Chapter 154: the conspiracy of large families

The 2 silhouettes continued walking forward for hours before they finally came before the real territory of the Ratliff republic. They emerged in the Draken state, which was the only state that was close to the Mediterranean Sea in the whole country.

It would still take them about an hour if a regular civilian transport car was taken from here to the Madbull state.

Madbull was Emily’s home state. It was ranked among the middle tier in terms of development potential and resources in the whole Ratliff republic, so it was not too exceptional.

As Clark was new to the Ratliff republic, she just used this opportunity to show him around while she quickly ordered a transport bike online.

They already ate today, but she still decided to take him to a restaurant that she knew nearby. As this state was a neighbor to her state, she came here a lot during her days as a field agent of the Ratliff military.

As they ate, the courier delivering the bike finally arrived at the restaurant. After directing him to keep it at the corner of the restaurant, they paid before continuing their meal.

After they finished eating, Emily showed Clark around some more. After admiring the scenery a bit, they finally embarked on their journey back to Madbull state.

It was already more than 4 years since she left with her country’s naval fleet. She felt excited and some faint anticipation, as she planned on leading her friend directly to her ancestral home.

After 40 minutes of being on the road, they finally arrived in the Madbull state. Compared to the previous Draken state that looked more militarized, her state looked like one that focused more on luxury and explosive fashion.

Clark felt dizzy on seeing all the colorful sights, he felt like he just entered a cartoon world. Emily smiled on seeing his expression, as she smoothly turned the bike into a curve, going down from the highway.

In less than 8 minutes, she finally arrived at the Bauer mansion. Her face was lighted with a nostalgic smile, as her sight fell on her grandfather’s mansion after a separation that lasted so long.

After admiring her family’s mansion for a moment, her gaze finally came down to the people facing her. A slight frown quickly crept into her face, when she saw the soldiers manning the mansion.

“Umm…, Emily, is anything wrong?” Clark quickly caught on to her slight frown, as he cautiously asked.

“These soldiers are not my family’s soldiers. Our soldiers have their unique uniform, which my grandfather personally designed for them. These soldiers are from the local military regiment instead”.

She nodded heavily with a confused and irritated expression on her face, as she slowly went forward to meet and confront these soldiers before her.

This was when it became apparent that something was wrong. Her confusion and worry grew, as the originally boisterous Bauer mansion was strangely quiet, with only soldiers on her sight.

Despite the unsettling feeling in her heart, she gathered courage and continued forward. The soldiers already noticed her and seemed to recognize her, as they faintly discussed among themselves.

From where she was currently, she quickly deduced that none of her extended family members were at home. This was her home; she was extremely familiar with it, so her perception was frightening here.

It was at this moment that one of the soldiers came forward to stop her from moving further.

“Miss, I’m sorry. This territory is now restricted and in custody under the orders of the Dead pool military division. Please respect yourself and obey orders, or I would help instill discipline in you”.

Seeing this ordinary soldier trying to discipline her so blatantly, her already angry mood almost led her to kill him on the spot.

She took a deep breath to calm herself, before suddenly blowing up with abusive words. She didn’t want to kill anyone, but no one could restrain her mouth.

Not seeing any of her family members, and hearing the ridiculous words of this soldier brought back an unknown fear that was kept hidden deep in her heart.

Her words became very high-pitched, as she fiercely questioned these soldiers before her. On seeing her fearless attitude and that his soldier was even a little intimidated, the leader of this group of soldiers finally came forward.

He was just a 1st rank high-grade soldier, but he could manage the pressure being emanated from her.

Seeing their extremely unyielding attitudes, brought her more panic as her questioning voice grew louder and louder. As it slowly started taking the aggressive route, Clark finally decided to intervene.

He was shocked, as he had never seen this side of Emily. He knew that she could single-handedly massacre this group of soldiers, but that was definitely not advisable.

“Emily, please restrain yourself a little. I thought you said that your sister worked in one famous hospital as a doctor. Let us go there and meet her first, she’ll probably explain what happened to you”.

After being restrained by Clark, and listening to his advice, she finally calmed down. She also knew that fighting here was not advisable.

“I’ll come back for you, just wait”. She said, emphasizing it by pointing at the soldier who initially came forward to intercept her, before turning back with a dangerous expression on her face.

Clark also turned to follow her, as speculations on what exactly was happening kept flashing past his head.

His implant recorded and analyzed the expressions and mannerisms of these soldiers, which was not reassuring. During the brief confrontation, they all either secretly displayed expressions of pity or that of mockery on their faces.

