Chapter 35: Vladimir the escaper.
A few months ago
Aron could be seen laying on his bed shaking a little as his body was literally forming new blood vessel like pathways in the body, he was sweating a little as his heart was getting upgraded to be able to do the same job but twice the amount.
When the formation of golden vessels finished the runes in his heart started attracting something from the atmosphere, when the minimum amount of it was collected the heart started condensing it to liquid and deposited it to the new golden vessels.
While the heart was doing its job, Aron wasn't the only one in the room, there was his younger brother playing on his playstation, nothing of notice was happening to him but since the room he was in was currently acting like like a magnet of something in the atmosphere, something was changing in him albeit small.
The changes continued due to it reaching a very high concentration in the room, causing Henry's eye to turn golden and see everything around him turn to gold, as he could see something he couldn't see before, but this happened in a fraction of a second then his eyes returned to normal.
He was startled but since it happened for a short period of time he returned to play his game and forget about it.
This was why when Aron was shot it allowed him to see the golden liquid within the sea of blood, the golden vessels started to be repaired immediately causing only a small amount of golden liquid to leak before healing fully.
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ROB(random omnipotent being) POV.
Looks like your younger brother is in the same trench as you HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Not looking into your future and just watching how it unfolds for you is really entertaining.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The laughter continued, as it started getting further and further returning the place into dead deep silence.
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Sarah was having a very bad week, she couldn't sleep since yesterday after receiving the news of what happened to Aron.
She visited him yesterday with Felix but she couldn't see him as he was in ICU, so she had to return.
Her worries were lessened after she learned that he survived the operation and nothing bad has happened.
She was now having a meeting with department heads for how to proceed.
"Are we continuing with the planned marketing of the product?" Asked the marketing department head.
"Yes, we will continue as planned. Is everything ready?" Answered Sarah.
Since Aron has already finished the product and it is already approved by Google while being in the last steps of verification in Apple, They had to see it through, so that when he wakes up she will have good news to provide him.
"Yes, when we contacted the influencer they were surprised but agreed immediately since the compensation is very good, we have already agreed on the day they will start with the marketing." Answered marketing head.
"Okay so ....."
They continued the meeting talking about other topics not knowing that a crisis was coming their way.
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Somewhere in international waters near USA.
Vladimir was currently in a smuggling boat that was heading out of America, this was so that he could be extracted through Cuba and avoid the chase of FBI in America.
Although he could have been extracted using diplomats or other means inside of America.
They didn't do that as his extraction was neither urgent nor important enough to warrant their use of them. Since he had already sent the code through a secure connection to mother Russia. So, they don't care that much if he dies but they still tried to make him return.
"Looks like you're going to be promoted, Congrats" Said Pavel, the smuggler as he was also a member of Russian intelligence agent too.
"Yeah, Thanks" he gave a short answer as he didn't want to continue the conversation anymore.
"So are you going to continue with your field job or what?" Asked the man, showing that he wanted to continue the conversation. it had been a longtime since he spoke with someone from the agency due to not wanting to attract foreign intelligence's attention.
"That will depend on my supervisor," Vladimir replied in short answer.
"Yeah, pray that yours is not as heartless as mine" The man said, implying that something was done to him by his supervisor.
This show of emotion made Vladimir curious of what happened to the man, because it might happen to him too. So, he asked "What happened?"
"Well my supervisor sent me here to become a smuggler as a promotion." He said while smiling with pain on his face.
"Promotion? If this was a promotion, what were you doing before?" Vladimir was surprised because no one was promoted to become a smuggler. It was the opposite of it, you need to be demoted or in the second stage of training to become a smuggler as a form of training.
"I participated in the operation of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev" answered Pavel
When Vladimir heard the name he immediately remembered the name because it caused quite a stir internationally in 2010, as Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, a former president of the breakaway republic of Ichkeria (which sought independence from Russia) was assassinated in Qatar.
The Qatari authorities accused the FSB of involvement in the assassination, and two Russian intelligence officers were subsequently convicted in absentia.
"Then who were the ones who were arrested if you are here?" Vladimir asked as he only heard about the operation and wasn't authorized to read the operation report in detail.
"The operation was huge, so there were more men than what we normally have in abroad assassination. Among the two who were arrested, one of them was Anatoly Yablochkov. He was in the same team with me. The problem is that he was the only one arrested from our team which led our supervisor to think that we abandoned his relative as a diversion tactic for us to escape" Explained Pavel, giving an answer without revealing too much information about the operation.
"Are you the only one who was reprimanded?" Vladimir wanted more details about the operation to soothe his curiosity so he continued asking, which was quite opposite when this conversation started.
"Everyone in that team is somewhere they don't want to be. I'm in a better place than most of them" He answered the same as before, long sentences but with as little details as possible, which was frustrating to Vladimir but he could do nothing about it.
Although the man was angry at his supervisor, he was still loyal to mother Russia so he still kept his operation secret even though he was mistreated.
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