Chapter 247: The Team outside the house
The ABI had a large black van positioned a measurable distance from the Morales ranch.
In the van, there was an impossible large screen divided by three. The first side showed the building plan of the Morales Ranch, the second screen showed a group of small lights moving through a narrow tunnel and the third one showed the Morales Ranch from an aerial camera.
The rusting barbed wire fence was filled with overgrown weeds and wildflowers that pushed their way through the aged metal until there was no telling the structure of the fence. There were several outbuildings scattered around the properties, their roof caved in and their walls leaning precariously. Without any care, the entire ranch had withered into a barren expanse.
With the owner dying in prison and the Nest eruption a few years from now, nobody had claimed the land for the last 20 years; maybe the memory was something that the remaining relatives of Liam Morales who had murdered his wife and three children did not want to face every day.
Ravi’s eyes were closed as he continued to build the tunnels with the two mutants that had been called over from the branch quarters at Alstria. Initially, the ABI and the police team had planned a frontal attack but a mutant had confirmed that the suspect, Nathan Kim was in the same barn house with two other people. The barn house was also loaded with explosives, one wrong move and he would blow everything up.
They had come up with another plan immediately, building a tunnel that would lead directly under the place where the two women were. If they could open the ground, they would be able to rescue the two women.
Behind them was the ABI’s finest team of four, led by Arlen. The Special Agent had surprised all of his team when he had given the leadership to Arlen and declared that he would command from the van.
The manipulators, Roark and Mira looked at each other. The tunnel from the van to the barn house had been estimated to be constructed in two hours but the ground beneath them seemed more like tofu, the rocks and soil shifting so easily as if one was moving a cup on the table.
It was less than 20 minutes and they were already 70% in. The Van was watching with bated breath, Ravi could hear Draco muttering prayers to more than ten deities. He was fast but not enough to leave with the two women.