The setting sun had sunk into the sea, and the night at Circular Island Port was a peaceful one, yet Potato Harbor, two hundred nautical miles away, was bustling with activity.
In the forest, sparks flew, explosions and gunfire rose and fell in succession, and the communication channel was filled with chaotic shouts, occasionally accompanied by the shrieks and groans of variants.
The remote weapons station on the top of the "Husky" track vehicle kept firing, pouring 20mm caliber bullets into the pitch-black forest, while the grenade launcher occasionally emitted banging sounds as it burst open fiery flashes mixed with smoke in the jungle.
The surrounded group was a scientific expedition team that had ventured into the Ruins of Shilong City.
Half an hour ago, they had arrived at the ruins of a signal reception station, planning to recover the coordinates and identification codes of an astronomical observation satellite stored on the local server's hard drive.
