"Sir? Excuse me for interrupting your sleep but the quarantine paddocks have just been attacked," one of the control room's technician announced.
It was already past nine thirty, and Hoskins, then asleep in one of the armchairs in the break room, widened his eyes and sat up.
"What?!"
He got up and followed the technician to the control room.
In one corner of the main screen, the status of the J-SEC officers assigned to the quarantine paddocks had been displayed in red.
CAMPBELL B. Deceased
DE LORENZO D. Deceased
SANTIAGO R. Deceased
On the real-time map occupying the rest of the screen, a zoom was made on an area that encompassed the northern summit of the Misty Mounts, its slopes and the surrounding jungle, up to the Jungle Trading Post further south.
Among the dozens of bright dots corresponding to the animals in the area, Hoskins noticed that about thirty of them were heading east, climbing the slopes of the mountain.
The technician who fetched the director of the security division came back to him with a tablet in his hands and showed him the footage of the quarantine paddocks' CCTV cameras. Hoskins saw the mauled bodies of two of the officers, lying across the paths, and that the paddocks' gates had been rammed or torn from their hinges.
"I have a video call from Mrs. Lynton!" Cruthers said.
"Put it on the screen," Hoskins ordered.
Cruthers nodded and a window appeared on the main screen.
Susan Lynton appeared shortly after in the middle of said window.
She was sitting again in the meeting room, but unlike the earlier communication, only InGen's Vice President could be seen as she had made the call from her laptop.
"So it seems that the Indominus has manifested again," she declared. "You now know in which area she is. So don't waste time and send the Slayers! All of them." She added with authority.
Hoskins complied but once he informed the Slayers, Lynton added:
"Victor? I looked over your reports on the IBRIS program and read about your ideas and suggestions regarding the application of its research. I think you have there the opportunity to perform a field test. Thus, I announce that you have my green light and the one of the board. Good luck."
