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  “Can you urge Interpol to arrest Padsha Mali for interrogation?” Hast said.

  “I’m afraid I can’t without evidence. He has a lot of followers by now and owning a special kind of water with healing power is not a crime,” Mark said.

  “You have a bigger case here,” Hast said. “That man is trying to instigate an apocalypse!”

  “But how can I convince Interpol that he is the Antichrist and trying to turn the earth upside-down? Do you think anyone would believe me without any palpable evidence?” Mark asked.

  “I understand and Neil Baron himself thought it was impossible to bring the sun from the west unless building hugely insane thrusting engines all over the earth,” Hast said.

  “If someone is currently trying to build these thrusting engines then he can’t hide them and everyone would know about it,” Mark said. “The entire process requires lots of time and lots of workers.”

  Hast thought about that point for a while then he suddenly paused! “What if he was using large 3D printers which can build anything without too many workers in a very short time?” he asked.

  When Mark heard the word 3D printers he suddenly realized the plausibility of the idea. “That could be possible because I have heard that the new generation 3D printers can print anything imaginable, no matter how large, provided you put enough amount of the necessary elements into their tanks,” Mark said. “I wonder if Lee Shark, the CEO of the biggest 3D printing company, is involved?” he suggested.

  “Actually, Lee Shark could have been a perfect candidate for the Antichrist himself,” Hast said.

  “Why do you think so?” Mark asked.

  “Well, he is rich, smart, and he is able to control minds with his convincing speeches. That is why he is usually invited to TED and other important international conferences.” Hast continued, “What is more is that he doesn’t hide his ambition to be like a god and also encourages others to think like they were gods!”

  “But you said the Antichrist is blind and he is not” Mark said.

  “He is blind to the truth,” Hast replied.

  “What truth?”

  “The truth that there is only one god, ∞Illuhim∞, and no one can become like him,” Hast said.

  “Then, what holds you from saying that he is the Antichrist?” Mark asked.

  “As I said, according to the prophecies, the Antichrist comes from Babylon,” he replied.

  “Maybe one of his ancestors descended from Babylon, or maybe he is the false prophet who helps the Antichrist?” Mark suggested.

  “Maybe,” Hast replied as he began to think about other famous and powerful people who were rich and could have access to both TNARK and 3D printing technologies.

  “Kogar Shervan was also …,” Hast started saying but before he finished Mark eagerly interrupted.

  “Could you repeat the name?”

  “Kogar Shervan, the previous governor of Shinar Land,” Hast repeated. “He was also very obsessed with 3D printers and he used it for many projects in the region during his rule.”

  That moment Mark sensed a thrill going through his body, as if he had found the last piece of a puzzle, but at the same time felt furious as he remembered what Hast told him about the Antichrist’s mind controlling abilities. From that moment on, Mark couldn’t un-think the possibility of Kogar being the Young Nimrod himself. ‘But why would he hire me to investigate the identity of Young Nimrod if he is Young Nimrod himself?’ he asked himself. ‘Did he want to see what an Interpol investigation lead to through me?’ Mark remembered the emails he was receiving from Kogar throughout his investigation asking for more updates about Young Nimrod. ‘I was so silly trusting him blindly and updating him about my investigation progress! If he is Young Nimrod, then he now knows how far Interpol is from his suspicious activities through me!’ Mark concluded.

  “Do you think Kogar comes from Babylon?” Mark asked Hast suddenly.

  “That is quite possible,” Hast said. “He comes from Shinar Land, and Shinar is geographically very close to the ancient Babylon.”

  “So do you think he could be the Antichrist?” Mark asked.

  Hast was surprised by Mark’s question but also found it intriguing. “That is an interesting conclusion, but I wouldn’t like to think of Kogar as the Antichrist,” Hast replied.

  “Why?” Mark asked.

  “He was a very good governor, and people loved him. He was also very honest and after his wife died, he promised not to marry again and to my knowledge, he has kept his promise so far. It’s been ten years since,” Hast said.

  “Mind control,” Mark reminded Hast.

  “Sorry, what do you mean?” Hast asked Mark to clarify more.

  “We have been controlled by him,” Mark said.

  “What makes you jump to this conclusion?” Hast asked curiously.

  Mark turned to Hast to reveal the truth, “He was the one who instigated this investigation”

  “Did Kogar employ you to investigate Young Nimrod?” Hast said.

  “Yes,” Mark replied.

  “And now you think he is the Young Nimrod himself?” he asked.

  “Yes unfortunately. I think he was tracking Interpol through me!” Mark said.

  Hast thought for a moment then turned to Mark as if he had found another clue leading to Kogar, “He is also the founder of zanzor.com, the social media which uses a helmet to read users’ emotions. If you are right, that will answer why he needed the brain reading technologies from Prof. Sanders.”

  As Mark navigated back through the electronic correspondence with Kogar, his suspicions grew more intense. He turned to Hast, “I’m sorry to involve you in this, but I think for your safety you should opt out from the investigation from now on.”

  “Are you kidding!” Hast protested. “If Kogar is Young Nimrod, then he already knows about me, and there would be no point for me to back down now, besides I’m interested in uncovering the truth even more than you are.”

  Mark knew he would get this answer. Hast was a man motivated by his religion to act selflessly and who believed in a higher aim which was to save people from the Antichrist!

  “OK then,” Mark said. “I think we need to act before Kogar knows that we know.”

  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 a
ble 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!