The stars, but they become the gray wind

"I'm so sorry for making such a decision without your permission."

"It's okay, we can handle the surveillance mission." Angel said as he jumped off the table.

"Thank you, Ange. I'm really worried about Mary. That child also lost her parents and has been bearing the constraints and burdens of being a royal family alone, just like you in the past." Charlotte said, looking at Ange in front of her with concern.

"It was indeed a difficult life for a child like that. If I had a sister like you who cared and loved me back then, perhaps I would have been able to endure such a life." Anjie, recalling the memories of the past, answered her lover in a gentle tone.

"I'm not as good a sister as you think." Charlotte lowered her head shyly.

At that moment, late at night, at the gate of the Vickers Steam-Powered Theatre, a furtive figure slowly opened the door and walked out onto the street. As he looked around, three men in suits, of varying heights and stature, rushed towards the furtive figure, waving canes and shouting, "Give me back!"

The commotion in front of the theater was naturally seen clearly by the two intelligence officers of the Republic of China who were monitoring the base opposite the theater.

"It's those guys again..." The Republic intelligence officer who was sitting in front of a telescope and monitoring the theater gate sighed and complained.

Just as the intelligence officer standing in front of the telescope was complaining, there was a sudden knock on the door of the room.

Another Republican intelligence officer in the room raised his wrist, checked his watch, and shouted to the copper coins beside him, "Looks like it's time for a shift change. Let's go." One of the Republican intelligence officers walked to the door and opened it without warning. The moment he opened the door, a dagger cut through the aorta in his neck. The Republican intelligence officer fell to the ground, clutching his neck, which was spurting blood. The other Republican intelligence officer standing by the window noticed his companion had been attacked and fell. Just as he was about to draw his pistol and shoot, a flying knife pierced his wrist with precision. Before he could scream, the figure rushing in stabbed the Republican intelligence officer guarding the window with another dagger through the heart. Both Republican intelligence officers in the base were killed in a matter of seconds.

The figure who had easily dealt with the two Republic spies in a few seconds walked to the window and looked out at the theater across the street. A truck was driving away from the door of the theater's garage. The man with an Indian face in the room looked back at the two bodies of Republic intelligence officers at his feet and wiped the blood off his dagger with the curtain in the room.

In the car that was driving away from the theater garage, Billy, the frivolous young man whom Angel and Dorothy had met before during their investigation of the theater, was holding the steering wheel of the car with one hand with a proud look on his face, his eyes looking at the address on the note in his left hand, calculating how much money he could get afterwards.

"What do you think... does this count as eavesdropping on a girl's private conversation in her bedroom?" Carlisle asked with a nonchalant expression.

"Probably... not really." Yuki answered hesitantly.

"Although we are not friends yet, there shouldn't be any problem in eavesdropping on the conversation of future friends." Yuki used another perspective to justify the two of them eavesdropping on Ange and Charlotte's conversation in the boudoir through the drone.

"Why do I feel like I'm deceiving myself?" Carlisle touched the back of her head, feeling that there was something wrong with what Yuki said.

"Forget it, it's not the point anyway." After thinking for a while, Kalisi decided to ignore the question.

"Wow, isn't this guy's fighting power a bit too high?" Yuki sighed after watching the man with an Indian face in the drone screen skillfully destroying several intelligence surveillance bases of the Republic.

"From a soldier's perspective, this guy's fighting ability is really good." Calisi also honestly evaluated the agile Indian warrior in the drone picture.

"But... just like how even the most skilled martial artists can be eliminated by a single American-style plasma blast, in many cases, equipment is also crucial. No matter how powerful a person is, they are still human after all. Since they are carbon-based creatures, a single plasma blast will turn them to ash instantly."

As Carlisle spoke, she deactivated the weapon safety procedures of all drones in London. She turned to Yuuki beside her and said, "Alright, let's get to work. Those three antimatter bombs are powerful, but to us, they're probably just small firecrackers. But even small firecrackers can cause some trouble."

"so?"

"We need to intervene a bit to deal with these three troublesome little firecrackers."

Carlisle pulled out a square box from under the table and opened the lid. Inside was an HK416D assault rifle with a grenade launcher mounted on the bottom, along with more than a dozen magazines and dozens of high-explosive grenades stored in the box.

