38.

On reaching Amsterdam, they went to a safe house of NIS. Jin called the NIS chief from there in a secured line and briefed him about the mission.
Hearing everything, the chief asked in a serious tone, "do you think you can get the antivirus within the deadline??"

"I'm not giving up yet, sir," Jin said, "If Tina can't make it, I decided to steal it from Dr. Buren."

"That Douglas Bullock will try to stop you. Be careful."

"I will, sir."

"Best of luck," the chief cut the line.

After having a bite to eat, Arya and Tina were sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee, Jin was busy briefing the headquarters.

Looking at the back of the man standing beside the window, Tina commented slightly, "he is an incredible man."

Arya followed her gaze and smiled, "no doubt."

"He is that boy you often used to tell me about, right?"

"Did I?" Arya squinted.

"You don't remember?"

"Bits and pieces, yes." Arya nodded and let out a sigh slowly, "I've got a condition, Tina. I don't remember my past that much. It's getting better, that's why I remembered you and some of our times. But if you ask me precisely, I am not sure."

"You must have gone through hell since I last saw you," Tina tried to smile, "now it makes sense you know? I've always thought you had a fire in you. But I never imagined that you'd be an espionage agent!"

"Funny how our destiny works," Arya smiled and looked at Jin again who was talking on the phone, "I'd never imagined I'd be with the man I never thought I deserve one day!"

"I must say, you two are such a power couple!" Tina whistled a little, "nobody would treat their partner like him, you know?"

"Like?"

"Trusting." Tina nodded, "the way he trusts you is just incredible. He let you fly the plane when we escaped Aalsmeer, he asks you to cover for him, he asks you to kill or do the hard stuff. You know? Man like him tends to protect their loved one. But he? He doesn't hesitate to bring you along with him into the heart of danger. Not because he doesn't want to protect you, but because he trusts your ability and he knows you'll make it through it. Such a great man!"

Arya smiled sheepishly, she didn't think like that before.
But before she can say anything, Tina again said, "I am glad you found someone like him in the end."

"I hope you'll find someone who'll value you too, Tina. I really wish."

"My life isn't that easy, Arya. You know that now. One day, perhaps one day, yeah."

"You must suffered a lot, Tina. All alone." Arya touched Tina's hand, "I promise, when this will be over, everything is going to be easy. You won't have to live in the shadows anymore. I promise you'll again live a life without any fear or paranoia. I promise you that."

Tina just smiled weakly in reply.

Jin again sat in a meeting with his two companions after he came back after finishing his phone calls.
On the way to Amsterdam, nothing special did happen. He and Arya became silent so that Tina can concentrate on her work. After sitting in the meeting, the discussion started again.

Jin asked, "what is the progress, Tina?"

The young Uno shrugged disappointedly. "Not progressing at all. The audio signal is very large, the virus is hidden all over its
different parts. If I make arrangements to stop one part, another part comes and makes a mess."

"Then I can assume that the anti-virus will not be ready within the deadline?"

"Yes. You have to use that alternative plan now. You have to retrieve that  ready-made Anti-virus."

"How?" Arya asked. "Dr. Buren is an Uno, It is not possible to do any kind of hacking on her computer."

"Tina, can you?" asked Jin.

"I can try," said Tina, "at least It will be much easier than worrying about that damn virus!"

"You shouldn't think Elisa so stupid," Arya was serious, "especially after the TGV incident, she must have known that there is indeed one-eleventh Uno out there! You fought her Uno-code with your skill and you defeated her. if I were in her place, I wouldn't want to be a victim of your hacking again. I would just disconnect my computer from all sources of access points so that it would be impossible to break in."

"In that case, we will physically collect the anti-virus," said Jin, "I will go to her house and turn on the computer to find out the anti-virus."

"Do you think that woman or Bulldog won't guess it in advance??"

"There is only one way to know," said Jin taking out his phone.

After reaching the safe house, Jin spoke to the head of the branch.
Agency operator Wonwoo was sent to Aalsmeer to inquire regarding Elisa van Buren; Jin contacted him and talked for a couple of minutes. In the end, he put down the phone and said, "your assumption is right, Arya, The house is guarded like a treasure trove by CIA agents, now it has turned into an inaccessible fort."

Arya shook her head in frustration.

"Still we can try an attack to see..."

