Ending Day by Day, Part 2 by Shouji Gatou

Author:Shouji Gatou [Gatou, Shouji]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Light Novel
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

They’d decided to send their people on an investigation of every possible location that could house the enemy AS. There was no time to spare, so Mao’s men would also split into three teams for the search: Sousuke and Mao would cross Victoria Bay and head to the Kowloon Peninsula; Yang and Wu would search Hong Kong Island. The third team would be the transport helicopter that had brought them there in the first place; while staying invisible with its own ECS, it would scan all of Hong Kong from overhead with an ECCS. The device in question—an ECS detector—wasn’t very effective in urban areas, so they would mainly cover the suburbs and other outlying islands.

The vans they’d borrowed from Hunter had the large Chinese characters 狩人清潔有限公司 written on the side. It just meant “Hunter Cleaning Company,” with the word “Hunter” represented by its literal meaning rather than by phonetics—Sousuke, who had little experience with the Chinese language, found the writing strange and foreign despite its similarity to Japanese.

“That old man seems to have his fingers in a lot of pies...” Mao observed with folded arms in the building’s underground parking lot. The four of them had already changed into cleaning company uniforms, with Sousuke’s being the most ill-fitting. “Everyone have your licenses? Double-check your work permits and passes as well,” Mao ordered, “and make sure to keep your fake passport and credit card in separate pockets. Sidearms are limited to one apiece; discharging your weapon is strictly forbidden. Report in regularly, and remember that we’re under martial law, so be careful.”

“What if the army or police tries to take us into custody?” Yang asked. “There are some divisions Hunter doesn’t have friends in, right?”

“That’s right, so be careful,” Mao emphasized. “If you can do it, running is your best option. Whatever you do, don’t fire your weapon—we can’t afford to have you hitting innocent army personnel—but other than that, do what you have to. If you’re caught, it’ll be some time until Hunter can interfere, and you’ll probably be subject to severe interrogation in the meantime. If you are tortured, don’t talk. That’s all.”

“That’s harsh...” Yang muttered.

“The greater concern is being sighted by the enemy,” Mao said pointedly. “If you’re killed because you failed to stay in contact or get permission before acting, it’s not my concern. Got it?”

“Roger.”

“Okay, let’s go,” she said.

They split up into the two cleaning company vans, pulled out of the parking lot, then parted ways into the city. Yang and Wu’s van was headed for Victoria Peak, while the van Sousuke was driving spent a few minutes heading down a sharp, tree-lined slope, until it came out into Chung Wan, the district better known as ‘Central.’

Des Voeux Road was almost like a concrete ravine, flanked by ‘mountains’ of towering skyscrapers. Sousuke, who had grown up in the country, found the sight slightly overwhelming. Only one thin slice of the cloudy sky was visible.

Chung Wan was a commercial district on par with Tokyo’s Shinjuku or Marunouchi areas, but the area seemed almost abandoned at present—no people, and no car traffic.

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