TERRA EMPIRE: ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR
Episode 26: SOFT AS A CLAY
Jack peeked a little from Duncan Tramp's study hall door as soon as he walked out of the room, while the door behind him immediately rippled shut after Professor McQueen and himself were outside, for the sake of the security of President Tramp and his son. The man exhaled with relief, for a while, finding in the room before him there was not yet a human nose in sight.
The criminals have not yet reached this floor.The elevator is on the west side while the emergency exit is in the south…he estimated they still had ten minutes before there was chaos with unequal gunfights between the herd and him…
“I hope you know what you're doing, Professor!” Jack said half a whisper.
“I was expecting that from you, Jack.”.
The agent turned his head with a bitter face to the Professor, “.you planned this. I'm here only as your bodyguard.”
“Sure...of course..I just want to know your last name. I don't know about it yet.”
“You asked him at a strange time, Professor!” jack's comments were confused. “My name is Jack Higgins.”
“It's nice to meet you, Jack Higgins! And like I said, it's a good time to introduce you to my son because his phone is connected.”.
“Mobile already connected?” Jack raised an eyebrow.
The middle-aged man took out his mobile phone that was shaking from his pants pocket. Apparently it's already set to vibrate mode, so if there's an incoming call it doesn't make any noise. Designated that thing, “As I said, outside the CEO room mobile phone signal was received strongly.”
The scientist immediately attached the phone to his ear, “Lana?”
“Daddy...” heard the joyful shriek of girl's voice from behind the phone.
“Finally I can get a connection to contact you..”.
“Daddy is okay?”
“I'm fine. I'm in a safe place with agent Jack Higgins.”.
True too…
Once out of the room Duncan Tramp of course the phone can function because it can receive the signal back. Quickly release the phone to send a message to the Secret Service headquarters. The text message was a series of codes to inform President Tramp that he was in danger, and that Jack Higgins and his colleagues Ryan Newman and Bill Sandford needed immediate help at Machina Factory in San Francisco.
“So if it's clear all of us are moving now, Lana!” professor McQueen said.
“Siap, well!” the scientist's daughter on the phone.
Professor McQueen takes a look at Jack Higgins after his communication with the boy ends, “She's a smart girl! He must have understood what I told you.”
“So, we can start?” ask Jack.
“We're moving now, Mr. Higgins,” Archibald McQueen.
“Hey, why are we here?” jack asked, puzzled that the scientist had run up the emergency stairs instead of the elevator as he had originally expected.
“Don't ask much first, Jack!” Professor McQueen responded while adjusting his breath in the middle of the run. “Kita
must get ahead before the men get to the emergency stairs. Get ready to surprise them.”
While the two adult men ran to the emergency stairs on the south side of the fifth floor, Jordan and Lana who were exactly one floor below ran towards the elevator. The elevator doors that had just closed three-quarters of the section showed the two criminals already inside, just as Jordan and Lana arrived at the spot. Fortunately, the two criminals were completely unaware of the two lovebirds' presence until the elevator doors closed. Lana approaches the outside of the elevator and searches for what her father told her to do.
“Emergency button.”
“Yang is usually used to stop elevator?”
“Ya!”
“That's a brilliant idea. If activated we can lock the criminal in there.”
“Indeed it was his idea.”
“But not that kind of thing just in the elevator?”
“Installed also outside. Indeed not many know, except the owner of the building or those who work as a maintenance lift,” said Lana. “Job!”
“Why?”
“That thing is inside this panel. To activate it we have to open or destroy this outer lid first, whereas I forgot to bring the tool from the warehouse.” Lana said annoyedly. “I forgot my father's words about it because I was in a hurry here.”
“How about you take it?”
“No time. The elevator will already arrive on the fifth floor as soon as I return with a hammer.”
“Take it, Lana! Try first!”
Jordan's words stupefied Lana but the girl gave a nod, “Alright. You wait here.” the girl then turns around and runs into the storage room.
As soon as the girl was out of sight Jordan turned to face the elevator panel, muttering to herself, “She's gone! Now what do you want me to do?”
Jordan's facial expression was shocked before the stance was taken. Mumbled once more before taking a deep breath, “I'm not a boxer. Don't let my hand get crushed for hitting him.”
Jordan lunged with clenched hands. It was unexpected that the metal panel felt like a soft clay, where his fists barged in easily, damaging the circuit board, and also hit the emergency button that Lana meant. His hands did not hurt at all.no cuts.or bruises.
Within a split second Jordan pulled back his fist and flabbergasted himself at the result of his actions. Melted crushed elevator panel. His hands are intact. At the same time the elevator lights shimmered chaotically, lighting up randomly jumping over numbers after numbers. The elevator stopped buzzing and heard the roar of alarms and danger signs accompanied the roar of the elevator that went down to the bottom floor. Vaguely Jordan heard the howls of fear of the two criminals inside, but he did not care about it because it was not a problem for him…
The elevator safety system has a safety protocol in critical situations like earthquakes or fires, so when Jordan activates the emergency button inside the panel, the, the system works and the elevator lowers the person inside to the bottom floor so that the person can get out immediately. It's just that because Jordan accidentally damaged the circuit panel, the elevator did not immediately open when he arrived on the first floor, instead stopping in the middle of the road with the elevator door still closed.
Going down with a high-speed elevator alone is almost a dislodged heart, not to mention trapped in it in the dark. The pair of criminals banged on the elevator in a panic even though no one heard either Jordan on the fifth floor or their friends in the lower hall.
“Sorry, I'm old. It is not easy to find it..” reprimand Lana who just came. The girl looked up at the elevator panel that had been smashed. In his hand was clutched a huge hammer, which felt like it would not be of much use now. “Gosh...have you opened it?”
Jordan smiled blandly then pointed at his vest last, “All of a sudden I got an idea. This is all because of this vest.”
“Rompi?”
“You can ask your dad if we catch up with him, right?”
“To the emergency stairs,” Lana nodded.
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