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  Zaniar directed Hast and Mark toward his car, and they all got in the car. “Can you drive to the airport? Our private jet is there,” Mark said to Zaniar.

  “There are endless security checks at the airport, especially now that an explosion has happened and we shot someone!” Zaniar said.

  “Nimrud town is only 60 miles from here, so we might get there more quickly if we drive fast,” Hast suggested.

  ***

  Nimrud town was a historical town located by the Tigris River 20 miles south of Nineveh. It was the place where Nimrod was thought to have ruled the entire ancient world. The town was destroyed and rebuilt multiple times. When Kogar became the governor, the place became a military site with a huge wall surrounding it and it had multiple security checks. For Hast, this looked like a perfect place for Kogar’s operational base; it also had historical importance so no wonder Younger Nimrod had decided to choose it. After 40 minutes of driving they reached the site. The police and Asayish were all over the place, and faint smoke was still visible in the sky indicating a strong, recent explosion. Zaniar was a security chief himself, so he was able to show his badge to the police and inquire about the details. According to the police, four of the guards in the building were severely injured due to the impact of the huge explosion.

  Also, the investigation indicated that the epicenter of the explosion was a secretive operation in the basement where the police had found several burnt human body parts along with damaged computers and hardware, but the police still hadn’t identified the identity of the burnt body parts nor the reason for the explosion, but they had already sent samples for DNA testing, and they were still waiting for the results.

  According to one guard’s testimony, he had received a call from Kogar before the explosion telling him that he was sorry for everything. The explosion happened immediately after, but the guard had a minor injury because he was far away from the main building entrance at the time.

  Upon hearing these words, Zaniar began to cry while Hast and Mark reassured him by patting his shoulder. “Let’s wait for the DNA results. We don’t know yet if she was with Kogar or not at the time of the explosion,” Mark said.

  “But why didn’t she come back to the house?” Zaniar said then he started to swear at Kogar. “That bastard, how could he do this?”

  Mark signaled to Hast to follow him to a quiet spot to have a private conversation. Meanwhile, Zaniar calmed down a bit to wait until the DNA results came back.

  “Do you think Kogar committed suicide?” Mark asked Hast. “His phone call to his guard indicated he was up to something suicidal!”

  “But why he would commit a suicide?” Hast asked.

  “Maybe he was confronted by Media, or our last meeting with her caused a dispute between them,” Mark suggested.

  “So you think the dead body parts belong to them?” Hast guessed. He felt a bit of relief thinking that the true apocalypse might still be far away.

  “I still don’t know what Young Nimrod was planning!” Mark wondered. “Why he was helping Padsha Mali and at the same time promoting against him?”

  Hast found Mark’s question intriguing and began asking himself, ‘If Young Nimrod was Kogar himself, then what was his motive? And why would he give up so easily?’ Hast went back and forth thinking about the prophecies and what they had uncovered so far, ‘What was Kogar planning by trying to demonize Padsha Mali and showing him as the Antichrist?’ he thought deeply while touching his forehead with his index finger with eyes closed. As he began replaying everything he knew from the holy§cript, suddenly he saw the darkness! The darkness he feared all this time, and everything became clear to him, ‘Doomsday is coming! It’s close, not within a year, not within a month, not even within a week, it’s happening now!’ he concluded.

  “PLEASE CALL INTERPOL NOW!” Hast shouted to Mark. He told him that he had figured out the Antichrist’s plan and that the third world war would happen anytime from now. They also would need to travel back to New Delhi as soon as possible!

  Mark found Hast in a state of anxiety and worry, “If he is trying to control people’s mind through a helmet, what will he gain from instigating a world war?” Mark asked.

  “The blue light emitters were just a decoy to misdirect us! The Antichrist doesn’t need optogenetics to control our minds,” Hast said. “I will explain on the way but we need to act now!”

  “Should we wait for the DNA results to come back?” Mark asked.

  “I’m sure poor Media is gone, and we will only waste time if we wait!” Hast said confidently.

  “Then let’s go back to the airport and then take the private jet to New Delhi,” Mark said as he now had no option but to believe that Hast knew the truth.

  Hast told Mark that there was no time to explain what he had figured to Zaniar or to tell him anything at that moment because he was emotionally unstable awaiting the DNA results which would not be good news for him. They decided to sneak in into his car and they drove quickly out of Nimrud town back to the Erbil International Airport where the private jet was.

  Mark took out his cellphone while Hast was driving, and he called Interpol and urged them to warn the US government of a possible nuclear explosion very soon. He also urged them to warn the offshore cities of huge upcoming tsunamis. Mark was shouting through the cellphone asking Interpol to take his warnings very seriously, and he also urged them to send some special forces to Padsha Mali’s town south of New Delhi as soon as possible.

  “I need to visit my family first,” Hast said while driving the car.

  “I thought you said the entire world is in danger if we don’t get to New Delhi soon?” Mark asked to protest against Hast’s proposal to visit his family, but soon he regretted his stance as he thought a father’s feeling toward his son would be immense.

