2025-02-18 23:00:52Carl Gerald exhaled sharply. He was finding it hard to believe what he was hearing.
However, at the moment, the information the woman kept spilling was unimportant to him. His heart was grieved by the recent loss of his adoptive mother and an ever-rising worry about the safety of his sister.
“Just stop it!” Carl yelled at Debra Zach.
He didn’t wait for her to respond, tossing the black handkerchief at her weakly. “Just stop it. Stop spouting lies!”
Carl Gerald pulled his hospital gown, he stormed through the woman and her seven security guards.
“Wait,” Debra Zach reached for his hand, “Take this, it’s yours.”
“This—”
“It’s a Supreme Black Card from Vesta Bank, It contains earnings you’ve made from all your missions. I believe your pin should be your birthday.”
Debra cut him off before he could give her orders.
“I don’t want all this right now… I need to go home!” Carl Gerald added impatiently.
“I know you don’t’ believe me so you can just check at the bank. It holds an Immense fortune, which I’m sure you’d need right now. Please don’t reject it.” Debra insisted upon sensing his suspicion.
Carl Gerald saw her confidence was unshaken. “Fine.” He reluctantly accepted the black card with the same acronym printed by either sides.
“Sir, I could drive you to your destination too.” Debra’s stoic face held hints of happiness as she offered.
“This is as far as you’ll ever get, don’t try to be friendly with me!”
Carl again stormed out, this time Debra did not try to stop him. She sighed deeply, waving her black gloved hands at her entourage, “Let’s go boys.”
She led the way, her heels clacking with every step and the entourage followed suite behind her. She was now going to report her findings back at her head quarters.
Meanwhile the nurse who attended to Carl Gerald was walking to the morgue with a Senior doctor.
“I’m telling you I’ve never seen anything like it! All his wounds and bruises… gone! He had such severe injuries that I was wondering how he was breathing when he first came in.”
“He was declared dead and now he’s back to life… we need to get this recorded Doctor Thompson, and our hospital could be famous!”
She rushed behind the doctor who was already quickening his pace to escape the annoying chirping of the over-energetic young lady.
“What did I say about drinking before shifts?” He scolded Nurse Diana, “I’m sure you just misread his charts and declared him dead, that’s why when he regained consciousness you called it resurrection.”
“I didn’t drink I’m telling you sir!” She retorted, breaking into a full paced jog.
Doctor Thompson slid open the morgue doors, “Carl Gerald I deeply apologize for the incon…venience?”
He glanced around but Carl was nowhere to be seen, his tag was placed neatly on the bed. “Where is he?”
The nurse shrugged. She noticed a man running haphazardly around the street in a hospital gown from the window.
“He’s running now too! A medical mystery!!” She brought out her phone and began to record as the doctor ran to the window.
Even though Carl was fairly far away, he could see that all the injuries on his body had truly vanished. “Great heavens…”
That wasn’t the only talk around the hospital that revolved around Carl Gerald.
Whispers of young nurses and male staff filled the lower floor with glass walls that allowed for a view into the parking lot.
Luxury car were seen once in a while, but seeing so many at once struck awe and envy into their hearts.
The ladies wondered what rich man would own such cars and stood straighter so that they could entice them.
The men grit their teeth at the luck of the rich man who owned the cars.
Upon seeing Debra enter one of the cars, the male doctors began to envy the man who could win against such a stunning and wealthy woman.
Carl Gerald had no idea about the gossip his presence stirred at the hospital. He ran about the busy express in the hospital gown.
People cast judging glances at him, but his rage and sorrow, two overpowering emotions drowned everything out.
He tried to cross the road and was nearly hit by a car. “Hey watch where you’re going!” The driver accused.
Carl Gerald payed no heed and continued to run in the direction of his house like a mad man, not stopping even once for a breath.
He was amazed at his sudden physical improvements, but the feeling of surprise was overshadowed by devastation as he saw his burnt down house.
“M-mom! Sara!” Carl Gerald called.
Carl raced toward the rubble, but he found no trace at all of his sister or mother.
Panic caused his heart to sink, his worries intensified. “If I didn’t pass out…” He muttered, collapsing unto the floor.
Suddenly he heard a muffled scream that sounded like… “Sara’s voice!”
Carl Gerald sped to the direction of the scream. It seemed to be coming from behind the house.
Carl bent around a burnt and ashy curved path until he was able to see a black car and several men trying to drag an injured and crying Sara Gerald into it.
“How hard is it to carry a girl?!” The ring leader said. He was already inside the car and impatient.
“Sara!”
Everyone turned their head to see Carl Gerald blocking the path in his hospital gown. Sara looked the most surprised.
