Chapter 187: No Need To Know
"Sir, there’s a problem!"
Someone shouted from in front of Luther and Luther turned his hard gaze towards the lower-ranked Enforcer that came running to him. The Enforcer pointed inside the burnt builiding and spoke quickly in a low tone.
"There are some men inside that are taking the bodies away."
"What!?"
Luther immediately sped up and entered the building with an aura of anger surrounding him! He looked around and saw more than ten men who were all wearing suits and sunglasses, walking around like they owned the place! The men were carrying strange devices that they were using to scan around the building and none of them even bothered to pay Luther any mind when he entered! Luther immediately growled in a threatening tone.
"Who the hell do you think you are? Someone answer me before I arrest all of you!"
The men in suits glanced toward Luther curiously before most of them turned back to continue what they had been doing! Only one person stood and closed the scanner he had been using to search the house. He put the scanner in his breast pocket and straightened out his suit before he turned and began walking over to Luther.
"Commander Luther. It’s a pleasure. We’re only here to handle some business. Once we’re finished, we’ll be on our way."
Luther’s frown almost made his brows touch with how deep it was! His anger began to grow in intensity and there was an aura of mana surrounding him already! He spoke in a low, gruff voice.
"I said, who are you?"
The man smiled.
"Who we are isn’t important, commander. All you need to know is that we outrank you by many levels, so you have no need to worry. We’ll be on our way very soon."
The man was a whole head shorter than Luther, but he didn’t look intimidated at all. In fact, it was almost like he found the entire situation amusing!
"Go and call the others. We’re arresting all of them!"
Luther immediately turned and gave an order to the Enforcer that had come with him, but the suited man suddenly raised his hand and stopped them both before they could do anything. The man reached into his pocket and brought out a slip of paper before handing it to Luther. The slip of paper had a single number printed on it and nothing else. The man then spoke reassuringly.
"Call that number and you’ll have everything you need to know about us."
Luther frowned down at the number before he took it and handed it to the Enforcer beside him while telling him to call it. The man quickly put the number into his phone and it rang for a few seconds before someone picked up. The lower-ranked Enforcer put it up to his ear and spoke.
"Hello, yes, this is Lieutenant George from the Superhuman Enforcers. We have some people here who are – I’m sorry, what? Uhm, no. No, sorry, sir! Shit, I’m sorry, I had – No, there’s no need for that sir. Uhm, yes, there’s a superior officer here! At once!"
The lieutenant leaned away from the phone like it was burning coal and he quickly stretched it out to the commander with a panicked look on his face! Commander Luther rose a brow at the lieutenant and the lieutenant whispered.
"It’s the Chief Commander!"
Luther blinked curiously before his brow furrowed into knots! What? The Chief Commander! Did the Lieutenant even know what he was saying? There was no way the Chief Commander’s number would be that easy to get! The Chief Commander was the general head of all the Enforcers in America. He was the only one with the authority to mobilize any Enforcer to any part of the country without needing to pass through any red tape, so he was the single most powerful man in the country after the president!
"Take that phone away from me. The Chief Commander isn’t some random person you can contact on any day. It’s a trick."
Luther waved the phone away in annoyance without bothering to answer it and the lieutenant was shocked when the phone suddenly clicked off on its own. Luther turned back to the man in front of him and he raised a brow when he saw that the man was still smiling.
"What the hell are you smiling at? You think I’m finished with –"
Ring~! Ring~! Ring~!
Commander Luther’s phone suddenly began to ring and he turned to look at it in surprise. He glanced back at the man smiling in front of him and frowned again before he turned around and grabbed his phone. He looked at the number there and he felt his eyes widen in shock as he slowly picked up and put it to his ear.
"Sir."
[Luther. Did you not hear that I wanted to speak with you?]
"I apologize, sir. I didn’t think it was really you."
[Okay. The men here are not to be interfered with, leave them to complete their business and they will be out of your way soon.]
"But sir. They are taking the bodies."
[Yes, that is what they do.]
"And who exactly are ’they,’ sir?"
[That is on a need-to-know basis, Luther. The only thing you are allowed to know is that they are part of an organization called Gaia. Now, do as I say. Do you understand?]
"Of course, sir."
Click!
The phone clicked off at once and Luther squeezed his hand so tight that he almost broke his phone to pieces! He took in a calming breath before turning back to the man. The bastard was still smiling at Luther like he didn’t have a care in the world and Luther ignored him after a few seconds and turned to the lieutenant.
"Go out and help the others with creating the perimeter. When they are done, wait for my signal before returning."
The lieutenant didn’t need to be told twice before he turned and left immediately. Luther folded his hands and stood to the side patiently and the man gave him a thankful nod as he turned back to continue what he had been doing. The men scanned the entirety of what had once been Jason’s apartment and they cleared out some strange scales and fur that had fallen to the floor before they grabbed all the bodies lying around as well as two large pieces of luggage that had survived the fire. The bodies were strangely inhuman. Even though they were burnt, they still retained their general shapes or appearance and Luther couldn’t help but notice that some of them were almost like aliens.
Luther wondered how they planned to take the bodies away since they were supposed to be a secret organization. There was no way they would allow the public to see them carrying those strange bodies away and they wouldn’t be able to go out unnoticed due to the sheer number of people outside. Luther waited for a few seconds and his question was answered when all ten men suddenly vanished from right in front of him.
’Teleportation? That had to be an S Rank special skill at least.’
Luther’s brow furrowed and clicked his tongue before he simply shook his head and turned to call the other men in for their own investigation. Luthor was a soldier and he understood that there were some things in this world that you were better off not knowing.