147 Terrorists (2/2)
”I should have brought Zed here,” Felicity thought. She hated how she was forced to give up her plans for trips with him just due to this party.
The party went on with people dancing and eating the best dishes the money can afford in the city.
The investigators and the new backup forces stood around each other in an informal gathering.
”We have to catch that masked terrorist first,” Liam said to his friends. As the chief investigator, he felt ashamed to let that man still be free.
”There were earlier traces of the terrorists but now it is like they have disappeared in the air,” A woman colleague remarked.
”Most likely they have inside information,” Liam guessed.
”Guess so,” Another officer agreed.
”There are far too many tasks in the city,” Liam released a long breath, ”We have zero progress on the golden lightning phenomenon.”
”The pressure is building up on all of us,” The female colleague from before added.
”Yeah,” Liam nodded.
CRASH~!
The sound of glass crashing on the floor reverberated in the room.
”Hmm?”
Suddenly, everyone's attention moved to the center of the hall.
A waiter was on his knees with pieces of glass and tray in front of him. The floor was filled with cocktails and juices.
”Are you all right?” A woman in a red dress moved forward to help seeing no activities from the waiter.
The waiter turned his head above, and when the woman saw his face, she stopped.
”W-what happened to you?” The woman muttered as other people moved towards her and waiter.
Felicity, who was sitting some distance away, noticed the sudden silence in the hall. She left her chair to check the situation when she noticed a waitress dashing towards her direction.
”Huh?” Felicity glanced at her face and she was deeply startled.
The waitress has faint blue runic patterns on her face. In the span of seconds, the runes turned dark blue.
The runes were like patches moving on her face.
Felicity felt a deep sense of dreadness from the blue patches. It was like she was a child while the blue patches were a primordial beast.
Felicity backed away but behind there was a crowd making it hard for her to leave. The others, similarly, noticed the blue patches and almost everyone felt chill down a spine.
As they thought of leaving, they saw three waiters standing on the exit. The three were trembling and coughing up blood.
”What's going on?”
”Who are they?”
”Are they infected with some virus?”
”No idea.”
The waiter, who was on the floor, lowered his head. The blue runes were stretching out his face like a balloon on verge of explosion.
”S-save me,” the waiter begged in a low voice, ”I don't want to die.”
The waitress, on the other hand, has a frenzy expression on her face as she arrived in front of Felicity and others.
”You rich and powerful are responsible for the current situation of the society,” The waitress shouted, ”But now this would stop.”
Far behind, the three waiters at the exit also shouted as the guards arrived to take them away.
”Time has come for you to pay for your sins,” A waiter at the exit stretched his hands, ”There would be no escape from judgment.”
”Long live the revolution!” the waiters shouted in unison.
Felicity and others were alarmed by the words.
”Terrorists!”
”Damn! Same happened in Sakura city!”
”Run!”
The entire hall was in chaos with people running around. Everyone wanted to have a safe distance away from the terrorists.
The investigators and the backup forces, on the other hand, were more terrified than the others for they were privy to secret intelligence reports.
”Could they have been injected with those nanites?!” Liam's face turned ghastly pale as he dashed away.
”Fuck! We have to escape!”
”There is no escape!” The waitress laughed crazily as her aura rose up with her body inflating like a balloon.
The blue patches seethed in excitement as they reached every part of her body, eagerly awaiting the moment of their release.
BOOM!
The waitress exploded in a blue mushroom cloud decorated with fragments of blood.
Felicity's heard jolted as she sensed the mushroom cloud nearing her.
”There is no time,” She gritted her teeth and crossed her hands in front of her. Her pupils turned green and faint green ripples radiated out from her body.
Swoosh~
A cocoon made from a dozen layers of vines surrounded her.
Simultaneously, in the other parts of the hall, the other waiters similarly exploded into blue mushroom clouds.
The explosion swept throughout the hall destroying everything in their path...