CHAPTER ONE-1
CHAPTER ONE
“Shoot em! Shoot em. Shoot em. Why is it taking too long?”
He shook with rage.
“I can’t get anything done right around here. What must I do so that people listen to me?”
He whispered.
A red-faced, red-eyed man got up pushing the desk energetically in front away from him sending papers flying in the air. He paced fast before an abrupt stop. He twisted, turning fast, then looked at all the people in the conference room from left to right. He cursed hard and stared at the big screen in the conference room. In his right hand was a snooker blackball. His face raged with anger and crisped with fury too. He stared at the screen.
He asked with a deep voice, but no one answered. They all stared at him. He squeezed the blackball as if squashing it to dust before a tear droplet trickled down from only his left eye, in a blink of an eye splashing on his white, polished, and shining Italian shoes.
“Shoot em!”
He growled like a hungry lion, abruptly causing the men’s and women’s hearts in the conference room to pound fast. They all looked at the big screen as a man smartly dressed finished his speech before walking down the stairs onto the red carpet. A loud growl frightened everyone. A sound of strong agony swallowed all the silence. They all turned their heads to look at the man who sat in the middle of the conference room. His face crisped with rage. His eyes now even redder and his entire body shaking uncontrollably.
“Shoot em!”
Around the world, people watched in disbelief on national television.
The big-screen footage.
A man in an expensive suit looked fear-struck in a twinkle of an eye, causing him to stop his speech at the zenith point of his pitching. A point no-one expected him to as this was the climax of his pitching speech to the crowds and billions around the world watching on national television. When he looked among the crowds he acted as if he had seen not a ghost but the devil himself because he looked pale in a flash. Scanning fast despite locking eyes with his bodyguard. He promptly walked off the stage, to everyone’s surprise. Reducing speed to turn and scan the area once again, before sprinting off leaving everyone surprised and questioning themselves what was going on as he sprinted faster off the red carpet.
End of footage.
Conference Room.
There was silence and in-a-wink the background sound became more audible.
Background Sound: Watching a program on television on the other side.
“Mankind’s greatest driver is the quest for wealth. It doesn’t matter what people say about it. Regarding love or as the source of all evil. I know too for a fact that the wealth you so desperately want is out there. The only problem is that as things stand, you think that this wealth is out of reach. I know for a fact that all of you want to be rich. I mean filthy rich. To levels never thought of before. Levels most can only dream of. Abundant wealth to levels never experienced before. I want to take all of you to a land so far away but yet within your own yard where we shall start. For I will show you revelations and tell you secrets never disclosed before. But the truth you must all know. I believe it is a journey we must take. Along the way, I will tell and show you enigmas and paradoxes that have never been revealed or witnessed before. This is the land they have been dreaming of for the past two thousand years. A place I believe is a stage of human development that is overdue. Nevertheless, a stage we must realize here on earth when you are all full of beans. I can’t get this around. Can someone tell me this? Why do we have to have the best of everything; great ever-growing wealth, great good health, and peace after we have died first? This is what they say and believe in religious circles. They say to achieve the quest of great wealth, good health, and peace you must be in heaven but hang on. Isn’t this a misconception because this means dying first? What if there is no afterlife? And what form will human beings be in? Spirit form? To enjoy the greatest wealth? Please. Open your eyes. See the truth from my perspective. For something great will also happen in the near future. For I personally believe it’s a stage we must achieve here on earth. A journey we must make together. A journey to a stage when mankind is so forward-thinking and technologically advanced that he creates continuously and abundant wealth. This is a stage where he lives as in this so-called heaven, but here on earth. The stage that will see everyone rich. It’s an undisputed fact that we all want to be filthy rich. Why then ask for mediocre lives when you can have richness? I can tell you that I solved that mystery. Yes, that puzzle. I can say for sure that I discovered that formula to make all of you filthy-rich beyond your wildest dreams. Yes, I opened the Pandora box.”
Pause.
