Jack's eyes shone with greater intensity as he looked at Valnaro. "It's decided then, I will take a shower and the two of us will be leaving." The moment that he finished saying that, he rushed into the villa. He was anticipating what was to come.
After changing into a new set of clothes after freshening up, Jack looked at Celine and asked, "I am about to go out. Are you interested in coming with me? I'm sure that you will find it interesting."
Celine looked at Jack who was smiling at her and was lost for a moment. It was only after a while that she replied. "Sorry but not now. I have to go and aid my mother back in the company. I have been away all morning and I'm sure that there is a lot of work that has piled up."
"Come on, it's not like we are going to stay there. I'll make sure that we won't be taking long there." Jack was slightly disappointed and tried asking her to go with him. To say the least, he would appreciate her company more so for what he was going to do.
Celine remained persistent about not going. "Even though Faith is now back and she has been helping a lot, she still isn't enough to relieve the piling work due to the many contracts that we have been winning lately. Although the contracts should be something that should be making me happy, I can't help but complain at the pile of work that comes with it."
Jack sighed at the end of it. Since she was going to be busy, then there was no way that he was going to force her to go with him. Furthermore, she had things to do that concerned her. So, he had to let her do her things as well.
"Okay then. I hope that you don't overwork yourself, alright? After all, you come first." Jack stated as he stared directly into Celine's eyes.
His clear concern warmed Celine's heart. So, she gave him a smile before saying, "You don't have to worry. There is no way that I'm going to overexert myself. Furthermore, with my current physique as well as my strengthened mentality, it should be no problem for me to handle the office work."
"That's good then. But remember that even if you are now stronger than you were before, you are still a human and would need enough rest." Jack gave a reminder.
"Got it." Celine smiled sweetly at Jack. At the same time, she thought to herself, "How worrisome of him. With the body strengthening solution, I don't think that there is nothing that I can't recover from. What a genius medicine he made. As long as it's not amputation, it can heal all the physical injuries as well as mental tiredness.'
"Now then, where is my hug as I'm leaving?" Jack spread his arms as he waited for his hug.
Celine pouted at his actions. But still, she came forward and gave him a hug. After a few seconds, the two parted and Jack headed for the door of the villa. At the same time, he said, "Remember, take good care of yourself when I'm away."
"I'm not a small girl you know?" Celine shouted at Jack as he left.
"Well, it may be true. But, you are still my sweet girl." Jack shouted back. He left the villa, his words leaving another captivating smile on Celine's face.
….
Upon exiting the villa, Jack found that Valnaro was waiting for him just at the entrance of the villa. He raised his brows at how this guy was so impatient.
He was now wondering what it was that had actually made the major to ask for him. If it was about the body strengthening solution's formula, then they had to forget about that for the time being.
"You can't even invite me in when I'm your guest." Valnaro complained. He was obviously not happy with the treatment that he had received.
"An uninvited guest to be specific." Jack corrected as he headed for his car, completely ignoring Valnaro's displeased face.
Just as he was about to get into his car, Valnaro stopped him. "Let's go in my car. It will be better since they know it back at the garrison. In this way, we can get there faster rather than being stopped at the checkpoints severally.
Jack thought that this was a good idea since even he himself was quite impatient to get there. So, he followed the captain into his jeep wrangler Sahara unlimited that was in the parking lot just outside the villa.
This jeep had obviously undergone a lot of modifications so that it could be driven in different terrains. The tires were the ones that were suitable for off-road driving. This was just enough proof that as a soldier, Valnaro had to be prepared to go to any area.
After getting into the car, Valnaro drove out of the serenity residential area. He then headed outside Kartu city.
On the way out of the city, Jack asked, "Anyway, where is your garrison located?" He was curious about this garrison. He was already expecting that they would be stationed out of the city. After all, it was an obvious thing that the city itself had little space.
