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“Rad! Is everyone present?” Xiaobo asked upon returning to the police station.
“Except for Joel and the two men guarding the transport lock at unit five, everyone is here,” Officer Radhikropunanga, the rookie among the men, confirmed.
“What about ITC? Any other word?”
“Absolute radio silence,” Radhikropunanga said. The disappointment resented in his voice. No one seemed to care about the people on Affix. They were on their own.
“Okay… okay,” Xiaobo muttered. f**k, he thought.
“Did you expect anything else?” said Laro.
“Well, at least I expected a little support. Hoped that… yes, what exactly did I expect? I think the message from ITC spoke for itself. Whatever’s going on here around this moon, and maybe around Viridis, it’s a matter we have to solve ourselves. But how Laro? How?
