Chapter 21
(Please take it easy on my English. It is my second language.)
In a dark conference room,
A huge screen was displaying a live footage. Loads and loads of police cars and military vehicles had completely surrounded a huge building from all sides on the city streets. Many heavily armed cops, SWAT, and military soldiers were behind the vehicles with their weapons pointing at every door and window of the building.
"It looks like one of your units in the city is cornered".
"Maybe so, but it is definitely not over. Just look at them, the Chinese have so many heavily armed men outside the building. None of them had moved in again in the last hour since the last group of cops had entered. They must be scared after knowing what our B.O.W. is capable of," A man with a microphone beside his face replied.
"We shall see whether or not it can get out of this one".
"Yes, we shall. Our B.O.W. proceeds decent intelligent, it knows better not to go out on the open field. As long as it stays inside the building, it has lots more fight left in it".
"How do you explain the one killed inside that APC from earlier?" Another man asked.
"It was trying to delay the reinforcement from entering the building. It was a team player like all the others".
After Sherry came out of the shower, she had a lovely meal the first time in 3 days. Despite how hungry she was, she was still just a young girl. Two pieces of rice cakes, ¼ of the roast duck filled her up pretty well. She also liked the giant Xinjiang grapes and the giant sweet melon, but the size of her stomach did not allow her to have too much of each. Both Ada and Leon were just looking at the lovely Sherry having fun with her food the whole time during her meal. Especially Leon, it made him so happy to see Sherry again, and it pleased him to see little Sherry was satisfied with all the food. After the dinner, Sherry went straight to the bed after Ada gave her some sleeping suits of her own, she was too tired. Ada and Leon both had some midnight stacks of what was left on the table before they went into a bedroom together.
Now Leon and Ada were lying side by side on the bed. It had been three days since their last time slept together. Despite it was over midnight, the two of them were both on their sides face to face and looking at each other.
"Leon, is there something on your mind?" Ada finally asked.
"Um…Not really," Leon lied poorly.
"If you want to do something, go ahead. My mom is upstairs, my dad is 80 miles away," Ada smiled seductively.
"Are you sure? I don't want to hurt you again".
"Oh, you are talking about that…I can bear the little pain, but…"
"What else would I want? And but what?" Leon smiled and he started to fondle Ada gently. It only made him wanting her more.
"We can't do it here. This is my parents' bed. They'll notice if I bleed".
"Just say you had a period".
"I guess I could. But what if Sherry hears it? She is in the next room, and she is really tired. We don't want to wake her up".
"We don't want her to be embarrassed!" Leon spoke out the truth while making a funny face. "Don't worry, honey. I will cover your mouth when you moan".
"I did not moan! It wasn't me I was talking about".
"Yes, you did! You just did not realize it," Leon laughed. "Even though you were bleeding, you did moan slightly for a short time toward the end".
Outside a huge mall at Sand City,
"Colonel Lee, why can't we just move in and hurt that thing down?" A captain of a SWAT team asked. A few military officers too were looking at Colonel Lee.
"Because, General Wong had ordered us not to," Colonel Lee replied. "He said our job is to contain this creature. Make sure it is going nowhere, until the Special Forces arrive".
"How long will that be?"
"I am not sure. They definitely should arrive before the morning," Lee answered him while looking around the surrounding. "Umm, who is that?" He suddenly noticed there was a camera man on the top of an eight-floor building across the street. The man's camera was right pointing at the scene.
"I have no idea…I thought we had already told every news institution in the city not to film anything".
"You stay here, I will be right back," Colonel Lee turned around and walked toward the direction of the camera man.
2 minutes later,
"Hey, you!" A voice came from behind the camera man.
The camera man was shocked for a second. As he turned around, he saw a military officer right behind him.
Colonel Lee was stunned for a short moment when he saw it was a foreigner.
"Do you speak English?"
"Yes," the camera man replied.
"Are you an American?"
"Yes," but the man immediately regretted because he could see Colonel Lee's expression had changed dramatically.
In a flash, his camera was seized.
"What do you think you are doing?" Colonel Lee had turned off the camera the moment after he seized it.
"Filming," The camera man replied.
"For who?"
"Myself".
