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Chapter 78 - Selling a Brighter Future

"The guards hustled their captive into the back of a van that was parked around the corner of the warehouse. They climbed in the back with him. Then, all three disappeared completely.

We used a LITV transport to bring them all here to the Simulation Room in the Super Secret Planetary Leadership Headquarters Treehouse Fortress. Our men searched him, then left him seated against a wall in what appeared to be a secure prison cell, still handcuffed.

His eyes were wide with fear, his breath quick and shallow. "Joe, do what you can to calm him down without any further damage to his brain. Try to undo whatever you did to stoke his fears. Just do your best…" I asked. "Keep him locked in there for now."

"Acknowledged."

Two more guards lifted the man who had been stabbed and carried him out a side door. He was covered in blood. It has spurted out of his chest when the knife was removed, but now it had stopped.

"Joe, can you save that guy?" I asked indicating the injured man on the screen.

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