The Moon Is A Good Place to Die: The Cyberpunk Detective Series (Liquid Cool Book 8) by Austin Dragon

Author:Austin Dragon [Dragon, Austin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cyberpunk mysteries, cyberpunk detective, cyberpunk books, cyber-noir, sci-fi detective private investigator, best science fiction mystery, cyberpunk novels, cyberpunk tales
Publisher: Well-Tailored Books
Published: 2019-07-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

A Bunch of Bio-Matter

TODAY WAS FINE, BUT I was going to make sure Phishy wasn’t anywhere near the “walking concert” tomorrow or for the rest of the week, in case Hip-Hop didn’t settle things with his “collection agency.”

That left me to wrap up another matter the next day and I was parked in the megatower of Bio-Matters—a loading lane between the visitor parking and valet section. Personally, I wouldn’t have named a company Bio-Matters because it sounded too close to bio-matter, which was a word kids liked to use for excrement to make themselves sound sophisticated. But what did I know? Bio-Matters was a multi, multi-billion-dollar high-grade agricultural megacorp serving Earth. Prince (Apollo) probably picked it all those many years ago because they didn’t have any Up-Top interests.

I’d been waiting for a quarter of an hour, just sitting there. A security guard had walked over to me before.

“Do you need us to call anyone, sir?” he asked.

“No,” I said. “They’ll be down.”

Well, Ms. Hertz, Bio-Matters’ acting CFO finally came down, out from the elevators, and nervously walked over to my hovercar rental. I rolled down the window a bit on the driver’s side.

“Why were you following me?” I asked.

“We were not following you.”

“We?”

“We need to see that report.”

“I told you I would.”

“Yes, but the board is aware of it—”

“How would they know? I didn’t tell them. Only the four of you knew.”

“How they found out isn’t important now. They are and we need to review it before you turn it over to the authorities.”

“I planned to just bring it with me at my hearing date. Kill two birds with one stone, as they say.”

“As efficient as that may seem to you, we’d like to see it before then.”

“Why? Do you know something I don’t?”

“I’m sure that I know many things you don’t. Will you give me a copy of that report?”

“Only you?”

“Yes.”

“What about ‘we’?”

“‘We’ will see it after I do. I’m the acting financial officer for the company.”

“Tell me what you know and I’ll have it delivered tomorrow. And how did you find me at the Carnival? Have you bugged my vehicle?”

“No, I happened to be there.”

“My fault. Let’s start again, but backwards. You didn’t bug my hovercar?” I asked again.

“No.”

“You happened to be where I happened to be in Neon Blues?”

“Yes.”

“You don’t look like a party gal, Ms. Hertz. No offense.”

“No offense taken. I can be when the occasion calls for it. It was coincidental. Whether you wish to believe me or not is nothing I have any control over.”

“What are you not telling me? You want the report now, but you know something about my hearing date?”

“No. I explained already. The board knows and I’m answerable to the board. If we need to prepare for the authorities or a scandal, then we wish to do so now, not in two weeks. We’re happy to compensate you, if that’s what this delay is really about.”

“Yes, let’s do that because I can’t say I believe you all that much. Pay me what you feel the report is worth to you.

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