Burning Mold by Jefferson Nunn

Author:Jefferson Nunn [Nunn, Jefferson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Run My Corp
Published: 2021-09-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The Source of Sorts

It had been a combined arms effort, but Cheryl was true to her word and spoke to the Director of the CDC. Jean, on the other hand, had spoken with Julian and explained the entire situation. At first Julian was in disbelief, but he agreed to help push for her in the upper echelons. This effort had given fruit to a call from Terrance, Jean’s boss, to inform her that a Quick Response Team inside Dallas was already on their way to Cityplace to perform an investigation on the matter.

To add to the intensity of the situation, the local and state police had been informed of the current situation. While their initial reaction was to shut everything down in a considerably large area, the CDC had asked them not to do so. If they did, people would immediately panic and flee further away. They had seen this happen with Covid-19 during the harshest period and they were not willing to repeat the mistake of having rogue hosts running around undetected.

The police would serve as escorts in what they would call a “formal investigation on a disturbance” which they could later change to whatever they wanted. The main objective was to give protection in case people started figuring out what was going on and a riot started.

“Who would have thought that we would get to use these more than once in a single day?” said Chad as he picked up the sensor pad. The sensor pad contained sensors for a variety of atmospheric elements. Chad was glad that he brought it with him today at the event. He could link the pad to his phone to send the data back to the MQC for quick analysis. They could review the live information and results from what they had found.

***

-They are coming.

Those words surprised Steve.

“Who is coming?” Steve asked, as he instinctively grabbed his jacket. “The police?”

-See for yourself.

Steve lost his balance again for a moment and felt as if he had been pushed down a long set of stairs through which he walked, then started to roll down. When he came to his senses, he could see through hallways and floors, apartments, ceilings, floors, everywhere at the same time, but he had a hard time concentrating on what he needed to see.

-Look closer.

As Steve pushed himself to concentrate on what the Mastermind insisted, he saw it clear as day--police officers going through some of the hallways of the building, together with people he did not recognize.

“I need to see who they are. I need to listen,” Steve said, his voice echoing faintly into this world of everything that he was submerged in. Without much effort, sound came to be around him, but at a level that completely disoriented him and made him look all around him. “God damn it,” he realized. “I need to listen to these people.”

-You will listen when you put yourself to it. One does not simply ask the collective but cooperates with it to become part of everything around you.

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