Grey Cop Issue #2: To Catch a Conman

(inspired by lots of details from Human Revolution)

 

As I strode of the stores one by one, three informants were standing there already. It seems like that they have anticipated me coming.

 

"What'd you want?"

 

One of the informant's accent was Canadian. The second one popped up behind me, speaking with a heavy Korean tone, "I believe it's the autopsy you're looking for, detective." The third one just approaches me like the first one, and her accent seemed European.

 

Adrian: Well, take a look at this. ZF-11.

Informant 2: Ahh, yes, this one. The bullet that killed the body. Informant 1: The hospital doesn't have the record because someone erased it. The killer is on the run.

Informant 3: But he wants the autopsy too, because the client he killed was an important man.

Adrian: What do you know about him?

Informant 1: Involved in financial schematics, briefly an art dealer. But I won't disclose the name.

Informant 3: ZF-11----that comes from Outerdyne's manufacturing. Rumours it's actually a cover for a micrographics company, but it doesn't seem like it. There's another rumor that the board was embezzling money from a conman which was used to fund their products.

Adrian: How do I find him?

Informant 2: He might be at the Piazza de Duomo. But hurry. This is all the information you need for now.

Informant 3: Outerdyne could have tracked our location now. Their mercenaries could be here. Go.

 

I proceed to leave the market in quickly, and give a call to Caroline.

 

Adrian: It's Outerdyne. The company that could cover itself as a micrographics company. Mercenaries could coming to silence me. I have to look for a conman at the Piazza de Duomo. He's somewhere over there, hiding. Might be in disguise.

Caroline: Hmm...my men can track him down. I'll send you the coordinates later. We'll look into information on Outerdyne if we can.

Adrian: Thanks.

 

I hop on to a ESP owned vehicle parked nearby and head for the quickest path.

 

*Around 7 minutes later...

 

Shit. Some mercenaries have been a step ahead, carrying guns. There is a big crowd around but it would be harder to identify the conman.

 

Adrian: Caroline, how many mercenaries are there?

Adrian: Caroline?

*interruption

Unnamed hacker *with modified voice*: Hello Adrian. It's me.

Adrian: Who are you? How'd you get in my comm?

Unnamed hacker: You don't remember? Really, one of your biggest fans?

Adrian: Oscar?

Oscar: Yeah, that's me. I held off the ESP for a while to talk to you, thanks to my brain I tracked your location. There are at least 8 armed mercenaries in this area, and maybe a dozen more somewhere close by. The conman is going to be in danger, because the Tranquility is also in this area too.

Adrian: Fuck.

Oscar: I called you because I needed you to help me retrieve something, but finish your mission now first. I'll fill you in once you're done, if you call back.

Adrian: Just don't hack in interrupted.

Oscar: Ok, I'm out for now.

 

I activate a scanner while the ESP's comm resumes to normal and explain to Caroline what happened. When I finish, the crowd seems to get lesser, and I am now stuck in between an assassin, some mercenaries and a conman I'm trying look for.

Done