The Lost Files # 10 by Pittacus Lore

Author:Pittacus Lore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

I SETTLE IN.

Well, as much as I can in a house where I feel completely out of place.

I clean up the gash on my arm using a first aid kit I find in one of the bathrooms. The butterfly bandages don’t seem like they’re doing a great job of keeping the wound closed, so I try to figure out another way of dealing with it. After spending, like, an hour looking up advice on the internet, I dig through a bunch of drawers in the house until I find a tube of superglue, and then put a layer of the stuff over the graze. It feels weird as hell, but it’s the best I can do. As badass as I’ve been recently, I don’t think I have it in me to do my own stitches. Needles were never my thing.

Then, I get straight to work.

Whatever personal business GUARD was dealing with must be taken care of, because he’s almost always online now. I get Purdy’s computer hooked up to the big desktop in the back room, and GUARD uses his hacking skills to try to salvage any files that might be hidden on the hard drive, like the MogPro files that disappeared when the thing first shut down. He uploads basically everything from my computers to some secure cloud server. We start to build up evidence of what’s going on behind the scenes. We read files about the specifications of Mog weaponry that have obviously been written for human users—proof we need to show the Mogs and FBI are working together. I take some screen grabs and upload them to TWAU under the title “Uncovered: FBI Training Manual for Mog Weapons.” There’s also a ton of transcripts that could take months to sort through, many of which have speakers who are noted using initials only.

The scariest thing I find repeated references to are upcoming “peace talks” with leaders from around the world. Could the Mogs be preparing to expose themselves and give Earth an ultimatum? Or have they already gotten to enough world leaders that they’re relying on the humans to do that for them?

While GUARD focuses on recovering files from the hard drive, I go over Purdy’s old emails, update the blog and try to keep up with the insane amount of emails I’m getting on my JOLLYROGER182 account ever since the Chicago story went viral. Most people who write me are assholes who just want to make fun of us and ask if we know where Bigfoot is hiding, but every now and then I get something that’s worth following up on. A tattooed gang settling in the Everglades, weird-looking animals spotted flying overhead in Illinois—those sorts of things. I try to get as much info as I can from the sources, then scour local news stories, call police stations anonymously or anything else I can think of to back up any of the claims.

Our most promising lead is this dude named Grahish Sharma over in India.

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