The next second, Colonel Lee threw the camera onto the ground really hard. The camera was broken. Before the camera man could react, Colonel Lee jumped into the air and stepped down onto the already broken camera really hard with both feet. He continued to jump, jump, jump on it again and again until it was broken into many small pieces.
"No more filming!" Colonel Lee turned around to look at the camera man with one angry face.
"What the…" The camera man was surprised at what Colonel Lee just did to his fancy camera. "You can't do that! News freedom…"
"News freedom my ass!"
"I will tell your superior…"
"Tell my ass!"
"I will sue you…"
"Sue my ass!"
The camera man was about to say something again,
"Get out of my face before I kick your fat ass!" Colonel Lee looked at him with really scary eyes.
The camera man chilled a bit before he turned around to walk away, but before he entered the stairs, he turned around.
"I am calling my lawyer now!" But he immediately turned around and ran away with top speed, because Colonel Lee was rushing at him with a very creepy face.
Inside the dark conference room,
The screen went blank again.
"What the heck?"
"President Hu, I highly recommend to set up temporary refugee camps around Sand City immediately. The infection is still in very early stage, but if we don't move the people out of the city soon, they will all be infected eventually. We can't just leave over 300,000 people to die!" General Wong said to a big screen inside his command center.
"Explain the very early stage part. How and when did this start to happen?" President Hu replied. He was called up from his bed, and he was still in sleeping suits.
"It just started with some reports of brutal murder cases sometimes the passing evening, although I was not informed until about two hour ago. Many of the victims were all torn into pieces by unknown weapons, while no suspects were found. Nobody was suspicious of anything until there were more and more reports came in. In just a few hours, all the police forces in Sand City were stretched too thin with no more man power to even go check out the new scenes. The Sand City military base had to send in soldiers to assist on the request of the police department. There were total over 700 reports of murder cases in the last 6 hours. From the look of it, they were all the doing of the same creatures which had attacked M.S.S. headquarter. Despite so many weird brutal murder cases in just a few hours, nobody had thought about what really happened until about 3 hours ago when some of the dead victims started to turn into the walking dead".
"How many people are infected?"
"We don't really know for sure, but I estimated only three thousand at most, which is only less than one percent of the city's population".
"Explain how you got that number".
"As only half of the direct victims killed by the creatures were able to turn into zombies due to the fact the other half were in pieces, there should be only a few hundred first wave zombies. Some of the animals might also be infected because of the contact with the dead bodies. Many of those first wave zombies had already bit quite a few people. Most of those second wave victims were not dead, but they will eventually turn into zombies too. We are trying our best to contain every one of them, but it is quite impossible since we estimated there are at least 2 to 3 times the cases were not even reported. We have no idea how many more people were killed in their homes, until the zombies come out. So far only one of the creatures in the city was spotted. I figured they must be still on the move as we speak…"
"How long will it take you to move all those people?"
"Depend on how fast the refugee camps can be set up. We need lots of tents, steel fences, food, supplies, and materials for temporary defensive lines. It might take up to a week or more to move everyone…"
"What do you suggest after we evacuate the uninfected population?"
"I recommend to nuke the city with a neutron bomb".
"You can't do it," Suddenly General Zhao's voice came from behind.
"General Zhao, what do you have to say about the situation," President Hu asked on the screen.
"My commandos had just confirmed 5 kills inside M.S.S. headquarter. It won't take long before they sweep through entire buildings. Soon they can be used in the city to hunt down the creatures there".
"What about the increasing number of zombies?"
"Send in more troops to take care of them. We can't just nuke every city where there is infection. If we do that every time, we will be running out of cities soon with millions people have nowhere to go," General Zhao replied.
"This is crazy! We can't send in more men. We need to pull everyone out as soon as possible! Do you remember what happened at Raccoon City in the United States six years ago? The military units sent in there were all dead! Turned into zombies! More hosts for the virus if you send in more troops!"
"Those were only small units of infantry mercenaries. We can't lose to some mindless zombies if we sent in a tank division," General Zhao said. "We can retake the city. It is a good opportunity to practice how to deal with such situation, so we will do better if there is a next time".
