Red, activate the light bending paint." The driver said while narrowing his eyes in focus at the road that was leading outside of the city. It was clear that their extraction point was in the suburb.
Without further ado, Red pressed on his AP bracelet's screen and the black van instantly turned invisible. Even the wheels weren't spared!
This made the van and everyone inside it to drop off the radar as they drove on the road. Soon, tens of police cars could be seen coming in the opposite direction.
Since the road was two-ways and not wide enough, the police cars were stacked one next to the other, making it impossible for the van to bypass them without being found.
Thus, the driver had to park at the side until they pass.
Phew! Phew!...
After seeing the last police car wheezing by, the driver started off slow to not raise dust and submerged himself in the road.
Then, it was a smooth journey from here on as the deeper they toggled within the suburb areas, the less police stations were situated.
In a short while...
The van stopped in front an average-looking house with a small backyard. Immediately after stopping, the van was exposed in the open again.
'Right on time.' Red gave a thumps up to the driver and went outside. He looked around and noticed that the neighborhood was as silent as a graveyard.
He wasn't surprised by the sight as this part of the neighborhood was still brand new and not put for sale yet. Of course, the Hiltons managed to get this info from their real-estate channels.
If they weren't worried about getting suspected by the authorities, they would have used one of their many deserted assets.
With that being said, this area was perfect for a swift drop zone.
'Mr. Hire, are you here?' Red sent a message.
'Yes.'
Upon receiving a positive confirmation, the squad brought Felix down from the van and took him to the backyard.
If Felix wasn't acting asleep, he would have seen a man wearing a pitch black coat and a simple white mask. It was hiding his face perfectly, exposing only his two gloomy dark eyes.
Soon, the reason of his gloominess was answered as he went and kicked Felix in his stomach. "You little bastard! You costed the Organization at least 50 million SC by mixing your legendary bloodline with an epic one!"
Bam! Bam! Bam!...
After kicking Felix three more times to vent his suppressed fury, he went down and cleaned his shoe with a handkerchief while ordering, "Put him in my hovercar, I will take it from here."
The moment he said so, two blue hovercars suddenly appeared behind his back. The mercenary squad didn't waste time as two of them went to lift Felix while the others went to turn on the engine of the vehicles.
'I guess it's time to make a move.'
Felix's eyes were snapped open abruptly the moment he felt his hands and legs were caught.
Slice! Slice!
With inhuman speed, Felix used his nails which were in the process of turning into claws to slice and the dice the heads of both the assailants!
Although he was still in mid-morphing, Felix was still fast enough that he managed to stand up, take care of those two and went to finish the rest of the squad before a single drop of blood tainted the mowed grass!
Mr. Hire only managed to hear the sound of the wind raging past his ears as his head was lowered, looking at his cleaned shoe.
Slice!
Just as he wanted to raise his head, he felt a prick of pain coming from his hand. His pupil subconsciously looked at the injury and noticed that his arm was sliced down from the elbow.
Only then, did the fear, the pain, and the horror of the entire experience had set in his mind and body!
Just as he wanted to scream his pain away, Felix removed the mask from his face and placed his hand on his mouth, closing it shut.
"Shshesh..." Felix shushed him down and said with a sinister smile, "It's impolite to scream at night."
'What's going on!! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!! WHY IS HE AWAKE!!'
Mr. Hire was truly on the verge of losing his mind. Part of it was of course from the hellish pain of his cleaved arm but mostly it was due to Felix standing before him.
Alas, he wasn't given even a second to process the situation as Felix caught him by the neck and choked him hard.
He then gave him three quick punches in the stomach, making sure to use enough strength to hurt him but not damage his organs.If you weren't still useful to me, I would have made you regret the day you kicked me." With a frigid expression, Felix tightened his hand around Mr. Hire's neck one last time before throwing him to the ground.
Cough! Cough!
Mr. Hire immediately started taking deep breaths while coughing in between like he never inhaled oxygen in years.
Felix crouched next to Mr. Hire and placed his hand on top of his head.
A split second later, a silver colored mist started to emerge from Felix's palm until Mr. Hire's head was wholly encased in it.
"What are you doi..ng to meee.."
Upon seeing it, Mr. Hire cried with some difficulty like he was having having troubles connecting his words together.
"Nothing much." Felix smiled warmly as he tilted his head, "Just a truth inducement to get you talking." Felix added in a playful tone, "Oh, you can think of it as getting injected with truth serum."
"Yo...you bastard!!" Mr. Hire felt his heart getting chilled at Felix's straightforward method.
He expected before that he would be grilled and tortured for information. which he exactly wanted so he could buy some time until reinforcement arrives.
Too bad, Felix knew that his time was limited so he simply acted based on it.
'Shit! He will kill me after getting the information he wanted.' Mr. Hire knew that his situation was beyond hopeless and death awaited him either way.
Thus, he glared at Felix in hatred and sent a message to the Gama Organization member, who was waiting for him to bring Felix. 'Plan failed! The target wasn't affected properly by the poison! He turned on us and killed the rest leaving me behind for interrogation. He used something like truth serum, so you can expect your position to be compromised!'
