Chapter 464: Escalation

"Damn," Daniel cursed while tapping his hand against the back of his device. "I can't reach the intelligence again."

"Device broke or…?" Alice inquired, following her superior outside of their box office. 

"This is the first time anyone activated a blue alarm," Daniel pointed out, raising a piece of cloth from his neck to his mouth to keep his face free of ever-present sand. "Just deploying all the equipment will take a while. Setting it all up will take some more. Right now, the line is simply too busy."

Daniel sighed and hid the device back in one of his pockets. 

The two of them marched out through the empty dunes, heading towards the main camp some distance away.

Roughly halfway over, one of the company's heavy-duty cars arrived.