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“Are you going to get out?” Sergeant Vancouver asked Xiaobo. “I don’t want to pressure you, but…”
“Time is running out. I know,” Xiaobo said, staring at a map in front of him on Commissioner Roz’s desk. A holographic map of Affix that Agent Radhikropunanga had arranged for him. “I had a plan. But those machines. That weaponry Joel discovered… That messes everything up.”
“If you ask me, I would continue with what your colleagues are doing now.”
Xiaobo didn’t stare at him understandingly. “My colleagues? What do they have to do with this?”
“That Laro, who chose the attack. That seems to me, frankly, the best choice at the moment. You know, we have some information about heavy artillery waiting on the other side of the moon, but we don’t know exactly what it is. How many machines or v