“Hurry up, he’s already here!” The ring leader, Jake Boston, urged, his voice was laced with a mixture of disdain, urgency and venom.
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Chapter 783: The living rooms:
The shift from supportive coordination to implicit threat transformed General Carl Gerald's assessment of the situation from possible genuine oversight to probable Directive manipulation exploiting Reynolds's channels and Reynolds's credibility to manufacture pressure for evidence disclosure."Judge Katherine Reynolds, I'm going to end this call and I'm going to conduct independent verification of the congressional request before responding further," General Carl Gerald said firmly, no longer maintaining diplomatic deference to Reynolds's judicial authority. "If this is genuine congressional intervention, verification will confirm that quickly and I'll cooperate fully once I'm confident I'm not being manipulated.”“If this is Directive operation, then maintaining security is more important than avoiding contempt charges that I'll eventually be exonerated from once the truth emerges."He ended the call despite Reynolds beginning to voice additional protest, his command instincts overr
Chapter 782: The disturbing news:
"That suggests they're trying to create legal cover for evidence seizure and for witness intimidation, which means they're concerned about exposure that would follow from operating entirely outside legal frameworks.”“They want to be able to claim they were conducting proper federal investigation if their operations get scrutinized after evidence distribution occurs."Debra Zachs raised critical question about how team should respond to Connor's surrender demand and one-hour deadline."Sir, do we respond to Connor's message or do we ignore it entirely?" Debra asked. "Responding might provide opportunity to gather intelligence about Directive plans, but it also might validate their narrative that we're engaged in negotiation about legitimate investigation rather than defending against criminal suppression operation."General Carl Gerald considered the tactical calculation before deciding that responding served no purpose that justified engaging with Connor's manufactured authority."W
Chapter 781: Finding the new Agents:
"Their approach is professional but not entirely consistent with standard security tactical doctrine that I'm familiar with," Luke assessed after watching for approximately thirty seconds. "They're using proper safety protocols and proper team coordination, but their breach methodology shows some variations from what I'd expect if this was routine security warrant service.”“Could be different regional office using different procedures, or could be indication these aren't actually security despite their equipment and apparent legitimacy."The ambiguous assessment reflected exactly the kind of uncertainty that The Directive would deliberately create if they were attempting to manufacture confusion about the operation's true nature.Before General Carl Gerald could formulate response to the ongoing situation at Chen's site, Debra Zachs interrupted with urgent report about new development."Sir, I'm receiving notification from another dispersed team member reporting a similar situation,
Chapter 780: Agent Kara:
Phineas immediately began technical verification procedures, attempting to contact Chen through alternative communication channels and attempting to access surveillance systems at the remote backup site that would allow visual confirmation of what was actually occurring."Sir, I'm unable to establish voice contact with Agent Kara through normal channels," Phineas reported after approximately ninety seconds of attempts. "Her phone appears to be off or in dead zone with no cellular service.”“That's suspicious because the backup site location was selected specifically for reliable communications infrastructure.”“Either there's been equipment failure or someone is jamming communications to prevent verification."Debra Zachs was monitoring law enforcement radio traffic for any indication of legitimate FBI operations in the area where Chen's backup site was located."I'm detecting no FBI radio traffic about operations at that location," Debra reported. "If this was genuine federal opera
Chapter 779: The attacks on the Evidence boards:
"Third scenario...and this is what concerns me most based on the anonymous contact's warning...is some kind of sophisticated manipulation that we don't immediately recognize as Directive operation but which achieves their objectives through deception rather than through force," General Carl Gerald said.His voice carrying the uncertainty that came from trying to anticipate enemy actions that were specifically designed to be unexpected and difficult to identify until too late to effectively counter.Captain Luke Harrison's special operations background apparently provided insight into this third scenario that General Carl Gerald was describing."You're suggesting they might attempt something like creating fake emergency that forces us to evacuate this facility or to relocate evidence to supposedly more secure location that they actually control," Luke suggested, his tactical thinking identifying deception possibilities. "Or they might attempt to compromise one of our team members thro
Chapter 778: A friend in cloak.
“Yes…we really can trust him.”“He has actually saved my life a lot of times but we still need to be extremely careful…thanks for pointing that out, Phineas.” General Carl Gerald immediately addressed the question from Phineas.The temporary operations center that Captain Luke Harrison had established in the small commercial office building carried the atmosphere of a military forward operating base in the final hours before a decisive engagement…The kind of focused intensity that came from professionals who understood they were approaching a culminating point where all previous efforts would either achieve their intended purpose or would be rendered meaningless through failure at the critical moment when success was most within reach yet also most vulnerable to disruption.The main room had been converted into a tactical coordination space with multiple workstations displaying various data streams that the investigation team needed to monitor during the final countdown toward automa
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