The next day, just past nine in the morning, Colin and his companions left Base No. 4 by car, heading to another airport, ready to fly home.
Inside the car, having had breakfast, Colin leisurely sipped a cup of milk tea while looking at the news on his smartphone.
'Recently, our city held an anti-landing military exercise....'
"So they've glossed over the battle on the beach from the day before yesterday already."
Colin took a sip of his milk tea, swiped his thumb across the phone screen, and glanced at other people's comments.
There were few comments, and most people didn't seem to care much...
After all, due to the somewhat unique geography, there had been frequent exercises over the years; initially, people were quite surprised at sights like jet fighters, but it had since become commonplace.
About an hour later, they reached a private airport, and a modified airplane had been waiting for quite some time...
Without delay, the group boarded the camouflaged green airplane.
