Chapter 177 - The cache - III (2/2)
”I will reset them from inside the security centre for those thirty seconds which the card that you configured works for,” said Lucius. ”I can even disable them entirely. It isn't a problem, but I won't be disabling the moving array.”
”More than what I would bargain for,” said Balthazar as he handed over the card to Lucius who immediately used it to reset the pressure sensors and started to go through the pass with relative ease. He was like an actual acrobat and used even his knife by driving it into the wall and using it as a support a couple of times. He took less than 10 seconds to cross a path of over 40 metres which was about a third of the time that Balthazar had in his mind. Even at the height of his career as an assassin, he was never that agile and precise.
”You a professional acrobat or something?” asked Balthazar over the comms.
”Your turn,” replied Lucius. ”The pressure sensors on the floor and walls are disabled.”
”Wait a minute. Let me observe these things for some time. I am not as talented as you.”
”These things don't follow a pattern kid, it is all random.”
”I know that. Just let me get a handle of the speed at which they are moving.”
”You didn't check their specs at the security station.”
”I did. Just need to see it in person. I don't have any acrobatic training or the like. Can't really realize the numbers specified there to correlate with my motor skills. Need to actually watch to get a better idea of it,” replied Balthazar.
”You sound like an amateur.”
”Of course, you are the professional not me,” said Balthazar as he kept observing the beams moving around the pass. It wasn't actually that hard for him. He had gone through such situations before, but he definitely couldn't perform as well as Lucius. Even if he could, he wouldn't do so as that would create a lot more doubts in the minds of Lucius and others.
”You do have experience with overriding security systems and have quite a good understanding of them. Hard to learn such skill without professional training and practice,” said Lucius.
”Damn! He asked about it directly,” thought Balthazar as he faltered for a couple of seconds thinking of an appropriate answer.
”I do have experience with that. Just never with acrobatics. I always handled such problems with tech. It is not like I approach a pirate cache or an enemy bunker or stronghold without gathering information or tools. So, this thing would be a nightmare for even the best of the professionals. No professional thief or infiltrator would try to circ.u.mvent security without the tech and information,” replied Balthazar in an angry tone.
”Fine. Take your time,” said Lucius as he pushed off a dead man from a chair in the security centre and began to check the details about the place. He quickly realized the picture among the list of the men that were stationed there.
”Henshin Sakamoto! This idiot works for Jeremy Glades,” thought Lucius as he realized the man who commands the men at the bunker. Jeremy Glades was a underworld dealer of arms and different kind of equipment. Industrial, research, exploratory any kind of equipment could be requested from the guy. He was one of the well-known traffickers who the alliance knew but couldn't find for a long time. The man was considered a ghost. Henshin was a low-level member of Jeremy's unit but Lucius knew him as he had once tried to kill the guy 10 years ago.
”This is a good lead against those underworld guys. Let me look more into the inventory and other things at this place. I doubt Evelyn knew about this and thought this to a random cache set up by some new player. She would never let us use one of Glade's places,” thought Lucius. Currently, he didn't care much about the trial and wanted to use the trial as an excuse to explore the entire place and get the logs of the inventory and other administrative logs.
Sadly, he didn't know that Henshin had separated from Jeremy's organization 2 years ago and that Evelyn already knew of it and she didn't care much about him. His priorities and jobs changed over the years and he didn't keep much track of the latest information about various underworld organizations and structures like he used to.
As Lucius was checking these details, Balthazar finally had observed enough and decided to attempt crossing the array sensors. Though it was a moving group of beam sensors which moved randomly, he could guess their trajectories and make proper movements to evade them. With his experience, it wasn't very hard for him and he managed to get into the security centre without any hitches.
”What are you looking at?” asked Balthazar.
”Just looking at some files,” replied Lucius. There were a number of monitors in the security centre similar to the outer security station and he had them displaying data of the items in the place and the people working there.
”You know who they are?” asked Balthazar.
”Know one of them from a long time. You can take over,” said Lucius leaving the chair. Balthazar quickly disabled all the security features of the place and announced through the mike that they could move freely, so that Robert and Richard could come back.
He proceeded towards the warehouse area and the armory after granting himself access to all the places. He first visited the warehouse and found a lot of food stored in the place. There was also equipment meant for drilling and construction stored there. He didn't care about any of them.
Their next stop was the armory which they wanted to look at. There were a lot of weapons and even warframes and shuttles placed in the armory, which surprised Balthazar. It was one thing to smuggle equipment and small arms but warframes and the like are strictly regulated. Only the men at the top of the underworld could do something like that and they don't allow others to do it. So, he began to worry that it might get Robert into unnecessary trouble.
”Let us get out of this place,” said Balthazar as soon as he saw the warframes. Though the models were not the latest ones, these were currently under strict regulations as the only use they could have outside the border areas is as a terrorist weapon. He turned to Richard and Lucius. ”You can check out anything else you want. I am done,” he continued.
”Why?”
”I am not going to find anything useful here that I could take. These are all very old ones. Don't want to even bother about it,” said Balthazar. ”And I would like to have a good meal and a bath. Don't you feel the same?”
The talk about meal and bath immediately put all other thoughts out of Roberts mind. He had been bearing the stench of his own vomit for quite some time and he really wanted to get out and have a decent food too. So, the pair of them went back to the ship while Lucius told that he would remain behind.