Broken Symmetries: Age of Illuminati (17 page)

Chapter 26

Young Nimrod
was in his underground operation room thinking about his next major step. A couple of months ago, he provided Padsha Mali with a private TV satellite station, so that he could broadcast his preaching and faith-healing to the entire world. He looked at the trends and noticed that the viewers of the TV channel had increased dramatically since the last month, but he needed to promote the channel even further.

The private satellites broadcasting Padsha Mali’s preaching had thrust engines attached to them to change their speed and direction around the earth so that their signal transmission to their receiving points on the ground would stay fixed during the great event. ‘Every eye will be on you, Padsha Mali, when the day comes,’
Young Nimrod
thought to himself. ‘This TV station will be the only one working during the apocalypse, so people need to know about it and watch it desperately when that day comes.’

At that moment he saw a message on his screen from someone he hired a while ago. He opened the message to reveal its content:

Dear Kogar

Our current investigation indicates that Lee Shark could be
Young Nimrod
! I will update you when I find more information.

Yours, Mark

‘That is good. Interpol still doesn’t have a clue about my true identity,’
Young Nimrod
thought. Moments ago, he was a bit worried that new clues may lead to him after Prof. Sander’s accidental death, but after seeing the email, he was reassured. He did find Mark’s email a bit strange since it revealed the suspected identity to him so quickly after Ericson’s death! Nevertheless, the email was a relief as it showed that so far no one from those he had hired had reached any essential clues about his identity and his plan!

Because of his influence as a former governor, Kogar was able to reach the police’s classified documents and investigations, however, large international security organizations had private networks which were hard to hack or get information from, so one way to overcome that was by hiring private investigators from within those organizations. Those private investigators would have access to the internal workings and in case they found any clues, he would know about it! Luckily, so far, none of the investigators he hired from the FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol, and Asayish had found any important evidence that could lead to him.

That moment he looked around for Media Rozhgar in his underground operation rooms, but he didn’t see her anywhere and neither did she answer his calls! Since she hadn’t stuck to her usual routine, it left Kogar wondering where she was.

Chapter 27

Media Rozhgar’s cousin, Zaniar, was a previous friend of Mark’s at Interpol. He had left Interpol to work as a private security manager for one of Kogar’s Tek-Brain branches in Erbil after his cousin, who was in close relation with Kogar, encouraged him to do so in return for a good annual salary from Kogar. And Zaniar was the one who suggested Mark’s name when Media told him about Kogar’s desire to hire a private investigator from Interpol & ICPI.

Zaniar had a four year old child who his cousin, Media, loved, and she came to see and play with the child twice a week usually in the evenings for a few hours. Other than that, nobody knew where she was going the rest of the time. Zaniar knew his cousin had close relations with the previous governor, Kogar, and helped him with his important duties, but that was all he knew about their relationship because his cousin was very secretive about it.

Since Kogar had disappeared from the public, many of his communications and deals were done through Media Rozhgar. People didn’t know the reason of his hiding for such a long time. Before, they used to see him frequently on TV interviews and shows, but after his resignation from the position of  governor, he gradually faded away from the public eye. Nobody had heard about him since then, and Mark had only met him once several months ago in regard to his query into the blue light emitters. Their communication since then had only been through email messages which he used to update him about his investigations into
Young Nimrod
’s identity.

***

Last night after Mark and Hast’s lengthy quest into the identity of
Young Nimrod
, Mark decided to meet his old Interpol friend, Zaniar. Since they were close friends, Mark trusted Zaniar implicitly and he was sure that Zaniar would not involve himself with Kogar in any suspicious activity. However, he suspected Zaniar’s cousin, Media Rozhgar, was involved as she was Kogar’s business administrator.

Since Mark didn’t have any direct contact with Kogar except through email, he thought Zaniar’s cousin might help to uncover Kogar’s plan. He decided to meet Zaniar that day so that he could find out more about Media. Once Mark had contacted Zaniar telling him that he was in Erbil with a colleague, Zaniar immediately invited them both to his house that evening. “Do you know if we could meet with your cousin, Media Rozhgar, in person?” Mark asked Zaniar while still on the phone.

“She might visit us tonight,” Zaniar answered “Come to my house and you might be lucky to meet her.”