After sending the message, Mr. Hire felt like his eyes were getting cloudy and hazy. He didn't know if it was inducement's effect or his blood loss from his cleaved arm.
Cleaved arm? CLEAVED ARM??!
An electrifying shock coursed into his skin making his cloudy eye snap open and glance at his bloodied arm.
The moment he noticed that it was his bracelet arm, he released a gut-wrenching scream in his mind, 'NOOOOOOOO!!'
"Looking for this?" Felix brought the arm next to Mr. Hire's face and said, "You must think of me as some sort of retard to leave your consciousness connected to the Queen."
Felix didn't cut Mr. Hire's arm for no reason. He understood that as long as Mr. Hire's AP bracelet was connected, he could always inform the Organization about the situation in a heartbeat.
That's why he killed everyone else and detached the Bracelet from Mr. Hire.
If he didn't need him alive, killing him was more than enough to shut down his bracelet and the Queen.
Right now, Mr. Hire's consciousness was disconnected from the Queen, making it impossible for others to contact him or know his position if he gave them permission.
Since he was disconnected, The Queen wouldn't be able to fulfill the life and death contracts which he signed.
However, since she could clearly see from Felix's bracelet that Mr. Hire didn't purposefully disconnect or schemed to escape the clutches of contracts by faking losing his hand, she simply kept watching him instead of sending the special task force.
If Felix let him go by some chance and Mr. Hire didn't connect with another bracelet, the task force would be notified and be sent to investigate. The moment they notice fool play, Mr. Hire would be executed.
Currently, Mr. Hire wasn't even thinking about the consequence of losing his bracelet as the feeling of weightlessness kept assaulting his being over and over again.
The pain was gone, the fear of death was gone and his agitation was cooled, leaving him to feel as high as a kite.
"What's your real name?" Felix swiftly asked after seeing his abnormal state like he just smoked some fine-ass weed.
"Thomas Reiner." Mr. Hire replied softly with his eyelids drooped down.
"What's your current job?"
"Acting as a middle-man between the Organization and the Hiltons."
Seeing that his inducement was working just fine, Felix didn't waste time with unnecessary questions as he straight out asked, "Do you know the Gama Organization spaceship's coordination?"
"No."
"Tsk, as expected." Felix clicked his tongue in annoyance as he was hoping that he would receive a different response.
"Where were you supposed to take me in the hovercar?"
"Bedford."
"Where exactly in Bedford?"
"On the roof of the Bedford Moat House Hotel."
"Whose waiting there?"
"Number 12 in the Organization."
'Number 12? Uhm...' Felix pondered on the number trying to remember if he had heard of him in his previous life or seen him before.
However, the only one he recalled was Mr. Gama due to his infamous strength of being a peak 3rd stage bloodliner. As for the rest? He had absolutely no clue.
"Do you know his strength or at least his rank within the Organization?" Felix asked.
"I don't know his strength but his rank in the Organization is at the lower...end..s." By the time Mr. Hire reached the end of the sentence, his voice was unrecognizable.
Looking at him closing his eyes while sleeping peacefully, Felix waved the silver mist away from his head.
'I guess the poison is too much for his brain to handle.' Felix sighed while lifting his leg and stamping on Mr. Hire's head casually.
He soon cleaned his shoe with the grass and destroyed every AP bracelet in the area.
He then swiftly jumped in the hovercar and took off while activating the light bending mechanism installed in the car.
'Queen, please show me the shortest path to the Bedford Moat House Hotel.' Felix requested.
Alas, no one responded to his call.
'Stupid.' Felix facepalmed after remembering that his silver AP bracelet was destroyed in the van.
Not wasting even a second, He cut through the Nanosuit since without the Queen, he couldn't order the Nanobots to give him his hidden Bracelet.
After ripping apart the hidden pocket in his chest, Felix brought out the pitch-black AP bracelet and wore it on his wrist. He then placed the screen in front of his eyes and called for the Queen softly.
Instead of waiting the known 10 seconds, Felix got forcefully logged in his white room instantaneously.
Felix didn't wait for the Queen's greeting as he said, 'Please log me out and transfer all my data to this bracelet.'
'As you wish sir Felix.' The Queen added a question, 'Do you want to hear the details and added features of your 11th generation bracelet?'
'Not now, just create the shortest path to Bedford Moat House Hotel.' Felix requested the moment he opened his eyes.
Immediately after, a holographic map was created to his right. In it, Felix could see two colored dots. One was representing his car and the other his destination.
Whoosh!
Felix pressed on the acceleration button and watched his car wheeze by at a subsonic speed, almost breaking the sound barrier.
With this speed, he would reach his destination in barely a couple of minutes. This was to his liking since he knew that Number 12 could potentially contact Mr. Hire for an update!
Since he was dead, Number 12 would see that something wrong happened in the operation after not receiving a response!
