chapter 6... underground

"Pasereez hospitals overwhelmed- unhappy but laughing"... Headlines similar to these are driving me nuts... I contemplated setting a bomb off at X.H.'s secret hideout where i was almost taken out... J.R. had however warned me of how the explosion might spread the gas all over Pasereez... Hence the only way was to find out where Xtacy Humsuplou's exact location and kill him... killing the mayor would be by no means an easy task... but i was glad my cause was aided by a betrayed ex-government employed assasin... extremely skilled in ninjutsu and his silver blade, there was another ability that he possessed that will prove to be the key to saving this city...

J.R. had found out via satellite detection that there was a large volume of activity between X.H.'s hideout and some underground facility... even J.R.'s satellites could not pick out the exact location... Me and Liat had tailed a truck which left from X.H. ... Liat and I were now trudging through the sewers with the directions the truck driver had given us, compliments to liat's hypnotising abilities... then again, i was confident my knuckles would have beaten those answers out of the driver too...

Loud clubbing music... strong smell of alcohol... a purplish smog flooding the place... people dancing with severely eratic laughing... taking a closer look, there were many unconscious on the floor, with the easily distinguishable grin spread across their faces, similar to the pictures that were hogging the headlines... J.R. had found me on the road and had given me a strong dosage of tranquilisers before i regained consciousness... He told me if i had sniffed in a larger amount he would not have been able to help... J.R. had extracted my blood sample and was still working on an antidote.. but we had no time to lose...

We hurried though the crowd and found what looked like an entrance... it was guarded by two tall and muscular men who had on them oxygen masks, purplish tanks and rifles... the loud music meant Liat could not provide the esy way out... so i dashed at them and threw two accurate uppercuts that drove them unconscious... the mob was oblivious to wad had happened and simply continued to dance... we needed to find the control room... hopefully then i will be able to download the data that will ultimately provide J.R. with what he needed to expose Xtacy Humsuplou's true colours...

With some luck, a few more punches and slashes... we found a room with a huge computer with many monitors that were fed with images of people dancing... it suddenly occured to me... shldnt Liat and me have been detected by this surveilance when we had knocked out the two guards at the entrance? the door burst open... A man with a tall and huge physique... he had a square jaw and dark, brown and greenish skin that resembled that of the shit we had seen floating in the drains not long ago... there were also white spots that grew all over his body, which coupled with his contrasting white teeth that laid in contrast to his dark complexion, formed a gruesome image...

"what brings you back? Whacko?" Liat drew his blade... "Prepare ya bullets hunter... thats mushroomman..."