“That will be great,” Mark said. “We will visit you later.”

Later that evening both Hast and Mark were welcomed at Zaniar’s house. Mark began the conversation by talking about their past at Interpol and Hast asked Zaniar why he had left the organization. One hour later, the doorbell rang. “This could be her,” Zaniar said while going to open the door. He was followed by his four year old child who looked eager to meet the comer.

Once the door opened, Media immediately showed her smile to the child and picked her up and the child was so happy. It was though she was meeting her second mother!

Media Rozhgar had always wanted to have a child, but since her current lover didn’t want to have children nor could marry her because of the public promise he had made during his time in political office, she understood that she wouldn’t have a normal family life if she chose to stay with Kogar, but she was still in love with him and didn’t want to leave him. She regarded Zaniar’s child as her own and she visited Zaniar frequently to spend time with her cousin’s small daughter.

Unlike other days, her cousin had two guests tonight. One of them looked familiar and she remembered him as the Interpol agent who Zaniar recommended for her when Kogar needed to investigate some issues with Virtual-world™. After the introduction and sitting for a while drinking tea, Mark started to ask her questions.

“Sorry to bother you,” Mark said, “but I really would like to meet Kogar again in regard to something very important. Do you think it would be possible to arrange a meeting?”

“I’m sorry, but Kogar is very busy at the moment, and he doesn’t want any meetings, but you have his email, don’t you?” Media said.

“Indeed, but what I need to tell him can’t be discussed over email,” he said.

“I can take your message to him if you’d like,” she said.

“Don’t worry. If you think there is no way to meet him, then we should forget about our meeting here. I will just stick to emailing him,” Mark said.

During the entire discussion, Media felt that Hast was trying to tell her something but didn’t have the courage to say anything! Nevertheless, Media was able to read messages from people’s eyes and what she felt was that Hast was trying to give her a warning! At that moment, Media felt that time was passing fast, and she needed to go back to Kogar soon. She took leave of them but before she left, she turned back to the two guests and had final eye contact with Hast while trying to close the door behind her.

“Please take care,” Hast whispered to her before she left.

Later on, when Hast and Mark left Zaniar’s house, Mark told Hast that he had put a GPS tracker in Media’s pocket, and he would be able to find Kogar’s location soon.

“Why did you do that? You will be putting her in danger,” Hast said.

“I’m sorry but the world is in danger; I need to do something soon,” Mark said.

***

On her way back, Media looked carefully around to make sure nobody was following her before driving back to Kogar’s residence. She was usually very careful about being tracked. During her meeting with Mark she had noticed that he had put something in her coat pocket in a very sneaky way, but she pretended she hadn’t noticed in front of Mark, but she knew it was a GPS tracker. She decided to throw the tracker somewhere so that Mark would not be able to find her location. ‘They are really looking for Kogar, but why is the Interpol agent trying to locate him?’ she asked herself. ‘Kogar trusts me and I should never fail him.’ She thought about a way to misdirect Mark, and decided not to go back to Kogar’s that night but instead stay in a random hotel and hide the GPS tracker under a hotel bed.

That night she kept thinking about Hast’s last words. ‘He urged me to take care and he looked worried the entire meeting, but why? I’m not in danger. I’m working with someone trying to save the entire world,’ she thought to herself while lying down on the hotel bed. She knew that Kogar was up to something big recently but she never questioned it. She always trusted Kogar and helped him. ‘Kogar is the one who understands all the suffering in this world. He looks at it and connects with it every day through his visual eyeglasses, and I have no reason to fear his plan, in fact I need to stand by him until the end. I’m sure he is planning for good,’ she thought.

Because Media was attracted to people who showed sincere concerns about others and had a sense of responsibility and leadership, her frequent thoughts about Hast and his words made her dream that night. In her dream she saw chaos, destruction, and dead bodies all around. The ground beneath her had started to split and she couldn’t jump to either side and instead fell into the ground before the earth split completely open underneath her. She was able to catch herself on a prominent rock on one side of the split, and she tried hard to pull herself up, but she couldn’t. On the top, Kogar was standing and sending his hand to help her. When she looked up she saw the man she had loved all her adult life was sending his hand down to save her, she tried to release her hand on the rocky ledge to catch Kogar’s hand. At that moment, on the other side of earth split, Hast shouted loudly to her not to trust Kogar. “He wants to use you for his plans; he doesn’t want to save you,” Hast yelled to her.

