2023-09-19 09:57:33"Next to your house is Ms. Lisa's boarding house," said Mr. Kardi.
Hazeed frowned.A room on the outside of the house was then handed over to him. Hazeed felt very much at home, especially since there was a parking lot here too, which allowed him to save money.
"Thank you son, I hope you feel at home," said Mr. Kardi, who had rented out one of the rooms in his house to Hazeed.
"You're welcome sir, I'm very grateful that you offered me a room," said Hazeed.
He immediately cleaned up the room that would now be his home. He was grateful that he could finally sleep comfortably again.
Even so, his mind was still confused by the OMEGA system that kept appearing on his cell phone.
It was getting late, and Hazeed felt free. He took out his antique cell phone and started to turn it on."It won't turn on?" said Hazeed in confusion. He then tried to charge it, but nothing fit into the charger hole.
"What kind of data cable is this?" said Hazeed as he continued to look up the size and specifications of the phone on the internet on his smartphone.
Hazeed then fell asleep, so soundly that he overslept.
***
Hazeed was surprised when he opened the door to see a bottle of milk already there. He took the very fresh milk."Don't refuse fortune," Hazeed said as he gulped it down.After finishing the milk, Hazeed then started thinking about his future plans.
KRIIING
The Omega's cell phone rang again.
"MORNING SIR!"
"NEW MISSIONS AVAILABLE" Omega's voice rang out again.
Hazeed's forehead wobbled as he tried to listen.
"What mission now?" said Hazeed with a yawn.
He then continued to listen to what Omega was saying very seriously.
"Underground tunnels? Finding the pink package there?" said Hazeed, unable to understand the clue Omega had given him.
"You only have eighty minutes, Omega Spec," Omega said as he disconnected the phone afterwards.
"MISSION ACTIVATED!"
"Mr. H, your time is eighty minutes, start now!"
"What? Eighty minutes? The distance from here to the Uzibey tunnel alone is half an hour! Shitt damn!" said Hazeed as he grabbed his shirt and slipped on his shoes as he walked.
His cell phone was now tucked into his pants pocket along with his wallet.
"Brak!" Hazeed then drove his car towards the city's underground tunnels.
"Damn! It's going to be a total traffic jam up ahead!" said Hazeed, who immediately turned his car around to the right.
"Tiiin!" The sound of car horns continued to be heard loudly, the vehicle behind his car was clearly very surprised by what Hazeed had done earlier which could have triggered a chain reaction accident given the current traffic congestion.
Hazeed dashes across the shoulder of this one-way street, ignoring the warnings of many other motorists in order to squeeze through the small alleyway between the two towering buildings he is currently passing.
If his calculations were correct, Hazeed would arrive at the underground tunnel ten minutes faster than the normal route.
"Shit!" Hazeed stopped his car right in front of a boundary wall.
Dead end!
Hazeed had taken the wrong turn so he decided to get off and jump over the fence next to him to get through this wall.
Reluctantly, Hazeed left his car there.
Meanwhile at Bella's house.
"Dadd, explain to me if it's true that Hazeed was dropped because of yesterday's problem?" asked Bella with a sharp look locked on her father's beady eyes as he gulped down the hot tea in front of him in a hurry.
"Can't you just ignore that hooligan?" said her daddy.
"Papa has promised to guarantee Hazeed's scholarship until his master's degree if I accept Radith. Then what is this? What happened?" said Bella as she left her breakfast in a rage.
The man named Seno was also angered by this.
"He's proven to be a drug supplier! The young man you love may not be involved in an international cartel! Should you keep a student like that?" said Seno very loudly.
"You're wrong! I know Hazeed, and everyone in his neighborhood! That woman is a trapper who somehow trapped my Hazeed! I hate you!" Bella said as she walked away towards the garage.
Not long after, the sound of Bella's car roaring away from the house made Seno even more upset.
This single parent man, raised Bella alone. For the sake of his love for his deceased wife, Seno chose to be alone and not remarry.
This was also in order to maintain his career at Blue Company, which was his wife's legacy.
"Get me Carol!" Seno said to someone over the phone.
The man then waited a few moments before returning to the conversation.
"Transfer the funds you promised, I've got the woman caught, don't break the promise!" said Seno as he walked away.
Back to Hazeed.
The young man had now reached the Uzibey tunnel.
Deserted and very quiet, Hazeed didn't know what to do in this place while time was ticking away.
"Pink, what am I supposed to do with pink?" said Hazeed as he cast his eyes in various directions to find something pink.
"Over there!" said Hazeed as he saw a pink strawberry banner.
Hazeed then climbed down the platform and started walking there following the strawberry stickers.
His steps continued into the interior of the underground tunnel. Armed with the flashlight on his cell phone, Hazeed continued to walk along the edge of the railroad tracks.
"Tuuuuttt!"
In the distance, the train's headlights reflected off the tunnel wall in front of him, followed by the rumble of a racing engine.
"Damn it! This track is so narrow," said Hazeeds as he turned around and immediately sprinted to avoid the fast train or he would be run over quickly on this single track.
Hazeed's legs continued to race to cut the distance, while his body was now starting to sweat as his heart was forced to pump faster to maintain his metabolism.
Hazeed's breathing was getting shorter, he had already sprinted for five hundred meters, and the train horn sounded again. It seemed as if the driver had just noticed his presence and soon the squeaking of the tracks as the train was forced to stop could be heard loudly behind him.
"Damn pink!" cursed Hazeed as he jumped on a box on the right side of the tracks that was slightly away from the tracks to save himself.
"Thud-thud!"
The speeding train passed him by, leaving Hazeed's whole body exhausted with his remaining breaths getting shorter.
"Package for you," someone said from the wall behind Hazeed to his surprise.
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