The Photon Hundred Percent

9.The Flying Penguin

Under the intense heat of midday, at the top of Evenergy Tower, Frederick Moffin was seen occasionally wiping away the sweat on his splattered forehead, his reddish eyes hidden behind his sunglasses, he was impatient, waiting for someone to come.

Then he stopped grumbling, when from a distance it was clear a helicopter was flying closer, before long the helicopter landed right on the helipad at the top of the building.

The rotor of the propeller was still buzzing as an old man descended from the iron dragonfly, his white hair seemingly scattered in the wind, Frederick Moffin immediately greeted him.

"Professor Hades!" he said as he shook the old man's hand.

"ah! Mister Frederick, I'm sorry to keep you waiting so long, I'm sure parents like me have sucked at traveling so far."

"Haha, I can understand, come on!" he said while embracing the old man, taking him to a place, a closed meeting room.

Before long, they had been sitting face to face with a circular table and several chairs that were also arranged regularly around the table.

"How's our Dark Matter project going?" Frederick opened the conversation.

"It's amazingly encouraging, we're making a lot of progress" he said, "but I'm asking you to be patient a little more."

"Ah, it feels like I'm the most patient person in the world, but honestly I have to say Professor, this has been out of whack for too long from the time you promised." Frederick's face was disappointed.

"I understand, understand how you are now, the petroleum trade has indeed collapsed very recently, some companies have gone out of business, it is very difficult indeed, to get a new well field,"

"That's the Professor, why am I ... Ah, how is it, I have to explain it?"

"Yes! Yep! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, please understand you once again, there are so many difficulties, but so far we have managed to overcome them, a little more. Yeah, just a little more."

"I think it's natural Prof, if I'm a little anxious, very afraid, just in case you're going to fail, when you know yourself, I've sacrificed a lot to help you" Frederick said.

"Don't worry Mister, you can hold my word, you know, after 25 years I've been living on the run, because Interpol never stopped hunting me, during that time I kept my grudges against the rich, ruthless men, they had killed my family to eliminate the witnesses and evidence of the cursed research, nothing left, except for my dream of this Dark Matter, which, this can only be realized with your help, so according to our agreement, this, I hope you stay focused on your goal of helping me repay those rich people, and I'll stay focused on Dark Matter's research myself, I think this is the kind of payment I'm going to give you."

"Sometimes I think you're just using me Professor" Frederick said.

"Haha! If there was such a possibility. Well, can't it happen otherwise, for example you report me to Interpol or kill me after I submit my research results, it could be so, right? So for now there's no point in suspecting each other."

"Well, how about Prof now? Is there any certainty that could make me at least believe in your seriousness?"

"Come to Palmerston in three days, and you'll see this great masterpiece" Hades replied.

"I hope you won't let me down this time" Frederick said.

"Yes! I promise!" hades concluded, then sipped his coffee.

"Oh yeah, by the way what about Nolan? Looks like your plan for yesterday's abduction didn't go smoothly" Hades said suddenly.

"Ah, I'm sorry about that, it turns out that he's much more alert than our shadow."

"What's really going on?"

"Nolan's daughter, so wild, even our men disguised as her bodyguards, were already made a fuss at the beginning of the plan."

"Wild?" repeat Hades does not understand.

Hades was blown away, "It's so ridiculous, how do you keep going?"

"Then plans changed, we decided to just intercept her when we got home from the party, the girl might still be unsuspecting, when we found out our people's cars were following her, she said, because he still thinks they're Nolan's hired bodyguards, and after that I don't know what's going on, but one of them sent an emergency message that their motorcade had been intercepted by a mysterious person wearing a Penguin mask, before they were all killed."

"Penguin Mask?" repeat Hades, as he plays his mustache, Frederick shrugs, he himself is not sure.

"Is that probably true? I mean about this Penguin masked guy, is that him?"

"I don't understand what you mean?"

"Have you never heard of this Penguin masked person rumor?" Hades asked back, Frederick shook his head.

"Despite whether it's true or not, I've actually been interested in this Penguin masked person for a long time."

Frederick focused his gaze on Hades, carried away in curiosity.

"Maybe you've heard of a stealth troop named Calamity Seven, the authority of these invisible forces is directly under the authority of the United Nations which gives them independence to act freely in completing their missions, this mysterious army of only seven chosen people is indeed less popular when we compare it to other world elite forces such as Nass40, Cerebrian, or Blue Alogo, but if we talk about them from the dark side of the underground world then Calamity Seven is the most terrifying entity."

"What does Calamity Seven have to do with this Penguin masked man?" chase Frederick.

"This person is their leader, the number one, and the most powerful. The strong I mean here is strong in the true sense of the size of a pyshical strength of a animate object, his terrifying angel-like figure from the darkness continued to cling to the visual image of a superpower man wearing this Penguin mask, people from the underworld called him the Flying Penguin." Hades revealed at length.

Hearing that, for some reason Frederick seemed to swallow his saliva, horrified.

"You seem to know a lot about this guy?" syndicate Frederick.

"Not really, because I actually still doubt whether this person really exists or is just a mere booze to scare off criminals, the only thing I'm interested in is his special ability if it's true as people rumored."

"What ability?"

"Well, if the story of this person is not exaggerated, then I don't mind calling this person a Superhuman, one of his special abilities is the ability to move around very quickly, it was as if he was everywhere. Indeed, the theory of teleportation has been debated so far, even modern science still rejects it, but the most rational answer to this man's ability is, indeed, the theory of teleportation, it was all only possible if he had an extremely incredible speed, perhaps like the speed of light, or it could be that he was light itself."

"You mean this guy is a Photon Man?" guess Frederick.

"Exactly, even if it's all just my hypothesis."

"Then, could this have anything to do with your Photonistic research, 25 years ago?"

"That's what I've been thinking about this guy called the Flying Penguin, especially after the murder of our kidnapper team yesterday, if we try to connect with Nolan, who is the son of Gregor Alessander, one of our donors, then it all makes sense, doesn't it? Whether it is really related or not, of course this issue will be very runyam if we have dealt with Calamity Seven," said Hades.

"Then, what steps should I take in front of Professor? Should I just stop this?" Frederick was worried.

"Well, I think indeed, we need to hold back for a moment, we will take care of Nolan after the situation is safely under control, after all, now the presence of Calamity Seven will not affect anything else, because our project is almost complete."

"Ah, it turns out you can also be encouraging."

"We play it safe first Mister, while keeping an eye on developments, because nothing will end well, if we have dealt with Calamity Seven." Hades closed the conversation with a mouthful of coffee that was starting to cool.

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