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Chapter 2 - Beginning

There was an urgent call for Jule early morning. At such an early hour, she ignored the call to sleep some more. Before an alert from Jule's personal mobile prompt her to sit up, with sluggish movement, she reached for her mobile and read what concerning matters that Jule must be up at 2AM.

After have read the content, Jule could not fathom the stupidity and wandered if staff decided to come to work without their common sense. Without further delay she had set off with only an overcoat, beneath it Jule was still wearing her nightdress; decided to catch up on sleep in her office.

The lack of sleep was unsettling, especially for Jule who loves to sleep if she could but there are bills and utilities to pay. Within few minutes Jule arrived to resolved the matter; the sooner the better.

"What happened?"

Jule urged as she approached the closest employee to clarify about everything. Despite upon noticing a staff indeed had trapped themselves inside her inventory facility.

The project she has been working on is highly of value. Thus, security measures were tight not even a single fly could breach it. This puzzled Jule after hearing what they had to say it dawn on her someone was pulling the string. It was childish and selfish of them to endanger someone's life. Nevertheless, she felt an urged to play along and satisfy their scheme.

Let's see if you can deal with this ordeal.

Jule did not want them to succeed but also want to make them feel like they won. A devilish smile blossom as she bypass her security, not forgetting to start the countdown, the employee present could not comprehend what is happening and only thought of it as a procedure to unlocking the door.

When the staff could leave the facility the tension within the room ease a bit. But Jule had locked herself inside - very extreme of her. She typed on her keyboard a string of command appeared accrossed the screen. The countdown came to only 5 seconds left.

"Do give them my farewell. I'm sure it is the least you can do."

The portal came alive, it finally registered to them on what Jule wanted to do. They panicked and rushed over trying to pry open the door with their bare hands. A staff who was bribed looked horrified as they could only hopelessly watch as she disappeared after crushing a chip beneath her heels.

"She's gone just like that the boss would be thrilled…Ow! No violence!"

Someone exclaimed in excitement received a whacked.

"It's such a shame to lose another brilliant inventor. Let's burn this place at least our boss will spare us this time."

They set the building to flames. Firefighters and police offices arrived moment later to investigate. News spread of an unfortunate gas leak had lead to the death of Professor Rosewood's death, although her remains cannot be found, there has been no clue of her. Thus, the case became unsolved to the police department. But to the civilians, they came to understand she had died in the fire accident.