Thus, Felix was racing against time to reach Number 12 before that happened!After a couple of minutes, Felix slowed down his hovercar's speed after noticing that he was about to reach his destination.
Since Bedford Moat House Hotel was barely 50 meters in height, Felix was able to fly way above the roof and scout without getting noticed.
'Oh? That's him?'
Felix easily spotted a man leaning on a black hovercar while yawning in a lazy manner. He had a quite of a mutation as two silver blades were protruding proudly from his elbows and another two from his shoulders!
The entire roof was empty, which was a bit uncanny.
Felix didn't trouble himself with finding out the reason as he controlled the hovercar to approach the man in a slow and silent manner.
50m..40m..30m...
After reaching this distance, Felix stopped descending any further. The hovercar was right above the man's head and if got any nearer, he was bound to be found.
If it wasn't for his hovercar being extremely quiet and also invisible, he would have already been spotted.
'No barrier on, no mask on...Pra-Dizzy inducement will do the trick.'
After making his decision, Felix removed the seatbelt and got himself out of the window slowly to not cause any sudden noise.
After standing on the hood, Felix entered his semi-morphing state and manifested a long yellow needle from the tip of his finger!
He didn't want to use bombs as they make wind noises. They could potentially be dodged if the senses of Mr. Twelve were sharp enough.
Thus, even when Felix was planning to use a fine yellow needle, he didn't fire it straightaway since he knew that he couldn't afford to miss his shot.
He only had one attempt to take control of the situation without the Organization knowing about it.
If he failed in his attack, Mr. Twelve wouldn't hesitate to send a message to Mr. Gama before fighting it out with him!
Felix wanted to avoid that at all costs since his entire plan was revolving around the Organization's ignorance about his movements!
If it wasn't for this, Felix wouldn't have chosen Para-Dizzy inducement but hypotension inducement. He understood that Mr. Twelve had Mr. Gama as his emergency contact encase he fainted.
Thus, he mustn't lose consciousness at all!
Felix kept narrowing his eyes at Mr. Twelve's face until his nose was zoomed right in front of Felix. In those situations, his enhanced vision came in handy.
'Now!' Without hesitation, he flicked the yellow needle with his serpent-like hand akin to flicking a card.
Phew!
The needle traveled the distance in measly a millisecond, striking the nose of Mr. Twelve right during his inhale!
'What the...'
Before Mr. Twelve could react to the sudden assault, his body stiffened while his eyes started feeding him an image of the world spinning rapidly without stop.
Since he was paralyzed as well, he couldn't even close his eyelids to reduce the feeling of dizziness that assaulted his being. This made it almost impossible to have a single cohesive thought.
Meanwhile, Felix had requested the Queen to bring the hovercar closer to the roof after seeing that his ambush had succeeded.
He didn't dare to jump from 30 meters as the roof would collapse from his landing. Plus, he didn't want to leave any signs of his existence as it would affect his plan.
After the hovercar brought him down, Felix dashed towards Mr. Twelve while covering himself in yellow aura.
After he reached Mr. Twelve, Felix broke his four limbs making him lay on the ground like a broken doll.
He felt a bit of resistance which entailed that Mr. Twelve's defenses were actually noteworthy!
After all, during his semi-morphing, Felix's strength was doubled as well as his senses and reflexes! Thus, he currently possessed, 6000+ BF!
So, Felix concluded that Mr. Twelve should be either at peak 2nd stage of replacement or had just entered the 3rd stage!
Still, Felix didn't even flinch since Mr. Twelve was caught under his mercy just like any other rat harboring ill intentions toward him!
After crippling Mr. Twelve, Felix checked if his bones had ruptured from his skin, forcing him to bleed.
Seeing that not a single drop of blood was on the ground, Felix returned his focus to the crippled Mr. Twelve.
Obviously, Mr. Twelve didn't even make a squeak throughout the entire experience.
'Alright, it's time for interrogation.'
Felix dusted his hands and stood up. He snapped his finger and his truth inducement was added to the Para-Dizzy inducement. He then removed the paralyze inducement from it, leaving only dizziness and truth inducement.
Since it takes quite a few seconds for the truth inducement to start affecting the brain and making the body feeling like it was drugged with four doses of morphine, Felix waited patiently until he noticed that Mr. Twelve's eyelids were dropping.
He then removed the dizziness inducement, leaving only his truth inducement!
Only after all of this did he start asking his questions!
"What's your name?"
"My name..name is Bechkala Roddy."
Mr. Twelve felt like he was in the clouds as he answered with a relaxed expression. Even the pain from his broken limbs wasn't felt by him!
The truth inducement might take time to affect someone, but the moment it did, it would always bring out the answer no matter what!
The influence of the inducement was simply making the affected more suggestible. The side effect was the current drugged feeling that Mr. Twelve was experiencing!
"Do you know the names of your Organization's members?"
"No."
"Why do you want to kidnap me?" Felix rephrased his question to make it easier. "Was it to extract my legendary bloodline abilities and sell them to Witches or to sell me altogether to research institutes?"