(This chapter is 4000 words.)

Chapter 57: The Missing Bomb (4000 words)

Late at night, an emergency meeting was being held in the control room of the Republic Intelligence Organization within the Kingdom. The emotions of several control room leaders attending the meeting seemed extremely anxious.

"The agents on duty have not been in regular communication, and all bases monitoring the theater are suspected to have been attacked." L's assistant 7 reported to the people present in a somewhat impatient tone.

"That's why I told you that once you confirmed the location, you should have taken it back immediately. What should you do now?" The major, who was always impatient, questioned L with an unhappy look on his face.

"Contact the recovery team and start the operation early." L frowned, took a puff of his cigar, and then announced to the others in the conference room.

"But we still don't know the other party's background and military strength! It's too dangerous to act rashly." 7, the assistant, advised.

"If we delay this for too long, it will become difficult to continue tracking the enemy's whereabouts. If the antimatter bomb is detonated within the Kingdom, it will directly trigger a war between the Kingdom and the Republic."

"What we need now is stability, not the flames of war." L explained to his assistant, indicating that the current situation is urgent.

"Once all teams have completed their preparations, begin action immediately. Retrieving the bomb is the highest priority." L gave orders to everyone in the conference room in an unquestionable tone.

.........

A letter filled with Republic code was slipped through the crack of Angie and Dorothy's bedroom door and onto the bedroom floor by a disguised agent.

Dorothy, who had been waiting at the door, immediately picked up the envelope that had been stuffed in, opened the folded envelope, and read the contents carefully.

After reading the contents of the envelope, Dorothy nodded to Angel behind her and made eye contact. Realizing that the bomb recovery operation had started ahead of schedule, Angel immediately began to change out of her pajamas and prepare the weapons and various equipment needed for the operation.

After the two of them were ready, they went to Chise's bedroom, woke Chise up, and told him that his friend's action would start early.

"Qianshi, there's a call to arms. There's been an accident, and the bomb recovery operation needs to begin early."

.........

An hour later, several people standing on the roof of the building opposite the theater focused all their attention on the theater opposite, waiting for the other teams to give the signal to start the action.

"You said all the surveillance bases were destroyed?" Qianshi asked in surprise.

"Ah."

"It's really hard to understand."

"The control room is still investigating this matter." Dorothy was also very shocked by this matter. Among the strongholds that were confirmed to have been wiped out just a few hours ago, there was the stronghold where she and Beatrice had stayed less than a day ago.

"So, how do we take the bomb back?" Chise turned to Anjie beside him and asked.

"The other teams will be responsible for luring the enemy. We will take this opportunity to confirm whether the bomb is still in place."

"If it's still inside, find a way to get the bomb out."

"This plan is too reckless." Qianshi criticized this overly rough plan quite mercilessly.

"After all, this is a matter of great importance. The Republic has no regard for decency," said Dorothy in a rather serious tone.

Just as several people were talking on the roof, an explosion was heard from the theater door opposite. Then, a thick smoke came out of the theater door. The staff and guests in the theater screamed and ran out of the theater door which was still full of smoke.

"The operation has begun." Angel saw several cars full of fully armed intelligence personnel from the Republic, taking advantage of the chaos caused by the explosion and fire in the theater to rush into the warehouse at the back door of the theater.

.........

At the same time, in the garage at the back door of the theater, Billy, the frivolous man whom Angel had seen before, jumped out of the car that had just driven back to the theater a few minutes ago, holding a large bunch of packaged roses with a happy face. In the early morning, he completed the delivery task assigned to him by a wealthy employer and received a large reward from the employer. With this reward, Billy bought a large bunch of roses from the flower shop, intending to give it to the sweetheart actress he had been pursuing.

"Hey. Hum????" Billy held the roses in his hands, humming a little tune lightly, and walked into the back door of the theater. Just as he was humming the little tune with a happy face, suddenly a voice that Billy was very familiar with called him.

"Hey, Billy, you look like you're in a good mood." Three men wearing top hats and neat suits walked out from the shadows near the wall at the back door of the theater. These three were the creditors who had been chasing Billy to pay back his debts.

"Woo?" Billy had a bad feeling when he saw the three creditors with unhappy faces as he walked into the back of the theater.

