Hoje o mundo foi destruído?

“So you mean the entire human world has only one hour left?”

“That’s why you’re trying to seize the aerospace launch base, planning to escape by spaceship?”

Standing before Lin Xu, the man wearing a skull mask shook his head, the night vision goggles on his head emitting a faint blue light.

“Tsk... at first, I thought you were just a fanatical anti-technology zealot.”

“But now it seems you’re simply a doomsday lunatic.”

“No matter. We take the money and do the job, no questions asked.”

With a click, the man disengaged the safety on his rifle and then said, “Drone reconnaissance complete, security positions confirmed, ready to enter.”

“Follow me, I’ll get you inside.”

Lin Xu nodded, pulled down his own night vision goggles, and followed the skull-masked man’s footsteps.

The skull-masked man raised his hand above his head to signal. The other five team members hidden in the darkness immediately dispersed. Their electro-optical camouflage activated, masking all infrared signals. In the thermal imaging night vision, their figures vanished, leaving only the faint glow of friend-or-foe identification systems flickering.

This was an almost flawless disguise; in the darkness, no one could track their movements.

Silently advancing, they approached the sentry post.

The skull-masked man signaled a countdown. After three seconds, four suppressed pistols loaded with subsonic rounds fired simultaneously. The guards in front collapsed instantly.

At the same time, the rear support team cut off the entire base’