Pissed.
Sean started to be very uncomfortable the entire night with what's suddenly happening to his didi. He simply can't focus so he asked the orphanage for a day off the next day. He kept on flipping on his bed, browsing his phone looking for any possible message hints, rummaging on Bodi's closet and study table.
There is none.
"The heck is happening here Bodi, why won't you tell gege?" in a very worried tone as he take a plunge on the mattress talking to himself. "Are you in trouble? Did you impregnate someone? Did you hit someone and end up in a big trouble? He mutters with his hands on his head.
Bip bip bip bip bip. Still, the other's phone's not ringing.
"Bodi-ahhh! What did you get yourself into?" He shouts as he cover his face with Bodi's pillow. "God, please, please give me a sign, please make sure he's safe." He started to cry.
It's almost twelve midnight now.
Beep beep. A text message.
"Bodi!?" He went up to look on his phone.
None.
"The burner?" He reached for his agent kit.
It was a cyphertext, an encrypted message.
It reads.
EMUFPHZLRFAXYUSDJKZLDKRNSHGNFIVJ
YQTQUXQBQVYUVLLTREVJYQTMKYRDMFD
VFPJUDEEHZWETZYVGWHKKQETGFQJNCE
GGWHKK?DQMCPFQZDQMMIAGPFXHQRLG
TIMVMZJANQLVKQEDAGDVFRPJUNGEUNA
QZGZLECGYUXUEENJTBJLBQCRTBJDFHRR
YIZETKZEMVDUFKSJHKFWHKUWQLSZFTI
HHDDDUVH?DWKBFUFPWNTDFIYCUQZERE
EVLDKFEZMOQQJLTTUGSYQPFEUNLAVIDX
FLGGTEZ?FKZBSFDQVGOGIPUFXHHDRKF
FHQNTGPUAECNUVPDJMQCLQUMUNEDFQ
ELZZVRRGKFFVOEEXBDMVPNFQXEZLGRE
DNQFMPNZGLFLPMRJQYALMGNUVPDXVKP
DQUMEBEDMHDAFMJGZNUPLGEWJLLAETG
Sean rushes to reach for a piece of scratch paper and pen from Bodi's study. He started to hit his head, he's frustrated, messed, and stressed. He knows this kind of codes, he's the best in solving such during training days, whenever the superiors will disseminate a cyphertext, he's always the one who always solved the lion's share of it, but now his mind is a mess.
He started to read the tabula recta message.
His mind can't still decode it after all.
Then, finally after long hours of flipping and flapping.
"Yeah! I got you!" he suddenly exclaims. " Vigenere Method!" he suddenly forgets about Bodi and started solving the encrypted message.
Atlas! After hours of encrypting it, he deciphers the code!
It reads.
"BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF ILLUSION. RM 1805 IN TWENTY-TWO HOURS TWENTY-TWO POINT ONE FOUR SEVEN SIX DEGREES NORTH ONE ONE THREE-POINT FIVE-SEVEN ONE-TWO DEGREES EAST."
It's a place he needs to be at tomorrow night, he looks at the coordinates.
22.1476° N, 113.5712° E
He searched the coordinates on the map in his special kit and it points to a hotel.
"Ah! That's room number 1805 of Wynn Palace hotel, tomorrow at twenty-two o'clock. Someone's hiding in this room and that I need to find out. He happily smiled.
"Sean?" Li Hua knocks on the door and opens it. "Are you talking to Bodi?" she asked.
Sean came back to his senses. He can't be this happy. His brother is still out of reach.
"No maaah, it's nothing," He sighed in despair. "Don't worry, I asked for a day off at the orphanage tomorrow, I'll try to ask some more of his friends and student, don't worry too much mama, go to sleep now, it's already midnight." Sean reminds Li Hua.
"Mn. Thank you, you too, son." She said.
Sean was still uneasy, he turned the lights off and gazes through the window. It's raining suddenly now.
"Even the skies are crying Bodi, where are you? I hope you open your phone so I can detect your last location." He whispered as he closes his eyes and starts to drift away.
It's already past midnight. He still got a very long way to go.
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"Qian Lei." Bodi mutters out of the blue. "Are you asleep yet?"
"What is it young master? Am listening." Answered Lei.
"How's ayi and Sean?" He suddenly misses his family. "Are they looking for me?"
"Mnn. I had someone checked on them earlier, they've been all around Taipa asking for you."
"Do you think everything will be okay? Bodi added.
"You know nothing about your brother, young master. There's more to it than meets the eye." Lei tries to explain.
"You've been telling me that for God knows how many times already, but I'm telling you, my gege is not what you think he is! Bodi said in a mad tone.
"You'll know when the time comes." He added.
"Why not tell it now!" he's pissed.
"Young master, you can only trust yourself... and barely that, not even me, not even any of us, if that will calm you." Lei try to explain. "They're not your real family anyway." He added.
"Qian Lei, the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". The meaning of this saying is actually the opposite of the way we use it. It actually means that bonds that you've made by choice are more important than the people that you are bound to by the water of the womb." Bodi retaliates. "It's like you and my dad, you guys have no other bond than this triad, what difference do we have? He insulted.
"Li Shen is different, Bodi. You'll see what I mean in time." He expresses. "Goodnight young master." Lei end the discussion.
"...." – Bodi
It's already midnight. Bodi tries to capture his sleep, but sleep doesn't want to visit him. He finally opens his phone. He saw countless of missed calls and wechat messages from his ayi and gege. He tried to hold himself back from replying.
"Sean-ge, I miss you and ayi so much, if only I can tell you, I just don't want you getting involved in this mess that my family has created. Not now, I'm sorry." He murmurs with teary eyes while looking on his brother's messages.
It's already one in the morning. Soon, Bodi fell asleep with his phone still open. Forgetting to turn it off.
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