"The first one." Mr. Twelve paused and continued softly, "If we failed to capture you be..fore you replace you..r bloodline, we planned on selling you all together to research institute."
'As expected.' Felix reacted quite indifferently to those two horrifying answers.
He always knew that bloodliners caught and sold to the Organization had only two fates awaited them.
The first one was getting forced into continuing to integrate until 99% just to have their abilities extracted by using the Genome Specifier Needles!
This evil and inhuman operation was referred to in the UVR as rearing bloodline stock!
A quite fitting name when those extracted abilities were purchasable and useful in many occupations!
The perfect example would be battle substances and potions created by witches!!!
Beasts weren't the only ingredients used to get substances like Fuchsia Eagle Wings which Felix used before in the highway ambush.
Nonono!
Since the bloodline integrated in human bodies was extractable, this meant it could be used just like in the case of extracting the essence from beasts!!
Since the moment humans decided to base their cultivation system on beasts, they couldn't escape the fate of having such a humiliating connection!
Criminal Organizations without a soul or humanity took advantage of this fact and went to primitive planets like Earth to capture their newly awakened juniors and use the Genome Specifier Needles to extract their abilities.
If they didn't have many, they rear them akin to sheep by helping them carry on their integration until they unlock six abilities.
It didn't matter if the bloodliners were using uncommon, rare, epic, or even legendary bloodlines. The Organization would do its best to get them their required bloodline and force them into reaching 99%.
Then, they would extract those abilities and sell them to witches, who would use those abilities as the main ingredient in their substances and potions!
This would result in the birth of substances and potions, who had temporary abilities, like Angel wings, skin hardening, Blood rush, blood frenzy, and such.
The less evil Organizations would utmost extract 6 abilities from a bloodliner before getting him out of his misery.
Meanwhile, some of the diabolical Organizations would actually extract the six abilities and make the bloodliner use a higher-tier bloodline to start the process all over again!!!
Since those bloodliners were being reared like sheep, the etching process was completely ignored. After all, the only reason humans etch the ability and get the enhancement was to be stronger.
But in the case of those poor bloodliners, their life was centered only to have their abilities harvested and sold.
Obviously, those with higher affinity and pain tolerance were most required due to the lower cooldown between the integration phases and low fatality rates.
That's why those Organizations attach themselves to newly discovered planets as the awakeners in them were unprotected, weak, and still fresh.
This meant, it was highly likely to find bloodliners with above-average affinity in them!
This inhuman method was extremely profitable to the Organization since a single bloodliner could potentially make them sell at least 18 abilities before his mentality finally breaks.
18 tier 1 rare abilities could bring them up to 10 million SC. This was just from a single bloodliner with such a weak bloodline. Now imagine hundreds and thousands of them!
Felix was almost going to end up a victim of this inhuman practice in his previous life.
Three kidnapping attempts failed on him and the last one, he almost committed suicide in it just to escape landing in the hands of the Organization.
So, Felix going after those f*ckers was totally justifiable!
He wasn't going to stop until he made the entire Organization regret targeting this little blue planet!
"Now to my final question." Felix tightened his grasp on Mr. Twelve's hair and said in a bone-chilling tone, "What are the coordination of your Organization spaceship?"
"I don't remember it."
Felix rephrased his question since it was indeed hard to remember the latitude and longitude numbers. "Where is your spaceship parked?"
Mr. Twelve's expression twisted slightly like he was trying to get over the drugged status he was on. However, he still opened his trembling lips to answer, "In the Grand Canyon."
"Near what?"
"Near Tusa..."
Before Mr. Twelve could finish, his brain finally couldn't handle the drugging effect. Thus, his eyes were closed shut, sleeping peacefully. Felix didn't mind him sleeping as the Queen's protocol was for emergency situations like fainting.
'Queen please tell me which zone, area, or town start with Tusa.' Felix requested while placing Mr. Twelve gently on the ground.
'There is only one result, Tusayan town.' The Queen replied.
'Thank you.'
Felix cracked his knuckles and thought, 'That should be enough to locate the Spaceship.'
He then did the unexpected as he beamed six rejuvenation potions and a weird-looking potion, that had a kind of hazy fog inside of it instead of liquid.
'Let's bring time backward, shall we?' Felix smirked as he glanced at his bracelet, looking at the time that had gone since the moment he poisoned Mr. Twelve.
1 minute and 5 seconds!
still need 25 seconds.' Felix brought the potion near Mr. Twelve's nose and waited for those seconds to pass.
The moment he saw that only one second left, Felix opened the lid of the bottle and let Mr. Twelve inhale the grey fog inside.
After seeing that the entire content was inhaled fully, Felix swiftly opened Mr. Twelve's mouth and fed him the rejuvenation potion one by one until his entire body was back in normal shape like it wasn't even touched.
Since Mr. Twelve's mind was healthy again, Felix created a minimized sleepiness aura on top of his head so he wouldn't wake up abruptly.
