"Who the hell are you?" Laohu said in Mandarin the mont he regained consciousness, which was just a few minutes after he was placed in the van.
"No one," Tag answered as he walked to the back, scanning for sothing for a few minutes before saying, "Zero, where the hell is it?"
Zero peeked from the partition window as he was in the driver’s seat, on his head was a high tech VR-looking helt.
"Where’s what?" He asked, seemingly completely clueless.
Tag’s eyes twitched before he gripped as he muttered, "why did I even bring you?"
{Because he’s part of the team?} Spectra said with a chuckle, {besides, would you rather have the kid on field duty? Maybe dressed as the grandma instead of ?}
"No way," Tag shook his head, before approaching the partition window and stretching his hand, "hand it over."
"Co on, " Zero said, "just a few more minutes?"
"No," Tag responded, leaving no room for negotiation.
Zero groaned dramatically but finally removed the helt with both hands, holding it out like a kid surrendering his favorite toy.
Which was strange since the helt had nothing to do with toys...his reaction would’ve been understandable if that was a VR headset, but it wasn’t.
The thing was a creation by Ethan used to ss with the brain, it was the sa helt used on Dmitri and Nathaniel.
Ever since it was used on him, Zero had been stuck wanting to play with it, for a reason know to none but him.
The mont the helt was handed over, he slumped forward before letting out a whine.
Tag ignored the theatrics and turned the helt in his hands.
Slowly, he walked towards Laohu, who had been trying, and failing, to free him from the bindings.
"It’s useless," Tag told him, in Mandarin, "I made sure you were tightly bound, so there’s no way to escape."
Irina’s training had involved speaking in multiple languages and this just happened to be one of the few.
If knowing ten languages could be called, ’few’.
"So," Laohu said, "am I right to assu your group was the one that rescued one of yours a night ago?"
"..." Tag said nothing in response, he just continued walking forward with the helt in hand.
"Can I be the one to put it on him," Zero,who sohow had moved from the front to back of the van requested.
"No." Tag held the helt out of reach.
Zero froze, his hand still extended. "...no?"
"No."
That elicited another look of disappointnt on his face as he went back to the front, sohow fitting through the partition window.... though, it was big enough to allow him passage.
"What’s that?" Laohu asked, looking at the helt in Tag’s hand, "looks like so kind of toy."
Tag just smiled at his words, "a toy?" He repeated with an almost amused expression, "if only."
With that, he approached the man bound to the chair and placed it on his head, tapping a couple of tis on the screen that had been added to the top of it, the helt imdiately activated.
"You might not rember anything after this, but I just wanted to say," Tag leaned forward before smiling, "did you really think we’d fall for such obvious plan?"
Before Laohu could say anything else, a wave of pain hit him. It felt as if his brain was being unraveled one strand at a ti.
It hurts so much, a whole lot than any kind of torture he had experienced before. He let out a scream only to be gagged by Tag who said, "now now, we wouldn’t want people getting suspicious of what’s happening here do we."
***
While Laohu was having his mories wiped and replaced with a new set of mories, Qian finally caught up to the two n.
"Sir," the first man said in a fluent, respectful Mandarin, "there must be a misunderstanding. We didn’t take anything from your friends pocket."
Qian didn’t care as he tackled the man and asked, "who sent you?"
"No one, I swear," the man pleaded, "we were just walking and saw the way you guys were dressed, so we thought it’d be funny if we pretended to be in a spy movie and drop the info in your pocket without anyone noticing."
The second man that was being restrained by Madam Xu’s other n added, "it’s true, we ant no harm."
Qian frowned before turning, about to ask their boss what to do with the two, only to realize that he wasn’t there.
"Bring them back with us," he ordered, "we’ll find out who sent them when we get back to the safe house, for now, let’s make sure Boss Laohu is safe."
With that, two n who just wanted to pull off a prank were hauled off by a couple of dangerous n.
How they had gotten that stupid idea? They had no idea.
***
[Present]
"And after that," the avatar continued, "all they had to do was cause enough distraction to switch the real Laohu again with the one in the car."
The man was frozen as he listened to the explanation.
Suddenly he started chuckling, it started out low before becoming a full blown laughter. Whether it was due to amusent or anger was unknown but he didn’t stop for a while.
When he finally did, he wiped a tear that had ford at the side of his eye.
"I apologize OmniTech," the man finally said, "it seems I really did underestimate you, I never expected you to be so thorough but I guess that was to be expected."
"But I still have a question," the man added, "how did you get Laohu to truly believe he was Zero?"
"That," the avatar started, a smile was on his face, "is a trade secret...but for now, you can just call it hypnosis."
"I see," the man slightly leaned forward but not enough to cause the light to reveal his identity, "but I still got the biggest advantage in this ga, OmniTech.."
"I know that the Vigilants are still alive," he said, "and I know they work for you, while you have Zero information on ."
"Well, that’s true," the avatar said, "but not for long."
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