Hello Ansem!

Back at the village, Ian had questioned the villagers with whom he had stayed before going to bed.

"There has been no activity here..no not at all"

"Not much people come here"

"Even if they do come here..they take some grains, fruits and go away but they come rarely."

"They came from the village entrance, of course"

"Yes, there has been some unusual activities from the north eastern side of the village."

"But due to the thickness of the forest, no one has ever ventured in there."

"We never found the cause"

Those were their statements implying that they never knew about the poisonous Kraits!

As for the three that had went out earlier, they informed Ian and now were ready for any call....

Back in HQ---

"Don't panic, we would have met the person sooner or later. Move ahead with precaution..!", Roger called out.

Everybody went slowly ahead...it was all quiet. This was expected but this quiet seemed unusual just like back at that previous research centre. Thinking about it, the soldiers were more alert than ever.

As they continued moving forward, they came to a fork passageway ....three passage. But the two on the side closed tightly with metal doors when they had just arrived.

"Shit! They want to trap us."

"We're meeting them soon.....hehe"

"Move forward"

Some time passed as they moved ahead in dimly lit dark passage, they now reached a door.

Two of the men moved forward and yanked it open and rushed inside checking the surroundings. As they were doing so, they were shot. The people outside could not act impulsively and so after checking around, they went in. Before that, a guy called out,"They triggered something when they went in, look..there it is". Lan nodded too.

One of the guy shot down all the guns inside.

Then went in and as always some were left outside, wait more like shut outside. They were blocked off by another thick door in place of that previous door. The people outside were told not to do anything recklessly for the time being and search for some things outside through communication.

I think luck was with them since just after they sent it, the communication inside were gone at an instant. Lan could not access anything.....

The two injured men were groaning in pain but they were alive since the bullets had missed the critical parts of their body. As they were tended to, the others looked around the place they were trapped in.

It was a large dome-shaped hall with thick black metal walls. There were machineries of various sorts lined up at the sides.

Just as they were looking around, a door from the other end of the hall opened and a striking figure stepped out.

"Hello guys..", an expectant voice called out to them. Everyone turned and aimed their guns at the slender, smiling guy standing there looking at them with interest. Only Ansem stood at the corner not lifting his gun with a cold, indifferent attitude as if expecting something like that would happen.

"I have been expecting you. But i never knew you guys would come so early just as i was about to ship a batch of virus to someone tomorrow!", he said excitedly. The others looked at him with utter confusion with one thought in their mind

'Bisexual? Damn...suits him'

He continued,"Know why i am telling you this little secret of mine? You won't be alive and so its no use telling you either..you won't be able to tell anyone. As for your friends outside, they are engaging in a serious gun battle with my men. You should start praying for them. Hehe"

His voice was eerie with a tint of carelessness very much suited for a Young Master.

"You wanted to capture me alive but you yourself are trapped here...tsk tsk so sad. You just delivered yourself to my door!", Lucas said amusingly ..his expressions very scary with a big smile and eyes like a devil.

If not for the fact that they were ordered to bring him in alive, they would have rained bullets on him leaving only holes in his body.

But they were trapped!

As Lucas' eyes swept over all of them, he stopped at Ansem, who stood at the corner looking at him with cold eyes. Lucas' eyes lit up,"Hello Ansem!"

The other just continued to satre at him while he blabbered on about how much he wanted to meet him and this and that....Roger looked at him pity. That did not escape Ansem's eyes and he looked at Roger as if he wanted to kill him.

"What do you want?!", Ansem asked.

"Well, i have someone who would like to meet you. He is on his way here now"

At this, Ansem and Roger exchanged glances with their eyes revealing nothing.

Some time passed again with two people on a staredown...Lucas looked at Ansem scrutinizing his every part of the body while the later was shootimg daggers at him through his eyes.

Footsteps sounded from behind the Young Master Lucas...