He then lifted Mr. Twelve and made him lean on the hovercar again, putting him in the exact same position he had previously.
After getting him affixed, he stepped back and started sizing up Mr. Twelve. 'Good, everything is exactly the same as earlier.'
Felix immediately jumped on his hovercar and flew tens of meters above. He then removed the sleepiness inducement from Mr. Twelve's head.
'Hopefully, he wouldn't notice anything strange.' Felix thought while gazing at Mr. Twelve opening up his eyes.
Mr. Twelve looked to his left and right while scratching his chin and then...Nothing, he just kept tapping his finger on his elbow, waiting patiently for Mr. Hire's arrival.
Honestly, Felix didn't know if Mr. Twelve noticed that something went missing, like 1 minute and 30 seconds of his life!
That's right!
The potion that Felix had just used was called *Memory Eraser 1.30*
It was capable of erasing the memories of everything that happened in the past 1 minute and 30 seconds without leaving a single trail behind!
The process was also smooth and harmless, not damaging the mind in the slightest!
Felix had five more of those potions each with a different set time and price. Ranging from erasing the memories in the minute, two minutes, three minutes, and he even had 15 minutes.
The potion that he used had costed him 6 million SC when he purchased it in Looby's shop during his shopping spree!
So when Felix said that it was time to rewind time, he was referring to Mr. Twelve waking up and forget about everything that happened in that duration!
Felix knew that Mr. Twelve would neither feel a headache or pain after he wakes up. He would utmost guess that he dozed off for a second or two.
Since he was already yawning lazily before, it wouldn't appear strange in his mind that he had closed his eyes to relax for a second or two.
Due to the fact that his body was fine, the area around him was the same, and everything else seemed normal, he wouldn't assume that he was ambushed, had his information taken, and finally his memories erased!
No one would assume so right off the bat. Not even the most paranoid individuals!
Felix was only worried that Mr. Twelve would glance at the time now and notice that 2 minutes had gone by.
If he was punctual and knew his time well, he would easily figure out the abnormal extra two minutes that were added.
When that happens, he would definitely ask the Queen if the bracelet's clock was messed up. She would obviously deny it.
By then, Mr. Twelve only needed to ask the magical question to the Queen, ]Did something happen?[
The Queen would obviously not respond since it was a violation of her non-interference rules. But her silence was more than enough for Mr. Twelve to understand that something peculiar was going on.
He then would simply ask the Queen to run back the recording of the last two minutes, which she would gladly do since it was the doing of the bracelet and had nothing to do with her.
By then, Felix's scheme would be discovered.
Fortunately, Mr. Twelve just brought out a pack of cigarettes and started smoking one cooly. After seeing so, Felix didn't hesitate to speed away, heading back to the same suburb.
Mr. Twelve's situation could go wrong at any time and the only way to make sure that he wouldn't notice anything peculiar was to create a disturbance. Felix knew exactly what he needed to do.
"Queen send an anonymous tip to the police about suburb house's address.'
'As you wish.'
After hearing so, Felix pressed the acceleration button and the car wheezed away. He wanted to inform the police now since he would utmost take two minutes to reach his destination.
By the time he made it, the police would be on their way, and Mr. Twelve would be sending messages to Mr. Hire.
Since he wouldn't receive any reply, he would know that something bad happened in the operation. Especially when he contacts the rest and ends up with the same result.
Felix believed that it was highly likely for Mr. Twelve to ride his hovercar and flew to the suburb as well.
But Felix wasn't worried in the slightest about him coming personally. He just kept flying and flying until he reached the same backyard.
This time, he looked at the home address and told the Queen to give it to the police.
Then, he parked the hovercar next to the other one and laid right between the corpses.
Unbothered about getting stained by the blood, he just closed his eyes and acted like he was asleep.
...
Meanwhile, on the roof of that hotel, Mr. Twelve was freaking out at the silent responses of Mr. Hire.He already sent him more than 10 messages yet not a peep was heard from the other side. By now, he would be a fool to not realize that he was either dead or had his hand cut off.
'F*ck! How can they fail such a simple mission with all the gadgets given and even the Marauder poison?' He cursed in his mind while stepping inside the hovercar, 'F*cking useless primitives!'
Without further ado, he sped towards the suburb area while having his hovercar go invisible.
2 minutes or so later...
Mr. Twelve hovered tens of meters above the backyard, looking at the massacre on the backyard with an ugly expression.
He easily spotted Mr. Hire even though his head was splattered. His black coat was unique in the backyard, which was filled with corpses of the mercenary squad.
Soon, he noticed Felix's body as well within the corpses. Yet, Mr. Twelve didn't feel delighted in the slightest.
He knew that it was impossible for him to touch Felix since he was trespassing on the planet and considered a non-native!
The moment he attempts to do so, the Queen would warn him only once to back off. If he didn't listen, he would be marked by the alliance as an offender.
This bore no good to him or the Organization as they would be hunted down for attacking a member of the alliance.
