章節 85: Stars

The incandescent lamp illuminated the enclosed meeting room bright as a day. Under its strikingly bright light, an emergency meeting was being held.

A dozen of the most influential people in Hedong City watched the huge screen in front of them with serious faces. The screen showed the entrance of the base, where several hundreds of soldiers formed a wall holding riot shields and barely keeping the order of the chaos currently ensuing there.

The Quartz clock on the wall ticked. As the seconds passed, the atmosphere in the meeting room got tense.

Some people were already sweating.

“How many people are already in the underground base?” a middle-aged man chairing the meeting finally asked in a low voice after several minutes.