“Now that I got your attention. First, we must go to where they all come out. A place that brings all of them out in hundreds of thousands and in millions. A place where mankind falls in numbers as well. This is a place so dark and scary that today no reasonable man would dare visit. Yet they go out in numbers. A place so dark their dignity and honor has been stolen, and they are naked as they have nothing. Despite all this, I tell you this; that you are guaranteed to see the entire world out there in the open. Naked in that they all have mediocre lives; they are all poor, poverty runs havoc, there is continuous social unrest. The powers of the day don’t know what to do anymore with them. How to handle them that they are making at the global scale, digital weapons, and watermarks. Then use these to commit g******e. Killing hundreds of thousands. Even their own as well. Yes. Killing millions, graying everyone, aging all faster, and stealing years away from their lives. Crippling all and oppressing them. The place is so dark that there are cries and wailing every minute of the day and throughout the night. A place where their dignity and honor have been stolen. Where they are bare in that they have nothing. That’s not typical human behavior, I tell you; that people would not go where they fall in millions. Yet they go there in numbers. Naked, but with jackets of courage and tattoos engraved in them of that dream. Yes, the dream to the wealth we can only dream of. But I think the greatest asset they all have even though they are stark-naked is the pledge-stamped on their hearts. Pledges never to give up. But to fight for me and my Tomorrow’s World Order until we have reached that dreamland. The only scary thing is that the dark place and period in mankind’s history I am talking about is in the near future. A place that is hellish and hot. Where the regime’s combatants and the devil’s ghosts are to double up and slaughter five point eight billion people in forty-eight hours. A place where the devil’s ghosts will arise unannounced. To run rampage in what I just learned is known as the forty-eight hours of darkness. An incident prophesied before even God created this world. But how is that even possible and how come? Or should I ask? Who existed before humanity even existed? And are still here with deadly intentions to take back their kingdom of darkness in just two days of darkness. A period in time I mentioned above as the forty-eight hours of darkness. Where hell literally will break loose. With the devil trying to eliminate two-thirds of the world’s population in forty-eight hours. A place that brings all out against all voices of reason. The very place that brings all out. The young and old, the rich and the poor. Men and women and of every religion and color. All are brought together by the sheer truth that unless they stand up to evil. They are as good as dead as they are like those on death row. Waiting for the regime to end their lives. Yes, just waiting to be killed. Yet they wear sleeves of courage, with high hopes of realizing that dream. But what they will witness is something mankind has never witnessed before. The shocking truth being that. All of them know there is only one outcome. Death. Yet they would rather die trying to reach the new stage. The new land with me rather than accept mediocre lives. Poverty, torture, injustice, human rights abuses, and a state so bad that most are hopeless as the powers be have become so corrupt. That until the regime has been removed, life is on the line. I have with me, this beautiful lady called Evelina who knocked on our office doors. I just thought the entire world needs to hear her story. One of extraordinary faith and determination to clear her name after being caught up. I know most are wondering why, if I said this hellish place is in the near future. How then has someone ahead of time experienced it? That my friend is a mystery. Or should I say that the future I was talking about arrived already? Only that people all over the world are just realizing it now as they come forward. This is just the tip of the icebergs. Ladies and gentlemen, the future is hell. Unless I take you to another land. Another stage of human development. I am afraid humanity is finished. No matter how sad it sounds because hell and its devil ghosts have by now broken loose. Sadly, they are here to stay. Just this afternoon, the injustice and the regime’s abuses brought people out. The last time I heard, thousands of civilians lay dead. The young, the older, the women, the men, and shockingly too for the first time. The soldiers, the police, and the secret services lay dead too. In thousands. In pools of blood that the people have started asking if this is the commencement of the feared forty-eight hours of darkness. I want you to listen attentively to the recording just before the slaughtering,” said the voice in the background sound. Instantly a recording started playing.
Beginning of the recording.
"This does not concern you. Go home right now or die for nothing!"
"No! You leave them alone right now," said the leader of the group.
"What?"
The man asked, shocked.
"Yes, you heard us. We said to leave them alone right now," added the leader.
"Or else what? You little piss of crap," roared the man.
"They can’t be touched. You caused too much pain and unnecessary suffering. You leave them alone or pay the consequences. The world is a better place without you lot," shouted the leader.
"What do you mean?"
"We have accepted the Mark of the Beast’s assignments," said the leader, adamant and confident.
"Meaning?"
"We are hereby serving you with the Ultima-Talionis. Tomorrow's World Order’s license-to-kill. This is because they have found you guilty of crimes against humanity. Namely; human-hacking. Torture, inciting violence, attacking, and framing innocent people. Invasion of privacy, copyright rights violations, g******e, secret slavery, accessories to evil crimes, and for being an oxygen-thief," said the leader before the boys burst into laughter.
"Oxygen-thief? Maybe I show you something," said the man before calling someone on the radio.
Instantly all pulled out guns from their backs. The man's heart skipped a beat with fear.
"I need backup instantly," he radioed others. A crackling sound startled him.
"They are civilians. Take no action," roared a man on the other side of the line.
"They may be sixteen-year-olds, but they aren’t no civilians," shouted the man.
"What do you mean?"
Instantly the man on the other end heard the man he was talking to screaming as gunshot sounds nearly busted his eardrums.
"Holy ghost. What is going on?"
End of the recording.