Hotel Chain General Manager: Quarterly Update
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"Several markets performed very strong. Italy's got an uptick this summer, same goes for Brazil and Mexico. Plenty of interesting bodies there. We hit quite a jackpot when there's this adult performer award show in Tulum, we took over the hotel operation just a week before the event and then right on the D-Day afterparty, that's total chaos. Bodies tumbling one by one like dominos, the one taken over earlier started to spread it to the others, a very successful process,"
"And for the regular guests?"
"Well, the hotel was fully booked for 4 days by the organizer, so all of them eventually taken over one way or the other. Even the ones that skipped the afterparty were taken over right on their bed,"
"But it's not your main star, if I have to judge from that gold star you put there on the islands,"
"Yes, it's not, because the Caribbean saw the highest uptick of takeover, sir,"
"Well, all are as expected. It's summer, people let their guards down and we slid right there during the peak of the season. Any notable figures I need to know? Porn stars are....great, I even probably need to search the footage myself since Tulum is not in my system yet, but that's nothing new and we've seen plenty of that, your desert takeover literally filled by them to be honest,"
"Depending on what you determine as notable for the season, sir. Several prominent name includes Charlie Byle and his best friend, Aristotle Zhao, pretty big Tiktok influencer with more than 8 million followers comb---"
"Ck, that's not my---"
"--- plus Zhao's father is actually an American spy deep inside the CCP's upper leadership system. He's a mining landlord and Aristotle will inherit all of the family's business,"
"Now that's interesting. Okay, and the Byle boy is just a regular.....influencer?"
"His mother worked in the NSA under the guise of working in the Department of Education and Byle actually served as the messenger between US government and Zhao's father,"
"Imagine the kind of leverage we can get with them under our control LOL. We could literally start a nuclear war or big purge of each other's spies between US and China HAHAHAH!"
"Very true sir. We managed to gain info on them and built our dossier about them from several helpful fella in that cyber-intelligence gathering before the 4th of July in our New Mexico unit. Anyway, continuing the report from our chain operation in the Bahamas, other notable names include Kasper Berecki, a Polish-born, naturalized American music producer for the current pop stars and Pascal---"
"Music producer? Well, that will certainly help us to produce more audio or songs with subliminal messaging that could help us to gain even more bodies ready to be harvested. Heck, we might not even need the hotel method anymore if his "injected songs" actually reached global popularity, am I correct?"
"Yes, correct. That's why we targeted him in the first place and provided him with an offer to use our facilities for brainstorming with his clientele. Let's just say, by Christmas, we'll get some top global talents under our wrap. But anyway, we also managed to gain Pascal Moreira, the renowned bodyguard that formerly worked for the security of some high-level UN official and global celebrities and Elliott Clark, the dual-national COO of that private military contractor firm, Apex Battle,"
"Love the sound of that. Hmmmm....let me......h...hhhh..m...mmmmm.......ohhh.....Elliot put up quite a fight, didn't he? Based on the memories of his takeover process, fuck, he yanked off that tiny little fella right before it slid in. The guy is nuts,"
"Yeah, we are aware of his---"
"And he split 'em into two by simply stretching 'em, fucking brutal to be honest, totally torn them apart. Lucky you sent a---"
"Yes, we are aware of the danger so we did send a more....resilient type. They might be slower in movement but they are as resilient as a cockroach. We did some testing to it before deployment, and now we have like 20 of them in the wild just waiting for the right guests to takeover,"
"Splendid. You really absorbed all sort of knowledge about hotel operation from this meat Youssef, guess he really has more than just brawn,"
"Yeah, it even surprised me a bit on how intelligent and well-connected he is. Guess all these muscles ain't just for show and an indicative of smaller brain,"
"Anyway, have you heard from the Prince or Sander on what's next? As I said, within 6 months I would impress you all, I think my performance managing our hotel expansion certainly piqued their attention, and I did that within the timeline I promised,"
"Haven't heard anything from them to be honest,"
"Aw.....hmmm....okay. Well, do vouch for me about all the works I did, okay? I better not see you start acting like a human and pull a knife to stab me on my back, okay? I'm watching you,"
"I did no such thing like that, I'm not like these ass-kissing, slick slimy meat suit. Calm down, will ya? I always showered you with praise in all my update to them. They are just too busy, one of them is a literal Prince for fuck's sake? We are just hotel execs, let's not act like we're the only revolutionaries among our cohorts. Heard that there's this one that literally infected a whole town down under and ran the entire town like nothing happened,"
"Down under as in down under---"
"Australia, correct. Some others took down an entire cartel supply chain, I heard last time Sander focused on that one to create a breakthrough on making the drugs that they supply contaminated with our essence, tiny seedlings that would compounded in human body and with enough consumption, wrestled control of that body without necessarily killing the human brain, a seamless merge. We are much more crude and less advanced compared to those, despite all the tactics we deployed,"
"I see.....sorry for not trusting you. It's just.....I thought I did very great already and Sander will surely rewarded me for my effort without thinking that others might pull off even better or bigger feats than me. Guess I need to broaden my horizon and asked around to our fellas not necessarily involved in the hotel scene and see what they're up to,"
"Well, you are indeed doing great, and I want you to keep working hard, so no worries, I'll update you when I heard from them,"
"Okay then, thanks for the session, Armand. I'll see you around,"
As he sees Youssef left the premise of the building, Armand quickly opened his laptop to check for the scheduled call. He joined the meeting room
"Hello Armand, glad to see you here. Okay, any update?" asked Sander while the Prince looked at him in silence right on the screen
"Umm---yeah, so this is the summer break result by the way. As I mentioned before, my strategy---"
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