Venture to the Unknown

Meet Annabelle

Jenson made Gustave settle down as he finds himself not in the mood to be shout at.

They've entered the building and see a state of the art design which couldn't even be copied by any royal families despite their wealth. The further they go in the building, the more they realize how rich and powerful the owners of this place is.

"Even If I earn a thousand dollar every day, it would still not be enough to make a place like this." Sean joked as he saw how the diamonds flourished the edges of the glasses that separates the hallway and the rooms.

"Inflation rates would increase if that's the case." Arthur said

"Infla- what?" Sean asked as he doesn't know what Arthur meant.

"Inflation." Arthur repeated

'This two persons shouldn't have been friends in the first place considering how i***t and how unaware they are.' Jenson thought

"Oh." Sean said as he scratched his head.

Gustave is now getting curious as to who is the muscular bearded man that is walking with them. He tries to take guesses as to what his roles are but he couldn't figure out who and on what purpose is Sean here for. He tries to ask Jenson but Jenson ignores him and even got his veins popping out of annoyance.

"Can't you just shut up!?" Jenson shouted as he walks faster.

"I Just want to know who that is?!" Gustave asked

"Oh boy." Arthur mumbled

The four reached a white wall that seems to have just been a dead end but Gustave just waved his hand and the wall slid to the right seamlessly. Sean's mouth widened as the door made him even more surprised, He even tries to figure out how the mechanism work as they pass by.

"What took you so long? And who is that bald man?" Annabelle asked as she spun her chair to face the four.

Gustave was about to talk but Jenson raised his finger and pushed Gustave's lips to the sides stopping him from talking. Of course this annoyed Gustave but before he could even talk, Jenson had stepped forward with a cunning smile appearing on his face.

Annabelle has quite the confused face on her right now but she still keeps her dominance up just to make sure the broker Jenson won't fool her. She's leaned her head to the chair just to intimidate the others and it seemed to have worked but Jenson has something more on his sleeve rather than just intimidation.

"Annabelle this bald man right here..." Jenson points Sean with his finger "Is going to be our Muscle Man! Mr..." Jenson's words were cut short as he doesn't really know Sean's name.

"Mister what? And what muscle man there is like you Arthur and Gustave" Annabelle asked

"Mister.... Hey Arthur, what's his surname?" Jenson whispered

Annabelle couldn't help but burst out in laughter as she didn't expect that the one of the most notorious information broker doesn't even know the name of the person he has brought along. She's put down her leg and stood up.

"So you are getting rusty now? Bringing someone that the name's you don't even know, I must say you're quite a pathetic for a information broker." Annabelle said

"Uh my name is Sean Green, I'm neighbors with Arthur." Sean said

"So what's your purpose here?" Annabelle said as she stops herself from laughter.

"I asked mister Jenson over there to let me join." Sean said

'Oh man I wish I could travel back in time to get out of this situation.' Arthur thought

"Oh, So you have authority now mere broker." Annabelle said

"I tried stopping them really hard a while ago I even punched mister King on the face as he disagrees with me but Sean here overpowered me by carrying me out of the room and throwing me on the ground. By the time I hit the ground, I realized the potential of this person, we can use him as a muscle." Jenson said

Sean and Arthur's mouth had dropped as they heard those lies come out of Jenson's mouth. They weren't expecting the broker to say such petty lies and they started sweating as they don't thing Annabelle would believe Jenson. They just stared at Annabelle who seems to thinking of her next words.

"Something like that would surely be handy, sure we'll accept him on our team but if he starts hindering our actions then we'll use protocol 10" Annabelle said

Gustave froze as he heard those words.

"Isn't it too much?!" Gustave shouted

"Well yes but for me no." Annabelle said

"What's protocol 10?" Arthur asked

"Kill on the spot." Jenson said

"What?! You guys are on WIC, how the hell do you guys have such protocol? And why the f**k is it legal?!!" Arthur shouted

"It isn't made by WIC, it just happens that our team leader is a former assassin. We're basically a team of freaks." Jenson said

"I don't mind it as long as I know the rule." Sean said

"Sean?" Arthur said out of shock

Sean just scratch the back of his head as he doesn't know what else to say but he figured that he doesn't need to reply if this woman in front of them answers him. Gustave didn't even expect that Sean would agree cause non of the people he knew who's been put under such condition agreed with it.

"Great, then welcome aboard." Annabelle said

Annabelle started discussing the state of New Africa, the place they will set foot on. She stated how dangerous and how the animals in there have just been recently discovered. She highlighted also how the virus has been first traced in a temple looking ruins or rather a cave that resides at the south of New Africa.

"So how many are we going to be on the team?" Arthur asked

"There'd be 10 of us going in there including Gustave's nephew Anita Asimov. We don't actually need 10 people but the company insisted we bring that much."