7. TAMPERED

The youthfulness of the night slowly started to fade as dawn crept in. Her apartment was minimal and aloof just as she preferred. The dark shades of black and grey paired with a bit of white gave off a boring and lonely feel. She was used to being lonely and she enjoyed how it left her with space and thoughts.

She took out a paper and pencil and sketched out the route she took this night. She checked the locations to spot for CCTV cameras to see if anyone of them had recorded her. She had gotten her findings about the cameras mixed up last time, almost getting herself into trouble. If not for her to check the map of the location out of instinct, she would have been trapped. She had to get Chyou to look into it to clear the footage.

As her hands flew through the familiar keyboard she found something strange. There was only one CCTV camera that could have captured her. The footage that might have recorded her was missing clips. She headed to the 'Black Room'. The room occupied with the necessary devices that helped and assisted her technologically. She connected her laptop to the main port expanding her screen view. She opened multiple windows to see and track down the missing clips. Her typing speed increased as the code become more complicated. Her brows furrowed as she went in deeper. It took her a while more to attain the video. She send in a virus to destroy everything before retiring without leaving a trace of what she did.

She had already noticed that people were trying to track her. She knew it was time to remain a bit low-profile. She thought about it as she headed washroom to have a hot shower.

The morning was quite plain with her usual morning routine. She paired a simple black loose shirt with black pants. She wore her carmine red pump heels as she headed out grabbing her bag.

The warm rays spreading from the sun was abbreviated by the cool wind that swept by. She headed to her workplace. Her day was packed. The previously interrupted presentation was followed up. A detailed strategy was laid to further improve the sales.

With a pile of decisions and actions to be taken she was deeply involved in her work least aware about the people who were hunting for her.

Hui was quite upset after he heard what had happened. They were close to finding the mysterious figure out there.

"Didn't you see his face?" questioned Hui.

"No." replied Wang Lei with his head down. Wang Lei has been working for him since the creation of the Knight Riders.

The business world was never clean and easy. Knight Riders worked under Hui. When dealings got nasty, dangerous and out of hand they always have a part to settle them.

Hui calmly listened. "Apart from this didn't you find anything else?"

"Sorry Boss, the entire system badly crashed unexpectedly. Leaving nothing."

"And no back-up. We surely underestimated the other party. Did you try looking into who did it?" inquired Hui.

"Everything just came to a dead end." replied Lei. He was disappointed at himself for not being able handle this case. Ever since they have been handed over with this case they couldn't even find clues. They finally had something to start with and their single careless mistake lead them to the very start.

"Lei. One week is all that you have to get a lead with this. This is too long to get started. I hope you won't disappoint me this time. I want a result not an explanation." Hui said as he walked out of the.

Wang Lei stared at his back as he headed out. Their Boss was warm when required to, especially when it is about his family but otherwise, he is simply ruthless.

"Enjoy the loneliness in silence. They help you discover yourself better."