Phoenix

26.

"You're all nothing but useless morons!" snapped Douglas Bullock. He was in a bad mood and wasn't even trying to hide that in his language.

He was sitting in the research facility director's room.

"You shouldn't be insulting us like this," said director Fanning, "we had nothing to do about what happened here."

"Then why are you paying the salaries of these idiots?" Bulldog pointed to Security Chief Trevor Blickman.

"This is going too far, sir," said hurt
Security Chief, "you may have a great position in the government, but that doesn't mean you can say whatever you want."

"I'm not kidding, you really are an idiot," Bulldog almost growled, "what kind of security chief are you, eh? Kim Seokjin entered first...then again someone entered and launched a commando attack...It doesn't seem like there was any security at all! You said you have thirty years of experience, No? Then how did that man make you unconscious that easily?"

"This is the first time in my life I had to deal with such professionals," said Blickman in a timid voice, "there might be a mistake or two..."

"Shut up! Don't try to play the victim card. You can't even imagine what a mess you have made the moment you let them go. Dr. Donnen was a priceless gem for us, his death has caused irreparable damage already. Have you any idea? Damn it! I should just throw every one of you into prison. "

"What was I supposed to do?"

"Why not be more careful after receiving the message from the Coast Guard? Why didn't you move Donnen away?"

Blickman shrugged, speechless. His full frustration now went towards the troublemakers and he almost cursed, "these are all that Seokjin's fault. None of this would have happened if I could have beaten him to death the moment I caught him."

"I think you are blaming that man unnecessarily," Commander Decker, who had been sitting quietly on one side of the table for so long said calmly, "my people have received as much evidence as possible which indicates that Mr. Kim tried to save that scientist. We got the evidence of fighting. And there was none other than he and Ms. Akaishi to fight against those attackers. If Mr. Kim himself killed Donnen, he could have done it inside the facility. Then why did he take him out of the dome? And why did he use a sniper shot even? Here they were together, wasn't shooting at point-blank range woukd have been more reasonable? Apart from that, after everything, why will he go into the cliff to jump down into sub zero water? Why?"

"No one told you to sit there and make up some bullshit theories," Bulldog said in a scolding tone, "where are your people? Why haven't they brought those two bastards here still?"

"They will come," said Decker, "But I will still say, at the moment, It is not right to bring them here. They are not running away anywhere, they can be questioned anytime after they got a little better."

"You don't know him, Commander. He has experienced the worst. A little cold water wouldn't do much harm to him. Bring him here right now. I want to know what happened in the facility- who killed Dr. Donnen- he or someone else?"

This time there was a knock on the door.

"Come in," said director Fanning.

A Coast Guard GCO entered after pushing the door.
Looking at commander Decker he said, "excuse me, sir. We have a crisis on the ship."

"What crisis?"

"It's about our two prisoners..."

Not much time was given to Jin and Arya. In front of four armed guards, they had to put on clothes quickly, and now they were being dragged like cattle driving towards the helicopter deck in Newburgh. They were still not completely healthy - their bodies were weak, hands and feet were trembling. But they were showing the level of illness more than the actual condition. Jin pretended to fall a few times and noticed that every time he does that, someone comes and catches him.