Still in her dream, she thought this couldn’t be true. ‘I need to trust him. Our relationship is based on trust, and he wants to save me and everyone else.’ She extended her right hand to Kogar and when he caught it, she released her left hand. Now it was all on her lover to save her. Kogar tried to lift her up to safety but he couldn’t. He tried again but his hand got tired and he was about to fall himself. Media urged him to release her so that he could save himself at least.

“I can’t save you,” Kogar said.

“Please release my hand and save yourself,” she urged him.

“I’m sorry, I’m not God … yet,” he said to her in a regretful voice.

“I trust you, so let me be your sacrifice,” she said.

Hast was still shouting on the other side of the earth split, “Please don’t sacrifice yourself for him! He is a false God.”

“I promise I will come back to save you when I become a god,” Kogar said while releasing Media’s hand and she fell deep into the darkness.

That moment Media woke up and saw that was 3:00 a.m. She thought this would be a good time to leave the hotel, and leaving the GPS tracker there, she carefully looked around when she left the hotel and drove to her next destination, another random hotel!

Chapter 28

Kogar was worried that Media Rozhgar hadn’t come back yet. When he called her again, finally she answered and told him that she had to stay at her cousin’s house. This was the first time she had done that, but Kogar didn’t ask her the reason because their relationship was built on trust. He only asked her whether she was OK or needed any help or reassurance, but something in his mind told him that she was hiding something from him.

He looked at the screen and everything for his plan was ready. All the progress bars from the 3D printers he was using to print the tools of his plan were showing 100% completion. ‘I need to start sometime within the next month,’ he said to himself, ‘and everything should be fine. I have planned carefully for everything.’

At that moment the indicator showed another new message from the Interpol agent, Mark. This was the third message from him in just two days! He opened the email to read its contents:

Dear Kogar,

We found some new evidence that proves Lee Shark’s link with
Young Nimrod
.

Yours, Mark 

Kogar found it strange that Mark was emailing more frequently! ‘Did he feel ashamed of his previous failure and now wants to prove himself? And what evidence has he found to link Lee Shark with
Young Nimrod
!’

Kogar thought Mark’s behavior was not normal, so he started to analyze his behavior comparing the agent’s email sending behavior before and after what happened to Ericson. The AI-robot was able to analyze the timing between each email sent and also how much time was spent on each email by calculating the time from the opening of an email to the sending of it. The analysis showed dramatic change in the behavior. Before Ericson’s death, emails were sent to him with long spaces of time in between, a week or more, or usually as a reply to his own requests, and the duration his client was spending to write each email was short around one minute on average for each email, but after Ericson’s death the frequency of the messages he received increased dramatically. He received three messages in just two days and the duration his client was spending to write each email according to the AI-robot was increased to 10 minutes on average per-email!

‘It looks like he has thought very carefully about the content he needs to send to me, even though his messages are as short as before, but there is indication that he deletes and re-writes the words again and again! He is clearly hiding something from me,’ Kogar thought to himself, then to be sure he put the report by the AI-robot into a psychology software for behavioral analysis to analyze Mark’s email changing behavior. The software showed the probable causes for the change in behavior and the confidence rate for each cause as below:

1. The sender has fallen in love with the receiver and is now trying to propose --- 25%
   
2. The sender is a teenage girl who has suddenly got pregnant and now trying to tell her mother (the receiver) --- 20%
   
3. The sender has suddenly become paranoid about the receiver --- 18%
   
4. The sender has got new information and is trying to hide it from the receiver --- 10%
   
5. Undefined other behavioral changes --- 20%
   
6. Normal behavioral variation --- 5%
   

Kogar got worried. He realized that his client was definitely hiding something and not telling him the truth. ‘He is definitely not in love with me nor is he pregnant!’ he thought to himself. ‘I’m sure he still doesn’t know about my plan, but I need to eliminate him before he finds out more.’ He took out his mobile and dialed one of his favorite assassins informing him about his next target.