I6 led K7 to an inner room in the IT room. It was a quiet room filled with surveillance cameras and screens.
"Is this the control room of the building?" K7 asked as he surveyed the room. At first, I6 didn't give him a response and was instead studying the screen but after a while of searching for something he wasn't sure of, she looked back at him non-nonchalantly. "Does this look like enough screens to control this building?"
She walked towards the man seated in front of the screen to her right and tapped his shoulder. She whispered some things to him and nodded in response to his reply. "Don't worry, I'll take the empty chair, I only need you to give me information on what you see on the screen, I'm going to code on this one."
K7 watched as she jumped straight into action and began to code. He was quite confused because he didn't expect her to leave her sit only to come back here to do the same thing she had been doing before. But he did notice that the screen seemed a bit different from the earlier one.
This time it wasn't just black and ridden with codes but it was showing a map that was rotating and showing marked spots. K7 couldn't stop himself from moving towards it, he was entranced by what she was doing.
"What map is this?" He asked.
The man seated beside I6 straightened up and stared him down but she looked at him and shook her head. "He meant no harm. This is none of your business. If you are still interested in getting your information then move back to where you stood before and try not to disturb me or get thrown out."
"Owkayyy..."He said as he raised his arms in surrender and moved backwards to his former position.
"Where exactly now?" He heard her ask after a while and the man responded and mentioned some positions to her. "Okay, I've found it. It should be around this area. Thank you for your help. I'll be taking the back exit if you don't mind?" She asked and received an affirmative before she got up.
"Let's go."
She moved deeper into the room without waiting for K7 and pushed a part of the wall that opened into a secret passage.
"Never knew we've got these in our building as well." K7 commented and got rebuked.
"Could you go without speaking for just 5 minutes? It won't kill you no matter what you have been told." She huffed.
The more they walked down the passage, the more K7 felt like speaking but had to shut up in order to keep the peace between him and I6. She was his key to getting his job done so until he achieved his aim, he wasn't going to offend her even though he really felt like giving her a big slap on her behind for being sassy to him.
They got to a part of the passage that forked into two paths and K7 took the chance to speak. "Which way now?" He asked.
"None, just follow my lead." She replied then bent down to remove a chip from her cloth. She pulled out a mini-butterfly pin from her hair and attached the chip to it then pressed a button on the pin and directed the pin into the left path.
She watched as it flew down the path and laughed then turned to K7 with a big smile on her lips and pulled him. "Now, let's go."
"What was that for?" K7 asked. He was in a serious state of confusion.
"Nothing much. The big guy there placed a chip on me when I told him we were taking their exit to monitor our movement and make sure that we actually exited the right way but we are going back to the real reason I had to detour into that room. The map thingy you saw was just a strategy to get us into this passage."
"You mean even with all the file filling and all, I still am not free to use the national database?" K7 asked and I6 laughed at him.
"Do you think it is that easy to access? Do you think it's everyone in the IT room that knows where it is or has accessibility to it? Don't joke around. Only 5 people know the room we use to breach the database and only those five have the password and username. The username and password also changes after every cycle and after logging in, it changes every five minutes."
"That strict?" K7 asked
"What do you think? Okay, move away from there and come and stand next to me." I6 said as she had tracked the door. She moved toward the wall on her right side, where K7 stood before and she touched around the wall then looked back at him. "Found it."
Just as she said that, the door opened up and revealed an empty set up IT room. "Come in and take a seat in front of the screen."
K7 walked in and wondered at the room, he couldn't believe how high technology it looked like. The IT-room of the company didn't look half as good as it did.
"I know what's on your mind and yes, this place is special and therefore must be treated that way because it is very important in our operations. I am going to run you through another set of tests then you'll be free to do your business." I6 said and she immediately went straight to work.
As K7 saw her go through the tests for him, he couldn't help but appreciate her dedication and swiftness. She might be young but she was hardworking and knowledgeable. The only thing he couldn't figure out was how could she have access to such important duties as a newbie and why could he see traits of S8 in her.
"I'm done. If you don't mind, you can tell me the name of the person you are looking for so that we can do it faster, my butterfly cannot open the door. Though, since i sent it to the long way and put it on slow mode, we still have 15 minutes before we need to move."
K7 looked at her and couldn't tell her the name because it was a private instruction from his boss. Understanding his predicament, I6 smiled and noted down his loyalty inwardly. "Don't worry, with this you can get the information in less than five minutes." She replied and wrote some codes on the screen. "Type in the name and the family."
K7 did as she said and watched as names were being filtered through, top secret documents were also filtered through and all the results were shown. "Its showing results for all family members in the family tree."
"That is its work. I'll send the results to the pen drive and you'll sort through what you found to get who you are looking for then delete the rest or whatever you want to do."
Without wasting time, they copied the data to the pen drive and went out of the room.
"Are we running down to get to your pin?"
"That's too stressful and I am not the sports type. The other path leads to the same door, it's just shorter. Let's go through there." She replied and marched off.
"See, I was right." I6 said and K7 huffed. She was right, it was shorter and they got there before the pin but she was wrong about not being the sport type. He found it a bit hard to keep up to her walking steps, she had been professionally trained.
She deactivated the pin and opened the exit door. It led to the back of the company. "Are you going back in? I'll escort you in."
"There's no need to. I'm going somewhere else first. See you later." She said and dashed off, her shadows not to be seen.
K7 laughed at himself then looked at the pen-drive in his hands and sighed. He had a lot if work ahead of him.