"jeno you're finding some things?" mark asked nervously, his eyes shifting from jeno's screen to the door.

they had infiltrated the building and got to the offices' floor, in which hundreds of employees came everyday to work under lee sooman's orders. chenle and jisung had gone to the cells in order to free the rest of nct, jaemin was walking around to keep watch, renjun was told to wait in the car, and jeno and mark were looking for more information inside the computer system of the building.

"all the computers are linked one to another." jeno said, not detaching his eyes from the screen. "they are all minor computers though, i can't open all the files of the network. however, there is one computer that controls all of them. and i guess it is sooman's computer, so, it should be in his office."

"and can't you, i don't know, hack into the system and unlock whatever blocks these computers?" mark inquired.

jeno stared at him. "really? do you think computer science is something this easy?"

"no, that's why i'm not doing it."

jeno shrugged before looking back to the screen and switching it off.

"let's go. we need to find sooman's office. do you have an idea where it could be?" jeno asked.

"i've never come here." mark scoffed.

both boys got out of the room and walked towards the stairs.

"can't you think?" jeno asked annoyed.

"johnny has his office at the top of his building. that's all i know. perhaps sooman did the same." mark said, climbing up the stairs.

"then let's go to the last floor." jeno said following mark.

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"stay in the car..." renjun pouted. "why am i the one who should stay in the car?!" he whined.

he had been waiting for a bit more than twenty minutes now, and he was slowly getting annoyed. first, it was a bit past ten, meaning the sky was pitch black, and the boys had parked the car in a dark alley hidden few blocks away from the building, sending shivers down renjun's spine.

just when he was thinking about calling one of the members, the boot and a door opened, revealing some members from 127 and wayv.

"which weapons did you bring form the lab?" renjun heard yangyang asking.

"did you think about my grenade launcher?" lucas' voice whispered in the background as taeyong's looked inside the car.

"what is renjun doing here?" he asked immediately, turning towards chenle and jisung.

"hum... he..." chenle looked nervously to his closest friend.

"yeah, he... mark said he could be useful!" jisung helped him.

"useful? in a car?" taeyong raised a brow.

"his father is a policeman." chenle stated.

"that's a good reason for not bringing him there." taeyong answered.

"no, sooman has problems with the police." renjun piped in, bringing the attention on him, "t-they told me to stay in the car and call the police when i'll receive the order..." he explained.

taeyong thought for a second.

"i'll have a word with mark." he stated. "for now, you stay here, and you do exactly what we tell you."

renjun nodded. the doors of the car and the boot were closed, leaving renjun once again alone in the dark.

"it's never going well for the one who's in the car..." he groaned.

but he hadn't much choice... so he waited. 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, half an hour...

he felt useless there. the action was taking place in a rich man's building, and he was just guarding a car. he hadn't received any call since he had seen nct.

taking a look couldn't be so bad, could it?

anyways, renjun opened the car's door and walked out, closing the door doing the fewer noise possible. he put the keys in his pocket after locking the auto, and he headed towards the biggest source of light of this scary night: the "lee business" building.

XXXXXXXXXX

"why are you on my father's side?"

donghyuck was peacefully sitting in the middle of his cell, so that the person guarding him couldn't reach him. he had already done this mistake: standing to close to the bars, and he had been harshly slapped. so, now, he was taking precautions.

he was certain that nct would find a way to get them out of here. they were a gang after all, what can't they do?

the guard sitting on a chair outside donghyuck's cell, a gun in his hand.

"can you please stop talking? you're getting on my nerves."

donghyuck shook his head. "i'm imprisoned, might get something out of it. are you a member of exo?"

"yes i am." the guard said.

"what was your name again?"

"it's do kyungsoo." the guy said rubbing his temples.

"oh yeah! i had forgotten... you are small for a gang member."

kyungsoo raised to his feet, clutching on his gun. "and?"

"nothing... i was just pointing it out..." donghyuck played with his own fingers. "so, why are you on my father's side?"

kyungsoo sat back. "because he's the one who formed our gang."

"why are you after me then?"

kyungsoo looked at donghyuck. "after you?"

"yes, why did you try to kill me? my waist is still hurting." donghyuck told rubbing on his right side.

"i can't tell you." the guard simply said.

"why? i am confined. i can't do anything. and, i'll probably be dead soon, so it won't change anything if i know or not."

kyungsoo chuckled. "you're quite curious and confident for a boy of your age... anyway, i guess you're right. it won't change anything..."

"tell me then. why did you try to kill me?"

"we didn't try to kill you. we just needed to scare nct enough so that they could protect you at all costs."

donghyuck raised a brow. "why?"

"because you, donghyuck, are the key element of sooman's greatest plan ever." kyungsoo smirked. "thanks to you, sooman will finally get rid of nct."