Mission Objective: Recover the stolen contract, facilitate the signing conference for the "North Atlantic Energy Agreement," and resolve the Energy Domain crisis; Progress: Confirmed that the contract had not been destroyed and was in Calgary; Current Action: Investigate the contract's exact location.
In the bitter cold of January, evening fell in an instant.
Calgary, the eastern outskirts of the city.
The silence of winter pervaded the night, and amid the pitch-black darkness beyond the city,
a car engine roared!
A black sedan sped down the highway. The moment it reached the edge of the lights, its body swerved sharply, the doors flew open, and at over a hundred miles an hour,
two figures rolled out of the car, glowing as they canceled their momentum and charged into the wilderness!
Realizing that the vehicle was too conspicuous and that they could never shake their pursuers, they decisively abandoned the car and jumped out.
The reason for that choice lay behind them on the highway—
another car was weaving through the night in pursuit!
In the sparsely populated foreign outskirts, where satellite maps showed nothing but patches of green, the two men noticed that their opponents had likewise abandoned their car and given chase.
The two men simultaneously pulled out and donned night-vision equipment. After confirming there was no one else around, they prepared to meet the enemy without panic!
One man's hand glowed as he drew a weapon, while the other took out a flare and hurled it directly behind them.
A ball of light traced an arc through the air above the wilderness.
The silhouettes of two women faintly emerged, but before they could be fully illuminated, one of them raised her hand, predicting the flare's trajectory in advance.
A gradually solidifying translucent black sphere enveloped the light,