EXCERPT FROM THE OMNICONSTANT - PART OF CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

 

Chapter Forty-one



21:55



Roxanne
attaches the meal tray holder on the bed and places the laptop on it, waiting
for Jordan’s response.  He slowly lifts
the laptop cover to her agony.  He turns
on ‘Windows Extreme’, one-hundred-and-one-year-old Bill Gate’s sixtieth
anniversary version, after the very first OS/2 appearance in 1985.  He checks on the side bar, at the ‘recently
used items’ folder.  The clip does not
appear there.  He is happy that the
system of hiding files marked ‘highly confidential’ works properly, but the
worrying feeling does not abandon him.  If the file wasn’t there, then who opened
it?  How could someone open it?  And what use would it have to them?  It is just an old clip of Makoto, a message
to me.  Ok, let’s see how Roxanne reacts
to it.   



He opens
the ‘personal hidden files’ folder inside the password- encrypted folder on the
desktop, a folder that for twenty years now Bill Gates brags that ‘no hackers
have or will ever be able to even puncture for a mere glimpse inside’.  He right-clicks on it and selects ‘play with
Windows Player’.



Roxanne,
who has been standing on the window to give space to Dabolmort to write his
passwords, hears Makoto’s voice in distinct-Japanese-accent English.



‘My
dear friend Jordan. If you are listening to this, it means that you have
received my e-mail.  It wasn’t only this
video attached to it, but also a word file with an address.  That address is where I will be for the next
few years, hiding.  Do not try to reach
me.  I will reach you, when I will know
that they are close to finding me, so that I unite with you and we fight them
together.  But this will not happen, of
course, until you are ready.  Klotho has
not yet reached climax on you, so be patient for a few more years, you will
certainly know when it’s time, you will see that everything will happen as I
have told you.  Now, perhaps you already
know, but I have to tell you face-to-face. 
Someone broke in the lab here in Dallas, in my lab in the Medical
Centre.  In the secret camera recording I
saw four women’s figures.  Strange,
unusual.  Somehow these women knew the
crypt, the passwords, everything.’



Jordan
presses ‘pause’ abruptly and turns to Roxanne. “Are you ok dear?” He asks
naturally. 



She jumps
up shocked by his unexpected question.  



“My, do you
get scared easily!” Jordan says, “The clip must have absorbed you!  Did you see how worried Makoto is?  I wonder what happened there.  Who were those women?  Let’s see if he tells us.  But we don’t want the details, do we?” 



Roxanne’s
eyes are worried, but he does not see them as he uses the cursor to move the clip
a bit forward.  However, he knows the
look Roxanne has, even without looking at her. 
Dr. Makoto appears on the clip again, even more upset.



‘…four
tubes with Klotho, each one enough for two people. And my blueprints! I am
sorry, but I could not have done anything to predict their moves or prevent
them.  They are going to ask for millions
for the tubes, if their purpose is to blackmail us! But don’t give in - I think
can make more when we need it, at least Alpha Klotho -  Not now,  I think that they have been watching us,
Jordan!  If you are still with Petros and
Giannos, if they still have their copies, they can help you too. Every time it
comes to my mind that those women know… I just want to jump off a cliff.  But no! 
 I will continue forever, as long
as I feel you by my side.  Ah, and something
else! Their team or whatever they is, probably has spies in the Lodge.  Beware! Find them! Hell, we are in danger,
Jordan.  You are in trouble as much as I am! They know you and I are
partners in this.  Just don’t rest.   And I repeat, do not try to contact me.  Petros and Giannos will help you with
everything you need, I know.  If anything
we haven’t predicted with your condition occurs, do not waste any time, tell
them right away, every second counts when it comes to these matters.  Do not forget that they know as much as I do
about Klotho.  Keep them two safe too,
until I manage to come to Greece.  I will
find you.  Though I’ll make sure I am
unrecognisable, you will know it is me, do not worry.’



Jordan turns
off ‘Windows Media Player’ without any further notice or delay.  Roxanne has been leaning by his side, now looking
at the desktop screensaver as windows are about to shut down to hide the clip
and remove all ‘cookies’.   A yellow,
capital O flashes for a few seconds. She sees it and turns her head to the
window.  Roxanne somehow senses that Jordan
has chosen this specific screensaver for the forced shutdown wanting her to see
this even more than the clip itself. She does not know why, but she feels
obliged to herself to think the worst.  Has he suspected anything?  She tries to fight the thought and walks in
front of the bed again.



