279 Secondary 2 (1/2)
Sofony was shivering. She and Gio managed to wreak havoc at the hidden base in Hyacinth City, but they discovered Sofia was nowhere in sight. She vanished! And the damn Leader of the organization couldn't be found too!
”Sofia is alive. However, there's no way to trace her whereabouts. So distasteful!” Fire was burning in her eyes, and the hateful part was how the searing pain seemed to be penetrating not only her heart, but also her bones.
How could she not be furious and angry when it was her own secondary host who ran into misfortune just like that?
”Sofie.” Worry was in Gio's eyes. The woman's rage could be seen. She was still badly fuming and huffing for breath even though the tall brown building before them had long tumbled down, reduced into rubbles and dust.
The two of them did not pay Ver Drilon any attention when the man arrived and exclaimed surprise at them. The guy sported a dumbfounded expression at the sight he saw upon arriving. He asked himself, 'I'm already late?'
”Where's the damn base keeper of this site?!” Ver shouted.
Sofony who was trembling in anger threw him a murderous look which was different from the one she gave him days ago. The latter was just a warning. But this time, the redness in her eyes was telling him she would really put an end to his life if he gets into her already tense nerves again.
Ver gritted his teeth but followed its suggestion. He looked around but found no other living person nearby.
Gio walked to Sofony's side and pulled her into her embrace. Like a frozen statue, she allowed herself to be hugged. But she didn't stop throwing all sorts of bombs at the place. The system cackling in her ears was not helping at all. Its happiness at her reckless wasting of points made her crazier and more furious.
”Stop it. Let's leave!” The man forcefully dragged her out there. When she suddenly showed resistance and attempted to escape from his arms, the man didn't hesitate to order the half-host ghost to buy him a strong anesthetic which could both paralyze her and cause her to lose consciousness.
When the man skillfully administered the shots, it rendered the other Level 5 in the place gaping.
'Another system user like us?'
Alarmed, he quietly followed as Gio carried the unconscious Sofony like a bride. ”How many are still up and running?”
Ver was absent-minded at first. When he realized he was the one being asked, the suspected higher-level host was already scowling badly at him. The twenty-eight-year-old man was not in a good mood after having rendered his fiancée unconscious against her will.
”I've left them three years ago. I don't know. But before leaving, they already have at least one in every major city.”
”In other words, at least seventeen.” There was no expression in the non-host's face. ”There's another major triad in this country which has a reach to almost everywhere here. Contact them and have them attack those places. That should serve as enough diversion. You don't need to lead them there. Go to any of the major countries' embassy and fake an SOS rescue signal to all the other nations. Make sure to have at least ten countries send their fighter jets.”
Gio said in a very awe-inspiring way that Ver only realized something was off a few dozen seconds later. Why was he being made into a gopher?
Gio continued, ”In case you don't know. The goal is to reduce all bases into rubbles. That should suffice to complete her 'destroying a whole organization' task.”