"Since you are in such a good mood, I guess your wallet must be full, right?" One of the tall creditors walked up, stretched out a hand with an open palm towards Billy, urging Billy to pay back the debt.

"How about paying back all the money you owe us today, including the principal and interest?" The tall creditor raised his cane and knocked on the ground.

Billy on the opposite side saw the tall creditor approaching him, so he smashed the bouquet of roses in his right hand into the tall creditor's face, then turned around and ran away towards the corridor of the theater.

"Ah! Roses?" The tall creditor, who was hit in the face by a bunch of roses, angrily pulled off the bouquet of roses that hit his face, and rushed towards Billy who was trying to turn around and escape. Billy had just turned around and taken two steps when he was grabbed by the shoulders by the tall creditor. Billy subconsciously hit the tall creditor in the face with his elbow and directly broke free from the creditor's hands that were holding his shoulders.

The tall creditor, feeling pained, saw that he could not control Billy by himself, so he called on his two companions to help catch this frivolous young man who owed money to three people.

Seeing that the other side had more people and more power, Billy fled directly to the garage at the back door of the theater without hesitation. Just as he fled to the side of the car he had just parked in the garage, dozens of unfamiliar cars that he did not recognize rushed into the garage.

"Don't run!!!" The three exasperated creditors just happened to chase into the garage at this time and saw the more than ten cars that had just stopped and rushed into the garage.

"That's the man, catch him quickly!!!" A burly man who got out of one of the cars shouted to the more than ten cars full of people in the garage without hesitation after seeing Billy's appearance.

Following the shout, dozens of agents armed with submachine guns and pistols rushed out of the dozen or so cars that had just stopped. Dozens of submachine guns and pistols were instantly pointed at Bibi and the three creditors who had just entered the garage.

"Ah!! What's going on?" Billy and the three creditors were obviously frightened by the scene. Just as they reacted and turned around to escape through the door of a corridor behind them, more than a dozen bullets clanged and hit the floor where they had just run past.

"What... is going on? Why is there suddenly gunfire and hail of bullets? Billy, what on earth did you do?" The tall creditor among the three creditors questioned Billy who was running in front of him while running away in panic.

"How should I know?" Billy obviously did not look kindly at the creditor who was also running away in a panic behind him.

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On the roof on the other side, Anjie used the C-ball to take Dorothy and Chise directly to the roof of the theater opposite. Then, along the skylight on the roof of the theater, using the anti-gravity assistance provided by the C-ball, she quickly rushed through a series of complex passages inside the theater, and brought her two teammates to the ceiling of the warehouse where the bomb was stored before.

"A box is missing." Anjie looked down through the gap in the ceiling grille. One of the three boxes used to store anti-gravity bombs was missing. Several security guards in charge of the warehouse were sitting around a table playing cards and chatting.

"It has indeed been shipped out?" Dorothy frowned.

"Boss, something bad has happened! A group of guys with guns are rushing in from the back door!" Just as Angel and the others were observing the situation below, the door of the warehouse was suddenly pushed open. Billy, who was frightened and turned pale, reported to everyone in the warehouse in a panic.

"What!" Several security guards who were playing cards around a table in the warehouse picked up the pistols on the table after hearing Billy's words and rushed to the back door of the theater in a hurry.

"Um...where is the boss? He said he would pay me." Billy grabbed one of them and asked about the whereabouts of the employer who paid him.

"There was a commotion at the main gate, he went over there!" The security guard who was held back answered Billy impatiently, shook off Billy's right hand, and followed the others to run towards the garage at the back door.

"Ah, wait a minute, Billy, who did you just say would give you money?" The three creditors who were still chasing Billy relentlessly forced Billy into the warehouse with unfriendly faces.

"This...this..." Faced with the creditors who were pressing him relentlessly, Billy was obviously at a loss.

Angel and the others hiding on the ceiling were not interested in watching the debt repayment farce in the warehouse. They left the warehouse silently from the ceiling and headed towards the main entrance of the theater to catch Billy's employer who might know the whereabouts of the missing antimatter bomb.

Neighbor Eight (V) Another study of the third slip pull ... ...

In the theater lobby, looking at the theater filled with smoke, Johnson Carter and his assistant hid anxiously in a corridor next to the theater lobby.

"Was it done by the people of the Republic?" Johnson Carter's assistant looked at the chaotic scene in the theater anxiously.

