MY TREASURED DESIRE

Chapter TWENTY-SEVEN: The Plot!

Day 3. Alexa’s Rescue Day.

9:30pm UTC… 1:30 am at Réunion, and 5:00 am Middleville or Achaian Time…”

Plain-clothed Police Official’s Account.

A Film Editing Studio, Imperial Bridge, New Beijing, Achaia.

The quack training camp for new actors was discovered after Colonel Adewale King’s ground-breaking personal scoop of the Imperial Bridge Area. The police staff stationed in the area sell candies, baked-or-fried edible snacks, assorted biscuits, soft drinks, and tea, which remained the most sellable junks preferred by the youths who mill around that slum area in broad daylight. One other detective, a young woman, sells delicious meals of quick noodles, bread meals complete with assorted condiments. She paid about $5,000. = to ease the ‘stubborn’ original seller off. But she remained a better cook by the judgment of our unmarried colleagues who live nearby. The detectives - tucked a little distance away from each other - did pay off the original sellers. They even study their predecessors to be able to dress up or act like the ones they took the jobs from. These friends keep telling their customers that their brother or sister either went for an examination or some other lie… There, we got some useful information without any suspicion.

My partner found a four-storey building adjacent to the Imperial Bridge’s Movie College. He was equipped with two high-quality Zenon Outdoor video cameras that needs no external flash or lights: each of the gadgets was complete with an in-built sniper firearm, built by the crop of army technicians and engineering professionals. He acted as back-up for me while he records information as our briefs make them apt… On my own side, I had been tailing my target for quite a long time. I drove cautiously as experience and training had taught me. My target parked her Mercedes Coupe at a nice parking lot of a private bungalow. I had a detective that I was forced to make friends with because of this mission, I was glad that his residence was a few poles from where my target parked her car. I parked my car there… Since the mission started, I had been covering my car with varying colours of advertising tapes, cheaply disguising my car as both the target and I were always coming here to study this environment.

On this quiet but frosty day, I acted as if I was a street-urchin who perched – drinking hot tea and biscuits sold nearby. I stayed camouflaged where I presumed, would be a few metres from where they would eventually relax.

I watched the young and beautifully tanned, corporately dressed lady that holds a smart briefcase, as she reached the entrance of the almost decrepit film editing studio of the roadside Movie College. Three thirty-something-year-old-looking, casually dressed trio obstructed her progress, all of them smiling with her.

“My lovely friend, you are here. Let’s go this way,” one of the young men said courteously, and the four young people moved away from the direction of the entrance. They soon found a garage with wooden chairs and a table and went to have their seats. That was one of my colleagues’ fast noodles’ joint when the day gets closer to noon.

One thin man, surprisingly spotting a body-hugging-sweatshirt without a top-coat, sitting near to my target on the right, opened the discussion: “We are aware that you want a clean job with no traces. We are also expected to make a fine movie, dubbed into three original DVD disks of first-class quality.”

The gentleman on the target’s left-hand side also added: “There must never be any copy left behind after we deliver the three discs to you… For our own safety!”

“And, finally, we would sign a deal right here and now… We must also keep ourselves away from the Achaian environment to avoid investigations leading the Police to us… And we shall ask for nothing else on this deal after the $995,000,000. = cash that we shall collect today!” concluded the third young man.

My target smiled and said:

“Brilliant Businessmen, you all are. But I need to explain further: The most important part of the deal was the section mentioned by the last speaker.”

That speaker wondered, and said, “Why?

My target answered: “Three answers!”

The first speaker asked, “Could you tell us the first one?”

“One… You will sign the agreement – each of you – before we say anything further!”

The three men looked at themselves quizzically. But I guess signing a contract with a woman they have discussed with – on this matter - for about three months before now would not be too dangerous. They have known each other and have worked as a team for far too long as I have deduced from their speeches that I monitored.

The trio nodded in unison, the lady unlocked the briefcase and brought out a slim but wide brown envelope… They took time to read and the four of them signed, one after the other, and returned the pen to my target. She smiled and said: “Now you are ready for Two!” The three young men nodded again.

The beautiful woman continued, “You said that you all must also keep yourselves away from the Achaian environment to avoid investigations leading the Police to you… That is wise where you do not get caught. None of your family members will ever be stable again. Police will be brutal in your case because of who your work would offend… When you speak under deep torture, your words would be the entertainment’s delight. They will never affect us. Your family will bear the brunt for generations. Our boss’ untouchable family will not fall for a little scandal like this! Do you believe me?”

Of course, we know your pedigree! The send gentleman had said.

