Xiao Ran had removed his mask and changed into inconspicuous ordinary clothes aboard Anaheim's transport ship. He sat cross-legged in the crowded cargo hold. Nearby, more than a hundred people who had also transferred from the White Base were sitting or lying wherever they could find space.
Zechs sat alone not far from Xiao Ran. Though his eyes were closed, he remained constantly alert to everything in the hold. Saki Maski, Little Shota Luca, and Glan Glan, who looked like a child herself, huddled together and spoke quietly. Above the containers and along the passageways on the cargo hold walls, over a dozen Federal Army soldiers and AE Company personnel patrolled with weapons in hand.
Though there were plenty of gun barrels around, the civilians in the hold actually felt safer than they had aboard the White Base. After all, the White Base called itself pirates, while these were regular troops. As for the dozen or so intelligence agents who had been planted aboard the White Base but had all been thrown out by El-Elf, after boarding this transport and seeing their Federal Army comrades, they revealed their identities and were taken elsewhere.
Yes, there were Federal Army soldiers aboard this transport ship, and the cargo being carried also appeared to be closely related to the Federal Army. That made Xiao Ran rather curious.
This transport ship clearly had ties to the Earth Federation Army, and its cargo was related to the Federal Army as well. So why did it not have even a single warship escorting it? Why was it allowed to travel alone? Had no one considered the risks if someone set their sights on it?
There were quite a few containers of various sizes in the hold, though they did not fill the place completely. Xiao Ran