"You are crazy! Are you taking this as a game? Practice? Or are you trying to take it as a large scaled war? Send in tank division? We…"
"General Zhao is right," President Hu stopped General Wong. "He was right about we can't just nuke every city where we found traces of infection. Good thing, it is only a small city in low population area this time. What if the big cities such as Shanghai and Beijing were targeted next time? There are tens millions people in each of those cities. We have to find a better way than just drop the nuke on the homes of that many people every time there is a city being infected".
President Hu's speech made General Zhao putting on a cocky smile while he was looking at General Wong.
"General Zhao, I need a more detailed plan," President Hu said.
"Mr. President, I need additional 100,000 troops in this area immediately. Completely surround Sand City from all directions. Then send in one tank division and 30,000 marines. The tanks and armors will crash the zombies on the streets easily while escorting the marines, and the marines can sweep through door to door of every building," replied General Zhao. "Oh, and we need to create no fly zone around the city. In case of anyone tried to escape by air. We will have to make sure no virus carrier leaves the quarantine zone. Shoot down any unauthorized aircraft moving out of the city".
"What about the refugee camps?" General Wong asked.
"General Wong, you will be in charge of the setting up of refugee camps. I will arrange the tents, and other supplies for you immediately. And I am sorry, I have to relieve you from the command of your base temporary. General Zhao, you will be in charge of all the troops in the area during this operation." President Hu made his decision. "There are not enough troops in Xinjiang. I will start to move the troops in by air and trains from the east. Meanwhile, General Zhao, the 81th tank division at Urumq will be arriving by either tomorrow night or the day after".
"This is outrageous! Tanks lose their advantages on the city streets! They are only good in the open! And zombies are not the only things we will need to worry about. What about the rats, birds, or even insects? They can get through the troops' defensive line easily or unnoticed! The infection can't be contained unless we drop a nuke soon!" General Wong protested.
"Raccoon City outbreak lasted more than a week before the U.S. government dropped the nuke. Don't you think some undead animals would have left there during that time if they could? There was none escaped Raccoon City area. They don't have enough energy for long traveling. Sand City is in a desert area, there is nothing to be worried about those things can travel far," General Zhao argued.
"Then it is settled. I will be making arrangements to move the troops now. Keep me informed," President Hu cut the communication.
"Go ahead to receive your tents. All the troops in this area are under my command now," General Zhao looked at General Wong. He was really laughing in his head.
Outside the Sand City Mall,
A military helicopter had arrived. Two ropes were dropped, before a squad of commandos came down.
"Just you?" Colonel Lee looked at the squad of commandos. "There is a dangerous creature in there. It had already killed over 40 cops".
"And I am here to put an end to it," A familiar voice came from behind one of the commando's mask. "You all spread out to cover all directions from the outside, make sure it won't escape," The man turned around to order the rest of the squad.
"Umm…"
"Lee, it is me," The commando lifted the plastic mask on his helmet. Colonel Tao's face showed up.
"Tao, since when you joined the Special Forces? For all this time, you had really fooled me! You pretended to be weak! Why don't you show me some of those Chicken Claws of yours?" Colonel Lee was not happy about Tao joined commandos, nor the way he fooled him by hiding his real strength.
"Chicken Claw? It's Eagle Claw!"
"They are all the same to me. Now answer me why are you one of the commandos?"
"I am not a part of the Special Forces. It is only temporary," Colonel Tao replied. "Why don't you just tell me which part of the mall the creature is at?" He was putting a grenade into his grenade launcher attachment below his assault rifle as he spoke.
"We don't know for sure. The last group of cops went in had lost contact with the outside after they went to the east wind of the second floor, but it was over 4 hours ago".
"Never mind then. I guess I will have to do something to lure it to me, give me that," Colonel Tao grabbed a big speaker off one of the cops, and then he covered his face up again with the plastic mask. He held his QBZ-95 assault rifle in just one hand while holding the speaker in the other as he walked toward the main entrance of the mall alone. "Everyone please stay outside".
"What the heck do you think you are doing? Walk in there alone? With a speaker? You want to go to hell that much?" Colonel Lee shouted after him.
