"I told you we couldn't trust this officer" Sarah said as she stood up from the chair she was seated.
"Shhh, I see someone coming out of the van" I said still peeping.
Another message entered
"I'm outside, where are you?" The message read
"I think she came alone" I said again looking up to face Sarah after reading the text
"She should be in the hospital, why is she here?" Sarah said sounding confused
"Just stay low here, I'll meet her outside. I don't think it's a trap or anything" I assured her again
"I hope so" she said as she sat back on the chair
I opened the door gently trying not to attract attention from the outside. I went out into the dark towards a figure I saw standing at the main entrance.
"Hey" I said nervously as she turned her face to me
"You are here. Shouldn't you get your wound treated?" I said again
"I got it treated already. It was just a flesh wound. I made sure I didn't hit any vital part. Where's the place?" She asked right away with so much eagerness
"Are you sure you are not followed? Because if we don't act carefully we might get caught soon which won't be good for you either"
"If it's about the police van I brought don't worry. I told my junior to cover up for me. They still think I'm at the hospital" she explained
"Okay, this way" I said as I stretched my hand towards the building. She had a cast around her arm and was still obviously in pain.
We walked into the room. Sarah was standing in the middle of the room with a straight face. I gestured to her to smile and she rolled her eyes forming a fake smile.
"Hi, I'm sorry about earlier. I must have startled you" the officer said in a calm tone
"You sure did" Sarah replied in a hostile voice
"But it's okay" she said again with a another fake smile as she stared at me
"I didn't get to introduce myself. I'm Anna. Anna Thompson." Anna said as she stretched her hand towards Sarah
"Sarah Jones" Sarah responded shaking her back
I smiled as I was finally able to get them to be on the same side. I hoped I did
" So I finally got the identity of the VIP members in Genaid" Sarah announced as she sat back on her chair facing Anna
"I don't know if Alex told you about the VIP members" she said further
"Yes he did mention them. Who are they?" Anna asked in curiosity
"Well, like I suspected they are politicians and public officials. They each used code names.
And they all hold a post in government right now." Sarah explained further
"What are they planning to do this time?" Anna asked rhetorically
"Anna, we found some sorts of formulas on the file your dad gave me. We don't know what it is, but I believe it has so much to do with everything going on. I want you to take a look at it maybe you could probably have an idea of what it is." I said to Sarah
"Don't even bother. My dad doesn't let me in on any of his researches even when I was just a little curious kid. I'm going to be as confused as you guys are if I see it" she said
Sarah gave me the I told you look. As much as it was dangerous to bring a third party into these because we don't know who might be working for who, we still needed to know what these formulas were to be able to stop these people.
"But I know someone who might know. He used to work as my dad's assistant until last year when he lost his mum. He traveled to his hometown and never came back." Anna said
I saw a gleam of hope again and I was elated. Now we just needed to find the assistant.
"Where is this assistant's hometown?" I asked
"Bluefield"
"Blue field?!" Sarah and I exclaimed together
"That's like seven hours from here!" Sarah exclaimed again
"We don't have that much time. There isn't no other way we can get to him?" I asked Anna
"I don't know. My dad kept calling him back then but couldn't reach him. We could try calling again. I have my dad's phone" Anna said
"Isn't that suppose to be part of the evidence?" Sarah said referring to the phone
"Well, he didn't take his phone out that day and I was going to give him on my way to work before I heard the news. The police thinks he misplaced it or the person who killed him took it. That how I got your number too."
"Your dad had my number? How?" I asked in surprise
"I don't know. The said person to have killed my father was Alex Reel and I stumbled on one Mr Reel on his phone so I texted you. It's only reasonable that you guys knew each other if you had murdered him so it could only be your number". She explained
"But I never met your dad or even knew him. Wait, did he know my dad? The sim used to belong to my dad"
"Well I guess" she said with a shrug
"Can we go back to the part we were going to try calling the assistant?" Sarah interrupted
"Yes, the assistant " I said
Everything kept getting intertwined and I had no idea how I was going to start loosing them after the other. Anna dialed the assistant's number on my phone since he wouldn't pick hers or Dr Thompson's.
