Lights remained open in Reina’s office when she received a message for a video call meeting from Prof. Tenorio. He’s stationed himself in A-city after everything he intended to do in C-city is done, from the director’s meeting in **** company, and the joint meetings for the internal government of both G and C cities.
She’s not the member of any council to provide input or listen to their ramblings, however, she’s open to listening and getting the latest minutes gossip in any itinerary that would interest her. The rest can be just the confetti she’s bound to sweep away. Also, she only gets these by her assistants’ word of mouth through a secret recording she knew how to hack from the secretary handling the meetings.
The mystery identity won’t ever be known to Reina but she’s happy to pay them a pretty penny for those recordings. The least she could do is support a struggling freelance team intent on pro
Back at her office with minutes to spare, she opened her access to the security cameras and used her code key that could access firewalls that prevent program altering or file tampering. She only had to rewind in the last hour to the certain rooms she passed through and log those videos for “inspection,” then send them to her assistant.“The usual,” she typed.Once the file was sent, her conference call notification alerted her of the two incoming names, Martes Tenorio and Eldric Felizar. Both are calling at the same time, so she assumed they’d already caught up with each other before including her in the group.Entering the call, she was greeted by the exhausted face of Eldric with the backdrop of a white wall so bright that she could swear there was no shadow even if he leaned back and blocked a source of light. As for Prof. Tenorio, he was sitting on a black chair with bright lights behind
Chapter 29 The noise of a busy street did not disturb Min-Ain’s noise cancellation earplugs since he’s been playing on his phone once they sat at the outdoor table of the café Cristian suggested they have dinner in. Originally, he wanted the boy to explore the city with the free time they have but Min-Ain’s form of relaxation and entertainment came from lounging indoors, more for the ease of access he has to his equipment and the fact they could just order the food they want since everything is paid for. Cristian didn’t feel like doing that for today, especially after they met with Reina yesterday. Min-Ain finished the application he suggested would be a beneficial program they could utilize for using the new Wavelength, both capable of creation, calibrating, and detecting specific frequencies the same way the D-city team has. Though, this one only works with the Wavelength from the Dimension Pocket incidents originating from A-city and C-city. Promptly stored in its system are the r
Reina smiled when she opened her document as she updated Eldric and Prof. Tenorio on the progress of observing the Primer’s behavior, as Prof. Tenorio requested. The highlight, as she paused, was the exact video they were watching on their screens.She had sent a clip of when the Primer-beta, “a.k.a. Horaz Recto.” She made sure to look for records of his identity the moment he turned his body back into a human. The shock of his identity not only solidified Prof. Tenorio on his theory that the Primers have a level of sentience, but that they are humans in origin. Or should they consider it in reverse?Eldric noted that if this was the case, was it more plausible to communicate with them? But the answer to that was a simple no because Reina explained that whenever he reverted to his Primer body, the boy seems to not gain any sentience. Rather he has selective episodes of sentience. There were moments in the record whe
Alarm bells rang in increasing volume due to the intensity of the number of “Dimension Pocket” suddenly affecting the central business district proper of C-city. Though prepared for a scale of this size, the people in the city, normal citizens, and workers are not ready to face such a calamity and the idea of the incidents has only been going around in a controlled distribution of social media information.Up in Northwoods, the warning signals for a “Dimension Pocket” happening within the parameters inside the protected area awoke Reina from her nap. She looked up from the chair she comfortably sat on as several message prompts are showing up on the screen of her laptop, all orders of the security team for the Primer Task Force agents that have been assigned to their facility. Her hand automatically typed something for one of her assistants, then went over to her tablet and opened a profile prompt of one of her assistants and Akyl.
Clambering crowds began gathering at the permanent border the Primer Task Force was forced to implement throughout the area the incident affects. Almost all the manpower available in the city, counting thousands, are actively on-hand in the field where the “Dimension Pockets” appeared. Included in this is Captain Fairmont who is now spearheading a new team the moment they arrived back from A-city, even if they volunteered to stay there and help with the militia forces to monitor and suppress the Primers, they were asked by Prof. Tenorio himself to go back so that they could be replaced properly.Their return hadn’t turned in a week and they were already busy on hand. Tark, Stant, and Libi stayed on service with Captain Fairmont, being veterans in their group but not raising any ranks or establishing grounds for them to be “over-glorified.” Pyko had to file for a transfer to D-city, not that there was not enough “excitement&rdq
Crunch. Crunch. The footsteps outside the dumpster continued as if it was surveying the place while the alarm on the phone stopped. This was a sound enough to wake any person, yet the creature outside did not touch the dumpster or bother to even investigate. But Cristian felt like the creature was not those who mindlessly sought things without purpose. Their movement was not clumsy nor erratic. They were taking their time with each second.Passing moments spent controlling his breath, Cristian in high stakes hide and seek has begun to feel the sweat he has accumulated even before they got into the dumpster when two minutes ago, he barely noticed anything rolling down his chin. At moments like this, he wished that he could have done better things in life, but had he spent them honestly “doing” then he wouldn’t be taking in a high-paying job with a high death risk.This career path wasn’t something he planned but he wanted things, an
Chapter 30The smoke dissipated from the air as a new volley of gunshots became the sound that covered the air of A-city. More for those people left and intent on reclaiming the land or rescuing possible survivors. Prof. Tenorio must have become a form saint and martyr to some despite his incapacity to act on the field. His purpose in acting in the line of fire is a condition the higher up’s and acting directors have pushed on him in exchange for a few actions he could not control but wanted to pursue.One of them is Reina’s complete involvement in Northwoods Laboratory and her exploited proposal on selling their weapons to select companies and traders. There was only one person who was against her proposal, and they are the most important man in the company, and all affiliated decisions regarding the “Dimension Pocket” fall under this man.The moment this man denied Reina’s proposal despite having great
Leaving the distaste of his own made distraught, he considers the southern human camp to be a feat possible to care for with the experience of both Abin and Ruan, Captain Fairmont’s team members that were left in the hospital to help protect the remaining humans who were not able to recover from the Secunda effects.Their tandem is not the most ideal, especially Ruan’s limited knowledge of how to medically handle the patients, but his presence was a strength that gave hope to many. Especially in those scenarios that regular humans can barely know of in terms of a profession. He was fortunately adept in caring for those in deep sleep and knowing methods how to provide care and nutrients or sustenance in the lack of waking.He also utilized several medicines and food for the people who remained and continued to reside in the hospital until Prof. Tenorio and the Primer Task Force arrived to give help. Abin and a few civilians were the only ones w