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In the secret headquarters of Team 4, Carmen is in the living room. She looks at the monitors, together with Alexia, who is sitting on the chair, and Carmen is next to her. Alexia proceeds to type fast into the keyboard connected to the super computer that is able to hold the connection between the four monitors.

"What is it?" asks Carman after she sees Alexia feeling a little distraught.

"It is nothing," says Alexia, feeling a little angry. "It's just right. A librarian has thrown some books into the trash. Rather than keeping them somewhere else, he decides to throw them away. That kind of man makes me want to personally go at him, strangle him and suck out all of his blood."

"Y-You want to go at him?"

"Cannot. Because of the sun," says Alexia, then she turned to Carmen. "Can you go and fetch those books from the trash can? This would be a great test to see the progress of your agility and endurance."

"Is it far?"

"Just three kilometres away from here. Almost a mile for you British girl."

"Okay… I'll do it. How many should I bring?"

"All of them if you can."

"Got it." she said to Alexia, was the last thing she said before she headed out of the headquarters, with a task on her mind, to collect a few books from the trash cans and bring them to what looked like an abandoned book store.

Carmen leaves the headquarters, and she walks a few meters before she proceeds to do a light jog for the next one mile. She did that running without throwing a sweat from her body, which is described as a weird sensation, since she is always sweating bullets and breathing heavily even after one minute of running.

After a while, Carmen arrives at the front trash can, which is filled with what looks like old books in bad shape or very deteriorated. And some of them were not in English, nor in any language Carmen speaks. It was in some sort of Latin language. She had never heard of it. There are only three bags of books, all of them are in white bags, strong enough to hold about twenty litres of corn if we measure on the liquid scale.

She took the two bags there without a sweat. She looked confused at those bags, like they were lighter than a bag full of pillows, rather than books with one hundred or more than five hundred pages of contents. Before she would think of taking the third bag, Carmen heard the door from the backdoor of the building getting opened. She could hear the sound like it was really near to her, but in reality, it was two meters away. Carmen proceeds to run out from there with the bags full of books.

After a few minutes, she arrives in front of the abandoned library.

Thankfully, nobody asked her about the books she was carrying. And we are living in a time when most people say they will be reading more often, but in reality, they throw them out somewhere, and after a year or two they go where they left. Carmen goes to the backside of the building, and there, she does the process as she had done earlier to get here and she will do it for the next years to come.

Carmen enters the building's interior, and as she gets there, Alexia walks towards her. She immediately took a book out of there. She looks at it. Her reaction was intriguing because as she took a book, she quickly started to look through the pages, then she looked at Carmen.

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"The content of this book shows the structure of a Grangara virus."

"What virus? And have you read it this fast?" asks Carmen, overwhelmed.

"It is a creature, as you individuals from the first dimension are calling it monsters, who is able to infect a body, and transform into a body of rock. Then the transformation in a mineral would start to happen, but it will take at least five hours. Thankfully, there is a cure to something like this. We have always prepared since an individual who comes from the second dimension comes here regularly."

"I see" responded Carmen, who had not understood anything Alexia taught her.

"I see your passive functions have started to manifest," said Alexia to Carmen, who proceeded to hold the bags of books like nothing. "These passives are always appearing at the first stages of transformation. In a few weeks you will be getting the first abilities."

"Abilities?"

"Superpowers," responds Alexia. "Um. You should stay in the living room. Our leader wanted to have a word with you."

"Really?"

"Yes. He has come from the discussion he had. And he wanted to have a few words to you. Regarding the work position, but do not worry, it is just small talk. Nothing too complicated."

Carmen goes into the living room, reflecting on the things her co-worker Alexia told her. While she is out in that room, Alexia continues to browse through the books Carmen brought her for her reading passion.

The moment she gets into that living room, she sees there Kyle, who is looking at the monitors, focused on all of the four monitors, not even hearing the footsteps of the carmen entering the room. He almost jumped out of his seat when Carmen asked him.

"What is this?"

"Ah. Um. I am checking the area." says Kyle. "Nothing too serious. Just a small check." responds Kyle, taking a look to be sure Carmen was the one asking this question. "It looks like things are going fine. No invasion of our areas. Well. Not yet."

"What do you mean by "not yet"?"

"Some creatures are very easily readable. Like a species which is half cat and half pigeon. He enters the first dimension. He doesn't cause any damage to the environment or to the individuals of the first dimension, but a creature who can inflect creepy feelings into them, still has to be captured and sent back or killed, but we rarely kill creatures coming from that dimension. We kill them if they present a dangerous threat to the people."

"I understand," says Carmen, surprised. She sits on the couch and she looks around. "Are you happy working here?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" says Kyle, looking confused at Carmen. "I have a job. I get money for doing a job this fun. And the people here… are good."

"Thanks," said Carmen, thinking the good people were a compliment which was sent to her.

After a few minutes, a man with black hair and a staff on his back, dressed like a normal human being enters the room. He looks around, and he sees Carmen sitting on the couch. The man looks at Kyle.

"Good day, Leader!" says Kyle, rising from his seat and saluting like a soldier in the Army.

"Good day, Kyle leader" says the leader in a tired tone. "How is, your status?"

"The status of our area is running well."

"Good," says the leader with a smile on his face, and he looks at Carmen. "You must be Carmen. My name is Navy. I am the leader of Team 4. Nice to meet you." he looked at her with an interested look.

"N-Nice to meet you." responds Carmen, a bit nervous because she never thought her leader would be looking like this, a male probably in his 30s who is heavily sexualized in romance novels. Women are usually reading them on trains or at their homes, half naked.

"Let's go to my office," he says to the carman. "We need to talk about the work information. Follow me."

Navy, the leader of Team 4, is walking forward down the main hall. Carmen follows the Leader to where he heads. It looked like a metal door with a sign in an unknown language to her.

At the moment, Navy got close to the metallic door, he got the retina test and vocalic test to make the door open. After he has done the testing, he enters the room, followed by Carmen's boss, who is feeling nervous because she is entering the office of her first boss. The leader whom she is going to work for the next few years.