Even a single homeless on the street was protected by the laws of the alliance from outsiders. As long as he remained on his planet and the outsiders were transpassing without given permission by the Planet leader/leaders.
However, this only applied to outsiders or non-natives!
The Alliance wouldn't give a shit if another native killed the homeless, made him his toy, or gave him to the outsiders.
If it wasn't for so, the Organization wouldn't have bothered to contact natives like the Hiltons family to kidnap bloodliners for them.
They knew that as long as the Hiltons forces those kidnapped bloodliners to sign a slavery contract to keep their lives, they wouldn't be considered as earthlings anymore but as property to the Hiltons!
A property could be sold and purchased just like any commodity!
Just like this, the natives would be doing the bidding of the Organization.
If it came to be, they could give the natives Genome Specifier needles and they would be the ones extracting abilities for them.
Right now, Mr. Twelve could only look at Felix from afar, not daring to approach him. The Marauder poison, which was their greatest weapon, had turned into Mr. Twelve's curse!
After all, it was blocking the only way for him to capture Felix without worrying about the alliance's rules.
That was by letting Felix fire the first shot!
The moment that happened, Felix would lose the alliance's protection since it was impossible to block non-natives from defending themselves!
But since he was 'asleep' that plan wouldn't work anymore.
"Who did this? Why didn't he just take the target away after saving him?" Mr. Twelve pondered while bringing his hovercar to the ground. He stepped out and went to the closest corpse to him.
'Warning! Warning! Mr. Bechkala, you are approaching a native without his permission. If you kept moving forward, you shall be marked as an offender of the Alliance based on rule 16 in the SGA rule book.'
'I get it!'
Furious, Mr. Twelve did a sharp turn and went to the furthest corpse from Felix. After reaching it and seeing that the bracelet was utterly destroyed, he felt like his heart was going to explode in fury.
He wanted to retrieve those bracelets as they would have recorded what happened here. The mercenary squad and even Mr. Hire were ordered to keep recording always.
However, looking at the obliterated bracelets, Mr. Twelve knew that the data was unsavable. And only the previous owner had the right to retrieve lost data from the Queen.
Unless they give access to their private data to others. But no one in his right mind would do that as it was too much of a term.
Peepo! Peepo!...
Abrupt siren noises resounded from further away, entailing the rapid approach of the police!
Based on the sound, Mr. Twelve guessed that they would be here in under 30 seconds!
"You mother f*cker!!"
Bam!
Livid and somewhat spooked, Mr. Twelve couldn't help but curse while kicking a corpse away!
He was just about to ask the Organization to send another middle-man native here to pick up Felix and take him in a desolate place!
After all, it didn't need to be Mr. Hire. Just any native would do the trick!
However, after hearing the sirens, that plan was destroyed just as it took root in his mind!
No wonder he felt spooked! Felix had literally predicted all of his plans beforehand and made sure to create countermeasures for them while he was still acting asleep!
All of this so he would remain in the dark!
Meanwhile, Mr. Twelve didn't remain in the backyard to vent his anger as he swiftly connected those two blue hovercars with his bracelet and controlled them manually to fly after his hovercar.
He made all of them turn invisible before stopping at ten meters in the air.
Then, he just kept watching in irritation those police cars and SWAT vans surround the house without entering it.
They just kept aiming their guns at it while waiting for further instruction.
Upon seeing so, Mr. Twelve closed his eyes, hiding the distress in them.
He took a deep breath and dialed Mr. Gama's bracelet. After the call went through, he straightaway gave him a summarized report, "Boss, someone had intervened by killing the mercenary squad and Mr. Hire before he brought the target to me. Currently, I am standing above the 1st drop area and watching the police surround the house." He paused and asked, "What are your instructions?"
Instead of receiving a response, only heavy breathing resounded in his ears, making him shiver in his seat. He knew that Mr. Gama was beyond livid and someone was going to pay for it!
He just wished that his anger wouldn't be directed at him.
After waiting a couple of seconds, Mr. Gama's deep voice reverberated in the car, "You are positive that someone else did this and not the target himself?"
"Yes, I saw that he is asleep on the grass next to the corpses with my own eyes." Mr. Twelve added his own intake on the matter, "Plus if he didn't drink or ate the poison, he would have destroyed the mercenary squad in the Banquet. After all, he wouldn't pretend to be asleep while the party was being raided."
Mr. Twelve's meaning was clear. Felix normally shouldn't have any idea about the upcoming raid and him being its target.
This meant if Felix wasn't poisoned like the rest, he should stand up and defend his family and rest from the mercenary squads, who had laser guns.
It was impossible to pretend to be asleep unless he was a coward, wanting to avoid the fight!
But Mr. Twelve had been watching Felix in the World Competition and he knew that he wouldn't remain still in that dangerous situation.
This led him to conclude that Felix was truly affected by the poison and didn't have any idea about what's going on.
Therefore, he concluded that another party had intervened and blocked their kidnapping attempt.