"One minute, Mr. Kim," interrupted Tina suddenly remembering something, "that Anti-virus can be found somewhere else too!"

"Where?" Jin asked eagerly.

"At Creal tech's headquarter... Dr. Buren's office! There's another computer, and as far as I know, it got all kinds of files where the witch keeps a backup of the software she works on."

''There will be the anti-virus too?"

"Technically, it should. She does not keep that computer connected to any network for the fear of hacking. No one is allowed to approach it. If she isn't around, no one is allowed to enter the office. There is only one reason for so much security -that computers have all sorts of Uno code-related stuff including both the virus and antivirus."

"In that case, that woman will arrange heavy security there too," Arya said.

"I don't think so," Tina shook her head. "That building is already secured. At least ten guards from the security division stand guard during off-hours. Apart from that, the ultra-high-tech security system is installed throughout the entire building. No one can enter illegally. Let alone the doors or windows, even if a shaft of a ventilation duct is opened out of the schedule, an alarm will go off at the police station. And how would you open anything in the first place? All the openings of the building are electrified. The arrangement
has nothing to do with computers or electronics, so there isn't any option for hacking. It can only be controlled from the headquarter's control center. A perfect security system- that witch often boasted of it."

"Very well then, we will use the opportunity," said Jin,
"but in fact, you have to know first if any additional measures were taken there today."

He called the agency director to send someone to Crealtech headquarters. but the head of the branch said
He has already placed a watcher near the building two days ago to find out the location of Dr. Van Buren. When he asked if there was any unusual activity by the people of the company's security division or the CIA, the director asked him to wait for a few minutes.
The director spoke to the watcher on another phone, then said everything was normal in the building. No unusual activity around.

Regular guards joined the duty at dusk, no other person went there except them.

"Thank you," Jin cut the line. Then he turned towards Arya and Tina, "our luck seems to be favorable this time. An attempt can be made to infiltrate the building, Bulldog didn't send people there. Yet."

"You are saying it as if we will be welcomed there with an open door!"
Tina frowned, "didn't I say no one can enter by breaking the security there?"

"If you can disable the high-tech system, then handling the guards or ten people is not a matter for me or Arya."

"You didn't get my point, Mr. Kim.  That's one State-of-the-art security system. It doesn't just sound an alarm when someone intrudes, If the system goes down for some reason, the police station will be alarmed too."

"What if we cut the signal line?"

"The signal goes wirelessly-no hassle with wires."

Jin's lips perked up a little, "then we will use frequency-jammer. NIS can easily provide us with one of those."

"It will only stop sending signals.
What about the electrified doors? I can't stop those!"

"What if the building's electric supply is turned off?" proposed Arya.

"Sorry," Tina grimaced, "there are backup generators, It turns on within ten seconds."

Jin asked, "If I land on the roof of a helicopter, will it work? Surely security is not so strict on the roof?"

"Stricter," said Tina, "there is a separate security post on the rooftop alone! Apart from that, the stairwell doors and ventilation in the above get the maximum volt of current."

"Shit! Is that an office or a prison?" Arya said in an annoyed voice.

Jin was also worried, "Mnn...then the main problem is that the entrances are electrified, right? Are there no such doors and windows without electricity at all?"

"Why wouldn't be there?" Tina said. "Everything inside is not electrified. But to get there you need to get past the main obstacle, no?"

Jin thought with his head down, thinking of a way to bypass the security system at Creal tech headquarter. But the ray of hope was not visible anywhere, the system was really perfect. Suddenly something clicked in his mind. He raised his head and said, "Tina, can you show me the blueprint of the building?"

"I can," Tina said and pulled her laptop closer. The municipal department's computer has the designs of all the buildings in the capital, she hacked and brought out the blueprint within a few minutes.

A three-dimensional model of Creal tech's ten-story headquarter emerged on the screen.

"Where is Dr. Buren's office?" asked Jin.

Tina put her finger on a part of the tenth floor, "here."

Another big room was seen next to the room. Jin pointed there and said, "what is this?"

"Elisa's apartment. Sometimes she spends the night in the office."

"And this?" A large shaft went down from the wall of the apartment. It went down straight to the ground floor.

"Private elevator. It goes directly from the lobby to the apartment."

Jin bit his lip and thought. Then he said, "show me the plan for the sewage system of Amsterdam."

