The King of City

55 THE CONTEINER

Lionel couldn’t believe how close the answer was all the time, so he didn’t want to waste time and immediately told Elsa to call Einstein.

"Look, here is your cell phone". Lionel said taking the cell phone from Elsa's bag in a shameless way but the despair was eating away at him.

"Easy! You just had to say please". Elsa reproached him that she didn’t like the crude way in which Lionel asked her for things when he got like this.

"Just call!". Lionel reiterated that he had no time to lose with mere formalities and delicacies.

Reluctantly, Elsa picked up her cell phone and looked in her purse for her cell phone number, since she couldn't keep his phone number on her cell phone because it could be used by her enemies to track them, so every time she called her father, she had to dial the number again.

"That’s weird!". Elsa said looking at her cell phone. "The call isn’t coming in".

"What do you mean, the call doesn't come in?". Lionel asked impatiently believing that Elsa had made some kind of mistake.

"That means, I can't communicate with him". Elsa answered impatiently and angrily in her tone of voice because right now he really was making her desperate.

"Give me the cellphone!". Saying this, he snatched it from her hand along with the paper that had the phone number on it and began to dial. Unfortunately, it sounded like a busy phone every time he called, so resigned Lionel had to return the cell phone to Elsa.

"What did he say?". Elsa asked sarcastically because she had found her behavior too rude and wanted to hear an apology in response.

"Sorry! You were right, he doesn't answer”. Lionel said regretfully, knowing that he had done wrong.

"It doesn't matter, but I'm very concerned about my dad, he doesn't usually ignore my calls". Elsa said with an expression of sincere concern on her face, Mr. Einstein for being such a busy person, he didn’t take long for the phone, because any client or partner could be calling him and they were such important people that not answering them would represent a good amount of money, which made the fact that they didn't answer too weird.

"And you don't have another phone number to call to check if your father is okay?". Lionel asked trying to give options, it also seemed very strange to him, the few times he had dealt with Mr. Einstein, he had never stopped answering the phone, and the concern was even greater considering the threats Elsa and Einstein had received.

"No, that was the only one." Elsa was starting to hyperventilate, she didn’t know what had happened to her father and it was a matter of time for the same thing to happen to her and of course, not only she would be hurt, but also Corrine and Lionel. In the next few moments, a long text message arrived from a strange sender saying:

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For a few moments, Elsa hesitated whether or not to press the button, meanwhile, Lionel took the opportunity to read the message as well and put a hand on Elsa's shoulder and reassured her.

"Don’t worry, Elsa, if it’s very difficult to memorize I’ll help you, surely we won’t forget both of us". Saying this, Elsa took a breath and courage, Lionel had always known how to lift her spirits, so she pressed the button and waited for the message to appear.

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"Do you have all the data?". Elsa told Lionel that he was accompanying her at those times and that he had promised to help her capture all the data that she could.

"Yes, I already have everything". Lionel said, he had an excellent photographic memory thanks to her training. "Anyway, the message doesn't exist anymore". And it was true, the message had recently been automatically deleted, even though Elsa looked it up in her files she couldn't find it. "Don’t worry! I assure you that I memorized it, I’ll write it down on a piece of paper so that you don't forget it ”.

In the following minutes Lionel looked for a notebook and a pencil, there he downloaded all the information that the message had and that he had engraved in his head, he even made a very detailed map of where the deposit was and what would be the container that She will board as per the stranger's instructions.

"Larson, the directions are very well done, but ...". Elsa paused, more or less, and continued. "I don't want it to be a trap".

"Don't worry, I'll take care of that, in the meantime put this on". And saying this he gave her a pin that seemed to be a very small camera.

"Another one of your fantastic artifacts?". Elsa asked assuming.

"Yes, it’s a small camera, you will take it with you and I’ll find out everything you see, in case they intend to do something to you, I’ll know". In addition to that, Lionel asked Beau to have six of his gang members to guard the exits, to prevent them from trying to run away in case they made any strange move. Soon the day arrived and Elsa complied with all the instructions, she was too scared, because everything was dark, nobody was around, when she entered the warehouse, despite the map that Lionel made for her, she couldn’t distinguish the container where she should be, she was suddenly desperate, one of the container doors opened suspiciously and at that moment she knew that she had to enter there. For a few moments she was completely alone in the dark, she only had her cell phone to light, but she didn’t give her any confidence, because her sight was still very limited, suddenly a screen turned on, and a VCR began to play a video, the truth It was quite old, but it wasn’t traceable. The video featured Einstein sitting in the big chair in his office.

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The recording stopped and everything went dark again, Elsa couldn’t help crying, Einstein himself when he recorded that video cried constantly, the moment really was too emotional and Elsa didn’t know what to do to keep her father safe, it’s more, he couldn’t do it no matter how much he wanted. When Elsa came out Lionel was glad that nothing had happened, however, she had seen the video on camera but was curious to know what Einstein had said to her.

"What did he say?". Lionel rushed to see the gloomy face with which Elsa left.

"That we won't be able to talk to daddy anymore".