"Thank you for your concern. Just prepare a bio-hazard cleaning crew. I will be back in less than 40 minutes max, there are still other places require me to go," Colonel Tao did not even turn his head back as he continued to walk toward the entrance all by himself. Soon he disappeared into the building.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are…" Colonel Tao's magnified voice on the speaker came from the building.
"He is crazy!" Everyone outside looked at each other.
"I am all alone, Mr. Chameleon! Come out to play 1 on 1," Colonel Tao continued trying to get the creature's attention. "Hurry come out to play before I leave for another appointment!"
"This man is so dead…" A captain of the SWAT team said.
"I can hear you. Oh there you are, your tale is out…" colonel Tao's voice on the speaker.
Suddenly, there was the sound of two blast fire of 3 shots each from an assault rifle, followed by a sound of grenade explosion.
"Don't run away from me. We just get to know each other," Colonel Tao's voice.
Everyone outside the building looked at each other again. They did not know what to think.
Another two much longer blast firing of the assault rifle was heard before everything went quiet.
"That's it, the guy is dead…" The cops and the soldiers were looking at the remaining commandos.
The commandos did not even move a muscle. They had spread out standing among the cops and the soldiers on all sides of the building. Since their faces were covered by the color plastic mask from their helmets, nobody could tell their expressions. They all stood there like statues.
A few minutes later,
Colonel Tao walked out of the mall from the front gate.
"Where is the bio-hazard cleaning crew?" He asked as he walked closer. Everyone could see he was carrying his assault rifle with right hand and was pointing it at the sky while holding something in his left hand.
"They are right here," Colonel Lee replied.
"There you go," Colonel Tao threw something onto the ground.
It had a shape of a ball, and it rolled toward the defensive line. Finally it stopped just 2 meters away from Colonel Lee.
"Oh my god!" Everyone around Colonel Lee suddenly stepped back after took a look at the thing on the ground.
It was the head of the creature! Its mouth was still open with a mouth full of huge sharp teeth!
The sun was already shinning, Ada and Leon were still holding each other on the bed in their sleep. Both were totally naked.
"What do you kids think you are doing?" A woman's screaming suddenly woke up both of them.
Ada's mother had walked into their bedroom! She had woke up earlier and had to get some clothes for change.
After being woke up by the sudden screaming, the two lovers both sat up onto the bed really fast. Ada quickly grabbed a blanket to cover herself. Just two seconds later, she suddenly realized something and she quickly gave her blanket to Leon. Leon covered himself entire with the blanket, including his face. He lied back down and he was not moving a muscle.
"Ada? Why are you doing this? You are not married yet!" Ada's mother asked angrily. "Girls should not give up your bodies until the day you get married!"
"Mom, you are way too old fashion. This is 21st century. Besides, we are already engaged. It is only the matter of time before we get married," Ada got off the bed to grab her clothes.
"If you get pregnant before the marriage, I am not taking care of the kids for you," Ada's mother really had nothing to argue about except her traditional value. She used the "trump card" of not taking care of her grandchildren if they were born before the marriage.
"Don't worry, mom. I never planned to trouble you with my…kids," Ada was smiling, but her face was very flushed. "Now mom, could you please leave this room before Leon runs out of air supply under the blanket?"
Ada's mother had no other choice. She turned around and walked out of the room while shaking her head. "Today's kids are so…"
Ada closed the door behind her mother.
"Leon, you can come out now".
"Is she really gone?"
"Yes! It is safe now," Ada laughed.
"You are not kidding me, right?"
"Of course not," Ada leaned forward beside the bed and pulled the blanket off Leon who was still completely naked, and she sat down beside him.
"What did she say?" Leon asked after took a deep breath. He moved closer to Ada.
"She is just an old fashioned woman who believed in even fiancées should not making love…not until get married. There is nothing to worry about," Ada kissed Leon to calm him down.
"Are you sure?" Leon's voice was weird during the kissing.
"Yes!" Ada replied after broke away.
"She saw me naked!" Leon was very embarrassed.
"Are you that shy?"
"General, it was confirmed. It was them," A man's voice on the phone.
"How many BOWs did they release?" General Zhao asked.
"Total 12 of them. Eight was sent to attack the M.S.S. headquarter, four were released in Sand City".
"So there are only three more in the city…"
"Congratulations General, so you have hunted down most of them already".
