202 His Whereabouts (2/2)
Wendy rubbed her knees then opened her eyes just in time to see the flash of light and loud explosion that engulfed the spot where she used to be.
Frightened, she exclaimed, ”A grenade?”
Crackling sounds ensued as the double door entrance of the haunted building got caught in the fire.
Realizing how close she had just been to death, Wendy became stunned, her knees lost strength when she tried to stand and ended up sitting.
The man beside her placed his hand to the side and propped his body up using it. He stood next to the shocked her. His expression turned weird as he stared at the reddish glow ahead. When his eyes got pinned to the girl, he suddenly remembered one thing then subconsciously asked, ”... He saw your face, no?”
She subconsciously nodded, her mind still busy processing what just happened.
”... Just want to tell you. You're now wanted by them for sure. Because that man has some sort of device in his eyes, that whatever contact lense surely implanted with the feature to record stuff connected to some sort of monitor somewhere....”
Wendy's eyes went down to the handgun she was holding. For some reason, she couldn't find the strength nor the desire to point it against him again. Must be because she realized that he just saved her now. And if it weren't for him, she would have already become a scorched corpse, joining that fried masked man in his journey to the unknown afterlife.
She stared foolishly at the pretty-faced man for some time. But came back to her senses later on since this was not really her first time being so close to danger. She shakily stood up, her brain still mushy from confusion regarding how she should treat this guy hereon.
When he began to walk away, most likely to look for another exit since they were now essentially trapped inside the dorm, Wendy rooted her feet on the ground and chose to forego her sense of justice for once and not do any action to trap or stall the man anymore.
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East coast of Edogawa Prefecture.
A woman dressed in a black negligee paused what she was saying on the phone, shifting her gaze to the northwest.
”101. Is that the same host from a few days ago? In a fight again?”
Since she was the only one in the elaborately designed suite and the call had been put on hold, she dared to speak loudly to the system inhabiting her brain.
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It answered,
The woman let out a few chuckles then resumed the conversation. Her eyes lit up after the person reporting to her from the other side spoke up and said, ”Milady, it seems regular thawing machine have an effect with the iceberg. It's quite negligible but our experts clearly noticed the decrease in the volume of ice.”
The woman remembered the mysterious blue iceberg her men recovered from the coast nearby. It drifted to her resort's territory as if a work of fate. For a reason she badly wanted to uncover, a human being was inside it, half-naked and seemingly asleep. When she asked her system to get the man out of it, to her surprise, it said her level was not enough to make it execute the command!
Yet somehow today, she received a call from the lab people she tasked with the lookout that they managed to melt the ice using normal machines.
'Wow. I can't believe what I just heard. What the hell is this? What I can't do, the current technology could?'
She laughed and asked, ”How long will it take to thaw that gigantic bloke of ice completely?”
”Milady, we estimate that with our current progress, it will take about four months. And that's already the fastest we can do if we work twenty-four seven.”
”Four months, huh?”
The female immoral system host giggled, ending the call. After changing her clothes to a thicker set, she walked out of her room and took the elevator down the lab located at the basement.
It didn't take long for it to open, revealing to her a world only seen on a sci-fi movie. It was a huge science lab, the type which could put any other laboratories to shame with its complete set of equipment and plethora of specimens lined up neatly on very huge glass-framed shelves. The woman had recently grown fond of the sea hence a tall and wide aquarium rivaling that of ocean parks laid bare to her eyes, a few sharks and innumerable school of fishes and cluster of sea plants scattered all over the superb seascapes. It looked so beautiful, giving life to the metal underground world glinting and refracting coldness from its people and the machine.
Mirth flashed across her jewel-like eyes. Clarissa Guzman's Original didn't answer the malicious comment of her system and merely walked over to the left where she immediately saw the over ten-meter tall ice bloke entrapping inside a man of an impeccably toned body and charismatic facial appearance.
The ice was so crystal clear hence she could see even the fine lines of his abs and muscles. His eyes were closed and with how relaxed and peaceful his face looked, it was as though he was currently in the best dream of his life and he just didn't want to wake up.
Greetings from the staffs and workers of the lab poured from all direction. She ignored them of course, entranced by the Eastern Adonis the ice had mercilessly captured and frozen.
She placed one hand on the bitingly cold ice, her eyes looking up to the figure suspended above. With a smile, she murmured, ”A four-month wait, huh?”
Turning around, she sternly ordered to the nearby woman in a white lab coat, ”Make everyone do their best. Four months will be the maximum I will wait to see him out of this damn iceberg!”
Everyone who heard her command respectfully answered, ”Milady, leave it to us. We won't fail you.”
She nodded then gazed back to him, seemingly in a good mood. Clarissa's Original smilingly thought, 'I'm already so excited. When you wake up, if sci-fi stories don't lie, you'll have a high chance of losing your memories right?'
She leaned closer.
'It should be fun if you lose your memories, right? Even though I already advanced to Level 6 by hooking up with another host supporter, I still want to capture you for myself and take you away completely from Host 137...'
She widened her grin.
'Gio Albarez...'
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