312 Calm Down

She saw her hail a cab outside the building and this made her curse inwardly, now she has to hack through all the CCTV in the road to make sure that she was able to follow the car.

This was unlike that time in Star country for that was a minor country, Achernar was a major country of an Empire.

This was unlike the kidnapping of the children of Luke and the chief of the main police force, for that was an official business.

With a click of her tongue, she brought out her phone that she had been using to communicate with Luke.

Harvey who was watching her and still trying to call for Russel, watched her movement in confusion. Where did she get that phone? What was the purpose of it?

With two rings, Luke answered.

"How may I help our great Pianist?" he asked in a light tone.

"I am opening all CCTV cameras around city A of Achernar country, I am calling to get your approval of it."

"Th-"

"And before you say that that was a bit too much, allow me to use my reward for finding your children months ago," she then added.

Luke couldn't say that it would be too much indeed. If not for her then surely they wouldn't find their children so easily and found the rat that was actually just near them.

Having contact with the Pianist back then was their best help in finding their children and if not for his fast movement together with his brain then surely they might have lost their children.

"I need to find my friend who was in danger," Amber then added, her voice serious but with a hint of worry.

Despite the voice changing part, this tone didn't escape Luke's ear. The chief who was sitting in front of him had a serious look.

"Give me a moment," Luke then said to her.

He covered the phone and spoke to the chief, "It seems that someone close to him was in trouble, he was asking permission to use the CCTV cameras in all city A of Achernar country."

The chief didn't think about it, "Go ahead, I shall give the police force there a call to inform them that an individual operation is being done over there. Pianist had been giving all his support to us when we needed it."

"He didn't thought about it and had always been willing to help. He may ask for rewards after helping out but it was always of him doing the job. All he asks were permission to do it legally. With all of these, there really is nothing we could ask more of him."

Luke nodded in agreement before returning to Amber, "Go ahead."

With that Amber started her full force attack in searching for the cab that Russel rode in. If she was able to arrive safely then that was it but just as her intuition told her a while ago, that bad feeling she had before riding the elevator when they just arrived.

And just as what she had seen in the camera, the cab was stopped by a van and she was taken in, they even hit her at the back of her head to take her unconsciously.

They looked up the CCTV and looked back at the car saying something.

Amber cursed when the video was suddenly cut and she knew they have tampered on it. Though they weren't good enough as they haven't deleted the whole video at all.

But with all these cameras, are the security team of the city alert enough to see all these?

She brushed her hair up and started checking the other cameras surrounding the place.

She almost jumped on her seat when a cold something touched her cheek.

"Calm down."

It was Ashton, she had no idea when he got there for she was focus on searching, looking around a few of their trusted allies were there. Some who remained by Ashton's side ever since he was young, some she had met on that one time operation they did.

There were about ten of them in total in the parking lot, her, Ashton, Harvey, Aldger and six more.

"Drink this for now, you might need it," he then added giving her the cold bottled water.

"I would have loved coffee though," she then said to which he handed over a coffee in a take away cup.

She smiled brightly took a drink of the water first before taking a sip on the coffee.

"They have a programmer with them, they have deleted parts of the videos taken by the security cameras. But I still have the looks on those people, if I am not mistaken they are surely under the joined shareholders, who wanted to overthrow your Empire."

She then looked at Harvey who was still holding his phone, he was leaning on the car and could only look at her.

"And since they already got her, there is a big chance that they wouldn't mind the other cameras on their way."

Maybe because Ashton was with her or the fact that she was finally able to drink some coffee, she somehow became alert and now her mind was working just fine.

She returned to the video before when Russel was taken and got the image of the man who took her, the cab driver seemed like he was threatened so it is better not to approach him at all.

With the picture of that man, she started running another program in search of this person around the vicinity.

After another ten minutes of analyzing, she found him in a gasoline station one hour away from where Russel was taken, this was a highway going to city B. This was just in time they finished the meeting a while ago.

And now another forty minutes have passed since then.

'Where will you be bringing her?' was her thoughts as she watched the man enter a van, there she was finally able to take the plate number they are currently using.

They may have changed it after leaving city A but for sure this would be their current plate number.

So she once again run a program for this plate number and there it is moving along city B into a villa close to the edge of the city.

'I guess I need to give them another call that I have used even the cameras in city B. Never expected that they would actually go this far,' she shook her head while sighing.

Just as she showed Ashton the address, she gave Luke another call. In just a ring he answered but before she could say anything he already spoke up.

"We have told the police force there that you will be accessing the whole country's security cameras and even those that are in private. It was a national operation, though they asked we didn't disclose what it was and relayed it to be a top secret one. Though it was only for an hour."

Amber couldn't help but smile, "I owe you one."

"No, this is part of our collaboration," was his answer.

"Then give me a call in the future if something came up and my help is needed," she then said before bidding them goodbye.

"We have sent the word to our brothers over there," Aldger then said.

Amber after drinking a few mouthful of the coffee, looked at Harvey, "You need to be there as well."

He looked at her, "I know. Shall we go now then?"

A smile appeared on her face upon seeing the determination in his eyes.

She looked at Ashton and he nodded at her, her car were to be driven by someone else back to where they live and the two of them shall ride Ashton's car to City B.

Amber sighed for she can only pray that Russel would hang on until help were to get there and she was saved. She still couldn't completely trust those under Ashton and his friends yet but she can only hope.

Hope that they are different from the others and somehow they would follow their current leaders.

"Don't look like that, he may not seem like it but Aldger was a charismatic person, even those who started following because of fear, started idolizing him. They would surely be able to save her," Ashton held her hand and reassured her.

"You should reassure your other friend though, I think that one is more in a shock and worry than I am," she replied with a smile but held back his hand.

"I see that I am the only remaining one who has not fallen in love yet," Aldger teased seeing how worried Harvey was.

He took the wheel from him for he was scared that they may not end up going to city B but instead straight to heaven was their destination.