Questioning Chris (2)

Thursday, 10th June 2049, 9:22 PM

Inside the luxurious restroom, he entered the second last stall. Sitting inside he pulled up his sleeves to show black thick circular bracelets around both his wrists. They were hidden by his now black suit.

He pressed on the one on his left wrist and had it come off. At the place it split open, it was revealed to be a storage for multiple tiny high tech gadgets.

Getting the two bracelets he wore was the hardest part. It was what his whole mission depended on. These two bracelets contained everything he would need.

At one of its ends, he pulled out three different coloured thick circular devices. He held the white one pulling the black and grey ones into his pocket.

He pressed a button on the white circle device. It showed a red screen that eventually turned green. He stuck it to the back of his neck. Where the black ribbon pattern connected together.

This was an AI that would deal with all the security cameras. Didn't matter if they were hidden or seen, it would be able to detect them, then it would use the black marks on his body as a reference to create a fake image of him in the stall after he left while erasing his actual body from them.

Clunk! ( The door restroom door opened.)

Sensing someone enter beside, him Noah thought it was perfect he could now use both the cameras and the person as evidence to show he was here.

Noah moved and stuck close to the right stall wall.

Flash Step! He passed through it and appeared on the other side, this was the last stall. He then walked to the opposite side and used it again. This time teleporting outside the building.

Since mana had appeared on earth he had done a few experiments and realised that if he meditated he could store more mana in himself It was still around a single digit of mana compared to the Eternal Battlefield but it was enough for him to teleport across walls.

Planned ahead, he appeared in a hidden alleyway, there were cameras here but they were all hacked by the AI so he didn't appear in them. Before anyone passing by could see him he used Qi to help him run up the wall and hang from the window of the first floor. Pulling himself up, he scaled the entire wall in moments and threw himself onto the roof.

'I've done the first part,' Noah said as he walked around and then stopped over a specific part. His Spatial Sense was weak but it was enough to see what was on the other side of the floor. He was right above Chris Jhonson with a Flash Step he would be able to reach him.

Chris Johnson was supposed to make an entrance when dinner ended which was in a few minutes. For his entrance, he would be lowered in from a ball of fire to go with the theme. He had entered the ball and sealed it, just waiting to be lowered.

Noah pulled off the right wrist bracelet. He then straightened it out and twisted it. The inside opened up as a button popped out. It was a straight thin tube blocked from one end with the other sealed and a button on it.

It was a hidden gun that loaded one bullet and was lethal only when it was close range, this made it completely silent. The bullet it used could be of any type, its speed and type of wound it caused could also be regulated so it was the perfect weapon for assassination.

Noah then took out the left wrist bracelet from before that was in his pocket, he had taken three pieces of tech out, he then took out another. It was a high tech syringe, it contained a fluid that would paralyse the whole of his body.

Holding the tube gun and syringe in each hand Noah was ready.

Flash Step!

Thud!

Noah appeared above Chris, he pushed straight to the ground from above holding him down.

"Who-!" Before Chris could continue Noah blocked his mouth and injected the fluid from the syringe.

Chris Struggled but soon stopped as he lost feeling in his body. Noah brought a gun to his head as he put the syringe away. Chris still had feeling in his head so he could feel the cold metal tube touching its back.

"You speak, you die," Noah said.

Chris seemed to calm down. Noah looked back and took out Chris's phone from his pocket. He brought it to the front of Chris's face that was looking at the ground.

"All ask you a series of questions, only answer them with the fewest words you can if you want to live. What's the pin?" Noah asked the first.

Chris said the numbers lightly still wondering what was happening. His hand moved back slowly reaching for a device hidden in his clothes.

Noah unlocked it, he then took out the black circular device from before and stuck it to the back of the phone pressing a button to turn it on. On a tiny screen, it showed a rising number as it stole all the data on Chris's phone. It was simultaneously saving everything online so he could go through it later.

Noticing Chris's hand, Noah pulled out the device from under his clothes before he could. It was some type of emergency device. He didn't have to check how it worked, so he had the last grey circle stuck to it to stop it from going off.

Chris seeing his plan failed, stopped. He saw the devices Noah was using and could tell, that no regular person could get hands on such dangerous tech.

"I'll let it slide this time, tell me the password for this." Noah showed another screen. The small device had reached a block and couldn't steal data anymore. It needed a password.

Chris hesitated, if he gave this he would be revealing all the secrets he had. Feeling the pressure of the gun from behind he spoke.

"Scan my iris and the password is..." Noah followed the command and typed it in.

