Previously in Code: Fearless...
I try to reach the last floor as fast as I can where I find a group of people clustered in the teacher's hall, so I make my way through the crowd until I reached the room when a microwave exploded when a teacher was taking out his food, taking his life instantly.
-Guty: What is the meaning of this?
I immediately call the forensic team who are still nearby, so they can handle of another body… and clear the area where he died… so once more we engage in cleaning activities that this time take one hour…
-Guty: It's almost time for lunch… he said he had something in mind for that time…
I get away from the zone heading towards the second floor when I suddenly hear the screams of some terrified students in a classroom close by, so I go there as quickly as possible finding that a student was killed when the fan on the roof of the classroom fell and cut deeply into his jugular…
-Guty: What the hell is happening?!
I can't help but to get upset a bit at these strange situations when all students in the room turn and look at me with all their stress and frustration directed towards me…
-Student: That's the new guy, he started all this!
-Female student: Everyone is dead because of him! The curse is now all over the school!
The students start to fall into panic and direct their fears and frustration onto me, so I quickly get out of there.
-Student: He is running away!
-Female student: Let's finish him! If he dies the curse dies with him!
The students start chasing me across the second flood when suddenly the bell rings signaling the start of lunch break, so all the students come out of the classrooms finding a complete chaos when they come out, while the other group of students chase me, they try to hit me with everything that they can reach…
-Guty: Gck!
I dodge everything that they throw at me, but it seems that all the students that are now outside in the hallways have been tainted with the anger of my prosecutors, which give way to a bloodthirsty crowd heading towards me…
-Guty: Shit…
Like a pack of wild dogs after their prey they come at me from all directions trying to hit me with whatever they can grab, however I manage to dodge their attacks.
-Student: Kill him!
-Female Student: If we kill him the curse dies with him!
Even though I had foreseen a situation like this it is not easy at all to remain calm while dozens of people try to kill you…; while I stall this attack as long as I can I glance at one of the security cameras, the monitoring team should be seeing all these so reinforcements should be here any minute now…
-Guty: I just need to hold on a bit more until the reinforcements arrive …
The time passes and backup is still nowhere to be seen, I am starting to grow tired so I hope that they come as soon as possible o this will turn into a bloodbath…, I take out my phone to call the specialists, this is taking longer than expected…
-Guty: Reinforcements, now! Hurry, I can't keep this up for much longer!
- The specialists are dead, and the reinforcements are not coming…
An unknown voice answers the phone and then hangs up the call…
-Guty: What?!
A strong chill crawl through my body while I still fight to avoid this lynching…
-Guty: This cannot be…
Surprisingly things had an unexpected turn, for a moment I thought I had everything under control, however, I don't know when I lost my way, with no backup this will not end well, and the school will be destroyed… everyone will die…
-Guty: Damnit…
I find myself completely uncommunicated and the specialists where my only way out and now they have been killed, the murderer analyzed everything this time…, damn it I was too naïve to think that just one group of reinforcements would be enough to close the case, if he is capable of turning an entire school into his own weapon, in the end the only back up that arrived was his…
-Guty: I have failed…
When I felt that my strength fading my cellphone suddenly rang… maybe it's the killer trying to mock me before I succumb to the tiredness of my body… I answer the call.
-Chess: The reinforcements will arrive in 5 minutes; hold on captain I got you!
-Guty: You?!
-Chess: It took me a while to link the cameras of the school to my computers but in the end I did it, it seems that they blew up your monitoring room to eliminate any evidence…
Guty: Where you able to see who did it?
-Chess: I am sorry, when I got into action it was too late, I'll use the cameras surrounding the building later to find the one responsible…
A strong sense of hope comes to me, I feel that it is worth holding on a bit longer and I continue to evade the aggression from the enraged crowd…
-Guty: Yesterday in the reports you sent I found a name that seemed strange, I want you to investigate these two names and find a correlation… I will send them over to you in a text message.
-Chess: Roger that.
In that moment the reinforcements start to come into the school submitting the bloodthirsty crowd, nevertheless there are way too many students to be controlled so fast, so I have to hold on a bit more…
-Guty: ah…ah… Any progress…?
-Chess: I'm on it… but it seems that the information is encrypted, I think we are onto something… they are trying to hide this.
The tiredness starts to take over my body, I feel how my strength is running out, but I do not plan on giving up, not having reached this far…
-Guty: Can you break the code?
-Chess: Please… Who do you think you are talking to?
I tell her about all the events that happened on the school before the lynching started…
-Guty: It is too strange…
-Chess: hmm despite that they want to make this look like a paranormal thing, I highly doubt is that.
-Guty: Yesterday we checked the registry of the school, we thought that they were trying to smuggle explosives inside, so I asked the specialists to thoroughly check all the recordings… sadly we did not find anything that proved something had been installed.
-Chess: Maybe… they didn't install anything…
-Guty: You mean… it was always there?
-Chess: It makes sense if you think about it… the killer had 5 years or so to prepare for anything, why not prepare a self-defense system within the school.
-Guty: You are saying that all these events <
-Chess: Exactly…
Once I analyze Night Bird's theory, it all makes sense, if all the traps always where there he just had to wait for the right time to use them… so that means even the bomb inside the school could've been installed years ago…
-Guty: Damn it…
-Chess: It is the perfect plan…, the killer truly made a stronghold out of this school…
-Guty: Now I understand why the previous agents died under "strange" circumstances, he would just activate one of his traps and eliminate them…
-Chess: You are up against someone who had years of preparation for this fight Guty…, you've been here for only two weeks…
At that moment, the reinforcements finally manage to reach the floor where I am, in a few minutes, I'll be able to free myself from this mob...
-Chess: Do you have records of the previous agents?
-Guty: Yes, they're on my computer.
-Chess: I'll take a look...
-Guty: What happened with the names I asked for?
-Chess: The bread is almost out of the oven, babe. I'll finish the relationship in 10 seconds...
-Guty: Gck!
In a small oversight, one of the students grabs me from behind while another in front of me delivers a strong punch to my face...
-Guty: Ah!
Fatigue is numbing my body, but I manage to free myself and move away from the students once more...
Guty: Ah... Ah... the longest ten seconds of my life.
-Chess: Bingo! You were right... they're directly related. You're a genius.
-Guty: Ah... Ah... I'll finish this!
The students on the floor are finally subdued, so I take a moment to catch my breath and check my backpack for something that might help me with what's coming next...
-Guty: The knife and the gun should be enough...
Once I'm ready, I run through the school corridors toward my destination. If I'm correct, everything will end soon... it almost ruined my plans... if it weren't for Night Bird, who knows what would have happened to this school...
Guty: Ah... Ah...
Upon reaching the infirmary, I find the door open and see Akasha sitting at the edge of the bed...
-Akasha: Guty! Are you okay?
Her eyes fill with tears upon seeing me... she seems quite frightened...
-Akasha: I was so afraid something had happened to you...
-Guty: I'm fine, don't worry...
As I approach her, she hugs me tightly...
-Guty: It's alright, nothing's wrong...
-Akasha: I'm so glad you're okay...
Once she let's go, I take her hand and help her to her feet...
-Guty: Akasha... Where's the nurse?
-Akasha: She left a while ago and hasn't returned...
-Guty: Come with me...
We run out of the infirmary through the school hallways, reaching one of the rooms on the second floor. I kick the door forcefully, breaking it, and it allows me to quickly enter the room. At that moment, I find the old James sitting in his chair in front of the desk, so I use my gun to shoot him repeatedly, knocking him out of the chair...
-Akasha: Guty, what have you done?!
To be Continued...