Further Down

~ C H A P T E R E L E V E N ~

As they went further, they suddenly found themselves lost. "Where are we?" Nate asked hastily.

"Well, I'm pretty sure that we're in an underground hallway." Stephen says while looking around.

They went silent for a moment, thinking where Walter Müller could be. They head straight forward in the gloomy hallway not knowing where it leads.

At the end of the hallway, there is a massive but hallow door. It requires an identification card to enter. And, three dead bodies of S.I.E.F police were lying outside the door.

"The bodies laid on their back, they were shot at front. They might be following someone who entered inside the door and caught them off guard. So, someone was already inside." Stephen explained.

"Let's go." Nate spoke as he scanned the I.D that he picked up earlier on one of the dead bodies of an S.E.U guards.

"So that's what you did." Stephen said in a surprised voice.

"Of course. Gun's and I.D's are always essential." Nate answered in a proud voice.

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It was a long and narrow passageway. They were walking cautiously when Nate suddenly flung out an arm to hold Stephen back.

"What?" Stephen furrowed his brows and gave him a curious look.

"See right there? In front of you? That's a string. Step on it and we're dead." Nate pointed out the white clear string that makes it look invisible. They carefully avoid the trap and proceeds to look out for more.

They ventured deep down the narrow passageway. There were traps here and there, but both of the detectives successfully surpassed it.

Moments later, the passageway is divided into two paths. The detectives take a minute to decide until they heard and echoing noise through the left path. And so, they rushed to the left path.

"There! There he is!" Nate exclaimed at Stephen when he saw Walter Müller running in a different direction, trying to avoid the conflict.

"Come on!" Stephen shouted and immediately sprints.

Nate was running behind Stephen while trying hard to aim his gun at Walter's leg - because of a narrow hallway, Stephen decides to switch with Nate and let Nate take the lead so that he could fire the gun properly.

Stephen is now running behind, and with a loud bang, Nate successfully hits Walter's leg to disable him from running. The Mask slips from Walter's hand and drops hardly on the floor with a screeching sound.

"Get it!" Nate shouted and Stephen rushed trying to grab the Mask.

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