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  From that day onwards, Young Nimrod began seriously to set a plan, an effective plan that could achieve the spread of his presumed high ideals. He remembered a thrilling technology for brain control that he had come across during his studies. It was called optogenetics, and although it has been around for 50 years, it didn’t have any practical application so far. Its use was mainly restricted to scientific research, but for Young Nimrod this technology could have the potential to control people’s minds directly, however, the process was intensive because it involved direct stimulation of the genetically modified neurons by pulses of blue light which required opening the skull and exposing the brain tissue directly to achieve the stimulation.

  He created a detailed plan with its execution spanning over several years. His master plan was to make as many people as he could on earth think like him, share his ideals, and to think about everyone’s suffering not only in the present but in the past too. ‘What is gone is not gone. What is gone has to be fixed.’ This was the new motto people should believe in, according to Young Nimrod. ‘We should not submit to Nature. Nature has to submit to us. We are not bound by the rules of physics. The rules of physics are bound by our beliefs.’ These were the new ideals Young Nimrod kept thinking about and how to impose them upon everyone. ‘If I make more people think like that then TNARK’s super-brain would not rest unless it found a solution for the poor souls and the sufferings in the past.’

  He remembered his mother’s words about Nature’s sacrifices to progress herself toward perfection. ‘No mother, you were wrong. Nature made her biggest mistake when she tortured and sacrificed a poor soul in front of me! If this is what Nature has to do to progress, then I’m anti-Nature. If that is the law of the universe, then I’m the lawless,’ he said to himself in a confident voice.

  Young Nimrod also found a loophole in the Collective Consciousness proposal. If an idea was shared by many people, it would dominate over the other solitary ideas. What was more, because the ideas were embedded within heavily interconnected neurons, they were also connected to other separate networks that may hold other ideas which could dominate too even if they were less commonly shared ideas! This problem existed in the Collective Consciousness design because it was inherent within the ‘democracy’ system itself. For instance, the majority of voters may have a strong opinion about some controversial topics such as same-gender marriage or immigration, hence, they might vote for a candidate who strongly shares these views with them on a narrow domain of issues without knowing or caring about whether the same candidate shared with them many other ideas such as the candidate’s views on the health system, economy or taxes. Thus, the candidate’s views on these topics could survive the election and could be imposed upon the public even if they were not shared by the majority of the voters.

  Young Nimrod found that the Collective Consciousness proposal, since it was based on democracy, was strongly liable to the same issues, but these could play to his advantage now that he didn’t need to copy all his ideas to the people. If he made the majority of people follow even a narrow domain of his ideas strongly, then his entire personality could dominate over the TNARK’s super-brain. ‘The future god would be me, or at least thinks and behaves like me,’ he thought to himself.

  ***

  In 2055, Young Nimrod had determined his long-term plan which involved several steps:

  First, he needed to genetically modify the neurons in the human brain, since a genetically modified virus could do that, all he needed was to work with some biochemical laboratories to build a harmless airborne virus so that it could infect as many as people as were on the planet with it. He also wanted the lifespan of the virus inside the human body to be short and the immunity of the human system to be able to fight and remove the virus from the body, as this would make the evidence disappear and ensure the harmless nature of the virus.

  Second, since the blue light couldn’t pass through the human skull, the virus needed to be able to modify the brain neurons to be stimulated by higher frequency lights such as ultraviolet or x-ray as these frequencies had better penetration and could reach deep brain parts such as the amygdala and hippocampus without opening the skull. These brain parts were important for emotion and memory formation, but unlike the cortex, they were situated deep in the brain.

  Third, he needed to have access to the brains of a large number of people. Luckily, this was quite possible at his time because of large companies that were using a helmet to interface with their users through reading their emotions and their brain signals like the gaming company Virtual-world™ and the social web page zanzor.com. At that time, it was estimated that 70% of young children and teenagers were already using the helmet for interacting with their games and social media, and that age group was preferable for Young Nimrod because of their fresh and adaptable brains.

  Fourth, he needed to build and promote for some specifically designed games and online posts that promoted his ideals during the stimulation of the brain parts that were associated with memory and emotion. This would reshape and consolidate the brain of the recipient to be similar to that of Young Nimrod’s, and they would gradually dream about similar things and share similar ideals to Young Nimrod.

  Finally, he began to fund various labs to make his plan possible, but he still needed some new technologies to be invented before he could be able to execute the plan, nevertheless, he was so sure about his plan, that he didn’t even shed a tear when his parents passed away because he was certain that he would find the cure for everything! All he needed was to make sure that the future super-human thought like him and had his morals.

  ***

  By 2058 Young Nimrod has already spent millions of his own fortune to achieve the plan. He expected to get a reply from the many laboratories he funded and urged them to make the necessary changes in the optogenetics field, but years later, none of the laboratories were able to send him the good news he waited for! He had received emails and reports from several labs detailing their failures in making neurons excitable to ultraviolet or x-rays, and few weeks later he received another report from another laboratory he funded to make a harmless airborne virus for the optogenetics. Again, the report yielded all negative results!

