novelraw Chapter 1326 Pass it on - There were more?
Chapter 1326 Pass it on - There were more?
Hearing JP's thoughts, I couldn't help but agree because yeah, I'm already against this shit in the first place, so, I'm kind of happy we were almost seeing eye to eye even though he still welcomed this mission with open arms.
In addition, giving additional rewards to someone who did something extra—without added benefit to the actual congealing of their group—was creating more of a divide if this was the Mayor's way of putting them through a team-building activity.
While it was true that a little bit of competition wouldn't hurt, as JP mentioned, that sort of thing should be done in a safe space, not outside where actual life could be endangered.
It was just something where the reward wasn't as good for the risk involved, and if the Mayor planned to continue these types of random events, some adjustments should be made.
In any case, it seemed like the words of a much younger kid got through the Mayor because it made him nod and ponder for a bit, before he dismissed everyone to either sleep first or have some well-deserved breakfast.
Obviously, most of the women tried to get out of their sweaty, dirty, and/or bloody clothes first before they came back to get some breakfast while the other majority did the complete opposite. Still, there were a few who chose sleep first—which was a surprise to me because Brownie was one of them—but the look on his face the moment I told him we'd be leaving soon was fucking priceless.
"WHAT?! AFTER BREAKFAST?!"
I scratched the side of my head, "Yep, sorry. Unless you wanna stay here for a while with the Mayor's group?"
"I— Fuck, guess I'll just have some breakfast now and sleep on the way."
Hooper who had been pretty quiet most of the time spoke up, "Or we could have some breakfast now, sleep on the way, and have second breakfast when we arrive... That's the dream—" then he realized I was present and looking at him funny, "Ah— Didn't mean to waste resource but staying up do make me hungry, sir, apologies—"
I waved him off, "Not taken but at this point on, talk to Artem as to who'd take the first week with them on D. Jose Station. I'd love it if you divide yourselves into two but I'd also love it if either JP or Tennyson is present to lead each half, is that clear?"
Joe then cut in, "I'm still going with ya, right?"
"Yup, you'll get your ear checked and if we're lucky, I'll set you up with Royo so you can have your custom shit done."
"Sweet— Can I bring my RV?"
"Why not?"
I was mostly trying to keep everything afloat with the help of everyone, of course, but the problem in my head right now was the thought of something going wrong as our numbers grew larger in size.
It was totally different from handling a bunch of young adults but having people I trust do it for me definitely helps.
In any case, right as I woke up from my afternoon nap, I noticed that Kaley was sitting close to Ilana with their laptops open—and the look Kaley gave me once she discovered that I had just woken up scared the living fuck outta me.
It was only then I discovered that Ilana was also shaking in her boots because yeah, we fucking stooges tried to steal important information from the US fucking Government, and by some stroke of luck, we fucking succeeded. To this moment, I wasn't exactly sure if we were actually baited to steal those files but if that was really an offense, I should've been shot on the spot.
But now, I had to explain to Kaley that this was a spur-of-the-moment thing though I had to agree that I should've been using my good 'ol brain before doing something so fucking dangerous.
"YEAH! Right as I thought that she was just here to have some alone time with you! I thought— UGH! So, so, so unbelievable! You could've been killed—"
And I just had to do it, "Or worse, expelled—"
"NOW'S NOT THE TIME FOR JOKES!"
"I mean, it worked?"
"What if it didn't?! Don't you need to use something better than your phone to hack into their system— and how convenient it was to just have a USB port in that table thingy?! Don't they have IT people as well over there?! They should've known by now! Wouldn't they?!"
Ilana scratched the side of her cheek, "That's the thing, they wouldn't care."
"Wha— How?!"
"I already tried looking for information about Tatiana's unrequited lover and Oscar's daughter— I mean, Jennifer. Those people might be working for the US Government but they know we mean no harm, everyone just wanted information—so they gave us what they could but it was still up to us as to what we can do with it. Fuck it— we could also be their backups, if anything."
"T-Then what did they give us?"
Ilana pointed at some of the folders in her laptop, "These ones are from the files regarding the Senator— I mean, The Admiral's ex-wife or Ella's mom, Jolene. It's pretty much everything they showed him that other time besides the copies of the medical files from her and some of the other patients that had undergone the same trial."
"Wait, there were others?"