My target rose up and concluded her speech, ‘And we shall ask for nothing else on this deal after the $995,000,000. = cash that we shall collect today,’ the third speaker rightly recollected. Yes. For your own good, do not try to double-cross us for being kind. Do not try blackmail… If we are so generous to nail a wealthier associate, then you can be assured that our boss will get you cremated with your living family members before you conclude the blackmail process… Any relevant question, please?”

I was recording the voices… as I laid down after my tea. I pretended to take a nap, even when none of them could easily detect my presence… We cannot afford to take chances that we are not also being watched!

I was wondering if that briefcase contained such a huge amount of money when a very huge man walked from across the street, draping a huge bag on his left shoulder. He walked to the three and gently kept the bag of money on the wooden table! I was surprised that I was shocked that someone on my target’s side was also watching from afar… And I never knew it!

The three men checked the content of the bag and nodded, happily bringing out about five or six crispy, $100 bill chunks, in mint condition. Bundles were still inside the Reserve cellophane wraps. He dropped the notes back in the bag and looked around.

My target laughed, and said: “Did you come to work in a car?”

They simultaneously shook their heads to mean that they did not. And, my target added: “That’s not my bodyguard but yours… He could escort you to your bank with his ID until you keep your cash safe – as you please – before you begin your work! We shall bear the consequence, should anything happen to you or your money before the deal is settled. Okay?”

“Yes, Madam.” They chorused in excitement.

***

3 Days After Alexa Was Rescued.

1:02 am UTC… 9:02 am Middleville or Achaian Time.”

Plain-clothed Police Official’s Account II.

We were able to move furtively into the residence of one of the three filmmakers while he was in the bathroom, preparing to meet up with the Middleville appointment. My associate secretly pasted the same kind of micro-cameras and microchip microphones, that we used on Miss Greta Merkel when she was going to the Casino Cartel Headquarters a few months ago, on the jacket that was hung on the outer side of his wardrobe.

Now, the three gentlemen seen at the Imperial Bridge Movie Studios just three days ago were wearing three-piece suits as they appeared to inspect the Presidential Suite of Yinying Inter-Continental Hotel, a top-notch 5-Star Hotel in the City of Love, Ai, in Middleville. The same lady, my target, presented a few crispy photographs of a magnificent suite; the room was designed with a golden theme… So beautiful to the sight. The life-sized Victorian wardrobes have a lovely Mirror. I had been sent to General R. C. Chang to deliver a note. But he asked his guards to bring me to his bedroom… That was what this picture shows.

“This room should be redesigned to look exactly like this,” My target had said.

Some of these average-looking girls – obviously in the crew of actresses – have the same shape and height as my target.

“So, I am going to be ravished in a room that looked so majestic as this one,” one of those young girls enthused. “How I wish my looks in the movie were my real looks. And I also wish the guy that would be filling me with s****l delight will be the real prince.”

“Cut the crap, Girl,” a strongly built actor came on to look at the photographs and said: “Be content that a good-looking guy like me will be leading you to orgasm for real in this sizzling movie. It will be so real that you’ll be blown away… You will fall in love with me afterward!”

The lady shamelessly replied, “We are asked to make it so real that no special effects would be needed. I saw your last movie: You were so good, your endowment was size “eleven” and I respect your professional style, but I’ve not been a pair to you before… Just add more aphrodisiac because I will surely not stop until you are dealt with. It is you who will beg for us to have more repeat performances without lights and cameras!”

My target got upset, and she intervened: “It’s not a weigh-in ceremony before a boxing match. Both of you have been hired expensively for this. Let the show begin at the shoots and stop blabbing. Action, not mere boasting! Besides, the director would be there with you to do his job… This is professional, Stars!”

One of the three partners added a voice to the discussion: “Our 1-billion-dollars budget ensures that after using the highly specialized costumes, we would become whoever we are portraying. Yinying is a name of Chinese origin, meaning “Shadow”. Let us be sure to do our best, professionally, so that we do not become haunted by shadows.”

Another, out of the three partners, “Let us keep to the ethics of this line of duty. Let’s work out the success of this movie in our minds and not on our lips… it is not for the Cinema, it is for our paymasters. We are Professionals!”

I now realise that a new chart-buster film is about to be released under an agreement that the video should be in triplicate, quality DVD… The Studio – for their own good, should not keep a record after the completion of the movie, since it was going to have a VVIP involvement that could cost their precious lives.

We are now sure, the Presidential Suite of Yinying Inter-Continental Hotel, a top-notch 5-Star Hotel in the City of Love, Ai, in Middleville, was hired for the film shoot. What costumes were procured?