Sempiternal: •D.E.A(live).D• || BOOK 4#

25. Better view

"What's worse than a bloody dog with a suspicious message tied around its neck? Boom, a dog with two cages tied together, running from a horde and clearly used to lead the horde somewhere else How about that?" presents Jungkook, pointing to the dog on the ground, just as they are untying the cages. He's badly injured and they want to avoid hurting him further.

"Let me see if I got this straight," Namjoon says with a heavy, awkward, grumpy laugh. "You found- rather, you came across these animals in this state, running down the street and a giant horde behind."

"If you don't believe me, I have eight other people who can defend the insanity I'm recounting," Jungkook assures me, resting his hands on the desk. "It happened. Somehow it happened and I'm starting to believe that having electricity ruffled my imagination because it didn't seem real."

"It was out of nowhere" supports San who just cut one of the ropes and the dog gives little pitiful whimpers. "We managed to lose the horde after a while and we're almost out of gas in that car because of it."

"What area was it in?" asks Jin, uneasy. Jungkook marks the section where they found him and where they directed the horde. "It's pretty close to here. Even if they lost them, maybe someone's trying to lead hordes this way."

"Why would they want that?" argues Taehyung somewhat confused. "Even if it brings the benefit of them killing us, they would be left without the edification and also without the resources. Infecting us from the inside is a bad idea in every possible point of view..."

"Maybe it's someone who has hatred for us and wants to kill us nothing more." proposes Yoongi who doesn't pay much attention to the topic

"It's never a foreign possibility. There are deranged people out there" comments Namjoon quietly. "Enough to do that to those animals. Which is peculiar enough on its own" he opines watching the dog lay down from San to rest. Exhausted from his injuries and all the running around of the day. "We'll have to try to monitor that aspect. Make search teams...maybe use the bikes for an easier getaway."

Jungkook raises his arms in a triumphant gesture. He has months of insisting to Namjoon that they can use the motorcycles he has brought for spare parts and spares. Some of them still work just fine. Take advantage of them while they're here. Why would it be a crime?

"Anything else to say about your outing today or can we say that the tragedies are over?"

"I brought new hearing aids."

~ * * * ~

"Hello? Heeeeeello. Speaking from Bomkkot hotel in Dongnae-myeon" Yoongi raises his head and Jungkook bites a little harder on the brush in his mouth. "Speaking from Bomkkot hotel of Dongnae-myeon Does anyone hear me?"

"Can you transmit yet?"

"We can try."

Jungkook puts on his headphones and plugs in the microphone equipment he got a while ago.

"Hello, speaking from Hupyeong-dong in Chuncheon? Can you hear me?"

"Yes I hear you, fortunately. Simple question before I continue Are you the group Yeou mentioned? He's a merchant."

"Yes, we are that... uh... Go find Namjoon." he asks with a shy smile and Yoongi gives a snort. He is now a carrier pigeon.

. . .

"Are you guys having a date or what? What's taking so long?" grumbles Jin in a bad mood. Namjoon has been talking on the radio for an hour. They know because he's supposed to tell them what happened when he leaves. Jungkook shrugs.