"Who knows? It doesn't matter who it is. We can't keep waiting for instructions from the Palace. We have to move the remaining bombs immediately." Johnson Carter looked at the messy interior of the theater and gave orders to the assistant in front of him.

"Yes"

As the two of them entered a performance hall from the corridor behind them, they saw Billy, who was responsible for transporting the bomb, running towards them in a panic.

"Boss! It's bad! A group of guys with guns are coming in from the back door!"

"what!"

"There's a fierce fight going on back there right now," Billy added hurriedly.

After hearing this, Johnson Carter's face changed, and the assistant behind him immediately asked: "What should we do?"

"Retreat immediately!" Johnson Carter ordered without hesitation.

"Huh?" The assistant behind him was obviously frightened by the order, because in his opinion, if he retreated directly now, it would be tantamount to completely abandoning Prince Richard's entire plan.

"Our goal isn't to defend the bomb. If we don't retreat now, we'll only suffer greater losses. Tell your men to retreat immediately!"

"Yes"

After giving the order, Johnson Carter immediately planned to escape towards other exits of the theater with his assistants.

"Well...that? Please wait a moment...money..." Billy, who was anxious to deal with the three relentless creditors, was still thinking about getting compensation from his employer.

"It seems that we didn't get the money." One of the creditors who was hiding behind a curtain in the performance hall said to his two companions.

"How about we come back next time?" suggested another short creditor.

"What nonsense are you talking about? We must get back what we deserve. If we miss this opportunity, we may never get our money back." The tall creditor from before was obviously unwilling to give up the opportunity to get his money back.

Johnson Carter, accompanied by his assistant and chess master Billy, walked to the stage of the performance hall and planned to leave the theater through a secret exit beside the stage.

"Please... please wait a minute. If you want to withdraw, can you pay me first? I have delivered the things." Billy caught up with the two of them to get the subsequent payment.

"I've said it before, the subsequent rewards will be paid only after the mission is completely successful." Johnson Carter, who was eager to escape, obviously had no mood or patience to deal with the trivial matters of the frivolous young man in front of him.

"Let's go quickly." Johnson Carter urged the assistant beside him.

At this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from the curtain behind the assistant and pulled Carter's assistant in. Then the assistant who was pulled behind the curtain let out a scream.

“What…!” Before Johnson Carter could react when he saw his assistant being pulled into the curtain, Angela came down from the sky with Chise. Chise hit Johnson Carter directly with the hilt of the sword. When he wanted to touch the pistol in his right hand at his waist, Angela pulled out the pistol and pointed the muzzle at Johnson's head.

"You must be Johnson Carter, right? You don't look like a show agent, do you?"

"There's one bomb missing from the back. Where did it go? Tell me!"

Billy, who was standing by, was so frightened by the scene that he collapsed to the ground. After he came to his senses, he hurriedly crawled off the stage. Angel and the others had no time to care about this frivolous brat who was not important at all. They just surrounded the suspect Johnson Carter and asked him about the whereabouts of the missing bomb.

"Hmph, so you're the ones who came to search my lair? So, are you from the Kingdom or the Republic?"

Even with a gun pointed at his head, Johnson Carter remained calm and asked the people in front of him questions.

Anjie's face changed when she heard this question, realizing that the Johnson Carter in front of her might not be a member of the Kingdom, nor a reactionary within the Republic.

.........

On the other side, Billy, who had fled to a corner of the theater performance hall in a panic, was caught by several creditors as expected.

"You guy, where is my money?" asked the tall creditor angrily.

"Don't ask me, my boss was caught by a woman with a gun, and I have no money to take!" Billy, who was almost crying from the situation just now, explained to the creditor in front of him.

(Another 4000-word chapter, please give me some blades and monthly tickets as rewards! It will be on the shelves next week, I hope you can give me some rewards.)

Chapter 58: The world of steam filled with smoke: There is a problem with the equipment, more than 4000 words are stuck, and it will be updated later

While I was typing, the device suddenly crashed, and the 4000 words I had already written for a new chapter were completely lost. It was a bit frustrating, and I have to rewrite it. The update will be a little later.

Chapter 59: Yuuki's Aesthetics Begins to Become Warhammer 40k? (5000 words)