The device had gotten through the roadblock. Putting the phone down Noah spoke.

"How did you know about the Eternal Battlefield before the first mana wave?"

"One day I woke up logged into a forum where people called themselves descendants of Eternals. They explained everything about the Eternal Battlefield saying that we were all chosen by humans from another planet to help stop our race from going extinct."

"How were they able to contact you?"

"Someone called True Explorer on their end has a talent to let them possess people across dimensions. He would take over people's bodies and make video messages. We've already disbanded. I have nothing to do with the other members."

Noah could tell he was lying about the last part. He snorted but he didn't have much time left.

"Anderson and Lillian Rhinehart, where are they currently?"

"I don't know who they are," He answered.

"The future seer, what is her location?!" Noah said aggressively as he pressed the tube deeper into the back of his head.

"I wasn't involved. I don't know anything about her." He answered again, he then felt the gun on the back of his head pull off.

'How did he know it was Lillian out of the two? Hmph.'

"Since your lying, it seems you don't care about your life. What if I take your daughter's instead. She's on table four on the third seat, right? Quite easy to aim from here." Pointing his gun to the side, Chris hadn't seen his gun yet so he didn't know it was just a bluff.

"Don't bring her into this!"

"Tell me everything you know then!" Noah brought the gun back to his head.

"We hired an Assassin, but by the time he reached, they were already dead. So he left doing nothing. That's all. As for their location, I just know the Spatial Gate on earth led to the planet Aegeon. If you're searching for the Woman with the future seeing power, True Explorer in the Eternal Battlefield should be still chasing after her. Look for him instead. I've told you everything now, let me go."

Noah released the force he was putting in the tube gun.

'He was lying about not being involved, he's also done many other crimes, its better not let such a person live.'

"Don't sin so much in your next life..." Noah said lightly as he pressed the button.

The bullet was silently injected into Chris's head with force ending his life.

The drug he had given to paralyse him would work break down, then work to serve another function, it would confuse the investigators by showing a later time of death.

Noah took off the devices he connected to the phone and emergency signalling device. They had both done their purpose. He put Chris's phone back in his pocket and quickly fixed up his shirt. With almost no time left he quickly started escaping.

He took out the left bracelet, it was a hollow tube now sealed at one end, he spun the closed-end and it changed to a suction device. He jumped and had it stick to the top of the ball. He then pulled his body up with one hand to bring it as close as he could to the top, then used flash step touching the top with his foot.

He appeared lying down on the roof. Standing up and running he started dusting himself off, he then jumped off the roof and silently landed on the ground using Qi.

Sticking to the wall he used Flash Step after making sure no one was on the other side using Spatial Sense.

He had made sure to use Flash Step as sparingly as possible before so he still had more than enough mana to go across the thick wall. He then did it again sensing the other person was still here.

Back in his stall, he remade the bracelets and locked them around his wrists the opposite way from before causing a thin layer of black flakes to fall off into the toilet. He took out his lighter and set both bracelets on fire.

This time the fire didn't spread as only the bracelets burned. They absorbed the heat quickly and went out making sure not to harm him. Even then he was still left with a few burn marks, ignoring them Noah flushed.

As the AI on his back was removed, the original him reappeared on the cameras.

He then walked out, washed his hands with gloves on. They didn't absorb the water so they dried quickly as he arrived back at his table.

"Chris Johnson should be entering soon, you almost missed the entrance!" The person sitting next to him said happily.

Noah nodded as he secretly looked at the watch the man wore.

[9:27]

'I made it within the range I estimated.' Noah thought as he took a sip of the white wine they had served before. He then waited.

3 minutes went by quickly.

The event started the ball lit on fire catching everyone's attention, it lowered to the ground and split open. Chris Jhonson who was supposed to elegantly land and start speaking plopped to the ground as a cold corpse.

The bullet in his head had been blocking the bleeding but now that he fell it released all the blood in one motion.

People screamed, while some still wondering if it was part of the act. Noah acted confused, not understanding the situation as he also stood up getting ready to leave.

Security charged in and everyone panicked.

"AHH!" Shrills filled the air as all the celebrities tried to quickly move in their acme of unpractical dresses.

"All of you, please wait! Do not leave the scene yet!"

Not caring they continued but were blocked at the exits. Police who had been on stand by entered.

"You check the security footage, you go investigate all the celebrities here for any kind of weapon and if you don't find anything let them leave. While you investigate the staff." The head police officer said as he walked forward.

The officers split into groups to do their assigned task.