August 2024, Utopia
"Calm down," a voice came out from the earbud inside Luca's ear. It was Ryker.
He had also seen the two red dots disappear from the radar before he could tell, Luca had already caught on, as well as Finn Ruth.
So, he waited for Finn's explanation. And he could tell that Luca was panicking. The two that seemed dead were sent to scout the area because of his plan. After knowing his friend for so long, he already knew what his friend was thinking at the moment.
Does that mean he already failed? Those thoughts were in Luca's head but Ryker's words brought him back to reality.
"It's not your fault," Ryker's reassured his friend first before proceeding his order. He then continued, "It would be best if you all come back, they already know that we're here."
Ryker already realized that something was not right, the scout has a high sleath ability that even he can have a hard time finding him.
There could be only two answers, one would be that the enemy must have someone with ability who can counter him, the other, a trap.
Hearing what Ryker just said, Luca didn't want to follow it. Because of him two people died. Just return after knowing that? He did kill the enemies without a care but he cared about his subordinates.
There was a brief moment in his mind fighting between his guilt and his superior's order. He decided to follow Ryker's in the end. His friend will do something for them if they are not really dead yet. If the enemy actually knows that they are here, their plan has to be forfeit for the safety of the scientists.
"Roger," he answered Ryker and looked at the people in the group. Since their teleporter was gone, the only way out of here in a less troublesome way would be making a hole somewhere.
While Luca was debating on which way he should make his way out, one of the four women in their group, Sasha, secretly started to use her wind pushing Luca's wind from the only door in the room. It was caught on by Luca immediately.
"Luca! Get out of there with any mean" Ryker's voice was heard from his earbud.
Before he could act out, an explosion was heard. He turned his back to the side of the door, it was also the place where the explosion sound came from.
The woman who tried to fly to the side of the explosion was caught by Luca's wind, wrapping around her body tightly. She also uses her wind in order to cancel it out but she couldn't do it like she did from before. The wind was so much stronger than hers.
Suddenly, the floor that they were on started to shake, a brown object appeared in their view between Luca's wind barriers which was covering the whole room as the smoke slowly disappeared. It was a closed tunnel made out of stones and soils.
Seeing this, the woman shouted didn't even caring about whether she would lose her life, "You guys will pay for what you have done!" She had a big grin as she spoke.
At the end of her words, the parts which closed the tunnel started to open, revealing more than hundreds of men and women wearing Niary's army uniform.
Finn Ruth was astonished about how they managed to hide this many people on the planet. He would like to know the main culprit that counters their radar and his ability. He was sure that the woman who was now on the verge of death wasn't the one responsible for this.
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August 2024, Earth
"Miss Charlotte"
"Miss"
Charlotte was woken up by the voice of her name being called. The owner of the voice was Hao Niang, her secretary.
As she opened her eyes, she was surprised to see that she was in the car. She has never slept in her car like this before. Even more surprising since it's still in the afternoon.
But the weather made her do so. She looked outside from her car window and saw that she was already in the car parking of her house.
Secretary Hao was still in his driver seat checking on his boss from the rearview mirror that he slightly turned to the right side in order to see his boss who was sitting right behind him.
Charlotte continued to sit in the car without going and secretary Hao also didn't say anything. Hao Niang pretty much knows how to read an atmosphere. Right now, his boss's atmosphere told him not to disturb her. She looked as if she was reminiscing about something.
He decided that he would use this time to do some of his research. He took out his phone from his shirt pocket and started typing some words on it.
It only took him a minute to find the young man's weibo. Hao Niang has a big grin on his face. Social media are really useful nowadays since everyone likes to use them, except for his boss.
She has the account but on the first day of his work, she told him all the social media passwords which were the same word 'HuanZhang123'.
She didn't care about the accounts at all. She only uses it to chat with him sometimes. Even for now, the one who's behind all his boss's social media becomes him.
He managed them quite well. His boss's fame in business also helped her, her weibo have over one million followers just from posting her contract establishment photos and sharing her interviews.
He was glad somehow because her boss's interest in social media was so little, she didn't have to see those thirsty comments from her fans.
The silence inside the car was broken by his boss's unexpected order.
"Buy me a chicken noodle soup, the one which you think will give me a cozy feeling."
"Pardon, cozy?" his words slipped out, he didn't understand her at all. Maybe she wants something warm due to the weather?