.
Era 2137, Germany, Walthem Sector, Second Space Station, Anke City
Joseph was ready to fire at any moment. They had been besieged in this building for three days. He didn't understand. They had set up their base in the old urban area, surrounded by unfinished buildings for miles. How exactly did this group of damned militants find them? And how did they know their latest objective? Information about the Plasma Crystal had never been disclosed to the public.
He stopped thinking too much and took out a German-made weapon with the operation code KF-31. It was a plasma assault rifle that used a 12-grid laser chemical charge rod to provide energy for shooting. This red-beam assault rifle had the greatest lethality. It was encased in a layer of white plasma. The internal red laser chemical energy would be compressed within the white plasma column under immense pressure. The moment the white plasma column touched an object, it would burst open, and the internal red laser chemical energy would trigger a catastrophic explosion. As long as the target was within a one-meter range, a single laser round could kill. Overall, Joseph liked this weapon very much, though during World War III, Britain did not yet possess this latest type of weapon. Of course, Joseph was also glad such advanced weapons didn't exist back then; he certainly didn't want to see terrible scenes of corpses covering the fields and blood flowing like rivers in the center of the battlefield.
He raised his gun and strafed the charging enemies. It was very convenient for them to occupy this advantageous position and shoot at enemies from high to low. After all, looking down from above, the acceleration could provide a secondary charge to the laser rounds, making them faster and more lethal. Secondly, it broadened the field of view and increased the sweep area. However, even though they occupied a favorable position, the endless stream of enemies still made the fight very strenuous for them, and their ammunition was running low.
Joseph looked up at the sky and thought of a brilliant escape method.
He used the rope hooked on his belt buckle and used the launcher gun to hook it onto the signal tower opposite, then swung directly across. Although this method was close to the ground and made it easy to be sniped by enemies, it was the best option at the moment. If they hooked the other end to the unfinished building on their side and slid across using the buckle, they wouldn't have enough buckles, and that sliding method was extremely slow. Once discovered by the enemy, a simple look up and a casual lift of a gun would turn them into a sieve.
The other teammates followed suit and quickly broke through the enemy's encirclement.
Joseph and his team quickly left this place of trouble and took a spaceship towards the new city center. They needed to find a new base. Although they knew that as long as they were in Anke City, their movements would be fully exposed to the militants' surveillance, they had to operate here. According to data provided by the Tomorrow Party and the Seventh Base, they could only search in Anke City because the particle fluctuations were most obvious here, and much of the data also pointed to this location.
Joseph and the others stepped off the spaceship and walked toward the next secret base he had prepared. However, he remained unaware that this secret base had long been discovered. He thought the militants could only monitor them based on their existing actions, but he didn't expect that those hawk-like sharp eyes had been staring at this place for a long time.