After some time of reformatting the VHS tapes into digital format, Ripley showed it on his other terminal and be able to pan tilt and zoom as well as perform functions as a digital CCTV would be like, but the image was of poor quality. There is much to be picked up from the tapes since it can't give a good look at who the person was.
"Is there any way for you to sharpen this and remove all these white noises? It would be a great help to actually digitally enhance it."
"Sure, missus. There's no problem. See this icon here? Just freeze-frame and save it I would do the rest."
"Thanks, Ripley... I won't know what I would do with you. You had been a great help so far and I really appreciate it. It is pretty hard to get good help nowadays."
"It's great your boyfriend introduced you to me to get rid of those bugs. I wonder what others buggers would do if they found that your bike is rigged. I think it would take them days to weeks to strip down everything and search one. Finding these bugs is not as simple as using an FM frequency squawk."
"Yeah, I got what you mean. By the way, did you do something to the engine because it had turned like a guzzler? It performed much better than my Phantom Shadow and its a great thing too that you had recommended me on the Rebel."
"I had installed larger air intake and replaced the bore for the fuel injector module. That's why the Rebel is flying off the speedo. On normal roads, you'd do fine on a 2nd gear but don't drag on it too long though."
"I made a change to the differential gear as well, so when you're on 3rd you might hit 100-120 easily. But when you're on 4th, you'd wish you for wings, girl... You could hit 140-160 and there's a 5th if you're roaring to go. It'll bring you tops 220 of the speedo."
"So it means this Rebel is no more at 297cc right?"
"Sure is missus, it's a monster 497cc and it's off the charts... Hahahahaha. Hope you won't regard this as a mere 300. It's as good as any sports bike out there. Even the Dury had an engine of 1500cc instead of 1300cc.. It is street legal, one thing for sure. Hehehehe."
"Thanks, buddy. At least it is worth the investment I've made. Alright, what have you got here?"
"I've managed to smoothen out all the save images and there's one here if HaiLoong, a lady with blonde hair but with rather tanned skin. I suspect she had bleached her hair or something. There are also some people milling around here as well... Plus another tanned skinned man... Too brown to be an African American... That's about all."
"Great, I need to show this to the Sup later this evening. Would there be anything that you suspect, please do print those out for me yeah? Sorry to make you pull an all-nighter and how much would I owe you, please let me know. I just want to make sure I get HaiLoong in one piece."
"No worries, I'd let you know. At the meantime, track those bastards for me as well. They got nothing except bullets coming their way if they ain't careful of whom they dealing with."
"Thanks, Ripley...I owe you lots...Let me know when are you coming to send the freezer up to Oak Grove yeah?" I turned and head to my Rebel and was kind of stroking it since it had been given lots of extras that I didn't know of.
Soon I was in the highway turning to Dawsonville to pick up some sirloin for takeaway. At least my stomach won't give too much of a grumble and at least my cats won't be too hungry too.
Soon, after picking up my 4 sirloins with bbq sauce this time, I headed back a 1.5 hours journey as I rode like a crazed woman on a free highway. It is almost 10 pm so there's not much traffic and it's a weekday too. I managed to hit 180 after pulling a 3rd for a short while and cruise in 4th which was comfortable enough for the engine not to rev too much.
I finally got home and the only light was from my headlamps... Not on my chest but from the Rebel, you silly... And it was good that I was up alone on this piece of land. I brought in my Benelli and stowed them away under the dining table and in the nook of the armchair.
I sat down in the porch overlooking the river with just the porch lights on. Beast helped me to see well in the dark as my eyes caught some wildlife scampering around. I won't be expecting a bison or a moose to come barging through the thicket but I'm pretty sure there's a fawn or that type of wildlife around.
I opened up the pack from WAFFLE HOUSE and began to dig in. Beast and Spotty stood in their haunches as they had sustenance from what I ate and this time I ordered 2 large tubs of coleslaw. If not because of these 2 big cats, I think I'd have extra meat on my bum, hips, thunder thighs, chest, neck and cheek and also arms... Ewwwww... Imagine a 45kg girl suddenly becomes 65kg... The horror..!!!
I whacked the 4 pieces of sirloin steak and felt kind of full when I had my second tub of coleslaw. Maybe Beast and Spotty are not into coleslaw because I saw them lying down and curled up when I am done with the steaks.
Maybe I should add another spiritual beast that eats leaves and vegetables... A gazelle perhaps. Or maybe Spotty turned into a vegan and me biting off leaves from branches... Hahahahha.
Too much wishful thinking I guess after I had countless steaks for today. Never had been like this in my life, maybe I eat to relieve stress. As I was lazing around, my phone buzzed and I saw an unknown number. I answered it and it was Mulder in the other line.
"Hi, Mulder here from the FBI, X-Files... I got your message and was wondering if you could wait around for a few more hours as we would be heading over to Atlanta City. We would be getting our car and be meeting you soon. Would that be alright, Ms Mae?"
"That's all right, Mulder... Is Scully with you too? I have somethings you need to look at. By the way, you guys might give you input about Red Doors motel."
"Yes, I've got a call from them this evening. Sorry to trouble you, miss. We would be there by 3 am or so. Hope we won't be troubling you. See you soon. We will be in touch."
The phone call ended. It is weird the Feds can work until so late and I knew that once this type of mystery sets in, Mulder and Scully would definitely step in. Mulder believes in these 'The truth is out there' kind of spooky suspense kind of mysteries but Scully is a pessimist and takes every chance to deny the existence of aliens and stuff.
This is not aliens we talking about now, it's Vamps and Weres and God knows what else. Weres can Shapeshift and the Vamps can only Shapeshift their teeth...none of them can turn to bats because of the regulations from the FAA I guess. Hahahaha. They need a license to fly around. Hahahaha.
Its already past 11 pm so I made the best out of these to rest. If I don't rest then my body would take its toll and I would suffer a mental breakdown. Once my brain goes fatigued... Whatever thing I do right would turn out wrong.
I went inside and locked the door and took my Stubby with me to bed and switched on the air conditioner. Even if it is in the wild, it's rather cooling so I'd just turn up the air conditioner to 25 degrees and switched on the desk fan to assist in cooling down the room.
As soon as I had placed my head on the pillow, I fell into a dreamless sleep.