92 Intruders
Slam!
“Damn it! I’m late!”
A young woman slammed the bedroom door of another person’s apartment open. The day was still bright, yet she was already breaking into another person’s living space.
The woman found it difficult to control her breathing from all the running she had to do to arrive at the place; an empty apartment left unlocked.
Without hesitation, the woman entered the room without taking off her sneakers and closely checked the inside of the room.
On the single bed in the room was a VR gear with its LED on, indicating that it was still active.
From the rather long nail marks on the rubber band, the black android bracelet beside the VR gear seemed to have been taken off forcefully.
The woman picked up the android bracelet to check its owner’s condition data before it was taken off.
After finding the sudden fluctuations in the heart rate history, she could tell that the bracelet owner fell unconscious after approximately two minutes.
“Ketamine,” the woman muttered to herself, certain of her prediction.
She was very sure that the uninvited guest had injected more than 150 mg of ketamine into the owner of the android bracelet when he was diving in the game.
There were no signs of resistance from the android bracelet owner, and one to two minutes after the injection, the victim lost consciousness.
The woman looked around. The room was a mess. Even if the room owner wasn’t a very disorderly person, which she doubted, she didn’t think that it would be to this extent. It seemed more as if the intruder tried to find something in the room before finally abducting the room owner.
“Who the hell is this shameless intruder?”
She was disappointed that she wasn’t able to find any clues.
The woman sat on the bed and exhaled a long sigh, observing the simple room with an empty gaze.
‘How am I supposed to track him down? I have to bring him back before something bad happens to him.’
The lady sighed once again.
“I’m sorry, Yuujin.”
She felt guilty for letting someone get caught and fall into danger.
Beep!
The android bracelet that was not owned by her was still active in her hand. That thing has suddenly made a sound, startling her out of her thoughts and prompting her to quickly check the cause.
[CyberWarrior App has detected a suspicious activity.]
[Open to see the recording file?]
“Hm?”
The woman’s curiosity was piqued. She raised one of her brows as she looked at the semi-transparent notification screen from the android bracelet. When she chose to open the file, a new column appeared.
[Input password]
“A password? In an emergency like this? That kid!” she couldn’t help but voice out in frustration and disbelief. Still, she attempted to guess the password the android bracelet owner set.
She only had three chances of inputting the password. If she got it wrong on all three tries, the android bracelet would deactivate itself as programmed.
She knew she couldn’t be reckless.
‘His crush’s name?’
She typed in [Liberty].
Beep!
[Wrong password]
[2 attempts left]
“Shit.”
‘His birthdate?’
[08122020]
Beep!
[Wrong password]
“No way, Alice. That’s not even his birthdate!”
[1 attempt left]
[Emergency situation (Only if I’m dead)]
“Hm?”
[Claiming emergency situation]
…
[Emergency question has been granted]
[What’s the name of the person I loved the most?]
“What a childish question. Of course it’s the lady you met in the game!”
The lady was about to type in Liberty’s name complete with her surname when she felt something strike her brain.
‘No, it can’t be her. This app has been working before he even met her.’
She typed in another name.
[Yamaguchi Yuujin]
…
Beep!
[Access granted]
“…”
“That tsundere boy!”
A transparent screen appeared on the surface of the black android bracelet. Without requiring anything else, the screen suddenly displayed a video recording that was taken with the only camera on the android bracelet.
The owner of the android bracelet had set a special security system to have the camera automatically function without his order, and it automatically recorded like a CCTV.
The advanced technology allowed the small camera to not only record high-resolution videos, but also clear audio. Its sensitivity was very high, so even the smallest sounds nearby could be heard.
“Boss told us to wait.”
“What? What if he suddenly wakes up?”
“There are three of us here and only one of him, what are you worried about?”
Three men were in the room. They didn’t bother to cover their faces, allowing themselves to be exposed to the camera. One of them seemed anxious, while the two others were calm. They seemed to be waiting for something.
The time of the recording continued to move, but the three hadn’t done anything but wait.
Five minutes passed, and they were still waiting near the bed without doing anything else.
“Can we do it now?”
“Not yet. Boss will contact us again when it’s time.”
“Why is it taking so long? What if someone catches us?”
“Stop worrying so much, will you? This kid is all alone. No one will come here for him.”
“Sigh… what does Boss even want with him anyway? He’s just a kid.”
“Right. He’s just a kid, but this kid is a hindrance to Boss’s big plan.”
“I’ve checked his track history. He hasn’t even gone to America before. Isn’t Boss getting the wrong person?”
“You two better be quiet. We’re only here to do what we’re told. What happens next is Boss’s business.”
An argument lasted as they waited for quite a long time. The recording had played over half an hour of footage, yet the intruders still hadn’t done anything.
In the meantime, the woman watching the footage had activated her android bracelet to copy the video in case it was not made to be replayable.
Ringg!
At the 50-minute mark, one of the three men received an incoming call. Right after picking it up, the man put the call on speaker for the other two to hear.
“It’s time. Do your task.”
“Yes, sir.”
The man who was sitting closest to the camera with a pair of sunglasses suddenly took out a wooden box from his pocket. The wooden box seemed like a glasses case at first glance, but inside was a 1-mL syringe with a transparent fluid inside.
He looked at the other two for affirmation before finally injecting the transparent fluid into their target’s body.
“It’s a success. Two minutes left until the final execution.”
“Take that android bracelet off his hand. Just leave it here.”
The recording ended when one of them manually deactivated the android bracelet after forcefully taking it off its owner’s hand.