  This made Young Nimrod very angry because he had to take on a lot of risk to keep the project secretive. He spent a huge amount of money to keep the mouths of lab members shut and to continue working on something so controversial, and he even needed to pay for a professional assassin to execute one of the lab members when he found evidence that he was intending to inform the media about the project.

  Young Nimrod was the kind of person who never used swear words, but the failure reports he received that day after all the years and effort made him shout and swear. “Stupid neuroscience!” he shouted while hitting his desk. “Every science field advances exponentially except neuroscience. This field advances like a f*cking turtle!”

  That day he wandered around thinking about what to do next, after all, many years had passed since his initial plan. He thought he would be able to start copying his brain into the minds of many people by now through the specially designed new helmet, but he was still at step zero! What made his day worse was the fact that the Collective Consciousness staff had already reported to TNARK’s committee that they were successful to bio-print the brain tissues of two insects into another insect’s brain, and the resulting insect behaved similarly to what they expected from their design. They promised that within the next three to four years, the Collective Consciousness project would be a reality for human brains too.

  That was not good news for Young Nimrod because he still hadn’t spread his thoughts and ideas to the people. ‘I’m still nobody in this big world, and the majority of people don’t share my high ideals!’ he thought. ‘If I do not do something within a couple of years, TNARK will produce a heartless selfish super-human who will never look back into the past sufferings! I need to do something soon. I can’t entrust my plans on un-inven
ted technologies related to the brain and neuroscience because these two science fields are very unpredictable and advance too slowly.’

  While he was wandering around his office thinking deeply about his next step, at that moment, he peeked through a set of books on his bookshelf. There was a copy of the holy§cript! Surprisingly among so many books he had read, the holy§cript was the only famous book that he has never read from cover to cover! In fact, he didn’t even remember when and where he got the book. ‘Oh, probably Media Rozhgar brought it here,’ he thought to himself.

  From desperation, Young Nimrod took the holy§cript down from the shelf and began to read page after page, chapter after chapter. He realized that many stories and phrases in the book were already shared by the minds of so many people around the globe. Young Nimrod felt he was peeking directly at the contents of the brain of the majority of people without using any brain imaging technique, and all of this by just by reading a book!

  After reading more than half of the holy§cript, he suddenly paused as if he saw a light, an idea that could save him from failure. He immediately realized that he was looking at the details of his next plan! ‘How did I overlook this book for so many years?’ he asked himself. ‘According to the clergies, this is the only book you need, yet I deliberately ignored reading it!’

  Young Nimrod was now convinced that with some luck and determination he could achieve this new plan within a couple of years because the technologies required for this new plan were already invented. They just required some modifications. But first of all he needed to educate people more about the end days and its signs as described literally in the holy§cript, so he wrote a movie script about ‘the rise of the Antichrist’ and sent the script to a famous movie director in Holywood with a large amount of money to fund its production by himself and make it a blockbuster hit within a couple years.

  Chapter 24

  Lee Shark the 45 year old Chinese billionaire was the CEO of the biggest and most revolutionary 3D printing company by 2060. He had three degrees in various academic and business topics including marketing, technology, and psychology. In his later life, he went on to become a successful merchant and entrepreneur, and his academic knowledge about marketing and psychology made him read customers’ mind. He knew what made people buy products, so he first invested in what he thought could be a hit product for the next century, the general purpose 3D printer!

  Through his many successful investments he had made a great fortune, but his crowning investment was in 3D printers, and his company gradually became one of the biggest 3D printer suppliers around the world. The company he owned re-invented the 3D printer. Now they could print everything from small household objects to living tissues just with the click of a button. Large 3D printers also made easy-to-build, cost effective bridges, houses and buildings.

  With his large fortune, Lee Shark was among the big funders of TNARK project. When Neil Baron proposed his idea about changing planetary rotations for some planets in the solar system, making them suitable for human life, Lee promised to build a large number of houses or even cities using his 3D printing facilities if science was ever able to make any planet in the solar system habitable for human life.

  Many people considered him an idol and inspiration, and his TED talk was very popular and inspirational. Here was a man from a moderate income family going through a lot of life troubles to finish college, earn three subsequent academic degrees then become one the richest men on the planet!

  Lee’s contributions to alleviate pain and poverty on the planet were immense, and using his 3D printers he built many houses to shelter refugees for free. He built artificial rivers using a specially developed 3D printer that dug burrows in the ground through reading a digital map illustrating the paths and the branches of the river course, and this technology changed many desert lands to green and productive fields.

  In his latest TV interview, he said that he was currently working on a big project which would solve many of the world’s problems, and he promised to do what he could to have a positive impact on life on earth. “We need to think of ourselves as gods. If we do so, our self-confidence will increase immensely and then we can achieve the impossible,” he used to often say during international conferences and TV interviews.

