First of all, Casper sneaked to the door of the room-hospice and peeked outside to see if anyone was walking through the infirmary.
For a moment, he forgot to take out the contact lenses he had in his eyes. Those things were quite helpful, but they left his vision a bit blurry. However, as far as Olaf had told him, they were the only method to avoid the mind-blank of the Ridire's device.
Now that he could see better, he squinted his eyes and let them get used to the darkness.
As he had suspected, quite a few nurses were walking around and checking some of the patients. That place had a night shift, and Casper did not know for how long that time would last. Nonetheless, they would probably not let the patients alone for so much time, so the soldier could not wait to this unlikely situation to come.
He did not like too much the idea, but he needed to sneak around even if some nurses were there.
He opened the door carefully, trying to minimize the noise and being careful to not let any light enter the room-hospice.
After some hours stuck at that place, Casper knew that the majority of patients there got agitated with lights or subtly noises, and what he needed the least was to have a bunch of crazy men screaming, crying, or messing with everything.
He exited the room without making a fuss, thankfully.
Casper remained silent, with his feet sliding through the floor. He never really stood up, always maintaining his center of gravity the most lower as possible.
His objective was to get out of that place without being noticed and then return in the same way. He needed to get into the corridors to keep his plan operating.
He took some time to avoid the nurses and finally get into the exit door. It was beside the balcony, but at night no one worked there, so he could easily pass.
The nurses were not prepared, and don't even have the responsibility, to protect the place. Their duty there was to take care of the patients and nothing more. Plus, the masks would not allow anyone there to run away and do a mess in the corridors.
When he got outside the infirmary, he started to act in that stiff and distant manner again. The cameras were everywhere and if Casper got spotted by someone while acting perfectly normal, he would surely be stuck at the lockdown for some weeks.
Then, to prevent this, he walked around there dragging his feet, with his arms immobile beside the body, and without moving his head, just the eyes.
Casper was a really good pretender. He worked with it a lot of times, after all. As an ex-military spy, he was always needing to act like someone else, surrounded by people who needed to think they knew him, or that his presence was normal.
Feign that he had become a crazy person was easy for him due to the circumstances. It was not just logical that it could happen with him, but also because he was an unknown element, just like the nurse had pointed to the scientist.
Many times, Casper got caught in her exams. They were too accurate and very different from the ones that he had seen in his world, but he could avoid being 100% exposed at least.
If he stayed like that for one more day, she probably would find out, but hopefully, his stay there would not take too long.
Casper maintained with much focus and effort his facade of insane while walking through the corridors.
He needed to be careful and don't bump into a Ridire or nurse, otherwise, he would lose time.
"I need to go to the room that takes care of the security system. I can't go faster than this. The only thing I can do is to hear carefully and stay tuned for any suspect noises coming."
The corridors were very quiet at that hour, although it was just the first hour of the night.
Casper noticed in these days that the Ridires tended to slack more at that hour (which was nearly impossible, seeing how much they already slacked through the day).
In this way, he could make it to the security room with no problems delaying him. Sometimes he would listen to a Ridire or two walking in near corridors, but they never really came to the path he was taking.
Last night, when the Ridires tried to mind-blank him, Casper was already with the special lenses. This way, during all the trajectory until the place he would do his procedure, he was awake and paying attention to his surroundings.
Quickly, he could take a good grasp of the way they took, and then finish mapping a huge area of the prison's complex. It was not too big, after all, so it was easy for the White warrior.
With that new area mapped, Casper had more notion of where he needed to go to reach the security room and even the place where they did the experiments.
Now that he was used to it, Casper could walk there, even pretending that difficult state, without encounters with the guards.
When he reached the security room, the soldier stepped near the door.
Because of the Ridire's calls in the communicators, he knew that one or more people was working there.
He tried to put his ears to understand better what they were talking about inside there, but the room had good noise isolation and the door was thick enough to not let much be heard.
"Don't worry. Just follow what you have decided before." Casper casually knocked on the door, being careful to the cameras don't spot the motion he was doing.
"My theory is that they will not be expecting someone else than a Ridire or other employees of the prison to knock in their doors.
"Also, I doubt that they are really looking at the cameras all the time to came to spot me walking into the corridors."
And just as Casper had predicted, the person quickly opened the door, which automatically slid to the side.
Two people were sitting at a table in the center of a square room, considerably big.
Screens were spread through the walls, each one from two different cameras.
Casper made sure to take a mental note of the cameras he could not notice before.
The two people inside there were playing a board game. That was one famous entertainment method of District 42 and, as far as Casper knew, it was very addictive.
Both stopped to play their game and looked to the door nonchalantly. However, it was too late. Before they could assimilate who had entered there, everything went blank and they passed out after a single hit.
Casper, with surgical precision, hit a spot in their necks that made them pass out right after. Do it with two individuals at the same time was difficult, but as they were sitting, lined, and not expecting anything, it was not impossible.
Casper walked into that room and reached the control panel of the security system. That one was simple compared to the panel he found in the file room back then. It was very intuitive and Casper could catch the hang of it very fast.
"Ok… I think this can work after all…" He drew a cube-shaped white device that he was hiding under his clothes.
It was another thing that he had asked for Olaf to bring to him. The last also taught him how to use it.
Casper pressed a button on one of the sides of the square and put it near the control panel.
A blue laser came from inside the cube and connected with the panel, making loud sounds while processing the data and software of the panel.
In no time, it ended, and the laser got increasingly thinner until it disappeared completely.
A blue holographic keyboard appeared in front of Casper, being materialized by the cube. It had almost all the command keys and buttons of the panel.
"Awesome! I am done here. Now, I just need to come back to the infirmary without being caught, then everything will be alright." He hid the device again and left the room as quickly as possible, returning to his debilitated mode after he got into the corridor.
Once he stepped out and started to walk, he heard footsteps in the next turn to the left.
"There is no way to run now. Just keep pretending and walking…" Casper maintained his cool and kept moving.
Soon, from the left, a nurse came walking in a hurry. She looked towards the soldier then sighed in relief.
"There you are, huh? Oh my… Don't frighten me like this!" She approached him and took him by the hand. "And it seems that you can already walk a bit, that's awesome, but it doesn't mean you can stroll around all you want!"
That was just a brief interaction but confirmed another theory that Casper had.
"She is already used with crazy patients trying to run away. Is that how it is? If so…" he smiled slightly, "then things will be a bit more interesting than I thought."