DOOMED TO BE A VILLAIN

Chapter 172 CHAPTER 172: COMPANY ATTACK

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"I was just about to call you," Davies began saying immediately after he picked up the call, but before he could continue, Daniella's sudden rush of words hit him from the other end of the phone.

"The company is under attack!!!" Daniella exclaimed almost losing control of her disguised voice.

"What?" 

"What do you mean the company is under attack?"

"I just updated the security syste-…" 

"Oh… I see," he had first begun to shoot off surprised words at how he didn't think such a thing was possible as he had just updated his security systems to levels that could even keep out a fourth-stage Mega for at least an hour, but then his eyes had widened as he came to a realization.

While it was true that he had indeed upgraded the machinery that constituted his security system to unbelievable levels, it was also true that those things needed power to work… a lot of it, which was why he had not bothered with trying to find an emergency backup power supply.

It was simply because there was currently no existing backup power supply that could be used with such heavy machinery. If he wanted one, then he'd have to create it himself…

Since he was too laz-… ahem swamped with work to create it, he hadn't done it yet… which led to the current situation, but in his defense, he hadn't been expecting the whole city's power supply to be busted.

'Maybe I should set my own power generation system,' he thought leisurely, unlike what would have been expected of someone who was told that his house was currently on fire and some idiots were trying to break in and steal his prized possessions.

Just like his reaction, he was actually not that bothered and his reason for being so relaxed was because he knew that nothing would come of the actions of whichever idiot was currently attacking his company's building.

He had remained cautious since the last time his building was attacked… which wasn't even that long ago, so there was nothing that they could steal or destroy that would even warrant a bit of unease from him.

Every piece of information concerning the project "words make up the world" was safely stashed on his satellite in space so it was unreachable by such threats... And this was even if they had the slightest idea that he had a satellite in the first place.

As for breaking into the 140th floor... Well...

Let's just say that would be a huge waste of time as there was currently nothing on that floor.

If the 139th floor was where Davies worked on software, calculations, and other things in that classification, then the 140th floor was where his ideas and classifications come to life.

In other words, the 139th floor was supposed to be the idea palace where the ideas were generated and designed, while the 140th floor was the idea factory where the generated ideas were given life.

Davies had not been idle the whole week he had been poisoned by Darlena Santos. He had finished the top-offs and even the physical framework of his second trump card.

Since then, he had not had any need of those two floors for now and there was nothing important there... Like at all... So there was no reason to feel any unease about the current situation. 

But, putting aside the fact that he wasn't feeling any unease... There was no way that Davies had any goodwill towards people who were attacking his things and trying to steal them, continuously pushing his buttons.

This was the second time already, and it hasn't even been a week. If he didn't do anything about this soon, then people would start thinking that he was some soft persimmon that wouldn't revolt no matter how far they pushed him...

He couldn't have that.

Also, the constant attacks were beginning to get annoying, so this time he wanted to find a way to release some of that annoyance on whichever scapegoat made himself available for an ass whopping. 

"So... What's the situation?" he asked.

"I... Don't know," Daniella replied, her voice hesitant.

"..."

"What do you mean you don't know?" Davies asked as if he couldn't believe his ears.

'What does she mean she doesn't know?'

'What has she been doing since finding out that the company is under attack?' he wondered internally.

"I can't go to the company right now..." Daniella's voice came across from the other side of the phone, sounding a bit too calm for someone whose boss just questioned her commitment.

Davies's eyes immediately widened in realization as soon as he heard her eerily calm voice, but he still asked the question anyway,

"Why?"

As the best boss in the world... Or so he thought to himself, he knew his employee as well as she knew him, so he knew quite a few of her habits.

He knew that Daniella had a habit of being eerily calm when she was about to enter battle with anyone... And the calmer she was, the stronger she perceived her opponent to be.

From how calm she was, he could sense that she was about to fight someone... And said person wasn't weak, but he still asked because he wasn't sure whether she would be able to deal with whoever was blocking her keeping her occupied right now.

Despite how heartless Davies was, Daniella still took priority inside his stone-cold heart as compared to a building with literally nothing important present in there, so he needed to know if the 'road block' in her way was life-threatening, or not.

"There is a bug crossing the street, it may take some time to kill it," Just as he had expected, she gave an answer that affirmed his thoughts. 

"Can you handle it," he asked.

"It's a bug... Of course, I can handle it,"

"Other than it flying around annoyingly, it can't do anything to me," Daniella replied, her tone sounding a bit condescending, but Davies knew that it was her confidence speaking...

Yet... "Don't forget that even the tiniest of bugs can harm you if you're not cautious enough, be careful," Davies said and hung up the phone, not waiting for a response. 

He was happy that she was strong enough to be that confident, yet more than anyone else, he knew that one could never be too dismissive and should always stay cautious because even the most harmless-looking people could be more dangerous than one could think.

He had gotten to personally experience such a situation so he knew to always be cautious, and he had made sure to try and teach Daniella to do the same, but so far, she hadn't been listening to this part of his lessons.

Since she had said that she could deal with the 'road blocking bug', then he should go and deal with what was going on at the compa...

'Hold up just a minute...' his eyes suddenly widened.

'Isn't all this too coincidental?' He suddenly realized.

[What is?] Just like usual, whenever he asked a question in his mind, Miya had another question to follow up with.

'Don't tell me you still don't see it?' he asked, his mind running in circles as he put things together and calculated their implications. 

[Put what together?] she still asked, not seeing what he was expecting her mind to magically put together. 

'... *sigh*..." 

"Let me start from the top..."

"While we were trying to find Davies's tracks, the whole city experienced a blackout, causing us to lose sight of him,"

[So...?] 

'I'm getting there,' Davies said, indicating for her not to hurry him as his head was still processing quite a lot of things.

'While I had gone to meet Melinda, someone kidnapped Romero, Tisha's little brother during the blackout, making his movements, motives, and tracks almost impossible to find...' Davies began to explain,

'As if that was not enough, while I was here with Tisha and Teresa,'

'Someone attacked the company building and at the same time sent someone to block Daniella from reaching the company and interrupting their actions...

But no one was sent to try to block me or anything like that...'

'...It's almost like... like... they know all my movements,' he suddenly realized.

[...!]

[Are you being watched?] Miya asked.

'I don't think so... If I was being watched, I should know, unless the person is a godsent talent that is perfect at hiding his presence,' he knew that with his painfully inherited instincts, sneaking up on him without special methods was no more than a pipe dream for whoever was attempting it.

[If they weren't watching you... Then how would they know your movements?] Miya asked in an unbelieving tone.

'Well, they wouldn't need to watch me if they already knew everything that I was going to do today,' his mind immediately went back to his earlier thoughts and so he couldn't throw away his hypothesis about the situation away just because it sounded like a lot of BS. 

There were way too many strange things in this world for him to be unbelieving in the fact that someone could see the future and this led to his next thoughts...

'If someone who could really see the future was behind this chain of events... Then wouldn't I be walking into a trap by going to the Imperium building?'