TERRA EMPIRE: ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR

Episode 37: HOW I REDUCED THE DEATH TOLL

“So how's Lieutenant Mills? Do you have any idea securing Machina Factory, after you lost your chance with the passing of President Tramp?” Professor McQueen asked when the police commander arrived nearby.

“Resistance has arrived, Professor! We'll rush into the main building in a few minutes,” Lieutenant Mills puts his chin up on three newly joined vehicles in the yard. One belonged to a bomb disposal team, one belonged to a fireman, while the other contained a SWAT team.

“With thirty hostages inside?”

Lieutenant Mills let out a long sigh, “It's inevitable, Professor! These people can't be controlled if we are stalling more and more or following the game. In order for you to know, the leader***** gave me a new threat.he will kill the hostages no longer every hour…in half an hour someone will die if we don't move.”.

“The problem is that people there will all die if you act determinedly.”.

“The hostages will all be killed, Professor.quickly or later.without us getting in there or we just sit around waiting. In my opinion, it would be better for us to try as soon as possible rather than waiting fifteen hours later.”

“But if the raid failed miserably how?” professor McQueen's Protest. “Not only hostages are killed, but you lost all your men.”

“My men understand the consequences.”

“Unfortunately, my invited guests did not know that. The hostages are not only your responsibility. I invited them.”

“It is not your fault that they are caught in a captive situation. Where do you know your event will be attacked ******.”

“What if I have another idea? So that fewer people die?”

Lieutenant Mills was nonchalant but still gave a response, “Unless you can blow up the ******* without including the captives, I am reluctant to hear your suggestion.”

“I can do it!” professor McQueen.

“O, yeah? How?” Lieutenant Mills turned his head after examining the long-barreled rifle he was about to use.

The scientist dyed, making sure Lana was not nearby so that he could listen to her words, “Security Chief's actions gave me an idea.

The police commander listened to Professor McQueen's explanation carefully and responded with one sentence after the man finished explaining, “Are you crazy, Professor?”

“Predicksiku says this way is more likely to succeed than your barbaric attempt to storm in.”

“In that I agree. But do you really want to do that?” Lieutenant Mills looked at Professor McQueen still with doubtful eyes.

“One is better than thirty people.”

“What if I disagree about that. You still have a daughter to look after,” Lieutenant Mills shook his head.

Professor McQueen sighed, “There is no one most responsible in this place besides me. Duncan's gone. About Lana, let me talk to her.”

“You're a good man, Professor! Then let me accompany you.”

“Police still need you to give command.”

“They know what to do but you need to be taken care of until your idea reaches its destination.”

“So do you not want to involve Jack Higgins or Bill Sandford?”

“Although trained, they are not police!”

“As of you, Lieutenant Mills!” professor McQueen said.

“If your heart is steady, I will contact the ****** that now..”

“Please!” Professor McQueen nodded.

Lieutenant Mills picked up the walkie-talkie and spoke, “This is Lieutenant Mills. I want to talk to you.How about I hand over someone who can make your plan work?”

Both of them waited for ten minutes before the leader responded ****** via the communication tool, “I told you, I don't want anyone else but President.”

“Professor McQueen was the first to run Machina Factory, and he wanted to talk to you about how he got the President for you.”.

“I don't want to waste my time with him.”

The person talking on the walkie-talkie was silent for a moment, “This is interesting! You seem to understand what you can do. What can you give us?”

“What you want..President Tramp!”

“And how do you do that?”

“I want to get into that building. At Machina Factory I have enough resources to do just that.”

“Please come here, Professor! We will gladly open the door.”

“I will come there, on condition that you release all the hostages..Thirty remaining people, without exception.including those who died.”.

“You offer exchange, Professor?” si ******* laughed. “What kind of exchange is that? One person exchanged for thirty people.”

“An exchange that will make your plan successful. Than you keep thirty hostages who will still die for nothing in your hands, while President Tramp is laughing at you elsewhere.”

The remark successfully made the ******* piqued his ego, the person replied with raucous, “How can we believe you can do what you promised?”

“Ask my staff about the Fire Ball facility. They'll tell you what the facility is. Unfortunately, only I can activate all that.”

“Let's see! Hey, bring that jerk over here..” said the leader******* with a voice like away. “...Your professor offered me that he could return Apache and the President with the facilities here. What kind of facilities does he mean?”

Professor McQueen and Lieutenant Mills waited while the criminal interrogated one of the Machina Factory staff until ***** then spoke again, “I don't know what you mean by Fire Ball, but your staff was screaming hysterically, they said don't activate it. It'll kill everyone. What facilities is it, Professor?”

“Facilities that will take you to your destination. Unfortunately, I just want to say it once I'm inside.”

Finally ******* it says, “Alright Professor! If you can do it with the facilities in here, let's do it. Be ready in ten minutes. We will take out the hostages as your replacement.”

Professor McQueen and Lieutenant Mills breathed a sigh of relief. The policeman patted Lana's father on the shoulder, “Thank you, Professor!”

“The sooner this ends, the better!”

Lieutenant Mills nodded, “I will give a new briefing to my men.”

“And I will talk to my son.” hiss Professor McQueen slowly.

The man walked slowly to where Lana and Jordan were waiting. He actually hopes that the police car ordered by Lieutenant Mills can come along with the other three vehicles that have come first, so Lana and Jordan can be repatriated. He wanted the two to not have to look at his condition which might have ended tragically. Unfortunately, the car awaited has not yet come and the two teenagers still have to survive on this page.

“Lana..” call Professor McQueen.

The girl looked up and showed me her phone, “Daddy, see what Jordan and I found on the internet.News of the attack******* to Machina Factory have gone viral.”.

“Really?”

"San Francisco Heraldotcom first uploaded it, the title of his article ‘Brutal Attacks and Captivity ****** at the Eccentric Scientists' Own Laboratory Company, Archibald McQueen’.

“Gruesome!” Professor McQueen said with a sad expression as he read what was written on Lana's monitor screen.

“And the comments of netizens almost all denounced the actions of the President,” Jordan said.

“This is not a good thing for Machina Factory huh, dad?”

“I didn't think too much about that! What I'm afraid of is that this hostage situation ends with the deaths of all the hostages.”

“The number of police has increased. It seems that they will storm into and paralyze the ****** to free the hostages,” Lana said with sparkling eyes. “I'm sure they can free all the hostages.”

Professor McQueen smiled blandly, “Actually I offer another idea that should not sacrifice many innocent lives.”

“Really?” Lana smiled excitedly. “What idea does daddy propose to them?”

The man looked at his daughter with sadness, his tongue was too faint to speak….

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