"Boss, the SWAT are entering the house and they are soon going to find the target." Mr. Twelve asked again, "What are your instructions? Should I expose myself and provoke them to attack me so I can get rid of them or just retreat?"
"You can't retreat." Mr. Gama said coldly, "This is our last chance to get hold of the legendary bloodliner. If we left now, he would be transported to the Earthling team's headquarters which is going to be heavily fortified. By then, he will replace his entire bloodline with epic one and we will lose those legendary abilities!"
BANG!
Mr. Twelve flinched after hearing the sound of an object getting destroyed at the other side of the call.
"That's a 200 million SC wasted at a minimum! 200!" Mr. Gama ordered with a suppressed tone, "We can't lose such free money! You better make sure to buy time until the 2nd middle-man reaches the area and picked the target!"
The moment Mr. Gama finished speaking, the SWAT crew had made it to the backyard and noticed the massacre.
Since the backyard wasn't that big, they easily spotted Felix lying on the grass while facing them with blood tainting his hair and face.
"HE IS REALLY HERE!!" The SWAT Captain shouted while swiftly splitting up from his crew.
They also didn't remain in their place as three went in direction of Felix, four more went to secure the area and the last three stayed in their positions. One of them was relaying the information to the rest and his superiors.
"Hold it right there!" Mr. Twelve immediately shouted out of the window after seeing them trying to lift Felix.
He then jumped on his car hood while controlling it remotely to descend.
After reaching ten meters, he removed the car's camouflage, exposing him to the shocked SWAT crew.
After all, they had just heard a voice coming out of nowhere and suddenly a hovercar had emerged on top of them.
"FREEZE!"
The SWAT crew pointed their guns at him reflexively while moving slowly to the nearest cover.
The three SWAT members near Felix just stood in front of him, using their bodies to shield him.
Unbothered by being aimed at, Mr. Twelve requested the Queen to mark everyone with red light and turn it off the moment they attacked him.
After seeing that everyone was marked, he manually activated the battle system in his hovercar. The moment it was on, the front bumper of the car was opened widely.
Whoosh Whoosh!
"What the hell are those?!" A police officer exclaimed loudly in fear after seeing two long silver rifles protruding from within the car!
'Felix you better make a move.' Asna informed him nonchalantly while placing a pawn on the chessboard, 'That prick is trying to bait everyone into attacking him first.'
Immediately after hearing so, Felix knew that it wasn't time to act asleep anymore.
Hence, he clutched his head tightly while groaning out loud, "My f*cking head is about to split open!"
Everyone in the area turned in his direction and started watching him trying to stand up with some difficulty.
Mr. Twelve's expression instantly got ugly at the sight. He completely forgot about Felix's high poison resistance that would lower the potency of the poison from the known 24h to merely 20 minutes.
Heck, after glancing at the time, he realized that a whopping 25 minutes had gone by since Felix had drunk the poison!
After everything that happened, the last thing in his mind was the duration of the poison.
Now, he could only watch Felix standing up on his feet with the help of the two SWAT members.
'Whatever! I just need to bait him to attack me and I can kidnap him on my own without the need for those useless middle-men natives.'
Mr. Twelve swiftly came up with countermeasures to the situation. Now, he didn't give a shit about baiting the rest. As long as Felix fired the first shot, he would be under his mercy!
"Mr. Felix, can you please look up here." Mr. Twelve requested with his arms clasped behind his body.
He might have sounded polite and nice, but the way he stood with his chest out kept emitting an inborn feeling of superiority.
In his eyes, earthlings were but primitives with only one use. That was giving them bloodline abilities to sell.
After seeing that Felix had lifted his head and was looking at him in bewilderment, Mr. Twelve said, "I know that confusion is clouding your mind about the current situation. But, I have no plans to make a prolonged chit-chat with you."
He pointed a finger at himself and said with an overbearing tone, "All you need to know is that I was responsible for your kidnapping attempt!"
Although he was speaking with the common universal language, everyone understood him clearly since learning the language was obligatory in their agencies.
Thus, they immediately stood in front of Felix while tightening their grips on the guns after seeing the progenitor of the raid!
They didn't expect to find both Felix and who's responsible for the chaos that rose after the raid at the same time!
"Sir Felix, just recover behind us." The SWAT member said, "We will take care of him."
Felix shook his head and walked in front of them. He tapped on his suit and said, "I am wearing my Nanosuit so don't worry about me."
"Nanosuit, huh!" Mr. Twelve sneered and said, "As if your outdated garbage Nanosuit could block a single beam from my laser rifles!"
Everyone got tensed at his claim.
Unlike the four bloodliners guards from the mansion, those police officers, SWAT crew, FBI, and any other agency, had been clearly informed about the technologically advanced weapons.
Since laser weapons were currently the mainstream in most armies in the human kingdoms, they were taught extensively about them.
This made them discern that currently no one was protected under those two rifles!
'Listen up.' The captain of the SWAT team sent a message to his crew, 'In three seconds after I give my signal, fire at will!'
