Henry hid his surprise really well, “You’re saying the gas is meant to kill us?”“Yes.” Zhixi bounced on her feet, as though checking if the grass was real or not. There was no telling what was in the place that was real and not real.Henry grabbed her hand, demanding attention. “Stop doing that, you’re going to alert someone.”“Oh am I?” she coked her head in surprise. “Is alerting someone better than dying? Aren’t you aware that you should be dead?”“It’s a sleep induced gas. You’re not supposed to die from it.”“If you fall in too deep, you will die.”“I see.” Henry frowned and glanced around. “Let’s head back. I’m done checking the place.”Zhixi shook herself free, then walked away. Henry followed her, their steps soft on the grass. He just hoped that it was a regular grass and not induced by technology or anything. They already had enough technology around them as it was.“I’m not done checking the place,” Zhixi stopped beside another tree. “I want to explore around for a bit.”H
They both froze in trepidation. The thing with machines was their exaggerated likeness; it would never be the same as humans. It was either they smiled too much—which gave off the illusion of a scary clown by the way—or they smiled too little. It was either they frowned too much, their cheeks dropping into an exaggerated anger, or they frowned slightly. At that moment, Ralph’s frown was so scary that Henry thought about the numerous movies where the robots become something evil that wanted to trample on their wonders. It wasn’t exactly delightful in that moment, hence Henry’s recounts of his memories, of all the time he thought of coming here and wondered if he should have come in the first place. If he’d been escaping death till this very moment, then his luck had unfortunately run out, given that the robots were pretty heartless.“Why are you not in bed?” Ralph asked, his frown still deep.Zhixi spoke first. “We wanted to use the restroom.”“You wanted to make use of your human mis
By morning, everyone woke up with a loud yawn. Henry was still on his bed, watching them. Zhixi had tried to stay awake but slept off in the middle of the night. Her anger wore her out and she was unable to hold on for much longer. Henry has not slept. How could he, when all he thought about was Zhixi’s declaration of their death. He saw the tiny red light of the camera that was watching them, even though he strained his eyes pretty well to be able to do so.Through the night, he had an idea that the cameras had not been monitoring them. That was the only way he and Zhixi were able to leave unnoticed. If the cameras had been actively monitored, then they would not have left so easily. He reasoned that after the old guy Ralph had seen two empty beds, he would actively start monitoring them. Henry had no problem with this. Matter of fact, it would help him top his game. They would be more careful this time around, more calculative. He glanced at Zhixi, she was still sleeping. He suppos
In the field, Zhixi, Leroy and Henry stood apart from the rest of the group. There were two demarcated fields; one was caged while the other was an open field. Henry had an idea of which one belonged to which group. He knew the caged field was for he and Zhixi; what better way to kill them off if not trapping them in with the monster. Henry glanced at Leroy; the big guy was still reluctant to join the other group that were meant to be in the free field.Leroy noticed the eye Henry gave him and sighed. “So I can’t join you guys?” He asked.“You know you can’t, Leroy.” Henry said. Zhixi preferred to fold her arms and said nothing. Henry also preferred she did just that; there was no telling how her anger would come. All you had to do was say one wrong word and make her talk, and then she explodes. He needed to exploit that anger of hers in battle, not now.“Maybe I’ll talk to the old man, make him see reason.” Leroy suggested.“He’s a robot,” Henry pointed out. “They don’t have emotion
The monster was huge, bigger than him by at least 3 feet. How the bell would they kill it off successfully? It was hairy and large, had a few spikes around its head. Henry noticed that it hasn’t started attacking them, but its body was shivering with the expectation of a fresh kill in front of it. It seemed as if there was a thin invisible line holding it back.A wide range of weapons appeared before them. Guns, daggers, sword. Zhixi picked the two swords of a samurai while Henry picked a gun and two daggers which he hid in his boots. He didn’t necessarily need the dagger to fight now; it was for later if he survived the incident, which seemed unlikely with the way the monster kept snarling and licking its lips at them.“Ralph kept his promise,” Zhixi commented. Henry looked back and saw that the other group had been given a small monster to fight with. Something dangerous yet easily manageable. Henry looked back at theirs and tried not to lose hope.“Let’s end this monster,” he said
The droning sound woke Henry up again. He found out that he was in his bed, and it was pretty dark, which meant that he woke up in the middle of the night once again. He stretched his neck to the side to check if he could see Zhixi. All their bunks were glowing with fluorescent lights, which gave off the illusion of a calm nightclub. Zhixi was sleeping.She wasn’t soaked in blood this time, but he could still see the gash on her forehead. He knew that she wasn’t asleep because of the gas, but because she was dead tired. He supposed she was exhausted by using too much of her anger. He sighed and turned to his front. Everyone was asleep. He couldn’t remember how he’d gotten here, but by morning he would have his answer. Henry relaxed back into his bed and tried to doze off. Before he slept, he hoped the gas didn’t have any adverse effect on him or anyone else. The person whom Zhixi had said was dead came to his mind again. With the adrenaline rush and the horror of being caught by Ralp
