There was certainly no alarm in the sitting room where the two girls lay on different couches so there was no hope of waking up punctually.
Hopefully, Hana groaned a while as she slowly opened her eyes and sat up. She looked around, tossing the blanket off herself as she rubbed her eyes. Looking around, she wondered what the time was.
Her phone was on the table beside her so she took it up and checked the time. It was 11:30am. With a yawn she stretched out herself as she looked at Sunni who was still sound asleep. "This pig... doesn't she have a mission today or something?" She said taking up her pillow and throwing to Sunni. who groaned, still asleep. "Hey! wake up, sleepy heads!"
"what?" Sunni groaned."Did I kill the rat...?"
"Idiot.. get up there.... Don't you have a mission today?" Hana asked as Sunni groaned.
"What mission could I possibly have. ...." She suddenly stopped as she flipped open her eyes. In alarm, Sunni quickly sat up looking around. "What's the time??"
"It's Eleven already" Hana informed.
"Eleven????" Sunni repeated quickly tossing off the bad sheet on her as she fell off the couch.
Hana watched her friend fumble on the floor around the bed sheet that had held her down as she finally got out and stood on her feet. "I'm so late! why didn't you wake me up?"
Hana rolled her eyes "I'm waking up just now. Besides, I need my beauty sleep, I'm on off duty today"
"You....gosh...." Sunni panicked as she took off. She Wanted to enter the room but recalled someone was in so she diverted to the another guest bathroom where she was to get ready.
Hana watched her friend In a rush as she smiled, shaking her head "Without getting a job, she'll never learn the importance of waking up early"
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Fully dressed, Sunni rushed out of their room, dashing downstairs in a hurry. She rushed out of the building to catch a taxi immediately from the road when she saw Dave Lin leaning against a black car just outside the building.
She stopped looking around for a while and then at Dave Lin. What was he doing here?
Recalling the fact that she was late, she hoped that she wasn't going to be fired. This wasn't a good first impression on your First mission and she knew it. She just prayed to keep her job, any punishment was bearable.
"Eh....well... Good morning....boss?" She strived for a perfect conversation starting method.
Dave Lin had a cold expression as he stared at her like she was another fool. He looked at his watch and then at her again. "Our Mission was supposed to begin by 9:00am on the dot. But now it's 11: 50am. What do you think this is? A joke? On you official first day of work and your day of your mission, you decide to give off this vibe?"
Sunni felt nervous. He was indeed scary as she strived for a perfect explanation but found nothing. Her Brian had gone dump.
On a normal, Dave would fire such person but thinking of the reason he had hired her in the first place, he had no choice but to let her be even when the fact of being late annoyed him.
"Well.. sorry for that.. I ...I promise I will never be late again, promise" She assured putting on a smile to soothe the mood but Dave Lin's cold expression made her smile fade.
"Get in the car and don't be stupid" He said Sharply getting into the car as Sunni burned up in fury. Commanding her into the car was bearable but did he have to call her stupid??
This guy was really annoying! Sunni knew he was hard to get along with. The type of people she would scold and slander but in such situation she had to keep her cool. He was her boss after all and she wanted this job.
"Are getting in or do you need to go to the metal asylum first?" He asked looking at her from the window.
Again she was provoked! but she had to keep her cool even if it was pretty hard!
She controlled herself and got into the passenger seat. He drove away into a quiet journey.
After a while of silence he spoke up "For this mission. I presume you're ready having read the details from the file I gave you yesterday. By the way I didn't see you come with the file , where's it?"
Sunni broke into pieces. File? read? she did the opposite! She didn't even understand what that silly file was taking about so saying she was ready for this was trash talking and about the file? If she could recall she had left it in the office.
"Well yeah...I'm ready...and the file...I didn't need to bring it. Since I've read everything in it...I don't see the need of bringing it along so I left it ...in the office"
Dave hesitated for a while still driving as he finally said" you didn't read anything right?"
Sunni Froze looking at him. How did he know? Did he really think she was that incompetent. Yeah, she guessed she was but still. she can't be looked down by this mean guy!
