HA1 2.1 - Making Use of Old Skill
Kibou International Hospital was one of the three best hospitals in Nikko. Today Hide and Aizawa visited it for a medical check-up.
And tonight, Hide visited Kibou Hospital one more time. Apart from wearing an office worker outfit, he wore neutral glasses, a fake mustache, and carried a rather worn out office bag. He also deliberately made his appearance a little crumpled, like an employee who was working overtime.
The clock showed 01:30 when Hide walked slowly through the employee parking area to the staff entrance. Then, it took only a few seconds for Hide to open the locked door. With ease he then found the HR Room, and once again it only took him a matter of seconds to open its locked door.
'Not much has changed.'
Hide immediately turned the light in the room on. Not long after that, he was already working on a computer in the corner of the room.
The SFG curriculum was not always concerned with combat tactics. For personnel who were being prepared to carry out covert operations at domestic and foreign land, knowledge and ability to utilize local resources without leaving a trace were considered as important as combat capability.
In his previous life, in the training phase at 1st SFG, Hide often had to infiltrate various facilities in Nichiko, both government and private, to obtain resources needed to support an operation.
During his training Hide had infiltrated Kibou Hospital five times to take drugs, chemicals, or even use its laboratory.
Therefore, for Hide, infiltrating Kibou Hospital was no different from child's play because he had memorized the layout, procedures and security rotation, working hours of various units to the habits of the personnel, and other information.
In half an hour, Hide managed to print an ID card and a chemist file using a combination of his fake photo and personal data from his memory.
After putting his fake file to the employee filing cabinet, Hide erased any digital traces. Then, he inserted virus that would damage some of the employee's database so that re-registration had to be done using hardcopy files.
When Hide exited the HR room, several nurses on night duty passed by, but no one suspected that he was not an HR staff at Kibou Hospital. Some of the nurses even smiled sweetly at him.
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Tropical Disease Research Center was a research institute for deadly tropical diseases. It was massively supported by Nikko government. However, because Nikko was not located in a tropical region and free from deadly tropical diseases, the TDRC laboratory was then being established in tropical countries such as Bharat, Indo, and Villipine, in collaboration with local universities.
In the country, the TDRC Laboratory was only used to store research data, small-scale research, or educational purposes, and the only TDRC laboratory in Nikko was located at Kibou Hospital.
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With casual steps Hide walked towards TDRC Lab in the eastern complex. Of course, he was already wearing a lab coat and the ID card he had previously prepared. The identity he used was Arnulfo Lim, a Hoa ethnic and medical student with Villipine nationality.
In Hide's fake profile, Arnulfo received scholarship recommendation from the Head of TDRC Lab in Villipine. He had been studying at Tendou University since one month ago, but only four days ago he started visiting TDRC Lab to support Professor Kurokawa's research, the mentor who gave him scholarship recommendation.
Like most laboratories in Nikko, TDRC Laboratory operates 24/7. Of course, the number of laboran who worked at night was only one or two people, and Hide didn't need to greet them because even the smallest greeting could disturb their concentration.
As soon as he entered TDRC Lab, Hide looked for an empty workbench specifically used for short-duration work. From a cabinet he took pipette, condenser, thermometer, digital timer, beaker, measuring cup, spatula, test tube, digital table scale, and several other pieces of equipment, and then set them on the table.
Next, he took chemicals from another cabinet. Of course, there were some chemicals or semi-processed materials that he had to take from special storage room.
As for the locks, Hide had no trouble opening them as long as he had the necessary tools. Some chemicals were stored in refrigerator with a digital locking mechanism, but fortunately Hide did not need chemicals that were stored in that place.
After filling in the logbook for chemicals that required an end-user letter, Hide then started working. With confidence, he even used a protein analyzer that was not widely known to the public. Of course in his previous life, the tool already became a common commodity when Hide started using it.
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Otsu was a senior researcher at TDRC, and she had a habit of working at night to avoid drinking invitations from her colleagues.
Like any other day, tonight Otsu spent her time at TDRC Laboratory. When a young laboran entered the lab, she only glanced at the logo on his lab coat that showed he was a visiting student. Most likely was a recipient of a master's scholarship, and his outer look showed that he was an ethnic Hoa, maybe from Villipine or Vormossa.
Well, ethnic Hoa was spread all over on Planet Terra and because Nikko provided scholarships to students from various countries, it was not surprising that one or two of the recipients were ethnic Hoa.
It's just that, why did the visiting students seem very familiar with the layout at TDRC Lab?
He was picking up item by item as if TDRC Lab was his house. Moreover, he also took reagents commonly used to liquefy narcotics and some semi-finished ingredients which were categorized as anesthetic substances.
Otsu instantly frowned, especially after she saw that the visiting student was aware of the logbook procedure for chemicals that required an end-user letter.
It was a common practice that in the world of chemical engineering, several reagents required an end-user letter. The example for this practice was reagents that could also be used to liquefy narcotics or used as catalysts when manufacturing certain explosives.
The end-user letter must not only state the research that being carried out, but must also be signed by an official in the institution where the user carried out the research. For a university, the end-user letter would require at least the signature from head of the department.
After obtaining an end-user letter, the prospective users would then place the orders on the suppliers. The purchase generally took 1-2 months. Therefore, prospective users must take into account the time-table for their research.
Fortunately, the researcher and laboran at TDRC Lab did not need to undergo such complicated process when they needed a reagent with an end-user letter. Because somehow, TDRC Lab always had adequate supplies for every reagent with an end-user letter.
The researcher and laboran only needed to fill in the logbook before they used the reagents with an end-user letter. After that, there would be a staff that specifically took care of the administrative procedure. Of course, only senior researchers were aware of this cheating procedure.
That's why it was very unnatural if a visiting student knew about it. Otsu immediately stopped her work. She wanted to know what products that the visiting student would make.
And one hour later Otsu dropped her jaw as she stared at tens of vials filled with light blue liquid, neatly arranged in the working bench of the visiting student. As a senior researcher, it only took Otsu a glance to realize that the blue liquid was a drug.
'What the… He's making drugs.'
Otsu didn't know whether she should admire the bravery of the visiting student or curse his stupidity.
Moreover, in the process of making the drugs, the visiting student used a relatively new protein analyzer, where until now only the head of the lab and his assistants knew how to operate the device.
Without delay, Otsu approached the visiting student who without any guilt used government facilities and materials to produce drug.
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