The Destroyer - 34 - The Destroyer 034 - Chained Reaction by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir

Author:Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir [Murphy, Warren & Sapir, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pulp Action
Publisher: PINNACLE BOOKS
Published: 2010-03-19T14:53:27+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

There were po­lice re­ports, news­pa­per re­ports, and in-​depth anal­yses of the strange dis­ap­pear­ance of the more than a dozen ur­ban poor. News­pa­pers were still un­sure of how many had re­al­ly dis­ap­peared at the time of the in­va­sion in­ci­dent in Nor­folk, be­cause some might just have moved on to an­oth­er town.

Chi­un heard Ru­by ex­plain ev­ery­thing. She said her sources were bet­ter than news­pa­pers or po­lice.

“And what are you telling us all about it for?” asked Re­mo.

“Be­cause I checked and the CIA don’t know any­thing and I fig­ured that or­ga­ni­za­tion of yours prob­ably knows and you and the old gen­tle­man can help me get Lu­cius back.”

“First of all,” Re­mo said, “I’m not work­ing for that or­ga­ni­za­tion any­more. I quit. Sec­ond, why should I help you get Lu­cius back?”

“Be­cause I saved your life and you owe me.”

“And I got you out of jail,” Re­mo said, “back on Baqia. So we’re even.”

“Not even,” said Ru­by. “Not even. I was gonna be get­ting out of that jail any­way and you just messed it up.”

“Well, I won’t mess this up. Find Lu­cius your­self,” Re­mo said.

“I saved your life,” Ru­by said. “I saved your life.”

Chi­un, see­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of Ru­by and Re­mo pre­sent­ing him with a male off­spring slow­ly van­ish­ing, nod­ded his head. “Re­mo, this is a debt un­paid. She gave us our lives, we must give her the life of this Lu­cius, who­ev­er he is.”

“My broth­er,” said Ru­by.

“See, Re­mo?” said Chi­un. “Such de­vo­tion to fam­ily. Such a wom­an is a fine wom­an. She would make a won­der­ful moth­er for a male child.”

“Knock it off, Chi­un,” said Re­mo. “I’m not go­ing in­to stud ser­vice for Sinan­ju. All right, Ru­by, we’ll help you get your broth­er back. But we’re not go­ing to do it with the or­ga­ni­za­tion. I’ve quit and that’s that.”

“All right,” said Ru­by.

They went back to Nor­folk, Vir­ginia, and Chi­un in­sist­ed that he and Re­mo stay with Ru­by in the apart­ment over her fac­to­ry. Per­haps prox­im­ity could pro­duce the kind of re­sults per­sua­sion could not. His four­teen steam­er trunks were moved in­to a back room of the small apart­ment and when Re­mo wasn’t lis­ten­ing, Chi­un told Ru­by that he would get any male child from the re­la­tion­ship, pro­vid­ing it was healthy. The Gon­za­lezes could keep the fe­males.

Ru­by an­swered that wom­en were re­al­ly smarter than men and that what Chi­un said was a sex­ist com­ment. Chi­un want­ed to know what “sex­ist” meant be­cause he had heard it of­ten on Amer­ican tele­vi­sion.

“Sex­ist is think­ing wom­en can’t do things that men can do,” said Ru­by.

“I al­so think wa­ter is wet,” said Chi­un, who won­dered if there was a ti­tle for that, too. Maybe he was a “wet­tist.”

It took Chi­un thir­ty-​two sec­onds to fig­ure out what had hap­pened that mys­te­ri­ous day when the men dis­ap­peared. He ex­plained it to Re­mo in Ko­re­an.

“What he say?” Ru­by asked.

“He said it was a slave raid,” Re­mo said.

“Lu­cius a slave? Lu­cius nev­er do a lick of work in his life. Nei­ther did any­body else who’s gone.”

Chi­un nod­ded. He spoke again in Ko­re­an.

“Tell him to stop talk­ing fun­ny,” said Ru­by.

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