During the walk back to the field, Henry probed at his sides to check for wounds. He had a broken rib and a swollen bruise. Also his feet hurt, and there was a blossoming headache in his temples. He was not in any good condition to fight, and neither was Zhixi. He glanced at her; she seemed sapped of strength and energy, and her demeanor was considerably low. There was no energy left in her to do anything. She was even holding on to Leroy to walk probably. Whatever Henry was feeling, she was feeling worse than that.“Do you know who undressed us and washed us?” she asked Leroy. She was pretty adamant in finding out how she ended up with new set of clothes.Henry supposed that her culture probably prohibited women from showing their skin. He didn’t know much about Chinese culture, but he knew it should not be a big deal since they were one of the fastest developing countries. Either that or she was truly troubled about another being seeing her delicate body.“It was some robots,” Leroy
HENRY stood still, unable to run. The deer was blind, it would seem, so it used its other senses to keep up. Henry knew this because the deer followed the most source of noise—the screaming humans. Ut was a tough sight to see. Especially when the deer curved when it reached Henry and bounced off to follow the source of noise. It was also using its nose to sense and smell its prey, but the noise was the most prominent and promising thing to follow. Henry, Zhixi and Leroy watched in horror as the deer caught a few people and struck them dead with its horn passing through their bodies and mangling them to death. They all watched as it matched it victims continuously with its legs until they were like broken dolls—bloody and disposable.“Oh god,” Leroy whispered. “That’s one passionate driven monster.”“I know,” Zhixi whispered. “Maybe we don’t have to do anything. If we stay here long enough without making a sound, others will kill it.”They all agreed simultaneously. Henry wished he cou
Evelyn noticed her sister isn't at home yet. She tried calling her number but it's isn't going.She tried the same for Henry's numbers but it wasn't going also. She decided to call Louis and it was the same thing."Fuck shott."She cursed"Why are they not picking where could they be?" She asked herself pacing around the room. She couldn't think straight. She didn't know what to do.She called their number, but it wasn't going.Evelyn slept that night and told herself she was going to go to their house first thing in the morning.*The Next Day.*Evelyn woke up feeling sad, she didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was just sad. She felt something was going wrong somewhere.She stood up and left the house without even bathing. She first went to the company hoping to find her sister there, but she did not.She heard the shareholders will be holding a meeting there, she couldn't find her sister. She then decided to go to Dexter's office. She couldn't find him also.She couldn't eve
"Sean are you ready to take your revenge?" Erica questioned him."Yes, I am so ready to take my revenge, where is the gun? Knife anything? I am fucking prepared every fuckin time." Sean replied Erica.Erica went to meet Sean and ask him if he is ready to take his revenge. Sean wanted to kill him by every means."I need Mike, the only person who can lure Henry is Mike." Sean told her."Consider it done." She assured him.Dexter was prepared for the operation, he wanted to take them down as fast as he can. He got a call from Erica that he should kidnap Sean first."Come and meet me at the warehouse immediately you are done." He said to her.Dexter was already with his guys in a dark and secluded warehouse, a group of people huddled around a table, planning their next move.This was not a typical meeting, but one with a sinister purpose. They were planning a kidnapping, and every detail had to be just right.Dexter showed them the target picture so they will not end up going for the wron
*Later That Day.*Erica was at Dexter's company, she went there immediately she was done with stuffs at her company. She also went there since he refused to answer her calls."We need to act fast, we don't know what the guy is planning. I loosed the video, and there isn't anything we can use against him anymore." Erica told Dexter he thoughts drinking the juice that was placed on the table."We will kill him if he has any other intentions, we are not going to let him bring us down." Dexter said to her."Since you said that guy is available, I guess he is will be the one to take the revenge. That way we will be free for the rest of our lives." Dexter said to Erica."Do you not feel we should kidnap him, that easy it would more easy for him to get killed." She said to him."Yes, I agree with you." Dexter told her."Don't you have some met out there that could help us with it. We can't do it on our own." She told him."That's true, I will find some useful guys that can assist us in kidna