"Was the gift delivered?" General Zhao replied.
"Yes, everything was done as you ordered".
"Now give me the phone number…"
In a conference room,
"What the heck was going on? Why aren't the other camera crews sending back videos?" The man with a microphone beside his face asked angrily.
"I don't know, sir".
All the guests had left hours ago, although they claimed they would be back to watch the new videos on replay. He couldn't blame them. After all, those guests came all the way only watched less than 2 hours video out of 5 hours.
"It's going to be hard to cover the cost if this continues. We lost one lab, and a satellite!" The man was getting upset since it would take several large quantity sales before his company could even make back what they had just lost.
"We could try to sell the video footages to some big news network for a little extra income," Someone suggested. "They sure could use it to their advantage in some silly propaganda of theirs".
"Not a bad idea, not bad at all, but it will be far from how much it had cost us. To make profit, we have to get the new development at Sand City on living video quickly!"
"Yes, sir. I will try to contact the camera crews again".
The man in charge took out a video tape and gave it to another man. "Go do what your buddy had just suggested, now". He was eager to make some quick money back to cover some of the cost, even though it would be nothing compare to how much it had cost his company in the past 2 days. "They will definitely ask for more footage, and then we will rip them off…"
A few minutes later, there was cell phone rang somewhere in the room.
The man in charge looked around. He found a cell phone on one of the chairs. It must be left behind by one of the guests. He picked it up and turned it on.
"Hello?" He asked.
"Mr. Guffey?"
"Yes, who am I speaking to?"
"I am the superior of Mr. Kim".
"Kim's superior? Are you interested in our product?"
"Yes. Please call me General Zhao".
"Zhao? Isn't that a Chinese name? I thought Kim was from South Korea".
"North Korea, unfortunately".
"What?? And then you are?"
"That is right. I am with PRC. North Korea is just a puppet of ours. We know everything…Now please do not panic. I too like to make deals. Go check under your table," General Zhao said.
"There is nothing," The man replied after he took a look below the huge conference table.
"The backside of the table".
The man looked up from his crouching position. There was a small box being taped onto the back side of the table. He pulled it off and took it into his hand.
"What is it?"
"Open it".
The man opened the small box. He saw a device with an electronic clock on it. The time on it was 1:23:35, but the moment after he opened the box, it changed to 00:00:10 and it was counting down…
It was a bomb!
"You son of a bitch!!" The man screamed as he knew he had no time to run.
"That is where you are wrong. Just wait and watch," General Zhao smiled on the other hand.
"…7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0!"
The man closed his eyes really hard while holding his own head with both arms. He was waiting for the end.
Nothing happened!
"Haha, I got you!" General Zhao laughed out loud on the other end.
"That was a terrible joke!" The man wiped some sweat off his forehead. He was scared shit out of himself.
"Now, let's talk about the business".
"What business? I thought you are a General of PRC. What do you want?"
"Transfer $50 million USD to my personal secret bank account. And I will keep your information a secret. You will be safe as long as you do not launch another attack on China's soil".
"$50 MILLIION?"
"Yes. Not one cent less".
"That is too much!"
"Not for your life. I can take it away any time I please. As the sales department manager, you have the access to move 16 times that much cash. Like I said, I know everything about you and your company. I am willing to keep it to myself after you paid".
"…"
"Hurry deciding now, before I increase the amount due to inflation. I am going to tell my superior in just 1 minute if you don't transfer the money right way. Then it will not be up to me. Nor your superior would let you go after knowing you had exposed yourselves because of you being so stupid. As a matter of fact, I know your superior is just 3 floors above you. He came to the demonstration too, didn't he? Shall I give him a call too?"
"No, wait. Let me think for a second," The man sounded very worried. His superior probably would kill him before the Chinese if he learned it.
After 30 seconds thinking,
"Ok. Tell me the information I need to know to make the transfer," The man finally gave in. He had to cover up his mistake. Even if the Chinese can't get to him, his superior would…As for the amount of "missing" money, he would have to think another way later to cover that one up.
Just 7 minutes later,
"Very well, I have one more demand," General Zhao said.
"What is it?"
"Tell me the location of the remaining 3 B.O.W. in the Sand City".
