Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 185

Chapter 185: Helix

"You were a day late to get to the extraction site, you want to explain why?" A man in a suit with a frown on his face asked.

He was currently standing in a dimly lit concrete room, hands clasped behind his back. His expression wasn’t angry, no, it was extremely calm.

Reid Carver stood opposite him with a stiff posture, and his two underlings stood behind him like shadows, they had just been put on probation for a whole month the moment they returned from their last mission.

The Helix emblem, three slashes through a circle, hung on the wall behind the suited man.

From the aura he gave off, one could tell that he was of a high authority in the company, probably one of the higher ups.

Though, his name was unknown to anyone below him since the higher ups never bothered with introductions since that was just a waste of their time.

"Like I said," Reid began, his tone was completely steady, "we were being followed, so we had to reroute. Lost a day dealing with... complications."

"Complications," the suited man repeated quietly. "You do realize this delay could’ve risked us getting reveal don’t you?"

"Yes," Reid nodded. "But we handled it."

"And the tail?" the man pressed. "Who was it? Police?"

Reid seemed a bit confused as he thought for a while before saying,

"We lost them," he answered. "Don’t know who they were, probably a group of amateurs."

The man frowned for a moment, it seemed like he had his doubts but just sighed and said.

"Fine," the man finally said. "Submit your full report within forty-eight hours. We’ll sweep the area you mentioned and check for any loose threads."

"Understood," Reid said.

"And Carver?"

"Yes?"

The man had no expression on his face as he looked at Reid.

"You know the consequences of lying to us... don’t you?"

Reid smiled, it was a small polite one.

"I’m not lying."

"You better not be," the man said with a frown on his face before adding, "out."

With that, Reid and his two underlings walked out of the room leaving the man alone.

The man’s face held a bit of frown before he tapped on one of the walls and with a small beep, it shifted revealing multiple screens, each with a person on it.

Unlike the man, all the others on the screen wore masks, though they also had another thing in common, the Helix logo was on each of their expensive looking suits.

"Report," a voice said, though it sounded female, it was distorted enough not to be recognizable.

"I interrogated the three," the man said, "both separately and together."

"And?" Another asked.

"They seem clean," the man answered, "their answers were mostly the same and from their expressions, they don’t seem to be lying..or they completely believe whatever they were saying."

The people on the screens were completely quiet for a short while before another asked, "is it possible that they had been conditioned to think like that?"

The man was silent for a bit after that, thinking back to Carver’s momentarily confused expression before saying.

"That’s also my suspicion," the man said, "but no, our team has run scans on their brains the moment they returned and compared the activity to their previous ones and it perfectly matched which means they’re under no hypnosis of a sort."

"I see," the higher up who asked, muttered, "still, it wouldn’t hurt to keep an eye on them."

"Carver is one of our most effective field operatives," the distorted voice said. "If someone managed to intercept him without alerting any of us, then either Helix is getting sloppy..." The voice trailed off for a moment, "...or a third party is operating at a level we have not accounted for."

The entire room went silent, he was right, never before has any of their mercenaries been compromised, so it meant one thing if it started now, they were getting too comfortable.

Finally, the woman’s distorted voice broke the silence.

"Very well then, we should continue surveillance. Keep all three under routine behavioral audit for the next three months. No direct contact unless they deviate from standard."

"Understood."

"And the woman?" another asked. "The target. Lillian Hayes. Status?"

"She was successfully delivered to the client," the man answered. "Carver’s testimony aligns with the tracker logs. The handoff took place according to the original plan. The crate was opened, payload intact, and extracted by the client’s men. Carver’s team left immediately afterward."

One of the masked figures exhaled sharply.

"So the client is satisfied."

"They were," the man answered, "until she was retrieved, Lillian Hayes has successfully returned and it seems OmniTech Corp is planning a product release."

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