  Chapter 25

  Ericson was driving his black Toyota in London when he noticed in his wing mirror a white Land Rover following him! ‘How did they know I’m in London!’ he wondered. ‘Stupid Interpol must be aware that I know they are following me!’ He was very irritated with Interpol as they had increasingly stalked him recently. ‘I need to do something; I need to get a lawyer soon,’ he thought. That moment he saw the traffic light at the next intersection turn yellow, and he thought if he could get through the light before it turns red, he could leave Interpol’s car behind and disappear from their sight. He pushed the gas pedal forcefully and sped up as far as he could to pass the traffic.

  The next day Mark heard the unexpected news from Agent Roger as they met in his ICPI office again. “Ericson was killed in a road traffic accident!” he said to Mark.

  “How?!” Mark said showing his surprise.

  “He went through a red light and was hit by another car,” Roger answered.

  “Was he aware of you following him?” Mark asked.

  “Unfortunately yes. I think he was trying to leave us behind when he went through the red light,” Roger suggested.

  Mark thought for a while as he did not know whether to be happy or not for such news. Deep in his heart he was afraid that his main suspect might not be the one he was looking for, nevertheless, he was confident that Ericson was hiding something relevant to their investigation. “Can we get a permit to investigate his office? I need to get access to all his classified documents as soon as possible.”

  Mark urged Interpol to move quickly since the recent investigations after the accident with Ericson’s secretary had led to the conclusion that Ericson had illegally sold and shared classified laboratory research data with someone outside his TNARK project. Recently, police were able to find documents revealing those parties which Ericson had shared TNARK’s latest inventions with them in return for money and among those, someone with a fake ID called Young Nimrod!

  That was terrible news for Mark because it meant that Ericson was not Young Nimrod himself. He was just another scientist used by him! ‘I need to act soon,’ Mark thought as he found himself coming back to the start again. He was clueless again about the mastermind’s identity, Young Nimrod. The only clue Mark had was that his main suspect acted according to the prophecies of Abrahamic faith! He tried to read the holy§cript by himself to see if he could uncover another link but he found it difficult to decipher the holy§cript in the way Hast usually simplified the prophecies to him.

  Soon he gave up reading the holy§criptby himself and decided to meet Hast again to ask him more questions about the end-days prophecies. He hoped that he could catch another clue, after all, Hast was the theologian and he was an expert in the end-days prophecies. Mark picked up his cellphone and called Hast again.

  ***

  Two days later Mark met Hast again at the Sheraton hotel in Erbil. He revealed to Hast that his main suspect for Young Nimrod was Prof. Sanders but now he was dead and that the investigations found that he had sold many of the classified brain reading technologies to Young Nimrod through the span of several years, “If Young Nimrod is the false prophet, what would he need the brain reading technologies for?” Mark asked Hast.

  “I think before you can ‘write’ you need to be able to ‘read’,” Hast suggested. “I think he needs the brain reading technologies to understand how the mind works and this would help him to use the optogenetics properly.”

  “Hmm,” Mark thought. “So they are all part of the mind control prophecy!”

  “I wonder if Padsha Mali, the faith-healer, is the Young Nimrod we are looking for?” Hast suddenly suggested.

  “That was what I actually came here
to ask you,” Mark said. “You told me that Padsha Mali looks like the Antichrist, but who is the false prophet then if Padsha Mali is Young Nimrod too?”

  “As I said, I think the false prophet could be the AI-revolution owned by Padsha Mali,” Hast said.

  “That can’t be true. I investigated the life of Padsha Mali; he was nobody until very recently when we started our investigation,” Mark said.

  “Who knows? The Antichrist is the king of mind control, and he has probably made everyone believe that he was a normal guy until recently,” Hast claimed.

  “I don’t see a reason why he would do that, and besides, all the data I have indicates that Young Nimrod and Padsha Mali are two separate people. Young Nimrod is the mastermind,” Mark insisted.

  “What if the AI-robot is self-conscious and is now helping the Antichrist?”

  “You mean an AI-robot acts on it is own and promotes for Padsha Mali online?” Mark asked.

  “Yes.”

  “That is unlikely because many of the online posts and videos against Padsha Mali are promoted by someone with fake IDs and accounts links back to Young Nimrod, too,” Mark said.

  “Really?” Hast was surprised. “Why would Young Nimrod promote against Padsha Mali?”

  “That is what I want to understand,” Mark said. “Why would the false prophet promote against the Antichrist?”

  “I wonder if we misunderstood the prophecies,” Hast said.

  “Do you remember any more prophecies about the false prophet and the Antichrist in your theological studies?” Mark asked.

  Hast felt he was back to the zero point and started to think deeply again about who Young Nimrod might be. ‘He should be a person with high influence, maybe someone rich who has access to information with governmental and scientific institutions. He should also has the ability to fake IDs and track Interpol’s investigation since that would make it harder for the police to uncover him,’ Hast thought to himself.