Base
After receiving Xiao Ran's report, VEDA—or rather, Aeolia's subconscious—directly assigned Xiao Ran a base located inside a famous mountain in the Japanese Special Economic Zone. Its location was sent to Xiao Ran's encrypted communicator in map form.
Xiao Ran, Mr. Raphael, Graham, Billy, and Nalo—who had changed into a UNION female second lieutenant's uniform and hidden her handcuffs beneath her clothes—left the Japanese Special Economic Zone's Second Coastal Military Base by plane and headed for the location on the encrypted communicator.
Hong Long was still piloting the plane. He seemed extremely skilled with ordinary means of transportation, whether aircraft, ships, or cars. Having someone like him around was indeed quite convenient.
Sitting on the plane, looking at the blue sky and white clouds above and the land known as the Japanese Special Economic Zone below, Xiao Ran felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction at the thought that he would become this region's true ruler. That feeling came from the anger caused by what that country had done in his previous world, though Japan in this world was merely the name of a region rather than the concept of a nation.
But when he thought about how, during his time in this world, he could keep the people of that country beneath his feet and even make them act according to his will, the satisfaction was beyond words.
When the plane reached the marked location on Mount Fuji, it was exactly like when he had first met Miss Huang and the others. From above, there was no way to tell that the ground below was merely disguised with optical camouflage. Perhaps Hong Long was very familiar with Celestial Being's bases, because he directly began descending the plane straight down and eventually landed on a platform.
As the landing platform retracted,