IX- News by Asao

"Why did we have to help you?"

"You have nothing to say. I may be alone against all of you, but I know this place. thereby I could eliminate you all with a click."

"But you won't. You are incapable of hurting a fly. You saved me when you knew who I was. In addition to that, you need us to carry out your plans. So why should we help you?"

"Because you need me to have a chance to win the coming war."

"If I hadn't figured you out, I'd be tempted to think you planned your father's death."

"No, but as the way things went, other people did."

He looked at me and didn't answer. His face shows a pale complexion and sweat builds upon his forehead.

"I was..."

"You're too weak, don't go into this kind of project." He said in a weak voice.

After observing him for a few minutes, I approached him, took his arm and we headed to the bathroom.

"You want to ruin my work, that's it!" I said frustrated with the situation he was in.

"I'm not going to die..."

"Die, I don't care but don't ruin the good work I've done on you!"

A small laugh rose in the shower followed by a groan of pain. I made him sit on a stone bench between the shower and the bathtub, then I went to the medicine cabinet to take anti-inflammatory drugs.

"Here, take this, it will help with the pain and fever."

"It won't do anything to me."

I didn't pay attention to what he said and put the medicine in his hands with a bottle of water.

"Shut up and drink."

He looked at me with his deep green eyes almost drowning me in them. He took the medicine and we went back to my room where I made him lie in my bed.

"How is it that you can speak French? It's a dead language that very few people know how to speak and teach."

"That's why we learned it."

"You don't just speak that old language then."

He smiled but did not answer.

"Teach me this language."

"We won't work with you Asao."

"I can hack into the high government's internal system. I have access to my father's most secret archives and in some of them, there is information that interests you."

I kept talking, giving him my arguments without any reaction from him until I became aware of his slow breathing. The medication must be working, he had fallen asleep by then. Good, now I could research him and his group to deduce whether or not the one who attacked me was part of them.

I had to get to know this group before I could be part of it. I intend to have an important place among them to carry out my project successfully. I will have to be smart and precise in what I am going to do because everything I'll get has to be earned in order not to lose people's trust.

My real goal is to destroy the city to create a real new world because this one is only an empirical form of the one before. Moreover, I need human beings to perpetuate my race. This is why I will not allow the extinction of current humanity.

I don't necessarily want to be at the head of this movement, on the contrary, it would be more constraining than anything else, I must find a monarch.

With my eyes glued to my screen, various pieces of information popped up until the Wei name appeared. I didn't take the time to read the recent information that's circulating everywhere. Thus I looked for their history. The Wei family is the second largest family governing the upper city. Indeed, their ancestors are the first to have designed and built the electrical networks of the city. It is part of the big five families, the most powerful is the Kim family, which is a big family of scientists. They run the hospitals, laboratory centers, and experimental centers.

Then there are the Wei I mentioned earlier and the Oh who are the architects, they own the mines that underwrite the poorest of the lower town. There is the Park who founded the current government and the Byun who is in charge of property management. These five families have gradually lost their influence but remain very important and influential, on one hand, thanks to their ancestors and on the other because of their rivalry. Indeed, this ranking changes regularly and it was at the birth of Wei Cheng, a bastard child of the Wei family, that the latter lost the prestigious first rank among the big five.

Moreover, this child has only proof of his existence, his name, and the defeat of the Wei family apart from that he has never been seen.

"He is our leader."

I turned around surprised to hear a voice behind my back.

"Excuse me?"

"Wei Cheng, the scourge of the Wei family, is our master. Our goal was to kill your father if he signed the contract with his. But things went wrong because his older brother Wei Ming decided to get his inheritance faster than expected."

"What about me?"

"Plan B was to eliminate you if things went wrong."

"You were supposed to do that and not that man outside, right?"

"Yes, I was."

"Then why didn't you?"

"I ain't nobody's shit, I can still have free will and I would never kill my savior." He said, looking into my eyes.

"Your eyes are beautiful, you must be a half-breed. One of your parents must be from the lower town and must be descended from a people of Eastern Europe or North Africa." I said filling a glass with water.

"Yes, my ancestors were Turkish on my mother's side and Chinese on my father's side." He said as he stood up.

"Is that why you agreed to do this job?" I asked as I approached him.

"You want to know if I'm the team leader. If so, you will create a bond with me and betray me or use me to carry out your projects. If it is not the case, you will continue to get closer to me because I am the first human you have seen and therefore the only one you trust. And then..."

"No, I will use and keep you because you are my first treasure."