Terrorist

Third semester final exam is approaching in two weeks. The lecturers rushed to cover all the syllabus for the semester before the study week, next week. They dumped several assignments for the students to do, which made the students pulled their hair out, frustratedly.

"Today is only Monday, but we've got two assignments tthat needed to be submit next week," Calvin complained.

They're now outside the cafeteria, eating dinner with the girls.

"I got one," Micheal said while picking a prawn.

"I got one too,"Jason grumbled.

"I got two, by the way," LinLin said.

"Wait..why two? We've the same course," Jason baffled.

"True but we've different elective."

"Oh~ right~"

"Hey, Hua'er..what about you?" Micheal asked.

"She.. -" LinLin points at Wang Hua - "is the champion."

"Champion?" Micheal perplexed.

"Today she got four assignments that needed to be submit this Friday and a group of two coding project, submit during final exam week."

"WHAT?! That's practically hell!" Micheal exclaimed.

The others are not any better. They empathise with her predicament.

"Don't made that face. It's nothing big. Just that I'll be more busy than usual. That's all. It will keep coming for the rest of the week."

They nodded, agreed. They continue to talk and eat but Danial felt gloomy inside. He won't has a chance to meet with her as usual. Before, they only meet few times in a week, that's too with the group. But now, the chance is slim.

Wang Hua and LinLin does not stay for too long after the dinner, as they got assignments to complete. The boys did not lingered either after the girls left.

....

City C. Zhao Investment Corporation.

"You came again."

"Yes. I need more funds."

"Okay. Account one or two?"

"Add half billion more. Make it 4:6."

"Alright. Did you find anything, Lei?"

"Got a misleading clue before, it's a trap. Fortunately, no casualties."

"So what's your plan now?"

"Lay low more for a while until we managed to validate other clues.

"Here."

"What's that?"

"Open up."

Wang Lei took the big brown envelope on the table and hesitated for a while. Seconds later, he poured the content out and scattered on the table are his children latest photos. He looks up at Zhao Sheng.

"I know you missed them a lot but can't do anything in case the enemy tailing on you."

Wang Lei grabs all the photos and flipped them one by one.

"The twin looked a lot like you," Zhao Sheng points at a picture.

"They sure do but more feminine. This one looks a lot like her, very pretty."

"Absolutely. She got many admirers and proposals in the campus."

"That's good for nothing young men. They don't deserve my daughters," Wang Lei grumbled.

"Hahaha..your over protective trait seems increased hundred fold."

Wang Lei grunted in annoyance.

"Whose these?"

"They're your youngest daughter friends. But from my subordinate observation last week, this young man seems to develop a feeling for her, but never confess," Zhao Sheng taps on the photo.

"He better not."

"He's a very handsome young man."

"I'm much more handsome."

"Narcissistic man."

"It's a fact."

"He's the heir of Li Corporation."

"Who?"

"That young man."

Wang Lei picked the photo again and scrutinise the boy's face. He nodded.

"Here," Zhao Sheng took out another envelope.

Wang Lei grabs it and pulled out the content. It is his son's pictures.

"He's a handsome boy with feminine features."

"Yes..he looks like your wife, so it's inevitable."

Wang Lei flips through all the pictures several more times before he puts them inside the envelope again and pass it to Zhao Sheng.

"You don't want to keep them?"

"I'm better not. It's risky."

Zhao Sheng nodded, understood and placed them inside his hidden lock drawer. Wang Lei sat in daze, trying to imprint his children's image inside his mind.

Suddenly he remembered something.

"What's the old men busy with right now?"

"My father revised some confidential documents, sometimes supervise the trainings in the naval base. Umm..your father in law, that's I'm not too sure. But I heard from Jingren, they pursue a group of terrorist. He just came back from Germany months ago, managed to capture two men. Apparently they were planning to kidnap a university student for a personal reason. He said they got a crucial information but never revealed to me."

"Terrorist? Which one?"

"Don't know," he paused. "Did you think they're the same group?"

"Perhaps, perhaps not."

"I got an info, this group leader is a woman."

"Woman?"

Wang Lei frowned. He thought deeper and contemplating about the information.

"I'll let my subordinates discreetly investigate the group. Just ask your boy and the two old men to be more cautious and careful. As I got an intel that the group had slowly infiltrate the naval base the past few years. Maybe they'll target the army base too," he said and rose up from the chair.

Zhao Sheng nodded. Wang Lei strode to the hidden elevator. He paused in his steps.

"Try to discreetly gather more informations and if there's any suspicious activity in both base, you know how to reach me. Be careful and take care of them for me."

"You can count on me, Lei."

"I know, and I'm grateful for everything."

Wang Lei waved and disappeared into the elevator.