Shaking her head, she hacked into another part of the municipal database. Now a picture appeared on the screen like a spider's web.

"Zoom to the part where the Crealtech building is," Jin instructed.

"Zuidas District...yes, here it is," Tina pressed a few buttons.

The sewage system of a certain part of Amsterdam was shown as several times bigger on the screen.

"Can you overlap the building blueprint over it?" asked Jin.

"Absolutely."
Tina came up with the top-view outline of the headquarters and placed it on the sewage system design.

Jin's expression changed in milliseconds. Arya also noticed it. She said in an excited voice, "Jin! There is a sewage tunnel right under the elevator shaft!"

Tina also saw it. Surprised, she asked Jin, "you knew, there will be an tunnel under the shaft?"

"I didn't know that," Jin admitted.
"I took a chance and hoped that
It might have happened."

"So, you'll climb up this shaft?"

"If it doesn't have an electrified system inside," smiled Arya.

"No, there isn't," said Tina, "but how would you get into the shaft?" She observed the city plan carefully, "between the bottom of the shaft and the roof of the sewer, there are four feet thick concrete layers. There is no manhole in the place."

"We'll make a hole if necessary," said Jin, then looked at Arya, "contact the branch director. We need a few pounds of C-4. As well as some other tools for infiltration. Tell him to deliver those as soon as possible."

Arya nodded and immediately got busy with the phone.

Seeing Tina looking at them seriously, Jin asked, "what is the matter? Why are you looking at us like that?"

''You guys..." said Tina, "so strange! It seems you are a gentleman at first sight but you fight like trained soldiers, you think like a mastermind criminal. How you just came up with a plan to break into Creal tech, only professional thieves can do that. Meanwhile, you two are working intending to save the world. None of these makes sense altogether. What are you two exactly?

"A mixed breed of everything..." said Arya with a wide, mischievous grin. "We are espionage agents!"






Midnight, Zuidas District, Amsterdam.

The light of the torch was reflecting on the mossy wet walls of the sewage tunnel.
Seeing the light, three people were walking on ankle-length water.
Kim Seokjin in front, Christina Walden behind, and Araya Akaishi at the tail. Over their head, was the busy commercial area of ​​the capital, even in the middle of the night, it
did not become silent. The noise of the vehicles and the conversations of the passerby was sometimes coming out through the cover of the manhole. Three of them were not even talking among themselves, they wanted to reach the destination as fast as possible. They were even ignoring the strong stench of the sewage line.

Jin stopped after twenty minutes of walking through the branches of the tunnel. He entered a narrow section on the right.
He has a portable GPS tracker in his hand, he looked at its readings.

He matched the coordinates taking a notebook out of his pocket, then pointed upwards and said, "this is it! This is supposed to be the floor of the elevator shaft."

Arya quickly took the backpack off her back after hearing that. She brought out four blocks of C-4 explosives. She kept two of them and handed the rest twos to Jin.

She unwrapped and rolled the blocks into four strips 2.5 feet in length.
She then stuck them squarely on the roof of the tunnel.

"Won't the guards be alerted by the sound of the explosion?" Tina asked.

"They won't understand a thing, let alone be alerted," Jin assured her.

His hands were busy taking the detonator from Arya, "the ten stories high of the shaft will spread the soundwave by dividing it equally throughout the entire building.
as a result, the intensity will be greatly reduced. Maybe they will hear a very mild and gentle sound. But no one will feel the vibration. Hence the origin of the sound will not be possible for them to find."

"That's good then I guess!"

Jin picked up the mobile phone and contacted the director of the Amsterdam branch.

The head of the branch was on the roof of another building facing Creal tech.

"Turn on the jammer, We'll go in now."

"Yes, sir!"

Jin connected the timer to the detonator, set it to two minutes countdown. After that he went back through the tunnel with his companions, they reached the junction and took cover.
Exactly two minutes later, 4 strips of C-4 exploded, with a rumbling sound, the whole place was shaking, the floor shook underneath. A block of two-and-a-half square feet collapsed from the roof of the tunnel. They waited for a little for the dust to settle, then proceeded towards the newly formed hole on the roof.

Jin looked at the roof with a torch, the work was excellent - except for the fog made by dust, there was no crack in the surrounding concrete.
Beams of light from the small torch were going through the hole disappearing into the pitch-blackness of the elevator shaft.

