Genius Detective With Broken System

7. Third Building

Ohio, April 27, 2000.

In a remote building on the outskirts of the forest.

Fill the building with the same shades of white as the other two places.

"At the age of 16 you can already be an assistant detective... Is it because your parents have influence in the police?" An old man with half bald hair, round glasses and a slightly pudgy stature.

The old man held a cane in his left hand and a gun in his right which he pointed at Louis.

Instead Louis sat in a chair with his hands and feet tied to the chair and a cloth covering his mouth. He looked resigned to being tied up in that place.

"Nnnngg" Louis tried to say something but the cloth on his mouth was interfering.

"Actually we have investigated you young man, your mother was killed and your father is in prison, so I'm guessing you're an assistant detective not because of the influence of your parents" said the man reading a file in his hand.

"Detective Ed took custody of him and was appointed assistant detective a few years later," continued the old man.

"You know, we know a lot about detective Ed, he always does things that put our organization at risk, so he's always under surveillance"

"And one thing I know is, he hates stupid people, that's why I wonder how good your brain is that detective Ed made you his assistant" The old man smiled at Louis.

Louis leaned back in the chair casually then sighed. His hands and feet were bound, making it difficult for him to reach the weapon in his socks.

"A..on... In.. enn" Louis spoke in an indistinct voice due to the clamp on his mouth.

"Do you have something to say? but hold on, I'll get everything ready first." The man brought the canister into the room and placed it in a corner. He connected the tube to the helmet using a cable as the connection.

The same tube that was found by Edward and Louis before at the hotel and at the villa they visited before but this tube looks more perfect with the oval shape and the supports that become the legs.

"The higher ups of the organization actually ordered us to kill both of you since you already know a lot of things...but the first assassination failed"

"If only Ed wasn't involved in this case then he wouldn't be the corpse he is today, But I'm a little interested in you so here we are"

"Actually this was outside the organization's plan, but considering this is also an imperfect material so well, there's no harm in trying" Said the man.

The man put the helmet on Louis' head while continuing to adjust it, but seeing the bandage on Louis' right eye he lifted the helmet again.

"Hmmm, this bandage seems to be disturbing, Wait a minute" The man slowly opened the bandage on Louis' right eye.

Louis squinted his left eye to endure the pain that appeared in his right eye. After it was opened, the wound in Louis' right eye was clearly visible.

"Wow, your eyes are no longer possible to function" Said the man then held Louis's right eye.

Louis shook his head trying to get his fingers away from his eyes.

"Hmmm" The man put the helmet back on Louis' head.

"Everything is connected" said the man.

The man removed Louis's mouthpiece and then tried to replace it with a metal plate which was also connected to the tube by wires.

"Mr. Vincent, you don't know what kind of person you're dealing with..." Louis said with a straight face.

"Oh, so you already know about me... even though I've had surgery to change my face... interesting." The man smiled at Louis and got even more excited at Louis' words.

"I knew it... even though I was just trying to call him by that name to see his reaction... but he himself is Baron Vincent" Louis muttered.

"But son, it's actually you who don't know who you're dealing with" The man took out a syringe from his strange suitcase.

The syringe that seemed to be filled with liquid continued to move even when Baron Vincent let it stand still.

Louis smiled after that a gunshot sounded out of nowhere. Vincent was made surprised by the sound and ordered some of his subordinates to find out what happened.

After a few moments gunshots returned and now they sounded more like someone being shot at.

"What happened?" Vincent shouted questioningly at his subordinates, but suddenly things became quiet.

The gunshots stopped and there was no response from Vincent's subordinates.

"No!!, Edward damn it" Vincent rushed to close the door of the room and locked it from the inside then rushed to activate the tube mechanism.

Instantly a current of electricity flowed from the tube into Louis's body.

"Ughhh" Louis tightly bit the metal plate in his mouth and endured the pressure from the electrical energy that was being released by the tube.

"If this is really going to end, then at least it has to be successful, then it doesn't matter if I die or get caught, this will mess up the world." The man chuckled while preparing the injection in his hand.

Seen through the glass, outside Edward continued to shoot the glass wall with his gun but could not be broken.

He tried to break open the door but found the same thing.

In the end Edward could only see from outside the room what Vincent did to Louis.

Vincent had finished preparing the injection and started aiming it at Louis' arm, but just before that happened, Louis had been released from the ropes that bound his hands.

Vincent was surprised by that and as soon as Louis grabbed him, an electric current started flowing and it also hit Vincent.

"A..aa...aarrhh" Vincent screamed, and the syringe in his hand dropped and shattered on the floor. The liquid was splattered like oil.

"Shit!" Edward started to panic and looked for a way to open the door.

He went from one room to another looking for something that could help him.

"The power" Edward got the idea to turn off the electricity in the building.

"Shit! Where's the electrical room?" Edward kept looking.

After 10 minutes had passed, he found a folder taped to the wall of an office room that seemed to belong to Vincent.

"2nd Floor?" Edward looked at the map.

"Damn, isn't that the same floor where Louis and I are being held?" Edward took the map then ran to the stairs.

"Tch, 3 floors... my feet are screaming for help" Edward panicked but kept running down the stairs.

A few moments later, he arrived at the electrical room indicated by the map.

"This is the place... but which one?" Edward stood in front of dozens of buttons that looked similar to one another.

"Just turn it all off" Edward lowered all the switches until the lights in the room also went out, but because it was still not dark yet Edward could still see a little inside the building.

When he returned to where Louis was, he was surprised because Louis was still being electrocuted and Vincent was seen already unconscious leaning against the door of the room.

"Stupid me... The electrical energy doesn't come from the electricity of this building... but from that tube." Edward made a sorry face and started to give up.

"But what the hell is that? The bald man is already unconscious and even half charred, but Louis... even though he looks tortured like that, his body is still holding up?" Edward hit the window then looked at Louis who was still electrocuted.

Soon, the sound of trucks started to be heard from outside the building. Edward checked through the window and saw six trucks carrying dozens of people.

"They're showing up again!?" Edward looked uneasy.

The group of people was also seen each carrying various kinds of weapons. Edward checked the number of bullets in the magazine of his gun and found that there were three remaining bullets.

"They don't know what's going on here yet…" Edward muttered. The people seemed to be still chatting casually with each other.

Edward ran over to the corpse of Vincent's underling he had previously disabled and grabbed some weapons.

"They're all the same gun... but at least this can fight them." Edward put the pistols he took out in his pocket and held two pistols in his right and left hands.

And when he started looking for a position, he found a cellphone belonging to one of Vincent's subordinates.

"Good" Edward made a phone call with Dave's number he entered.

"It's good that I memorized that person's number." Edward then placed the cell phone on the windowsill as he waited for Vincent's other men to go up to the second floor.

"Yes?" Dave's voice sounded curious as to who was calling him.

*Dorr dorr

Edward started shooting at the chest of one of Vincent's subordinates while screaming.

"About 400 yards west of Zanesville Ohio, secluded green building and a few trucks parked out front" Edward's voice echoed.

Edward jumped over the edge of the stairs and hid as several men started returning fire.

*bam bam bam