Op Rooppur XI: Infiltration

They get in the car. Sohel is in the driving seat, Naomi beside him, and the other two in the back. Sohel wears the glasses and starts the car. While driving Sohel asks Aria if the backup is ready. Aria answers that a 30-man squad of BD army is on standby. Once they receive our signal they can airdrop in 15-20 minutes. Sohel chuckles. He says, "So they won't act before something happens?" ARIA replies, "They can't raid a place on just consumptions. So they want to wait until something happens." Naomi looks at Sohel and says, "ARIA's helping you a lot huh."

Sohel replies, "Yeah. Annabelle did a pretty good job."

Mitali asks from the back, "Who's Aria?"

Jacob laughs at the question. He then replies to Mitali,

"It's a what, not a who. Assault and Reconnaissance Intelligent Assistant. In short ARIA. It's that pair of glasses that he's wearing. Our other squadmate Annabelle made it for us."

"So where are yours?"

"Ooh. It's only a prototype. The one he's wearing is the only glass she could make in a short time. Originally all of those glasses functions are available in our battle helmets. Annabelle made that glass so that he could use the helmet's recon properties even while undercover."

"That's some pretty hi-tech stuff."

"Yeah, I know."

Sohel suddenly interrupts them, "Sorry to interrupt but we are here. Everyone, on guard."

Aria asks if she should switch to assault mode. But Sohel orders her to stay in recon mode for now. Their car stops at the entrance checkpoint. An armed guard comes to the driver's window. Sohel rolls the window down. The guard asks Sohel to show his ID and address his reason for coming here. Sohel showed the guard the fake IDs SNA prepared for them and said they were there as proxy engineers. The guards take the IDs and go to the guard room. A few minutes later he comes back and hands the IDs back to Sohel. As he hands back the IDs he says,

"Your IDs have been verified. You are good to go Mr. Chowdhury."

Sohel takes the IDs and nods. He rolls back the window and enters the power plant. Jacob says, "Really! Proxy engineers. Do any of us know n of nuclear technology? What was the general thinking?"

Sohel replies, "Don't worry. We shouldn't even touch the control panel. If we do, I have ARIA with me here. I'll handle it then."

"Okay, boss. Counting on you."

They reach the parking area and park the car. As they were getting out of the car Sohel noticed a truck leaving the plant. After that 2 cars enter the plant. Sohel doesn't think much of it and they go inside. They enter the main lobby. A man in his early 50s and wearing a black suit came up to them. He asked Sohel, "You must be Mr. Chowdhury." Sohel nods. 

"And they are?"

"My partner Naomi Kobayashi and our assistants Mitali Haque and Jacob Walters."

"I'm Mahmudul Hasan. I'm in charge of the power today. Ms. Kobayashi and Mr. Chowdhury. Can you please come with me? We are having problems with the backup storage device. Your assistants can wait in the cafeteria."

Mitali looks at Sohel. Sohel tells her to wait in the cafe with Jacob. And also keep an eye on the people there. Sohel then turns back and tells the man to lead the way. While following the man Sohel tells ARIA to put a UAV in the air. ARIA says it would be available in 3 minutes. The man leads Sohel and Naomi to the storage area. Sohel fixes the storage system in 30 minutes thanks to ARIA. After that, they return to the cafe with Mr. Hasan.

08:31

Mr. Hasan tells the 4 that they can explore the place for now. He would call them if they were needed again. Saying this the man turns around and starts going back. Suddenly an AK47 cracked from the yard and Mr. Hasan's dead body dropped in front of them.