Chapter 39

[ Dash! ]

A small eruption tore apart the Firestorm's main control box until the anti-tank armored vehicle was utterly paralyzed. Seth sees electrostatic waves creeping across Firestrom's skeleton, rendering him unable to move.

Thick white smoke came out from under the wheels, the hatch cover of the cabin wide open to the accompaniment of curses from the operator who moved it. Hiding in the shadows, Seth immediately ambushed the operator, pounced on him from behind, smothered his mouth, and thrust a military knife through his victim's heart.

One of his colleagues came out of the cabin Hatch; Seth shot him in the head with a silencer. They are wholly paralyzed without being detected. Hiding their bodies in the thickets of bushes.

In the silence, Seth climbs up the Firestorm to look through the hatch. Not a single one is still alive.

"Firestorm is down."

[ Good; proceed to your cargo, Hunter. ]

Able to move freely, Seth darted forward into the heart of the emergency facility. Stil