"Of course I did! How can't I read it? I did.... yesterday...I did read it well. So don't look down on me....I got this case in the bag" Sunni didn't feel right about this, she was gonna regret this soon!
Dave Lin on the other hand was annoyed the more. He could already tell that she didn't read it and was covering up. Another thing that annoyed him more than an unprofessional and incompetent worker was a lair. But he kept his cool this time. He really wanted to fire this slacker!
They both arrived at a preservation company as Dave Lin pulled over. Sunni on the other hand was a bit confused. But she could at least recall the case had something to do with the preservation company.
She followed behind Dave Lin as he entered the company and made his way into the elevator with people inside. She was with him.
When the elevator had arrived to their destination, they got out as Dave Lin headed to a place which seemed to be receptionist stand.
Sunni was behind him admiring the place..The tools she saw were of quality, she hadn't seen them before and talk more of the equipments.
"We're from the MI agency, in charge of the investigation here" Dave Lin said to the man behind the counter.
"Oh ..well over there" The man pointed at a man at a distance who was busy instructing a worker. "He's in charge and you can meet him to discuss this case"
With a nod, Dave Lin looked back at Sunni" Hey you"
"me?"
"Yeah.Go meet that man over there and discuss the case with him The details is written in that file you read so you should be at home with this " Was this his way of getting her?
Sunni blinked in panic. What was this?! "Oh. yes.... I'll be off" She slowly left to meet the man. In her head ran countless thoughts and worries. What if she got busted??
She met the man when the worker had gone" Eh... well good morning..."
"Eh.. Hello? How can I help you?"
"Well...the thing is ...I'm from the MI agency and I came for the case..." She showed him her ID.
"Oh .. thanks heavens you came. Have you found a way to solve the case we complained about?"
She blinked confused. she didn't read the file so how was she gonna find a solution? "Well ...as professionals... I'd like to hear you explain that case by yourself rather than in written form. This way I can get a better understanding. Okey?"
"Oh ..sure. Well in summary it's just that we've been witnessing oddities in our company and products. Especially In the area of our Freezer preservation. We preserve goods here in our company in the freezer with the right temperature but it ends up melting up or worse spoiling. We've done our best to find out the course but nothing! So we want help to find out what's behind this because we don't think it has anything to do with our machine"
Sunni listened nodding her head and rubbing her jaw. That was quiet understandable, but was this the case that had to fill Like 30 pages??
"Okey then, we'll have to have a look at this freezer" she said.
"Sure" The man agreed.
Happy, Sunni went back to Dave Lin " I've discussed with him. I guess we'll have to look at the freezer. let's go"
Dave Lin was surprised. She actually maneuvered her way free through this case and didn't get caught. But still, she was a slacker!
He followed her along with the man who brought them to their freezing room where they stored goods.
Sunni and Dave Lin looked around for a while.
"Let's go into the room for closer observation" Sunnis suggested as Dave Lin looked at her.
"Is that necessary?" He asked.
"Of course boss. this way we can fan clues easily.
Dave Lin Found her rookie detective skill quiet childish and naive but he had to cooperate. It was her mission after all. "Okey"
The door was opened as both entered. Sunni walked around the chilling room, looking around closely for clues on the floor and on the walls. Dave stood there watching.
And just then, like a power shortage, the light to the whole building flashed abnormally and then the doors to the freezing took automatically closed, locked and was damaged.
Shocked, Sunni looked at Dave Lin who still had that plain expression ok but shock could also be sensed in it.
Sunni rushed to the door slamming on it "Hello! open the door! we're still in here!" She continued it for a while as Dave Said.
"It's useless." He said "Something's wrong with the power"
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It was already night, at 7: 02pm. Hana was still at home waiting for sunni's return. She was bored from being home all day long.
"Once she gets a new job, she abandons her friend. How ungrateful" She said.
Hana decided to go out for some fresh air as she went to the room to check on Lucas. He was still asleep. "what's even wrong with him?"
She said closing the door and leaving to the sitting room.
Immediately, Lucas's eyes flipped open, burning red in color.....