James sits, 3 days later, typing to V, and the team he was introduced too, XxX, lally, and Effer, along with that, there seems to be quite a network of informants in contact with the main team. He frowns, as XxX says "Mr. Len, V has been talking all about you. I hope V's introduction, and tests... were meaningful. I am skilled greatly in safe houses, and informational dynamics. If you need help making your personal network of safe houses, let me know. Ive been responsible for keeping our contacts, and members safe." Lally writes in the group text chat "Stop overwhelming him. He is new. But still... be careful Mr. Len. Acording to what V has told us, you are in a very... open position, and already in the eyes of the Evotorium. If you mess up... well... you may be growing feathers soon in a cell." V replies "Stop scaring him, and don't joke about such... horrors." Lally replies "Look, after hearing about it enougth you get desensitized. Let me have my in-jokes." Effer says "Lally is our pepole person. She often goes interview pepole IRL, and stuff... she is nearly alwase exposed, so she is very careful, and a skilled spy. I am Effer, and am great at more... technical tasks. I make trackers, made a few bombs, and stuff. The usual. V, as you know, is the one who is the master hacker, and the one who knows literally everyones real identities." Lally says "I know you are in the CIA, it was one reason why V said we needed you." Effor replies "But you don't know who he is, now do you?"
James, or Mr. Lin writes "What are you plans so far? It will be hard to expose them." V writes "Yes. But as i said to you before, Mr. Lin, we consider the biggest path to be simple. Exposure. The Evotoriums horrors will do there own advertizing if they see the light of day." Effer says "Who would not be scared, and outraged to know there is a kidnaping ring turing pepole into beasts, and creatures sold to the rich, and used for military purposes for the organization itself. Worse if a loved one was kidnapped, and may now be one of such beasts. Worse... statistics suggest there is a large population that meet such catagories." Lally writes "Of course, exposure alone will not work. If we just yell out 'oh, this secret orgnization is turning pepole into monstors!' it would be seen as insane, as science currently says it can't be done, and disbelef at such a sci-fi bullshit will occur. We don't want this to go like bigfoot." XxX replies "Yes. But yet they do. We know they do. With that stupid NS stuff." V says "Anyway, so the plan beyond that is to frame it slowly, with a big... voice behind it. That... is where you come in. We want the CIA to be that voice." James writes "What about spies in the CIA? The Evotorium's control here." They write "Not everyone is controlled in the CIA, the highest actors in the CIA have no fucking clue. While they are dumb, and kinda political, some are not. Some... are competent. Some, if they see the proof... the horror... will act, and if we get someone high enougth on the latter... its game over for the evotorium. Especally... with Pt.2 of the plan."
James frowns, asking "Whats Part 2?" As V writes "We get the location of one of there faciltiies." He frowns, in... confusion. "HOW?" As V writes "Well... i have a few ideas. Some more risky then others. But if we can get a location, and send it to the CIA... they can do a raid... and a raid... well... thats physical proof." He is confused. As XxX writes "Your plans for Pt.2... they are all rather risky V. Risk... large risks. I mean... putting a tracker into someone who we intetionally expose is very... risky. No... suicide. We don't have many good ideas V." V replies "I know. Thats why i am open to alterntives. But... yes Mr. Lin. That is our plans. Send someone in, get the location of a facility, send that, plus all our data in such a way to multible trusted actors in high places, have them raid the facility... and then. Its over." Mr. Lin, James writes "We could get a facility location thru supply chain tracking." There is a quite, before V replies "Tried it... very hard. They are... sneaky. They switch routes once a month, they use the same level of threats as gangs have over there heads, and mix it in with regular goods." James replies "However i have CIA data, and resources." There is a quite, before XxX types "Could be worth a look into." V says "Very well then, we will spend some time on that here. But Mr. Lin... i must emphasize one huge thing! You can't be exposed, you can't get too much suspicion. Your CIA connection is important to several parts of the plan." James replies simply "I understand. I will not push if its too dangerous." XxX says "Once more, i recomend you plan a safehouse... just... well.. in case this goes to shit." He is quite, as he stares at the text. "Ok. We can talk about that in private."
Time passes, As James sits alone in his house, looking at the photo of his wife. Brown long hair, blue eyes, as she smiles at a carnival he brought her too for one of there dates. He sighs deeply, rubbing his eyes from tears. Its been... 10 months sense she disapeared... by now. She is either in regular trafficing, or... in the Evotorium. He shakes his head, as tears fall. "Fuck... come on. Lets get to work." He shakes his head, puts the photo down. As he grabs his USB from his pocket. One with code made by V to securely scan any database he puts it too. As he plugs it into the computer with a few databases he looked at. V writes after he sends the very... large data file over 2 hours. "Good, good... i like it! Amazing... this data is amazing! Heh. CIA truely does track alot." He shakes his head, and writes "I hope that helps, note it could cost me my job." Lally writes "Or your life. Or worse body." He shakes his head, writing "Shut up." V writes "From my data scrapers logs, it seems that it bypassed all there security systems. Good. It would have shut itself down, and saved you if it hit something bad." Then, a few minutes V writes "Wow... CIA security is shitty! Who knew they rely so much on the fact only there work computers can acsess it, by using air gaps." He writes "I did as you said, and pluged it into others computers, and had it pretend to be case data. Collecting it a week after." V replies "Good, good. Reguardless, you are good at programing, and can help me analize the data at home now, safe from stupid spying." He sighs, and writes "You are far better at programing." V replies "Yes, i know. But you can still analyze data." James sighs... saying outloud "You are a fucking god at programing... i took a look at that USB..." He shakes his head.
As the weeks pass, both He, and V work on the data. As they observe patterns, and write scaning programs. While each day, he spends real effort at work. As... he visibly gets dark spots under his eyes. Drinking coffee often. As soon, he sits, sweaty, reading the data of shiping transfers. As he is in a voice-only call, that uses a AI V made to scrable both there voices. "Hmm... seems the food transfers are centered around this area of Alaska. Are you sure you filtered for all logged sources correctly?" V responds "I am very sure. I think we got a lead." As V drags a tab over on there shared workspace. A satalite image of a gray building, in a snowy forest. James smiles brightly "Yes... does it match the food data?!" They look over, as they look at the routings, and more. 2 hours later... they got a location. V says "Oh god... finally! We were chasing there smaller locations for so long!" As they zoom out, looking at the map of over 1,200 smaller logistical nodes across 4 states, and many in other areas. James sighs "Yeah..." Then there is a quite. "But... i noticed something odd... all there smaller facilities... they are just for holding, they have too weak logistics for anything... that means... everyone across 8 or so states are brought to that one location eventually."
There is a quite. Before V says "Thanks... i am sorry we are pushing you so hard." James shakes his head, and sighs deeply. "I am not doing this for you..." There is a quite, V says "I get that... but... if this all works out... i am sorry about your wife." There is a quite. James asks "Why... are you so obsesed with the Evotorium... no one does this much risk for... nothing." There is a quite, before... V says "They took... my... sister from me. My father... worked... that first case that failed for the CIA. Do me a favor, and don't look into it. I will be honest... every single team member has lost something of profound importance to the Evotorium." James says "I am going to bed. See ya V." He exits the session, as he turns off his computer. Heading to his bedroom, trying to sleep. Only for nightmares to come. His wife's face ruined with monstrosity.