"I can't. We had lost track of them," The man replied.
"Can you call them back?"
"No. They suppose to return once the mission is complete, but this time we expected for a nuclear strike on the city from you, so we did not bother to program them for the return".
"No way to call them off or locate them?"
"No, I am telling you the truth!"
"Ok then, we are done".
"You have to keep your word. I did everything you asked".
"Thank you for doing business with me. Mr. Guffey. Oh, by the way. Check the box again, there is another gift underneath the second layer," General Zhao said in a laughing tone.
"Oh, shit! This guy isn't honoring his word. It must be … I have to throw it out of the window quickly!" The man thought and he quickly grabbed the box.
As soon as he touched the box, BOOOOOMMMMMM! Entire building collapsed in a huge explosion…
"Check made," General Zhao smiled as he turned off the phone.
Ada's communicator beeped,
"Where are you?" Wesker appeared on the screen.
"Sand City," Ada replied and she thought "It's not like you have heard it before".
"Is Lauren there?"
"Yes, but she is still sleeping. Shall I wake her up?"
"No, let her sleep. Just let me take a look at her," Wesker requested.
Ada silently walked into Sherry's room, and she waved the screen at the bed. Sherry was in Ada's sleeping suit while in a deep sleep. She was too tired after 3 days of almost no rest. Her sleeping face looked very cute. Ada slowly closed the door and walked back into her own room.
"Is it good enough for you?" Ada asked, but she was really thinking "lol? Wesker is playing daddy? This is getting more and more weird".
"Yes. Good job. But I told you to just set her free. She can contact me on her own".
"Easier to say than done. She was tortured with no food and no sleep in 3 days. She couldn't even make out of the desert where the base held her was located…"
"Ok, I got the point. But why can't I receive the beacon signal from her?"
"It must be dug out before I freed her".
"As soon as she recovers, which shouldn't take more than one day, you let her go," Wesker demanded.
"It will not be possible. The city is quarantined…"
"What?" Wesker sounded surprised.
"I was about to ask you the same thing. Did you release some B.O.W. here?"
"Are you accusing me for not informing you? No, I did not. Tell me more about what happened".
"The military base your adopted daughter was held was attacked by some B.O.W. when I arrived. They were fast and deadly, while smart enough to do coordinated attacks as a team. The city we are in now is also attacked by unknown number of B.O.W. There is an infection spreading as we speak. Nobody leaves the city since the military had blocked all exits".
"Interesting".
"Interesting? For all we know, we could be nuked soon!"
"I doubt it. Since you said the military are blocking the roads. They won't drop the nuke just yet. Meanwhile, I want you to collect some samples of this new B.O.W. you were talking about. Just a drop of blood, or a piece of flesh, anything that is enough for me to analyze the DNA".
"I am still not done with the last mission yet, since your daughter is still with me".
"I am aware of that. You will be paid doubled as the agreed amount for doing two missions," Wesker tried to use money to have Ada comply.
"I will do it. But there is one more thing before I accept it," Ada demanded.
"Oh? What is it?"
"How long since I have been working for you?"
"Six years".
"Do you trust me or not?"
"I don't trust anyone, and we are just on a business contract level".
"Just a business level? How cold. You are hurting my feelings, Wesker".
"What are you trying to say? Stop acting like you really care".
"You aren't telling me everything. Your adopted daughter is the same little girl I met in Raccoon City. She is the daughter of William Birkin, isn't she?"
After a short moment of silence,
"How did you know that?"
"Sherry told me".
"She wouldn't".
"Sure she wouldn't, but I saw through it. She couldn't lie to me, I am the professional. So she had to confess".
"What is your point?"
"Next time when I take on new missions, tell me everything about it. Not to hide the truth from me ever again".
"I did not think it was relevant. And, don't ever talk to me like that. Do not forget who is running the show here," Wesker did not like the way Ada talked to him, after all he thought he was the boss.
"Never mind. I don't know how long I will be trapped here, but I will get Sherry out".
"And the sample," Wesker reminded her unnecessarily.
"I will try, if I can ever find them again," Ada did not make the promise for the sample part of the mission. "Now could you take a look around the city with your satellite? See if there is any hole we can get through the military quarantine zone."
