The Demon General's Young Wife

Chapter 83

"General, your identity has been revealed in the national television now! Also, we can expect that the Interpol will come in the country to after you as soon as possible. It could be today. Your wife's hospital room is also heavily guarded since yesterday. Mahirap lumusot sa mga NBI na naroon. Also, police are everywhere in the hospital vicinity. What are you planning to do now?" May pag-aalala sa tinig na saad ni Lt. Carber sa heneral.

Kasalukuyan silang nasa rooftop ng building na ilang milya lamang ang layo sa Garriego Medical Group Foundation building kung saan naka-confine si Shu, Claire, at Khallib.

Nakatitig lamang naman sa hospital building ang heneral at walang naging pagtugon. Nagpakawala lamang ito ng malalim na paghinga bago sumulyap sa relos.

"Sir, what are you thinking?" Kapagkuwa'y mahinang tanong muli ni Lt. Carber.

"Don't worry too much, Carber. Shu is safe, even if I don't see her myself, I know that she's safe now and receiving the right and sufficient treatment from Chairman Garriego."

"Red?"

"Yes, we've spoken yesterday. I asked him to personally attend my wife. He was also the one who operated on her. I asked him for a special and safe room for my wife. Here, look at this." Dugtong pa niya bago iabot ang cellphone kay Carber.

It's a live video recorder installed in Shu's hospital room.

"W-who installed it, Sir?"

"The Chairman. I asked him to do it. I only need to do certain things in return." Paliwanag naman niya kaya napatango-tango ito at medyo nakahinga ng maluwag.

"Not just inside the room, Red gave me an access to the cctv footages of the hallway outside my wife's room. Look at the second monitor." A'niya pa kaya naman kaagad tumalima si Carber at napangiti nang pindutin ang isang monitor sa cellphone.

"So this is how it looks like in ther-- wait, General, look at this." He curiously said when he noticed that two of the NBI agents have visible and similar tattoos on where their pulses are.

Tinignan naman niya iyun kaagad.

"Zoom it in." Utos pa niya na sinunod naman nito agad.

"General, it's strange isn't it? It's my first time seeing those tattoos." Sambit pa nito habang kunot ang noo.

Natigilan naman siya nu'n saglit matapos makilala ang tattoos at naaninag ng bahagya ang mga mukha nung dalawang may tattoo kahit pa may suot na mask ang mga ito. Noon na siya napangisi. "So they're already here, too." Sambit niya pa.

"General, bakit? Do you know them? NBI ba talaga sila? Or... wait, are they perhaps Interpol? Nandito na sila kaagad?" Samo't sari pang pahayag ni Carber ngunit ngumisi at umiling-iling lamang siya.

"They're not Interpol."

"No? T-then, what are they?"

"Nocturnal Bandits."

"Noctur-- huh? Wait, what?! N-Nocturnal Bandits? You mean the other mercenary group?"

"Yes, that's their symbol."

"Huh?"

"Their tattoos. That's their symbol. That where a microchip is hidden. It is used to trace and contact them by the big boss."

"So does that mean, you have a microchip too and a tattoo?"

"What?"

"No, I mean, cause you're in the same field, Sir. Technically, mga kasamahan mo sila, magkaiba nga lang kayo ng grupo." Katwiran nito.