No reflection, so the cable car was at the top now. That's good. He thought it would be convenient to open the apartment door from the car.

"Arya you first," ordered Jin.

Arya came forward with a nod. First, she threw the backpack through the hole. Then she stepped onto Jin's hand and went up in a flash. The upper part of the body was inserted into the hole and she grasped the inner edge, then disappeared within the shaft within a few seconds. A little After, she threw a rope.

Looking at Tina, Jin said, "you turn."

Young Uno can climb rope very well, among the three of them, she was the most skinny one. So even if the hole was small, she could quickly go up the hole.
For Jin, however, it was a little inconvenient - his shoulder was quite wide, like a monkey keeping the body at an angle, he came up the elevator shaft at last after struggling for a while.

Tina was sticking her ear at the ground floor's access door.

Jin asked her in a whisper, "can you hear anything?"

The young woman nodded, "I heard the sound of boots a moment ago, on the other side of the door. A guard might have walked past, but now all is quiet."

"Was there any unsteadiness in that boot sound?"

"I don't think so."

"Good. Then let's go up."

"How? Do we have to go through the ropes again??" Tina almost sighed.

Jin turned the torchlight on the walls of the shaft-two rope ladders were seen on each side. They were made for maintenance.

"No, we will use them," he waved the torch in his hand, "come on."

They have to climb about a hundred feet up the wall to reach the ten-story apartment.
For them, the work is like climbing a small hill. So it was decided,
Jin will be in front of everyone.  Physically he was the fittest, he was an experienced climber. He will support Tina and Arya by tying a safety line around his waist.
Behind him will be the pair of the computer experts. Both of them have an open pouch of talcum power in their belt.

"Dip your hands in it after a while," said Jin, "If the palm sweats, you can lose your grip on the ladder."

He gave one or two more words of instruction. Then began to climb
over the wall.

They couldn't even reach the third floor, and even before that, Tina started whining.
The poor girl's muscles were twitching. Arya, however, is a NIS-trained agent. She is very fit for this type of work. But after going past the fifth floor, her condition also worsened.

"Jin, stop a little."

"Mr.Kim, I can't go on anymore!"

Jin did not listen to the request of the two companions, he just kept going up like a merciless man. Pulling the safety line, he was forcing them to move too. They can't stop for a moment even.

Tina and Arya's muscles would rebel if they stopped. They will not be able to continue later.

Jin was sweating profusely, his palms wanted to slip again and again.
Even if the powder was applied, it wasn't lasting for long. A hundred feet of climbing isn't something that big.
But now the situation is different.

While riding a mountain it is possible to occasionally find a crease to rest, even while hanging.
Even if he stops, he does not have any problem at that time.

But now for the sake of keeping the two partners active, he was unable to rest at all. Tina's condition was worst. She was almost unable to climb up and let her entire weight on the safety line. So Jin had to almost pull her up.
In addition to his burden, there was the backpack on his shoulder. He kept it from Arya thinking It would be difficult for her to take additional weight during climbing.

The narrow metal steps of the ladder were almost cutting through the flesh of his palms due to the added burden. Tina was no longer in a state to speak.
Arya was also breathing heavily.

As soon as they reached the eighth floor, Jin felt like seeing the darkness in his eyes.

The cable was dimly visible in the light of the torch attached to the shoulder. The floor of the cable car was still far away. The shoulder and bicep muscles were throbbing in pain.
It seemed like they can't take the pressure anymore.

The hell with this- Let's first stop and rest a little - a thought like this started to form in Jin's mind. But the sense of duty stood in the way. Quickly shaking his head at the thought, Jin still moved grinding his teeth. He continued to pass one step after another, his head was completely blanked out, thinking nothing more, just wanting to reach the top.

As if after an eternity they reached the cable car, they passed the car through the gap next to it and went over its roof.

He pulled up Arya and Tina and they lay down beside them. His whole body was trembling, his chest was heaving like crazy.

"Thank you, Mr. Kim," gasped Tina, "If you weren't here, I wouldn't have to get up anymore, I would have just fallen and broken my bones."

"Stop calling him so formally at first!" Arya smiled, "I know he'd be happy to have a friend like you."

"What should I call then?"

"How about Oppa? It's an expression of closeness," Arya looked at Jin, and seeing no frown coming her way, she nodded, "yeah that's more like it!"

