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Another 2 days after, both Kanzaki and Farid had then completely healed from their injuries, thanks to the advanced medical facility of the Russia's organization base. Once they got fully healed, everyone then begun packing up their stuff as Commanding officer Zhang plans to leave the city by the day in order to head over to the capital city of Sakha republic of Russia, the city of Yakutsk.
While preparing their stuff along the way, some officials and executives came to meet with Commanding officer Zhang with the hopes of sending him off with a goodwill. Since Commanding officer Zhang is one of the people that helped in this city's emergency, he was naturally look upon at a brighter side by the officials and executives available in the city.
After a little talk about here and there, they then send the whole team off by the gate of the city as they watched the whole operation team drove off to the horizon.
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While on the road while driving Commanding Officer Zhang then gave a brief background check towards the capital city of Sakha republic of Russia, the city of Yakutsk. This is in order for the4 whole members of this group to fully know the ethics and manners in that place, while also having a full view on what the city is.
As a matter of fact this will be the first time for some of the members to actually visit one of the capital city prior to the apocalypse, with all of that said, curiosity naturally can be seen to some members of the team.
"Yakutsk is the capital city of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). It is situated on the Lena River. It used to be a small wooden fort built in 1632 by Russian Cossacks who were exploring Siberia/ Nowadays it is a big city with the population of more than 250,000 people. The city of Yakutsk presents a mixture of modern tall buildings, Soviet time blocks of apartments and old wooden houses. The city was built on permafrost, a layer of frozen soil hundreds of meters deep which never melts. Most of the constructions are on stilts so that the heat from the buildings does not melt the layers below. "
"....."
"Yakutsk, with an average annual temperature of −8.0 °C (17.6 °F),[8] winter high temperatures consistently well below 0 °C (32 °F) and a record low of −64.4 °C (−83.9 °F), is the coldest city in the world. Yakutsk is also the largest city located in continuous permafrost; the only other large city is Norilsk, also in Siberia. Yakutsk is located in the Central Yakutian Lowland and is a major port on the Lena River. It is served by the Yakutsk Airport as well as the smaller Magan Airport"
"250,000 people? despite the fact that the whole world had undergone the apocalypse?" asked by Richard
"Yes! In fact Russia is one of the country's that had been mildly exempted from the destruction of the apocalypse... the reason for this is because Russian scientists had discovered the catastrophic level apocalypse first before any country had any knowledge of it... all of their knowledge regarding the apocalypse had come from what you call a prophetic stone slab"
"... Then if they know the incoming apocalypse, then why didn't they tell anyone else?" asked by Farid
"They can, but they wont... the reason for this is because they want to prevent a world mass panic from something they aren't sure off. As you may all know future events are quite a fragile thing, no one can be sure which branch of the future would our situation undergo. Thus following the principle, the less people know about the future, the more predictable the future will be"
"Because of that a lot of people died" muttered by Kanzaki
"Except for Russia... the first country to know, are the first one to act"
After hearing his words, all of them suddenly became silent as they all contemplated the issue at hand. Nevertheless Russia's decision back then causes a lot of deaths, and everyone in the team had lost about one or two among the relatives during the apocalypse. However since Russia did such a thing to be able to preserve a predictable future, they also cant be blamed because of it. No matter what country, everyone knew that the leaders would also make the same choice for the greater good.
"So where is the prophetic stone slab? is it in the capital?" asked by Yuti who actually broke the ice surrounding the team
"Apparently yes! however its next prophesy is quite disturbing" answered by Commanding officer Zhang
"Disturbing?" asked by Farid
"I know that the information is confidential, but since the world is already a mess, then maybe confidentiality doesn't matter at all..."
"....."
"The prophetic stone slab prophesize the second coming of the apocalypse..."
"!!!"
Upon hearing Commanding Officer Zhang's words, everyone then became alarmed as they each interpreted the prophesy in their own understanding.
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[Shangri-La, Landing Port]
At the same time while Kanzaki is heading towards the capital city of Sakha republic of Russia, the city of Yakutsk. Jinwoo then finally arrived at the port together with Ai for the attack team that is following the tracks laid by the spearhead team.
The moment he arrived he then sigh out a breath of relief as he finally got dispatched for a mission, after all it is quite lonely at the polar dormitory, since Kanzaki and the rest had left the place a couple of week ago for the spearhead operation, thus the place is currently empty.
Since three of their members is currently in Russia, and Ryuuji together with Jessica is in London, Jinwoo then felt the essence of loneliness despite the presence of Ai.
The moment he arrived at the port together with other people assigned to this team, he was then led by a Chinese officer towards the reception room for the newly arrivals, in order to0 discuss the situation at hand. This time the agents of Grandora city weren't the only ones that were called. Alongside to the man made island city, the agents of Indonesia, Switzerland, Germany, and America were called.
Seeing that every people that arrived in the room are quite unique and had quite a peculiarity of its own, Jinwoo then whistled out a sign of admiration as he felt excited for this operation. Soon after an assigned officer then came into the room as it begun to give them a brief introduction about the operatrio9n and its current status of information that is being transmitted by the agents that is already in the field.
"Good morning everyone! All the people inside this room are part of the Main group, the objective of this group is to directly fight against the terrorist group. now before anything else, we will discuss the current status of the operation..."