CHAPTER 3 – SURPRISE
Everything was fine. Not perfect, of course. Perfection does not belong to humanity but mankind had never been closer to it at that time.
Until a strange thing happened. Something that nobody had expected. Something that changed everything forever and turned hope and joy into terror and fear.
It all started on a very normal late spring day in the refunded city of Angkor Wat. Two maintenance teams had been called by observers and sent together with a platoon of soldiers to check for strange reports detected by the instruments from the nearby power plant. Little more than extraordinary maintenance. Two teams of ten maintainers and a platoon of forty soldiers. Everything absolutely normal.
The maintenance teams boarded their transport drone, the soldiers theirs and th
