Pools of Blood

Chapter 41

   We went to a nursing home that was situated in the farthest corner of the town. A shabby-looking dreary nursing home with a couple of doctors and a handful of nurses checking patients and bandaging laborers who worked in the nearby factory. This nursing home was basically opened by the government for the medical check-up of the laborers who worked in the cement factory of this place. Many of them suffered from silicosis and sometimes casualties too occurred.

Jasmine and I were taken to the operation room where our bugs would be pulled out. After a thorough scan, it was found that only I had been implanted with a small wired bug in my main bloodstream. Jasmine was free and clean. The bug was a high-tech artificially developed for animals who were kept in sanctuaries to provide information about their location. A modern-day transmitter is inserted into the vein unknowingly of the animals for their protection. And It was inserted inside me, to know my plans, to thwart my strategies, and to attack me everywhere I went. What a brilliant mastermind this Frank guy was!

It took around a few hours to finally eject out the transmitter from my shoulder. Who in our City Hospital was working for Frank I have to know. Was it a doctor Min-young? The nurses who bandaged me after I was attacked at jasmine’s house? Who? From the day Alfred was gone, my life has been like a roller coaster and I had literally no control over the buttons.

" Michael", Jasmine came in.

I looked at her. She was tired, exhausted, and probably haven’t slept for a couple of days. Deep, dark circles around her eyes made her look terrifying, her sunken face and her slim stature made me feel sad. She used to be beautiful, just like a goddess. The photos in their apartment spoke likewise. She was basically surviving on morphine and a hell bucket of medicines. Still, her indomitable spirit astounded me. She was determined to see the last of this story.

" Bo Chang texted you. Read it", she handed me my phone.

“ Michael, I have sent you an e-mail. Read it as soon as you can. Urgent”

I looked up at her. " Where can I get a computer here? "

"I think I saw one in the reception down the hall. We can go and check."

I agreed and we both went downstairs. I have already made it clear with Khwajim to text me about the status of our prisoners after every one hour. Just text. No calls. I still couldn't be sure if anything else was bugged or any more microchips were planted near us or not. It was better to keep cautious.

I logged into my mailbox.

There was a mail from Bo Chang along with some attachments.

“ Michael,

There is a piece of bad news. We went to Jeju. And what we found there is nothing. Simply nothing. After a detailed search, we located the whereabouts of the rest of the gang. Derb and Alonso. They were staying at a lodge on the beach with fake identities and names. When we reached the location after a lot of struggle, we found them dead. Their throats were slit and their eyes were pulled out. Such a heinous murder. The local police were there with us. 

They interrogated the owner and the housekeeper of the lodge. Nobody had any clue about how that thing happened. As usual! We scrutinized their bodies after they were sent to the morgue and for post more, and found out that they had overdosed with morphine into their drinks and that caused their death. But just to make sure that they have truly died, the killer had slit their throats and popped out their eyes. Their faces were unidentifiable and only their faded brand tattoos prove that they were the ones we were searching for. I am attaching their photos and the place of their murder with the mail. Go through it. See if you can find anything. 

They were murdered yesterday night, and if it is performed by Frank then he might be still staying at Jeju. I have ordered a complete cordon and curfew at this island and no launch boats or choppers would move until further order. We are going to begin a laser search here. Although I don’t think seeing the smartness of the previous deaths, that frank would be found here.

 Still, let's hope for the best. We will communicate further through text messages only.

With luck.

Bo Chang”

I clicked on the attachment box and a full array of pictures flooded the computer. The corpses of two humans killed so brutally nauseated me. Their throats were cut and blood was soaking and pooling everywhere. Their eyes were pulled out and there were two black, bloody holes where they once had been. They looked worse than the horror movies of Hollywood. 

" I don’t pity them. They deserved it", Jasmine commented after I closed the folders.

I nodded. She was right. Karma never lets go of anyone. Whether they were killed by police or someone of their own gang, didn't matter. All it mattered was that they faced the same pain that my brother faced. They were killed the same way as they had killed many innocent people once upon a time. They deserved this. All of them who had died in protecting frank deserved death. We felt no pity or remorse seeing their bodies. They had killed, laid waste, and destroyed hundreds of families. They had made so many women, widows, children, orphans, and parents, childless. 

" If Frank thinks that just by killing his own people, he could stop us from getting to him, he is wrong".

Jasmine smiled at me.

" Yeah. Truth never stays secret and hidden. We will pull him out of his hole, that coward bastard and then he would face me. I don’t care for any laws and rules anymore. My husband died fighting to protect me. f**k rules, Michael. I swear, the day I get hold of Frank will be the last day of his life. I will let him taste how it feels like killing people like mosquitoes, torturing people like bullies, and raping girls for his own satisfaction. You can put me behind bars after I have dealt with him, for I have nothing to lose. But his death will be on my hands".