  “You are right. I shouldn’t visit my family, after all my family is not more than any other families who are in danger,” Hast replied. “But I need to tell the truth to my wife. We do have very similar views, and she will understand very quickly,” he continued. “I think this will be my last trip, and I need my wife to take on the mission and save people from the Antichrist when I’m gone,” Hast said.

  Chapter 31

  October 23, 2060 was a sunny day in New York and for Tom it was an exhausting day at work. During his lunch break he found himself a spot on a bench in Central Park to enjoy the hamburger he had bought from McBurger Queen. On his first bite he was quiet satisfied with the taste, so he brought up his hand up to take a look at the contents of the hamburger, but as he extended his hand up and away to enjoy looking at the layers of salad and beef while he chewed, he also saw the vast green field of New York’s famous park. People were laying around, children were playing, and further away there was the compelling view of Manhattan’s famous skyline. The entire view was beautiful.

  That moment he remembered his lengthy discussion with his colleagues at work today about the faith-healer, Padsha Mali, and whether he was the Antichrist or just a good guy. One of his colleagues went even further saying that if US government didn’t do something about Padsha Mali, he would soon become the Antichrist and bring destruction to the entire world.

  ‘What a waste of time,’ Tom thought to himself. ‘Why is everybody nowadays talking about the Antichrist and the signs of end-days? They are more eager to see an apocalypse than the Doomsday Meteor itself! Why shouldn’t we all just enjoy a peaceful life without talking about the end-days?’ he asked himself. ‘Tomorrow, I’ll warn them that if they ever bring up this topic again at work, I will complain to the boss.’

  Then he turned around and saw a beautiful lady sitting next to him, and she was looking at him! Tom wasn’t sure whether the lady was making eye contact with him or just looking at his hamburger. He brought his eye back to the hamburger, but he couldn’t see the hamburger anymore, but neither could he see his hand, or anything! Everything in front of him was engulfed in a very bright light, and he instantly had a strange feeling th
at his entire body no longer existed. He felt that his head was floating in the emptiness! ‘What the hell is happening?!’

  This was the first question that came to Tom’s mind as a group of neurons in his brain processed the new information they had received from Tom’s visual center. His logic neurons concluded, ‘If suddenly nothing is visible, then something terrible must have happened. Tom should immediately run away from the danger.’ Once the logic neurons began to process the sensory information so that they could choose which direction Tom should run to, they realized the dilemma. ‘Wait! If everywhere around Tom is now invisible, then where should he run to? And how can he run without a body?’

  The intensive signaling forward and backward among the interconnections of different logic neurons had now reached the next solution, ‘We need to make Tom scream, and if we do that, someone will come to help him.’ The logic neurons started to send pulses downward voting ‘yes’ to stimulate the executive neurons, however, before reaching the target, their message was outweighed and inhibited by a group of very conservative logic neurons called dignity neurons voting ‘no’ for screaming.

  Conservative logic neurons were a group of neurons whose job was to vote ‘no’ for any new idea that defied a pre-stored protocol in the human’s superego, a list of optimal voting decisions that were filtered with natural selection through millions of years of life and death of members within a species. Since screaming was not completely a new idea, after all, shouting for help was one among the extremely important traits for survival, this decision was not against the standard protocol, however, the voting ‘no’ to screaming came from another group of neurons called dignity neurons, and these were extremely conservative neurons. Their job was to vote ‘no’ against any proposed idea that could affect Tom’s image as a tough and respected gentleman.

  Dignity neurons were the reason why Tom existed in the first place. Tom’s mother was attracted to Tom’s father solely because he was a tough guy with a sense of pride. The dignity neurons insisted on voting ‘no’ for screaming because looking tough increased the survival chance of Tom’s genes according to their previous experience in the environment Tom’s ancestral tree came from.

  Although the logic neurons tried to look for other solutions but they couldn’t find any because Tom’s current situation was unprecedented. The logic neurons were having a big dilemma; on one hand they were experiencing a very weird condition which looked very serious, a floating head without a body! On the other hand, dignity neurons wouldn’t let their only solution pass. This was Nature’s democratic system where the brain was the parliament, and the neurons were parliament members. Their main goal was to vote for optimal decisions that lead to Tom’s survival or at least the survival of his genes.

  Tom was lucky because he had the best parliament members. The decisions coming out from these members made him survive through all difficult life situations thus far, but not all humans were lucky enough to have such clever parliament members. In Tom’s case their votes were fine tuned and hierarchies upon hierarchies of different neurons, diverse opinions, and lots of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ voting lead to one outcome, an outcome that either determined Tom’s survival for another day or lead to his final extinction.

  Hence, the basic logic neurons began to send some impulses to the advanced logic neurons. These neurons were higher in the hierarchy and their processing of information required more time, but if they decided to vote ‘yes’ for screaming, then the dignity neurons couldn’t override their decision because advanced logic neurons ranked higher than dignity neurons.

