76 Starting the Plan (1/2)
Day 3 – 7:43 AM – Bacoor City Hall 4th Floor, Molino Boulevard, Bayanan, Bacoor City, Cavite
Charmaine looked at the radio in her hand, shocked.
'He came to pick me up? Why? How did he find me?'
Those questions echoed in her mind but she did not have much thought to voice it. She also wanted to get out of this hellhole.
But then she remembered why they were trapped in here in the first place.
”Big Brother! Don't come here, it's dangerous!”
She shouted her concern. What a good girl. She already felt weak and did not have the ability to escape this place without the help of others but she still did not want to implicate anyone. Especially since this Big Brother of hers who did not have contact with them in the past years actually came to look for her.
There was a lot of infected outside the building and around the compound. There were also those tree people and the larger tree person roaming the street.
Charmaine then heard his reply.
”I already saw the situation and I already thought of a plan to pick you up. I'll be there in several minutes. Keep the radio with you alright?”
The drone that landed in front of her then started to fly up with buzzing sounds coming from its four propellers.
***
Mark controlled the drone to fly while he saw Charmaine watching the drone as it took off. However, the drone just managed to take flight to a certain height when someone snatched the radio out of Charmaine's hand and even pushed her away.
Mark frowned. He was furious.
The person that snatched the radio was a man. The man stared at the camera on the drone and spoke at the radio.
***
”Hey! What about us! You have to help us!”
What a thick face. After what the man did to Charmaine, he was actually looking hopefully at the camera. Unfortunately, the reply he received was enough to give him chills in his spine.
”When I arrive there, the first thing I will do is kill you.”
The voice was calm and detached but that just added to the threat factor of the reply.
The man stepped back in fear but he soon regained his composure. He actually got scared of a threat? He felt shame and then the shame turned to anger. He smashed the radio to the floor in front of the camera and ran off.
Charmaine, teary eyed, crawled towards the broken radio. The tried to put the radio piece by piece but of course, it could not be fixed just like that.
***
From the scene in the monitor, everyone in the vehicle looked furious. Even the always silent Abbbygale looked at Mark and ask.
”Are we going to kill that bad man Papa?”
Her Papa did not answer but the furious look on his face surely judged the fate of that man later.
Looking at the pitiful appearance of Charmaine in the monitor, Mark could not hold back anymore and wanted to charge to that place as soon as possible.
It was then that a woman approached Charmaine in panic and pulled her back to spot where she was resting before. The woman looked like she was in her late twenty's and was wearing a nurse uniform. Mark did not saw this woman from the window earlier.
Looking at her panic at Charmaine's pitiful appearance as she tried to fix the radio while glancing at the Drone warily, it looked like she did not know what happened just now.
***
Under Charmaine's stare and the nurse's wary glances, the drone turned around while remaining in place. It looked like whoever was controlling the drone was checking the place. It then stopped while looking at the man who stood behind the congresswoman's group.
The congresswoman had a complicated look on her face. She also had the notion to ask for help from the person who was controlling the drone. She was waiting for the right timing and to politely ask the man on the radio for help. Since the weakened woman on the floor was still talking to the radio, the congresswoman patiently waited.
However, before she could make a move, the man just now turned the situation awry.Still, she could not do anything to the man.