*The Next Day.*Henry woke up the next morning feeling so refreshed, he slept peacefully like a baby in the night. He couldn't get to see Evelyn the other day because he was tired already.He decided he was going to see her today. He put on his dress. Seeing his ex is just terrible for him. He remembered how broke he was when he caught her.He remembered how he loosed all hope after she confessed everything to him. After she told him he doesn't love her."Why do I have to dress up?" He asked himself when he noticed how nicely he was dressing."Whatever." He muttered under his breath. Henry already told Evelyn about the meeting. He walked out of the bedroom, and saw Louis waiting for him."Don't tell me you are this well dresses because of her." Louis winked at him."Me? This is just a casual well, and I am well dressed because I want to dress nicely." He said to Louis"Woah, are you going to meet up with a girl? Is he going on a blind date?" Mike was surprised by his outfit immediatel
Henry ended the call immediately after listening to what the nurse told him."What happened?" Louis inquired ok seeing how devastated he was."Someone released Sean from the hospital claiming they are related, how does that makes sense?" Henry was beginning to get so angry."It was Erica." Louis told Henry."You knew it was her and you couldn't stop her? How did you find out that it was her?" Henry queried him"I planted a tracker in her car, I saw that she went to a place and that is not the office, neither Dexter's company. She must have been the one." Louis explained to him."I knew she is up to something, we must find a way to find out what she is up to. She might want to use him or something." Mike added."She didn't know I am out the prison yet right?" Henry wanted to confirm his thoughts."Yes, she didn't know you are out of the prison yet, we need to wait for a while. That was she will be unguarded." Louis answered.They got to their house in no time and did the necessary thin
Erica laid on the bed, she realized how tired she was. She didn't know when she slept off.Evelyn tiptoed into her room, her sister was sleeping so deep that she didn't even notice when someone entered the room.Evelyn searched for the other phone her sister barely use. She finally found it in her wardrobe. She tried unlocking it but she couldn't.She then went to where he sister was using, and decided to use her finger print to open it. It opened once.The first thing she did was to set a screen timeout. She left the bedroom, and went ahead to meet Louis where he was waiting for her.She walked up to where he parked his car and entered it."How was it? Did you not get it? I thought you said you were going to text me." Louis asked her."I got the phone." She answered and have him the phone she got from her sister.Louis first went to her iMessage, hoping he could find something there but he couldn't. He then whet to her storage.Luckily for him, he saw the videos there. He didn't know
Erica was happy with the scene that was going on. She was happy seeing how speechless Henry became."Wait, why me? I am not interested. Why should I become the ceo, laugh out loud." Erica acted surprised.She knew what she was doing, she didn't want to look. Suspicious to Louis."We have noticed that you are good for this job, and we would love to pick you." They informed her."Woah, looks as if I got no choice." She stoped up."If you know you would not want her to he the CEO, please can you raise your hands up." Someone announced but none of the shareholders could raise up their hands."Today, we declare ma'am Erica as the CEO of this company." The person who was in charge of the voting said."You are fired from this company, together with Mike. We find out you two might be a threat to the new CEO as you are not happy with her becoming the CEO." The shareholder passed across the information."What does Mike have to do with this? You can fire me instead and leave the poor guy alone."
"What do you want to see me for?" Erica asked Louis immediately she got to his office."I wanted to ask you few questions, is it possible for you to go to the house we just came back from. Can you get the security footage of everything that happened during our stay there?I think there is a spy there that got it release everything we did, and sent to our rival company." Louis asked Erica for a favor.He knew what he was doing. Even though he will have to loose an evidence that is as strong as that. His main aim was to confirm if Erica was the spy, and if she has someone she is working for."Sure, I will do that." Erica assured him with a smirk on her face."You are telling your greatest enemy to do the job for you." She said to herself."Consider it done." She assured him"Thank you very much." Louis appreciated."What about Henry? I haven't seen him! Hope he is okay?" She asked him."Sure, he will not be showing his face for the meantime. He will surely get back to you once he is bac
"The police are here for what?" Henry asked with his eyes wide opened."They insisted on staying at the entrance, and they are on their way here." The girl told him and she will not stop panicking.The police entered his office without knocking, with his secretary at their back."Mr. Henry you are under arrest. We will refrain you from talking, any word can be used against you in the court of law. You are allowed to also have an attorney." One of the police said to him."Find me a lawyer." Henry said to louis and followed the police men without asking them any questions.Henry followed them willingly without asking them any questions.Louis was still shocked with what happened. He knew what happened, he knew the reason he was arrested.Louis never imagined if there is a way they can get him saved. He decided to call Henry's best lawyer.He didn't want to go and Henry immediately to avoid any suspicions. A lot of people haven't figured out that he got arrested yet."I need you here imm