  The advanced logic neurons concluded, ‘If everything looks white and invisible around Tom, then there is nobody around so Tom can scream without degrading his image in front of anybody…but wait! If nobody is around to help, then what is the use of screaming in the first place?’ The advanced logic neurons stuck into a loop without being able to decide ‘yes’ or ‘no’!

  That moment memory neurons at hippocampus came to help as they sent information to the advanced logic neurons reminding them that Tom was at Central Park and was surrounded by many people who could potentially come to help. That moment the loop broke and the advanced logic neurons were about to vote ‘yes’ for screaming, but just before that happened, more specific memory information came from the hippocampus reminding the advanced logic neurons that there was also a beautiful lady making eye contact with Tom! The advanced logic neurons began to re-think. ‘The beautiful lady making the eye contact with Tom could be into tough guys, hence, she had the potential to become a future mother for Tom’s children!’ At that moment, the advanced logic neurons switched their vote to ‘no’ for screaming siding with the dignity neurons.

  One billion years ago when the first logic neurons appeared in the first host, they were able to survive and pass themselves to the off-spring hosts recreating different copies of themselves in different hosts, with some luck and some wise decisions they kept spreading and copying themselves with their main responsibility being to maximize their survival by learning from their host’s life experience and their surrounding environment. With time as their host needed to adapt and change while facing new challenges and new environments, the logic neurons diversified into different subgroups like: memory neurons, feeling neurons, basic logic neurons, liberal and conservative neurons, dignity neurons, etc.

  Some of the very highly ranked neurons became ‘pain neurons’ and their job was to make their host uncomfortable when he/she was in danger so that their host would either run away from the source of the danger or at least scream for help, but to assess whether a situation was dangerous or safe, another group of neurons acquired analytical abilities and became the basic logic neurons. These neurons further diversified into conservative logic neurons and liberal logic neurons.

  The conservative logic neurons acquired a ‘good past experience’ saving ability. This was their logic for assessing what was dangerous and what was not and it was very simple: since their host survived so far, that meant what their host was doing so far was good for survival, so let us keep repeating that and avoid doing new unexplored things.

  However, this logic was severely counteracted by the liberal logic neurons, and their logic was more complex: if we keep staying in the same environment and repeating the same things, then we will not have the chance to discover many new things in this reality which could later prove to be useful for survival so let’s explore and try new things. Unfortunately, this logic came at a big price for the short term which was risking the life of many hosts and sacrificing them for the possible greater good in the long term.

  Among these two groups, neurons diversified into more extreme subgroups such as ‘dignity neurons’ which were set to vote ‘no’ for anything new without compromise, and ‘far-liberal neurons’ which were set to embrace or try anything new without thinking too much about the consequences. The proportion of these two subgroups varied a lot among the hosts living on earth depending on the environment each host grew in.

  As for Tom, the supporters for dignity neurons were far outnumbering their opponents, hence, things got extremely tough for the basic logic neurons to pass on their only proposed solution for Tom’s current situation. ‘We need to do something. We can’t simply give up now after so many years of successful decisions. We don’t want to fail now!’ The basic logic neurons reached the conclusion that Tom’s condition was so serious that there was no room for dignity here, and democracy would not help at this stage because the dignity neurons would not listen and their supporters in this current host were too many! Hence, they decided to ask for emergency laws to be applied to inhibit the dignity neurons temporarily.

  The basic logic neurons began to send impulses to the ABC-survival neurons. The ABC-survival neurons were at a lower hierarchy than the logic neurons but they had direct communication with the highest cognitive brain centers including the highly ranked pain neurons. The basic logic neurons sent their complaints to these neurons reporting the
situation as extremely dangerous. The ABC-survival neurons immediately sent extreme warnings to the pain and conscious centers at the highest level neurons in the hierarchy to apply the emergency law and strip the dignity neurons from their voting rights.

  Once the highly ranked pain neurons received the warning from ABC-survival neurons, they began the process of generating an uncomfortable feeling that would make Tom experience a very severe pain consciously; a pain that would urge him to forget his own name, a pain so severe that would make him scream like a one year old child!

  So far only 900 milliseconds had passed since all these back and forth votes were happening in the subconscious of Tom’s brain. Now the conscious feeling of the situation and the pain started to emerge for Tom, however, the conscious processes required much more time and effort. Before Tom began to feel actual pain, everything became dark and he disappeared into a void. He had been sitting only 100 meters from a detonated nuclear bomb!

  Chapter 32

  Hast and Mark were now at the airport heading toward their private jet to fly to Padsha Mali’s town near New Delhi again. Moments ago, Hast met his wife and little son to say farewell to them, and he revealed Antichrist’s horrific plan to them. It was too late, and they wouldn’t be able to do anything to prevent the upcoming catastrophe. Regardless, Mark and Hast decided to go to New Delhi where the Antichrist’s destination was. Mark looked at the news from his mobile and realized that the beginning of the horror had already started.

  “Oh, God! The news says a nuclear explosion happened at the center of Manhattan just now,” Mark said in shock.

  “The Antichrist is going to ignite a nuclear war between the world’s big powers to make them busy while worse is planned,” Hast said.