Chapter 140: [Operation Spearhead II]

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Taking a flight on the aircraft carrier of the organization, Kanzaki himself was currently lying on the chair on his back as he reviewed the contents of the operation that was given to them. Upon seeing his serious expression, Isabelle then quietly sat beside him as she begun talking to him while they are taking flight.

"Hey!"

"...??? What's up?" asks Kanzaki

"Looking pretty serious aren't you?" asks Isabelle

"Well how could i not be? i mean the last assignment we had was the time in the Philippines and we somehow managed to get the girl from Undead, however that acquisition didn't last long when the terrorist group turned their attention towards Claire and snatched her off from us... this is truly troublesome" complained Kanzaki

"Your right! such experience is too much for a child" said Isabelle

"Well i think her experience even before she met us is also quite disturbing" added Kanzaki after remembering the story behind Claire's life

"... her life... is something a child shouldn't have"

With that they became silent for a moment as they both looked at the distance as they observed the interior of the aircraft and observed the other people in the spearhead group. After for what seems like a few minutes of silence, Kanzaki's gaze returned to the files in his hand as Isabelle looked over from her seat to the point that they were so close to each other and even hear each other despite whispering in a low voice.

When someone could even see them now, one would even mistake them to be flirting with each other despite the current situation.

Just like what is stated, Richard himself quickly caught sight of both Kanzaki and Isabelle in a corner as he somehow whispered to comment their atmosphere.

"Woohoo! Looks like both Kanzaki and Isabelle are flirting in the corner"

When Richard said those words, both Mike and Markwin naturally heard him as they turned their gaze towards both Kanzaki and Isabelle and noticed the situation around them.

"I think its wrong to suddenly come into an assumption that they are flirting Richard" said Mike

"How could you say that? Isn't it obvious that they are indeed flirting with each other?" insisted Richard

"I think they're not! based on what i can see, both Kanzaki and Isabelle are just discussing something related to the file that they are looking" analyzed  Markwin as he noticed that both Kanzaki and Isabelle are just discussing about a a certain topic on paper

"At that distance? I think not" urged Richard\

In that moment they then saw Alice walking towards Kanzaki's direction as Richard seemingly smiled out of nowhere. Seeing his mischievous smile, both Mike and Markwin couldn't help but feel strange towards Richard, after all such an expression is an expression of a troublemaker.

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In that moment Alice finally arrived before both Kanzaki and Isabelle as she sat at the other seat  beside Kanzaki, an approximately opposite direction of Isabelle. After sitting down she then also looked over the file that they are discussing and started to give out her own idea.

"The power to wield or control life and death... no wonder the people on the stronger surviving countries tries to monopolize her so much, her ability alone brings so much benefit for the country who will take custody of her" said Alice

"Indeed! such benefits consist of power, status, credits, and many more" said Isabelle seemingly not minding Alice joining in the talk

"Well that monopolizing attempt is what caused this problem in the first place, due to the countries greed, they somehow caused this huge internal struggle which literally left us vulnerable for a third party to intervene" said Kanzaki

"At most people from the Protect faction and the people from the monopolize faction doesn't cooperate well each other" said Isabelle

"... We cant do anything about that anymore, for all we know, people from the city are part of the neutral faction" said Alice

Upon stating that fact, Kanzaki then quickly flipped to another page of the file as he quickly changed the subject.

"Putting that aside the aircraft will land in Shangri-La, wherein a personnel assigned to our group would inform us the current update of the operation while sending us somewhere near the Russia's border to maintain our stealth status" said Kanzaki

"When we arrive at the checkpoint, that is where my stop... from there i would try to assist you guys as you enter the Russia's territory" said Isabelle

"Aren't the agents of Russia try to make contact with us? I think its only appropriate to cooperate with them, after all they are native in their land, thus they know more about Russia's terrain rather than us"" suggested Alice

"Well we can do that but...  there's no telling whether they would cooperate with us, after all Russia's leader is part of the Monopolize faction" said Isabelle

"I think we should just mind our own" said Kanzaki

"I completely agree" said Isabelle

With that Alice simply sighed as she too finally agreed to their conclusion

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[Shangri-La, China]

Shangri-La a mountain paradise, with dense forests, alpine lakes, grasslands, and gorges distributed among the meadows and plains. Shangri-La is home to more than 20 ethnic groups, with Tibetans comprising the majority of the population. Shangri-La has historical sites with more than 1,300 years of history.

According to the historians before the apocalypse, Shangri-La's prefecture Diqing is where some of the World Natural Heritage site "Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas" is located. It is inimitably idyllic and a utopia in many people's hearts. Snowy mountains, prehistoric forests, grasslands, canyons, rainbows, starry skies, ancient cities.

However in comparison to the description before the apocalypse, Shangri-La now had completely changed as a huge base was constructed in such place with no civilians living on the area near it, after all the place itself was one of the cities that are on the list that have fallen during the apocalypse.

Right now in order to repurpose such place, a huge base was then constructed above the destroyed city as it then turned into a military sight for the organization.

In that moment the aircraft carrying the initial team finally arrived in such place and finally landed on their port.