"We are located twenty kilometers from the city. There is a valley in between Kartu city and the next city. That's the best place to set up our camp as the soldiers can train there without any problems." Valnaro replied.
Jack nodded. The two of them then went ahead to continue chatting about this and that. Then in just a few minutes, they arrived.
When they got through the first checkpoint, just as Valnaro had stated, they were not stopped at all. It seemed that the soldiers who were on duty could recognize the car the moment that they saw it. So, they allowed it in.
But of course, they were not reckless to simply let it in without checking. They looked through the open windows and they could see that Valnaro was the driver and he was bringing along him a young man.
Although they didn't know who Jack was, since he could come inside a Captain's car, then he must have some ability to do that. They all knew that Valnaro wasn't someone that would let just anyone into his car.
"Where is that guy that is speaking different language that even the best of those who mastered different languages can't understand him?" Jack inquired as they got through the third checkpoint.
Valnaro looked at Jack. After a while, he replied. "He's being held at the camp where my company is situated. He should be in the interrogation room or the room where he is being held."
"Let's go there then!" Jack said excitedly. What was making him happy was the fact that he could now complete a mission that had been bugging him on what to do so that he could complete it.
[Emergency mission program activated. Advance reward, Professional Human Language Mastery. Accompanying task that you'll have to complete so that you can permanently have the reward is as follows: Task; Show your language proficiency and amaze those that boast to be masters. Time limit, 4 weeks.]
It had already been two weeks and yet, he had not found a way that he could impress the masters. He had to amaze them with his mastery over the languages.
But still, he had tried looking for a place where the masters were congregated together so that he could try showing off his language mastery. But in the end, he found that the meetings that they were going to have were mostly planned at the end or at the beginning of the year.
It was rare for these masters to meet in the middle of the year. And, he wasn't lucky enough to encounter one of the rare moments that they would be having a meeting.
So, the moment that Valnaro stated that there was a problem in their investigation due to language barrier, and that he had invited several masters of languages but none of them had managed to understand the language that the person was speaking in, he was excited.
This was his opportunity. They were there, and he could go ahead and do something that they might consider an impossibility to them. In this way, he would complete the task that he had been granted by the system while claiming that he was simply doing his part.
But of course, he had to earn something from this, right? Although it was true that the system didn't ask him to earn any money, who said that he was going to offer his services for free?
Valnaro frowned. He looked at Jack and said, "I think we should go and see the major first before going to see this person."
Jack looked at Valnaro with a deadpan expression on his face as he said, "The most important thing right now is clearly to get information from that idiot that you are holding in one of your cells. So, let's get going there and see what happens."
Seeing that Jack was serious about this, Valnaro finally accepted. At the end of the day, it wasn't like the meeting between Jack and the major was an emergency or something.
They could meet up after Jack satisfied his curiosity. According to Valnaro, since this was a case that was related to Jack's hotel, he must have been looking forward to finding out who it was that was behind the attack.
Jack remained silent throughout the whole journey, just thinking about what his first income reward might be. At the same time, he looked at the buildings that they were passing as they headed deeper into the garrison.
From the buildings here, Jack could infer that this was the soldiers permanent station. Although they might leave this area to carry out several missions, they would eventually come back here as there were several training facilities that Jack saw on the way here.
Furthermore, the atmosphere here was nothing but welcoming. The ferocious aura that the soldiers were emitting while they were training would surely scare away a person who had never experienced war before.
About ten minutes later, they finally arrived in front of a building. Valnaro packed the car next to a military jeep that was outside this building.
As he got out of the car, he flashed Jack a smile as he said, "Welcome to The Rippers Garrison, Eleventh company base."
Jack didn't say a word as he got out of the car and looked around. He could see that this area had more soldiers than the outer area where they had just come in.
Furthermore, this area being almost covered in vegetation that was mainly shrub and grass, he could see that a little far from where they were, there were soldiers that were training in the hot afternoon sun.