He was not yet too proficient with making direct speculations through expressions alone, so his verdict from this was still a little vague and ambiguous, that is why he said nothing to her.

That is why he proposed that they go to her younger sister’s workplace, they’ll surely know more there.

With an aggressive jerking of the bike, Emily hopped on it and ignited it with rough and hard moves. On seeing her glare for him being too slow, Clark was not offended as he worked faster and entered the bike.

Broom!! With deep aggressive and loud sounds which looked more like growls, the bike finally picked up speed momentously, leaving Bauer street immediately.

As soon as they left, the leader of the soldiers stationed at the Bauer mansion took out his military pocket phone before making a call outwards to reach the Captain of the Dead pool military division.

“Got it”. A deep voice replied from the other end of the phone, as he finally dropped his phone.

“Want to kill my soldier? Fend for yourself first”. After the call ended, a malicious smirk appeared on his face as he muttered darkly.

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In less than 2 minutes, the bike quickly arrived at the Multi-purpose Madbull military hospital. This was where Kate Bauer, Emily’s younger sister worked as a doctor.

Emily jumped down from the bike immediately on arriving, as she started marching directly inside the hospital with loud thudding sounds accompanying her advance.

Clark’s advance was more modest, as he tried to understand his surrounding carefully to check if any threat or ambush was nearby. Despite this, he was still able to keep up with her speed.

[Ding!! Master, a scanning device from an unknown source just performed a deep scan on you and Miss Emily. Counter tracking immediately to detect the source, wait for a minute.]

As he advanced, he jerked for a short moment on hearing the notification from his implant. He was shocked, as normal scanning devices usually left traces behind on the one being scanned.

This meant that this hospital was probably fortified with extremely high-grade scanning, jamming devices, and probably camouflage devices also.

This increased his cautiousness, but he did not stop as he followed the still confused and furious Emily. Her normal thought process was already clouded by rage and worry, so she could not give any attention to her surroundings.

It seems the hospital operatives and security recognized her, as their entry inside was without any mishaps.

She knew where she was going, so she didn’t have to ask as she went up directly to where she remembered that her sister’s office was. After entering the elevator, she waited for Clark a bit before they were both lifted.

Despite her rage, she still had enough control of her emotions to know that Clark was following her. She felt bad at him seeing her like this, but her inner mind forced her to ignore it as the worry for her family reigned supreme.

She finally reached the familiar door leading to the familiar office. She wanted to knock, but she didn’t have to as another medical practitioner in white just came out of the building.

She heaved a sigh of relief inwardly before going in, as she could already hear the voice of her sister coming from the office.

The fear that her sister was also not here was bugging her fiercely on the way here. Hearing her voice did a good job in calming her mood a bit, which she really needed.

As soon as she entered the office, she drew all the attention immediately. Kate Bauer was lecturing 2 other doctors standing before her, but she froze immediately on seeing this familiar silhouette before her.

She fell into a daze immediately on seeing this, as her brain could not keep up with her raging emotions.

“You can go, please come back later”. She finally controlled herself a bit after much effort, before ordering the 2 learning doctors before her to leave.

Emily’s face involuntarily bloomed into a smile again on seeing the familiar face of her kid sister. She felt like a burden was just lifted from her heart, as she advanced to meet her.

She quickly wrapped her younger sister in a hug, but she was surprised as she didn’t reciprocate. She finally disengaged from the hug, when she noticed that her sister was crying.

“What happened exactly Kate? Please tell me”. She finally remembered why she came here on seeing this, as she asked softly in an anxious tone.

“Emily, you shouldn’t have come here. Why did you come back? The republic is no longer safe for us, the Bauer family is gone. Go now before they come to also take you”. Kate answered emotionally, as she shook and jerked from her sobs.

“And I thought you were dead in the sea, that’s what they told me. Thank God that you are alive, but please leave now before it’s too late”.

Hearing her sobbing sister and what she said, impacted Emily’s psyche but she was not a coward. This only pushed forward her rebellious mood, as she held her sister and told her with an unquestionable tone to explain what happened.

Kate’s sobs became a full-blown cry, as she already expected such an answer from her sister. As a soldier, her sister would definitely not run away without knowing what happened.

She calmed down a moment later after hearing this, as she finally started narrating what happened when Emily was gone to her.

In the end, the worse already happened. With this mindset, she freed and opened her lonely and half-dead mind to her only sister amid more sobs.

After Kate finished narrating what happened, total silence filled the whole office as Emily tried to internalize what she just learned. Clark could read the atmosphere; he made his already invisible self, more invisible, as the silence reigned.

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