A new black window popped up on the computer screen.
Target Locked: Nokia Communicator
Microphone Permissions: Acquired.
GPS Location: Acquired.
"Now, Alexei, you are transparent to me."
Alice snapped her fingers in satisfaction, unplugged the data cable, and skillfully performed a low-level format on the Motorola phone, clearing the original tracking chips and backdoors before rewriting it with her own encryption system.
"From now on, you're my dedicated receiving terminal."
She tucked the wiped phone into her pocket.
With it, she could receive updates on Alexei's movements anytime, anywhere, without having to stay glued to the computer.
Wednesday morning.
The streets of Forest Hills were bathed in golden sunlight.
Aunt Sarah's mood today was incredibly good.
Since using Alice's specially made aloe repair cream, her hands had fully recovered, even becoming fairer and smoother than before.
She hummed a tune while frying bacon in the kitchen, preparing a deluxe sandwich lunch with strawberry jam for Alice for the first time.
While stuffing the sandwich into Alice's backpack, Sarah nagged, "Even if it's just a company visit, that's the Osborn Group, one of the most high-end places in all of New York. If some department head takes a liking to you and you intern there later, we'll never have to worry about that damn landlord again."
"Don't worry, Aunt Sarah, I'm very interested in it too."
Alice obediently took the backpack.
But inside the hidden compartment of that seemingly ordinary pink backpack, alongside the sandwich and textbooks, was a neatly arranged row of lead-lined sampling test tubes and several toys improvised from soda bottles and chemical reagents.
Stepping out of the apartment building.
The yellow school bus was already parked at the intersection, swallowing and spitting out the noisy morning crowd of high schoolers.
"Hey, Alice, over here."
Just as she got on the bus, Peter Parker waved excitedly from the back row.
He had specifically saved a seat with his backpack, sitting next to fat Ned, who was playing a handheld game console.
Alice walked over and calmly sat next to Peter under Flash Thompson's evasive and fearful gaze.
Since Monday's pink foam volcano incident, Flash looked at Alice like a mouse seeing a cat.
Knowledge is power; the ancients did not deceive me.
"Did you see today's news?"
Peter handed over a newspaper, pointing at a piece of news in the science and technology section.
"Mr. Norman Osborn will personally demonstrate their latest breakthrough in cross-species genetics during today's visit. Just like we discussed that day, it's about a super-vector that can fuse different biological traits."
Peter spoke rapidly with excitement, like a pilgrim going to a holy site.
"If I get to meet Mr. Norman, I must ask him about genetic decay. Do you think he'd pay attention to a high schooler like me?"
"I think he will."
Alice looked at the gaunt-faced middle-aged man in the newspaper, whose eyes betrayed a certain ruthlessness.
Norman Osborn.
A genius and a madman standing on the edge of a cliff.
"Besides, I think today's visit will be even more exciting than you imagine."
Alice said meaningfully.
Just then, the wiped Motorola phone in her pocket vibrated.
The monitoring program was sending back a high-priority alert.
Alice quietly took out the phone and glanced at it.
On the map, several red dots representing the Russian Mafia were moving toward the necessary route from New Jersey to Queens.
And that road happened to be just a few kilometers away from Osborn Tower, near the return route the school bus would take.
"The vehicle is about to arrive at Osborn Tower."
With a shout from the bus driver, a magnificent building in the shape of an inverted trapezoid, covered entirely in a dark green glass curtain wall, appeared in everyone's view.
The massive OSCORP logo shimmered in the sunlight with the radiance of wealth and technology.
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