The Zetta Sonic
Old Enemy

Until that day, Alex knew that the members of the Special Force believed in one thing. Damon's existence there started from a coincidence. Damon looks at the supplier's undercover truck and checks the truth. He found the Dragon Blood experiment and then tried to get it. That's when, it all happened. Alex doubts everything.

“Who sent you to the dam?” Alex immediately changed the question.

“You must be a fool if you think I'll tell.”

“Say the price!”

“Sorry?” Damon frowned, unsure of what he was hearing.

Alex himself was stunned by his words just now. He was well aware that he had a thick pocket. Alex can pay Damon's information with some money. Even great value would not be a problem for him. However, part of his heart felt that something was wrong. He realized that doing it all as Alexander Hill instead of Zetta Sonic. After all, his original goal was to find information about Jayden's kidnappers, not how Damon could find the Special Force headquarters.

Alex repeated his words in a calm tone. “Say price! You will be rewarded for that information.” Such theatrics and lies are common to Alex. Not difficult today either.

Damon laughed again. This time it was harder. “Hei! Not everything can be counted with money. You're even worse than those guys.”

“Who?”

“The villains! Sure was! Who do you think, huh?”

Damon's answer made Alex's cheeks heat up. Fortunately, his face was hidden behind a helmet.

Damon continued. “What happened? You are not here because it was sent by ICPA.”

Hearing Damon's suspicions, Alex could have been lying. Unfortunately, right now he felt that the lie would not take him anywhere. He also said, “There were Special Force members who kidnapped—”

“Jayden! Apparently his head is still precious!”

Alex slipping. Damon's guess was right again. Alex just remembered that Jayden had worked for the man. Alex spoke again, trying to calm down. “If Jayden falls on the wrong person, he will make a big problem for all of us. Maybe, trouble for you.”

There was a slight change in Damon's face. “Why can it be?”

Alex smiled knot. Given his ability to lie, Alex knows how people react when they lie. He knew clearly that his interlocutor was hiding something. Now, he had to rely on luck to make a guess. “Jayden knows clearly how it works including your network. Don't you think you'll get in trouble if this kidnapper gets all the data?”

Damon grunting.

By then, Alex knew he had made a good guess. Nothing is more feared when they lose track and connection to commit a crime. At least, Alex is well aware that sometimes information is far more valuable than money.

“Try thinking this,” Alex said again. “You did this for yourself, not Jayden, not me.”

Damon pulled himself from the glass wall. “Indeed,” Damon said as he rubbed his chin. His eyes rolled across the floor, clearly thinking. Maybe he's thinking how Alex can guess or think what to do.

Alex continued, “Just tell me who kidnapped Jayden.”

Damon took a deep breath, returning to his bed. “You hacked the security system here?”

“Nobody knows I'm talking to you. Probably, except Jayden.”

Damon sighed again then fell silent for a while. “Alright, there should be enough who want to attract Jayden. The criminals want Jayden's head to mess with the ICPA themselves. Some wanted him to hack the bank. Digital robbery, that sort of thing. In fact... In fact, I thought maybe he also wanted to hire her.”

Alex isn't sure who Damon meant, anyone else or his own boss — if he does. “Are there women among those people?”

“Oh yes, the girl is quite troublesome. He can hypnotize people with his voice. Make them like dolls. Tell them to do this it.”

“True.” At that moment, Damon was silent. He seems to have entered Alex's trap. His eyes poked at the black figure. “You've been dealing with him, eh?”

“Ya.” Alex answered briefly, trying to hide his increased heart rate. Since the beginning of the new teacher's arrival, Alex has felt something was wrong. Apparently, his guess is right. The girl was none other than a criminal who might be after her life. “But,” Further Alex, “I think Melodiza doesn't know who I am.”

Damon laughed out loud as he patted his knee.

Alex was silent, not knowing where the funny thing was.

After laughing quite complacently, Damon made a grin. “Of course, boy. Where does it sound like everyone knows your identity? The assassins would not share such information. I want to kill you with my own hands. The girl just guessed. I thought, she could definitely get her own information line with her hypnotic abilities.”

Alex flinching. He's ready to hear that kind of thing from a criminal like Damon. “You're not Melodiza's friend. I don't think he was the one who kidnapped Jayden.” either

“No, no. It makes more sense that he kidnapped her.”

“Dia? Your boss? The one who gave you the information to the dam?”

“Listen, boy! He's not my boss! I just...” Damon cut his own words. “Begini.. If Jayden is really in his hands, it means he can see what is happening here, right now. He can send assassins to finish me off. I can't possibly tell you. Understand?”

“Anyone who wants Jayden wants his abilities not his life. They need complete facilities for it. He's in this city.”

“Can be.” Damon smiled again. “It turns out, you can use your brain too.”

“Where is he?”

Damon shrug. “I think he's close. Much closer than you think.”

Initially Alex nodded. The word ‘near’ can have many meanings. Close to the university where the incident took place, close to the Special Force headquarters, or close to their current position?

“Hey,” Damon called Alex from his daydreams. “Say, boy, was she kidnapped in front of you?”

Refusing to answer, Alex asked. “Why?”

“Ah! I should have known!” Damon giggling. “She vanished in front of you, huh?”

Alex did not respond. However, he forgot that not responding was actually also a response.

Damon, on the contrary, understands that. “Yeah, I shouldn't have to say anything to you. After all, in the end he will die.”

“What? Why?”

“It looks like you don't understand at all. Let me tell you one thing. The main purpose of this action is not Jayden and his head is.” Damon pointed at his own temple. Then, with the same hand, he made a gun gesture and as if shooting himself in the head. “In the end, Jayden will be killed.”

“What do you mean?”

“Still not understood? You are still a boy! Too bad ICPA has to use an agent like you.”

Alex knows Damon won't talk anymore than insult him. Without saying anything, he turned around.

“One more thing!” Damon spoke again, making Alex quickly turn his head. When he thought that Damon would give a clue again, Alex was made more creepy. “If I were you, I would immediately move the people near me to a safe place.”