Chapter 79: Don’t Test My Patience
Della opened the high-definition projector in the living room, which was connected to the computer. A dim and blurry image was projected onto the screen.
This was transmitted from the contact lenses Tara was wearing, showing the inside of the fire escape. For such a luxurious hotel, the lights in the fire escape were surprisingly in a state of disrepair. Most of the lights were not working. The few that were working had a light so dim it was almost the same as not being on.
“Hmph, they’re done for,” Tara’s sneer came from the computer. “It seems I need to have a talk with the hotel’s fire safety officer.”
RV nodded. This was a very serious matter and must be severely punished.
Fortunately, the contact lenses had a night vision function. Even if the light was dim or completely dark, it was not a big problem. The nanometer microchip in the transparent product sensed the lack of light and quickly activated the night vision mode. The entire fire escape was transmitted to the screen in the form of temperature color differences.
Wen En, who had been flirting with Romeo, immediately pushed him away and walked to the screen to focus on his work.
“Hey!” Romeo protested with dissatisfaction. “Is work more important or am I?”
“Shh,” Wen En said. “Come here, stand next to me.”
“And you,” Wen En pointed to Claire, who was watching from the front of the elevator, and said, “Come here, stand within Della’s line of sight.”
Alright, Claire admitted that she had just had the idea of sneaking off to the shopping center downstairs for a shopping spree. Claire, who had been exposed, glared at Wen En and reluctantly walked over, standing behind Della.
Wen En continued to look at the projection screen.
Half of the projection was covered by a light blue area.
“What’s this angle?” Romeo said curiously.
“This is the wall,” Wen En said.
Tara was now leaning against the wall. The nanorobots sensed the vibration and transmitted the vibration frequency from the wall to the calculation system. The calculated approximate distance of the vibration source was used to determine Qiuyue’s position.
Soon, a calculation data of the analysis of the wave value appeared on the screen.
Della typed on the keyboard, entered the formula for numerical analysis, and after getting a number, said, “Qiuyue is currently on the 75th floor. According to your and his speed, it is estimated that you will meet in an hour.”
“That’s too long,” Tara’s voice came from Della’s computer. “I want to see my baby soon.”
…A little greasy.
Everyone gathered around the computer couldn’t help but get goosebumps.
“You can just jump down,” Romeo sneered from the side. “It would be even better if you landed on your head.”
“I was just thinking the same thing,” Tara said.
He put one hand on the stair railing, jumped up, and sat on the railing. His body leaned forward, and he slid down like he was on a slide. Even at the corner, Tara did not get off the railing, but used the momentum to flip to the next flight of stairs.
The scene transmitted to the computer was a group of light blue and dark blue objects moving rapidly.
“He’s crazy,” even the usually calm Della couldn’t help but say.
But it had to be said that this was much faster than walking down the stairs. Soon, Tara “slid” to the 85th floor.
Seeing the sign for the 85th floor, Tara, like an agile monkey, got off the stair railing.
He landed on the ground, and the soles of his shoes hit the ground, making a heavy landing sound. A cloud of dust rose from the ground. With his skills, he could have landed as lightly as a feather without making a sound, but he deliberately did not.
Tara glanced at the 85th floor and continued to go down. This time, he chose to walk down to the lower floors.
The rhythmic footsteps soon spread throughout the nearby stairwell. Every time he went down a floor, Tara did not forget to press his ear to the wall, always listening to the movements below. When Tara went down another two floors, he found that Qiuyue’s movements had disappeared.
Tara glanced at the sign for the 83rd floor. He walked to the door connecting the 83rd floor’s fire escape and the hotel’s residential floor and pushed it open with force.
There was nothing outside the door, only an abstract line painting hanging on the wall. The goose-yellow street lamp shone on the painting, giving it a strange feeling.
Tara looked down at the hotel’s carpet. The carpet was very clean, because a cleaner pushed a carpet cleaning machine and sprayed a large amount of cleaner and disinfectant on the carpet at a fixed time every day.
And on the side of the fire escape, because it had not been cleaned for many years, the ground was covered with a layer of gray to black, stubborn, old dust. Tara, with the light from the hotel floor, saw that he had left a row of footprints on the dust.
Tara closed the door and continued to go down. Every time he went down, he would push open the door and check for any traces on the carpet outside.
Sure enough, when Tara reached the 81st floor, he saw the gray-black footprints left by a certain little mouse to be caught on the clean carpet.
“Found you,” Tara said in his heart.
Tara walked out of the fire escape. He first stood on the carpet, wiped the dust off his feet, and then walked out step by step, observing the surrounding situation.
Although it was the same hotel, the decoration style of the 81st floor was completely different from the 83rd floor.
The 83rd floor had a minimalist style, with solid-colored carpets on the floor and abstract decorative paintings on the walls.
And the 81st floor looked more complex and cluttered. The entire floor was covered with a carpet composed of red, light brown, and dark brown circles. The walls were covered with a wallpaper with a pattern of large and small flowers. A heavy crystal chandelier hung in the corridor. The light bulbs were surrounded by crystal lamp shades, emitting a pale yellow light.
Tara moved his nose and smelled a faint scent of Omega pheromones.
Under the circulation and filtration of the central air conditioning, this smell had been filtered to be very faint, but Tara still keenly and quickly captured this smell from the cold air.
Because this pheromone smell was very special, completely different from the pheromones of the local Omegas on T27. Due to the influence of the geographical environment, the pheromones of the Omegas on Planet T27 also had a smell similar to the ore deep in the earth’s crust.
And this smell, with a fresh scent of grass and trees, belonged to an outsider.