"Hello?" A voice said from the other end
"Mr John?!" Anna asked in exclamation
There was silence for a second
"A..Anna?" The voice said again reluctantly
"Oh my God! Mr John" Anna said again almost moving to tears
"Anna? Is that you?" The voice became clearer and louder
"It's me Mr John. Where have you been?" Anna asked again
"You never came back after your mom's death" Anna said again
"I'm so sorry Anna. I'm sorry to you, I'm sorry to Doc. I lied, my mom never died. I lied to run away" Mr John said again
That moment I knew we got our guy. He definitely knew something
"Run away? Why? From who?. You and my dad had a good relationship. I even envied how you were close to him. What happened?" Anna asked
"Yes we were, Doc was really nice to me. But I knew our lives were in danger and I warned him but he wasn't going to listen. You know how he was. When he puts in mind to something, nobody or nothing can stop him. Doc just wanted to make things a little better but it wasn't the right time for it." John said
"Okay Mr John. I know you know a lot of things and I would like you to tell me everything you know" Anna said
"I will, I'll tell you everything. When I started working with Doc five years ago, he started this research on animals. He was going to make researches on how he could build their immune system to fight viruses and make them live longer. He was going to present it to the board at the 20th anniversary of the company. He always said not only humans deserved charity, animals does too.
Doc was going to keep it a secret till he finished but somehow words broke out and the board found out. They questioned him on why he wasted the company's resources to make researches on animals instead of humans so that they could make money. Doc argued he just wanted to do something different for the 20th anniversary and that it was going to be appreciated.
But the board didn't care about appreciation, they just wanted to fill their large pockets with funds raised at the event. They asked Doc if they could use the vaccine on human instead that it was going to bring money. Doc told them it was dangerous to humans and it could cause an outbreak of virus if it enters the human system, it was also going to be highly contagious. They told him to stop the research immediately, he did but he kept the formula. According to Doc, he was going to continue it when he resigned. This all happened in 2016.
Three years later in 2019, the company suffered a huge loss from the migraine capsule they sold. It didn't work, people complained about it and the company's stocks started going down. It was close to hitting rock bottom when they called Doc and told him to start working on the vaccine again. The company was in no shape for a charity event. It was obvious what they were going to do with the vaccine. They did it 16 years ago with the Thypoin disease. Doc told me everything. He lied to them that he had discarded everything when they told him to stop but the CEO was Doc's friend and he knew he was lying. They told him to start afresh, Doc told them it was going to take at least a year to do so. The CEO had eyes on him since then. He will sometimes send thugs to our lab to threaten us. They harassed us almost every day to make Doc make the vaccine again but he knew it was deadly. If that vaccine got released into the human world it will become the biggest virus in human history. Doc knew they were going to ask him to start making the cure once they got the vaccine so he hid the formula where no one knew and pretended he was working on it in the lab. The CEO somehow found out and that was the end of their friendship. He said he was going to kill us if we didn't make the vaccine. The company was going bankrupt, he was running mad. I told Doc to leave everything behind and run but he didn't want to. He said everything he had worked for for 16 years was at the lab and he wasn't going to just run away. That was why I ran lying that my mom died and never came back. I'm so sorry Anna, I never knew they were really going to kill Doc. Genaid killed him" John said sobbing over the phone after the long explanation.
Everything became clearer. Genaid wanted the virus to make money like they did 16 years ago.
"But why are they still after it. They can't make any money without the cure to the virus" I said
"He made the cure. Doc made the cure before I ran away then" John said again
"He made the cure?!" We all exclaimed again
"Yes, Doc knew how tenacious the CEO was so he made the vaccine for the virus just incase the CEO got his hands on it. But he wasn't going to give it to him and let him know he had made it." John said again
"But why did he make the cure if he wasn't going to give it to the CEO. The virus is useless to him anyway without the cure." Sarah said
"Doc always had a plan B for everything. He kept stalling the CEO then that he was still trying to find out how to make the vaccine but he knew he couldn't deceive the CEO for long so he had to make the vaccine just incase the CEO decided to threaten him to release the virus without the vaccine."
"Did he give the virus to the CEO?" I asked him again to be clear
"By the time I ran away he had given the virus to him, pretending to make the vaccine"
"So what are these formulas we have with us here if he gave them the virus already. Have we been fighting for nothing?" Sarah sounded disappointed
"What you guys have is the vaccine to the virus. That's probably why he was killed. They found out he had made the vaccine and was hiding it" John said again over the phone.
"What we have is the vaccine?!" Anna asked again
"Yes the vaccine to the virus that could wipe out the whole nation" John said again