While he was sending it, he leaned closer to Felix's shoulder and whispered, "Run as hard as you can in three seconds."
"Run?" Felix patted the captain's shoulder while chuckling in amusement. He pointed his finger at Mr. Twelve and asked, "Why should I run from a non-native?"
"Nonnative?" baffled, The Captain recoiled his head and inspected Mr. Twelve again.
However, he couldn't see his face as he was standing ten meters above them. The visibility wasn't any better as the only source of light was the street pole next to the house and the round moon in the sky.
"Are you certain he is a non-native?" The captain couldn't help but ask as he knew the consequence of being right or wrong!
The government wasn't idiotic to not teach them some must learn rules from the SGA rule book.
One of the most important rules was not to engage first in combat with non-natives on the planet to avoid removing their protection!
Everyone here knew so as well. However, due to the dim light, they couldn't really see the face of Mr. Twelve.
Plus, in their eyes, Earth shouldn't be expecting visitors from outside of their solar system anytime soon!
Thus, they always considered Mr. Twelve as an earthling and they were treating him as such.
"Trust me, I have good eyes and his ugly face is definitely not from Earth. Let me show you." Felix suddenly stepped forward with his arms spread apart and gave a welcoming smile to Mr. Twelve, "If you have the balls, fire at me you retard."
Everyone held their breaths in nervousness as those two rifles abruptly lowered down and aimed straight at Felix's smug face.
Without a change of expression, Mr. Twelve said casually, "I know that you are trying to buy time until the reinforcement arrives. But, I don't have time to waste with your nonsense. SO!" He snapped his finger and those rifles started to light up from within. "You have ten seconds to send me your UVR ID and sign the contract that I will send you. Otherwise, none of you will walk away from here!"
"10, 9!.."
He truly started counting out loud, putting tremendous pressure on everyone!
They wanted to trust Felix but Mr. Twelve didn't sound like he was joking around and their guts kept warning them to run as they gazed at the heated mouths of the rifles.
While Mr. Twelve sounded confident and dead serious to the rest, in Felix's eyes, he truly appeared like a clown trying his best to not get his bluff found out.
Felix neither had plans to attack him nor wanted others to do so. He had already gotten the coordination of the Gama's spaceship and that was a massive win to him.
Anything else was just complicating matters for no reason and creating variables that might affect his final plan.
Thus, he placed his hand on the SWAT captain's gun and lowered it down. He looked at him right in the eyes and said, "Ask your crew to back down. No need to get caught in his bluff lest someone end up firing by mistake and gets himself killed."
"7! 6! 5!..."
While Felix was requesting so from the SWAT Captain, Mr. Twelve didn't stop counting!
Instead, he actually increased its speed, making the timid police officers tremble while pointing their hands at him.
"Trust me, he is bluffing and won't dare to fire unless he didn't care about getting hunted by the Alliance's forces." Felix emphasized it one last time to the captain while putting his hands in his pockets.
He then simply kept staring at the laser guns nonchalantly.
He did his part by warning them and if one of them still attacked, Felix wouldn't help him out when Mr. Twelve vents his upcoming frustration on him.
The SWAT Captain stared at his wide back for a second before putting down his gun and giving off the signal for the rest to do the same.
However, instead of remaining in the open, he swiftly ordered them to take cover.
Just like this, only Felix and the SWAT captain remained in their position looking at Mr. Twelve, who reached the last three numbers.
'3.2...1!!"
The moment Mr. Twelve shouted the last number, He pointed his trembling finger at Felix and threw a massive fit, "You lucky son of a b*tch! If it wasn't for those f*cking alliance rules, I would have snapped your limbs one by one and dragged you on the ground until your skin gets scraped! SCRAPED! YOU HEAR ME!!"
"See?" Unfazed, Felix just cleaned his ear with his pinky while watching Mr. Twelve glaring at him with bloodshot eyes.
He was truly enraged and also scared since he knew that the moment he reached the spaceship without Felix, he wouldn't escape being vented on by Mr. Gama.
Alas, nothing much could be done now since his baiting scheme was found out and there was no way that he would attack Felix.
His life and the Organization's well-being were more important than 150 million.
Thus, he reared in his fury and left one last threat, "No matter where you go or hide. We will always get to you! ALWAYS!"
Whoosh!
Not waiting to receive a response, he jumped into his hovercar and took off while bringing the other two cars with him.
The more he stayed the more chances of his Organization's existence getting found out. He didn't know what his boss's plan was going to be after this major failure.
'Get to me? Heh.' Felix grinned widely at the sight of Mr. Twelve's retreating car, 'If your Organization wasn't destroyed in the next months by me, I would hand myself to you in a silver plate.'
Upon reading his thoughts and seeing the crazy plan he had in mind, both Asna and the Jörmungandr lifted their heads from the chessboard and gave Felix thumbs up, 'We can't wait to see the fireworks.'
'They sure wouldn't share the same anticipation as you.' Felix laughed wickedly in his mind while thanking the SWAT members with a friendly smile.