Tara took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled. He followed this hidden scent, walked through a corridor, and came to a room with the number 8107 at the corner.
Tara knocked on the door.
Soon, the door opened.
A short, fat Alpha man with a half-bald head, a lush mustache under a big nose, and a penguin-like walking posture stood at the door, looking at Tara.
“I’m a staff member of the Sailboat Hotel’s security department,” Tara showed his ID as usual and said, “Hello, I’m investigating a theft. I have something to ask you.”
The penguin man’s eyes spun like a roulette wheel several times, and he said in an angry tone, “I told you, I don’t need room service. Get lost. If I see you again, I’ll complain to the manager and make you lose your job.”
Tara was not a fool. Of course, he could see how unnatural the penguin man’s expression was and how strange his tone of voice was. Seeing that the penguin man was about to close the door, Tara grabbed the edge of the door frame and said, “Sir, please wait a minute.”
The penguin man’s pupils trembled violently. He was obviously scared by Tara’s action.
“Please let me in to investigate,” Tara said, pushing the door open with his arm. The muscles and veins on his exposed forearm bulged.
The penguin man could see at a glance that he was not an easy person to deal with. He was so scared that his mustache also trembled. He glared, looking like he was all bark and no bite, and said angrily, “Get lost, you damn security guard.”
“What if I don’t?” Tara also dropped his seemingly friendly appearance. His eyes were as sharp as a knife. He forcefully pushed the penguin man away. The penguin man rolled to the ground like a snowball, and then scrambled to hide behind the sofa in the living room.
Good, you should just get lost like this, the further the better. Tara gave the penguin man a fierce glance. Seeing that he was no longer pestering him, he first walked to a cabinet where knives and cutlery were placed, opened the cabinet, and saw that a small knife for cutting lemons and citrus fruits was missing from the set of knives in the cabinet. This further confirmed his guess. He took out another long knife for cutting watermelons, and then walked to the room in the depths of 8107.
“Mr. Tara, are you sure…” RV’s voice came into Tara’s brain from the micro-earpiece in his ear.
“So annoying, shut up!”
Tara took out the earpiece from his ear and threw it on the ground with force. As he walked forward, he stepped on the earpiece, and the rustling sound of the damaged earpiece was immediately transmitted to the 174th floor.
“Hey, his attitude is too bad,” RV looked at the earpiece disconnection notification pop-up on the computer screen and said in shock.
“I told you, he’s a lunatic,” Romeo complained from the side.
Wen En shrugged, noncommittal. It was just that he hadn’t expected Tara’s attitude towards their superior, RV, to be at least decent on the surface. He hadn’t expected that his face would change so quickly just now.
Fortunately, Tara had not taken off his contact lenses. They could still monitor this mission through the visual information transmitted from the contact lenses.
Tara walked through the corridor and stopped in front of the bathroom door at the end of the corridor. The sound of running water came from the bathroom. Someone might be taking a shower.
“Knock, knock~ is anyone there~” Tara knocked on the door and said.
“Who?” a wary voice came from inside the door.
Tara looked down at the long knife, which had been polished to a shine by the hotel’s cleaners. The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he said, “I’m a staff member from the hotel’s plumbing maintenance department. The guest downstairs complained about a leak, so I’m here to take a look.”
“May I come in?” Tara said.
“Of course not!” the voice in the bathroom said angrily. “Can’t you see I’m taking a shower? Get out!”
He’d be a ghost if he listened to him. Tara sneered and said, “Then I’m coming in.”
The moment he finished speaking, Tara, without hesitation and without mercy, kicked open the bathroom door. A semi-white, transparent water vapor, like silk, rushed to Tara’s face, but Tara did not move.
He saw that the floor was covered with flowing water, and the source of the water was the bathtub at the far end of the bathroom.
The bathtub was filled with water, which flowed out like a spring, all over the floor. Some of the water flowed into the floor drain not far away, and a considerable amount of it flowed in Tara’s direction.
Tara shifted his gaze from the water on the floor to the two people standing in front of the bathtub.
The person in front was standing still like a sculpture. His face was stiff, because the person behind him was holding a sharp knife, the sharp blade pointed at the artery on the person’s neck.
Both were Omegas. The person holding the knife, Tara was very familiar with.
“Hi, Qiuyue,” Tara smiled playfully and said, “I didn’t remember your name wrong, did I?”
Qiuyue did not answer him, but just looked at him with cold eyes. The blade was pressed against the skin of the Omega’s neck, leaving a thin, red, thread-like wound.
The Omega trembled all over, and tears streamed down his face like rain, smudging the black eyeliner under his eyes into panda eyes.
Tara, as if he didn’t care about the Omega’s life or death, walked towards Qiuyue step by step.
The Omega was already so scared that he couldn’t speak. His face was ashen. He closed his eyes as if he had accepted his fate, waiting for death to claim his life.
“Do you think I won’t kill him?!” seeing that Tara had not stopped as he had expected, but was walking over regardless of others’ lives, Qiuyue almost panicked. He tried his best to calm himself down.
“Let me leave this place, or I’ll kill him,” Qiuyue threatened.
“You’ve misunderstood. I have no intention of arresting you,” Tara shrugged and said.
He’d be a ghost if he believed him. He wasn’t stupid. Of course, he could guess that this Alpha in front of him was definitely with Wen En and the others. They definitely wanted to put him in prison. “Don’t make me repeat myself,” Qiuyue said viciously.
This time, Qiuyue pointed the tip of the knife at the gland on the back of the Omega’s neck.
“Don’t test my patience. Otherwise, you know what I’ll do to him.”