"Just a moment," Wesker pressed a few buttons to adjust one of his satellites. "Blocked".
"What do you mean by blocked?"
"The entire area is blocked by a large piece of black thing".
"Never mind then".
"Tell Sherry to call me once she gets up," Wesker made his last demand.
"Sure, but just don't call me too often, it really distracts me from the missions at critical moments," Ada turned off the communicator. "Ok, Leon, you can come out now".
Leon got out from under the bed.
"Are you really going to get him the sample?"
"Of course not," Ada smiled at him.
On the parking lot outside a local bar at Zion Township, Chris and Claire were sitting side by side in a car's front seats. They had just arrived. Despite the car bomb on the parking lot just 4 days ago, the parking lot was almost filled up.
Soon a pretty young girl about 18 to 19 came to their car, she entered the back seat before closed the door.
"Has he shown up yet?" Chris asked in low voice after he made sure all windows were closed. "You said he disappeared for a few days".
"Yes, he is in there now, but…I want to quit," The girl said.
"Why? You are one of our youngest and best agents," Chris was surprised at what he heard.
"I am…pregnant…" The girl said slowly while lowered her pretty head. "He got me…but I did not get what I wanted…"
"What? How did this happen?"
"I tried to get close to him a few times. Two months ago he took me to a local motel. There he wanted to sleep with me. In order to gain more information, I let him. He did not use any protection, because he said he did not like it. To please him, I complied. But he…left right after he was done. That motel wasn't even the place he stays. I just found out I am pregnant…" The girl was almost crying at that moment.
"I am sorry to hear that, Jessica. We will take good care of you…" Claire tried to clam the girl.
"Don't bother, I quit," The girl stopped her.
"It's ok if you really want to quit. Just give Jill a call, she'll write you a check for what you have done for us," Chris too felt sorry for the young girl who had worked so hard for them. "Sorry I have to ask, did you get any information from him?"
"Not a thing. He was good...He beat me completely. So sly, so cunning..." The girl was trying to open the car door.
"Jessica, before you go, could you please tell us how he looks like? We have never seen him before, and Jill can't be seen by him".
"He has silver hair. There is only one silver hair man of that age in the bar," The girl replied before she exited the car and left.
"Just give me a call whenever you need anything!" Claire shouted after her.
"Don't ever get yourself into the same situation," Chris turned to look at Claire.
"I won't! Who do you think I am?" Claire protested.
The two of them exited the car and walked toward the bar.
Inside the bar, Nicholai was sitting in a corner with a few girls around him.
"Excuse me, babes. I need to use little boy's room for a second," Nicholai stood up.
Inside the restroom, after checked there was nobody, Nicholai said to his hiding microphone,
"Anything yet?"
"No, sir. Nobody suspicious," a voice replied
"Just don't take your eyes off my car. If I get killed by another car bomb, you will be dead too!"
"Don't worry, sir. We were sent here to find out who were after you. So we shall. If they make another move, we will be the first ones to notice, and we will inform you immediately".
"I hope they have already noticed I am here again," said Nicholai.
"They might already have, but I really doubt they would try something again so soon. They might be able to tell this is a trap, since who the heck would come to the same place where he was almost hit by a car bomb?"
"Me!" Nicholai replied. "Let's see how eager they want to get ride of me". He checked his pistol before put it back into his pocket and walked out of the restroom.
Bang! Chris threw another punch into the air at his right without even looking at that direction, while he was sitting in a chair face to face with Claire at a small table. A punk fell onto the ground really hard.
"It's already the third one in the first 5 minutes after we got here," Chris said as his muscular arm was still in the air, stopping at exactly where his fist had impacted the punk's face. "You really should be careful when I am not around, little sister. Your pretty face really attracts lots of troubles".
"I can take care of myself. I am not little. Maybe you should write on your face 'I am her brother', so nobody would try to tell me to ditch you again," Claire laughed.
"Hello, babe, are you new here? Would you like to have a drink with Mr. Russian? Ditch this guy, will you?" A voice with strong Russian accent appeared from beside them.
Without thinking nor even looking at that direction, Chris immediately threw another hard punch at the where the voice came from...
To be continued…
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