Chapter 553: Encountering Amuro

The eight-hour survival mission had now been underway for nearly two hours. Fortunately, the Space Colony did not have many residents, nor was the Colony Satellite particularly large. Its population was spread out fairly sparsely, so Xiao Ran had not wasted any time on the road. If this had been somewhere the size of the 25th Fleet, all he could do was laugh.

Leading a group of twenty-five people out of the crowded little building, they split among six cars and drove toward the shelter marked on the map. Xiao Ran had no concerns whatsoever about completing the first mission. If he could not even finish a mission as simple as surviving for eight hours after spending so long in the world of Prometheus, and with knowledge of the plot to boot, then all that time would have been wasted.

What Xiao Ran was considering was whether to join Zeon or the Federation—which side to join, and how to join them. Both were matters worth thinking over. In truth, it made little difference to Xiao Ran which side he joined; neither side was exactly decent. But if he wanted to follow the plot, the Federation was naturally the more suitable choice.

The opportunity to choose a faction would naturally come within these first eight hours. He had to choose an appropriate side and start acting, or who knew what the situation would be after eight hours had passed? He could not wait until White Base had already left before still remaining on this Colony Satellite with his people, uncertain of what the future held. That would be truly wasting all his effort, watching the main storyline slip away before his eyes.

But no matter which side he chose, the most important thing was that Gundam. If