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 You raise your weapon, taking quick aim at the man pointing his weapon at the professor and squeeze of a shot. Your ears ring from the gunshot, deafening you completely. Your shot hits the man in the chest, he crumples to the group, the gun dropping from his dead hand.

The gunman aiming at Kate also crumples. Emily looks on in horror, smoke curling from her raised pistol. She drops it slowly. It takes a few seconds for your hearing to return.

You check the pulse of both men but neither of them survived the encounter. You were very lucky.

The professor looks pretty shaken. He tells you that these agents are after his technology, not to help humanity buy some time with climate change, but use his breakthrough in highly efficient lasers as weapons.

“We need to get him to my friends at the university in Geneva. They will distribute this information to the world. It can’t just remain in the hands of a single government or corporation,” Kate says, looking straight into the eyes of the professor, daring him to disagree with her.

“No, Kate. This is my work and I have obligations to my government. Even if the obligation is just out of a sense of patriotic duty. I don’t agree with your idealised vision of the future.”

Kate raises her weapon at the professor. “I’m sorry professor, but I have to take it,” Mike and Jack enters the room, their hand s on their pistols, looking at you menacingly.

If you:

Agree with Kate and try to convince the professor, go to chapter 64

 

Agree with the professor and try and stop Kate, go to chapter 65