Tina laughed despite her gasps. "Okay, Jin Oppa, thank you."

"Not Jin, Seokjin." Arya laughed, "he doesn't like it if someone calls him Jin."

"But you call him Jin." Tina pointed out.

"Exactly!" Arya smiled and looked back at Jin and suddenly giggled a little and crawled her upper body on top of him and smiled.

Jin's tired and trembling hands came up and wiped the sweat formed on Arya's forehead.

Arya pecked him and smiled.

Their forehead touched and stayed there still until they gained a little time to breathe properly. Jin's fingers affectionately caressed Arya's nape the whole time and kissed Arya before getting up.

He looked at the clock and saw that half an hour had passed after entering the shaft.

"Get up," he said to his companions. "Breaktime is over."

Arya and Tina quickly stood up.
Three people came down inside the cable car through the access panel of the roof. Jin and Arya brought out two iron sheets from the backpack and inserted those into the slit of the door. The elevator door opened with the combined force given to the opposite side of the door.

The other side of the apartment was dark, there was no light. Jin gave the torch to Tina and said, "show me the way."

Shaking her head, the young Uno began to walk into the apartment's sitting room.
Passing the sitting room, she led her two companions in front of a closed door. The door was locked.

"Elisa's office is over there," Tina whispered, "but the door is locked."

"Electronic lock?"

"No. It has to be opened with a key."

"Move," said Jin, "that's my department."

He took out a kit from his backpack and got busy with the keyhole sitting on his knees.

He told Tina to hold the light.

After a minute, a sound clicked inside. The lock was opened. By twisting the knob Jin opened the gate, he sent Tina in front, and came inside with Arya.

The light of the torch was not very strong, but still, it could make out the shape of the room. It was huge, at least forty feet by thirty feet. At first appearance, it suddenly looks like a hallroom. The design was old-fashioned- like the court of kings.

After entering, you have to walk a long way to the other side of the room where Elisa's huge desk was placed on a platform one and a half feet high from the floor.

The sly Uno perhaps thinks of herself as the empress. People have to stand below her and have to stand there until she asks them to sit.

The computer and the CPU can be seen in a corner above the desk.
The three intruders turned and walked in front of it, Jin stood in front of it for a few seconds. Arya Still couldn't quite believe that the destination has been reached...
The responsibility for which they have been running like crazy for the last few days, They were on the verge of completing that task.

Arya said in a choked breath, "Is the anti-virus here??"

"Pray so that it will," said Jin.
"This is our last hope."

"You'll find out soon," said Tina, turning on the power switch. Slowly the monitor lit up, booted to a screen and froze-It was asking for a password.

The young Uno sat down in front of the computer by pulling up the chair,
Put her hands on the keyboard. Even though the security system was built on Uno code, it was no problem for her to crack the encryption within minutes.

She removed the password and entered the hard disk. She started a search for an anti-virus program.

The search went on for a minute, then a file appeared in the search window on the screen.

Tina opened it and watched for a few moments and then closed the window and turned to Arya. She said, "give me the CD."

Jin and Arya were watching her work enchanted, even though they heard the word, they could not understand the meaning.

Arya just muttered, "Eh?"

"Give me the CD, the program should be picked up on it."

"Can't it be distributed from here??"

"No. I saw a problem with that program. I have to fix it first. Don't talk, give me the CD."

Arya took the backpack from Jin's hand and took out a blank CD. She handed it over to her friend. Tina inserted it into the CD drive of the CPU.

Pressing the keyboard button and giving the command to copy the anti-virus to disk, Tina waited.
It took only two minutes to get the thing onto the CD, then she ejected it from the drive.

Tina filled the box, stood up, and said, "Come on, let's go."

"You will not go anywhere!"

The room resounded with the sound of a hoarse voice and at the same time, all the lights lit up.

As soon as they raised their faces in surprise, the three intruders stood still like statues.

The door to the waiting room was opened, and through that, the first two members of the Alpha Team entered with submachine guns.
The door to the apartment also opened at this time, and Alpha-three entered through it. They were all scurrying around.

Finally, Douglas Bullock entered the office triumphantly. He came forward with a huge smile on his face. he said, "The world is very small place! We met again, Mr. Kim. We'll surely have a lot of fun together this time!"

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