"With them blocking the door like that, we can't get in. What do we do?" Lao San asked.
Although Optical Camouflage was powerful, a blurry, transparent silhouette was still visible up close, leaving them at risk of discovery.
The two waited a while, but the men seemed engrossed in their conversation and showed no intention of budging.
"Hmph! Hit it again and draw them away!"
And so...
"Boom!" Another deafening crash rang out, the roar of colliding metal making everyone's ears ache.
"What's going on?" The commanding officer and weapons expert, who were analyzing the source of the attack, both jumped in fright!
They looked toward the sound and saw wisps of smoke rising from a hole roughly twenty centimeters across in the port-side deck. Its shape looked familiar.
Not far away, a Neon Country officer was clutching his ears as he staggered to his feet, clearly injured by the shock of the latest attack.
"What... happened?" The commanding officer stared at the scene with wide, disbelieving eyes. After waiting a while and seeing nothing else out of the ordinary, he and the weapons expert went over to investigate.
While everyone's attention was consumed by the second attack, two blurry figures quietly slipped through the entrance to the bridge.
"R-reporting, sir! The port side has been hit by another unidentified attack. The circumstances are exactly the same as before, and this time, the attack's trajectory passed only three meters from the ammunition magazine!
"The repair team is already on its way to carry out an emergency safety inspection and patch the hole in the bottom of the hull!" a naval sailor reported, rushing up to the commanding officer.
"What?" Although he had already suspected as much, hearing the report still left him struggling to accept it!
"We still haven't detected