Chapter 517 - 510. Ambush
"What happened?" the reporters looked around as the alarm blared through the main base.
The guard leader turned to look at the screen, but the guards manning it shook their heads. "It’s not from the radar."
"The alarm came from the command tent, Sir."
"So it must be from the outpost," the guard leader frowned. "It seems that we have to cancel your schedule for to--where are they?" the leader blinked at the empty space that used to be occupied by the reporters.
"They ran down once they heard it comes from the command tent."
The guards looked at each other for a few seconds before shrugging. "Oh, well...they should be safe inside the main base anyway."
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"Hurry, hurry! This is a scope already!"
The reporters climbed down the watch towers and ran across the field like the heaviness pressing on their bodies before was nothing but a lie. The prospect of getting an exciting sorry energized them like no other. They were a bit disappointed by the dry reception and uneventful tour, so there was no way they wouldn’t move when a headline was right in front of their eyes.
Even the senior reporter who had always been calm and respectful couldn’t help his tingling senses for something big. That being said, he did not forget to warn the others that the command tent was a prohibited zone for them.
"But Senior...how else would we get the information?!" some of them argued as the senior stopped them not far from the command tent and pulled them aside as some espers were going in and out of the structure.