“Now, the
women in this Order are much to anybody’s danger.” Jordan says, desperately
trying to break the ice mass that has risen to formulate a trilateral pyramid
based on three points in the ward; him, the computer screen and Roxanne.  He must have her close to him and let her
think he suspects nothing.  “And we
should wish not to find them in our path, and you should fear such women, the
likes of whom I’ve never seen before!  I
want you to be with me in this, to understand.”



“My God!
You are right!” Roxanne exclaims. “Now I see how dangerous they can be.”



Jordan looks
at her not sure if it is time he attacked, full of anger.



“But who are
they, have you found out?” Roxanne continues with interest, presumably trying
to melt this pyramid some more, as she has to gain his trust again if she will
be able to fulfil her plans.



“Oh,
Roxanne, you can get so naïve sometimes…”



“Oh, just drop
it with your characterisations, will you? 
But how did you keep it hidden from the world so well?  You know, about Klotho and your collaboration
with Dr Makoto, and what we have just seen, that some tubes of Klotho have been
stolen.  How?”



Hmm, are you sure you did not know, my petit
Roxanne? He thinks,
but he limits himself in simply explaining. “The Greek members.  They are quite … illuminated, as you know;
remember that old book by Dan Brown, ‘The Illuminati?’ Well, multiply the
intelligence realm by ten!  Sometimes I
feel so small among them!  They wanted to
keep it in the dark.  We are in 2046, and
Greece has gone through a lot of crises all these years, the social riots until
2015, then the revolution in 2025 and the New Ecological Party taking over
after the two-year civil war.”



“Not only
the Greeks!  It was a Global Green
Revolution!  All green parties around the
world won in a time span of twenty years! 
First was Germany in 2011!” Roxanne protests.



“True, but
what not many people know, Roxanne, is the back scenes, as usual.  The green wealth had already gotten so fat,
that mystic powers were driven by the great brands who wanted to change their

productions and make them friendlier to the environment.  Do you remember the great earthquake in Japan
in 2011?”



“Vaguely,
was it the one with the big tsunami that followed?  That destroyed the nuclear plant and caused a
massive radioactive catastrophe?”



“Yeap.  What you don’t know, is that the measurements
of radioactivity and the fixing of the plant were undertaken by a private
company!  And, the measurements were
wrong, exaggerated for some weeks, until the environmentalists’ party in
Germany crushed Merkel in the elections!”



“What are
you talking about?”



“This is
real, Miss Fell.  The risk level of the
Japanese radiation reached level 7 and then exceeded the one of Chernobyl, not
aviating this time, but floating in the ocean around the area, potentially infecting
three billion people through plantation and marine nutrition.”



“Ok…”



“Merkel
came back aided by the White Fraternity that support her and the same scenario
continued for the next 10 years with continuous environmental catastrophes that
were blamed on bad human treats.  Then it
was the Italian catastrophe from the triple volcano eruption that brought the
Great Cloud in the area with the months of acid rain, and the sulphur
contamination of waters in the Mediterranean.”



“Yes, ok,
but what has this got to do with what you call ‘The Masonry Wars’ and the
Klotho stealing, for that matter?”  Roxanne
asks in anxiety showing a strong desire to learn more.



“You really
can’t see, can you?  What do you know
about the Takla Makan?”



“Well, hmm,
isn’t it an area, a desert in China?”



“Huh, is
that all? I find it hard to believe you don’t know… really, don’t you know
anything about the blonde mummies?” he challenges her.



“I did hear
some things…”



“Like?”



“Like the
strange rarity and improbability of finding Caucasians mummified 4000 years ago
in this area of China…”



“In
Qizilchoqa. See? You do know a lot more than you are willing to admit...”



Hmm, very good! Well done Roxanne! Is it the
moment I have been expecting for? To make him trust me completely and lay all
his secrets on the table? Oh, if this is what is about to happen I must very
careful to play the role effectively! I have to make him tell me as much as
possible! I will save myself from a lot of time and trouble if he tells me
without force!



“No! I
don’t know much!” she answers with passion, not to show that the things she has
been thinking about are not appropriate. “Well, in China, is all I know, there
where they have always supported that their civilization had never been under any
external influence for millennia.”



“And what
does this tell you?”



“Hmm, I
don’t know, nothing? Should it really say anything to me?”



“Then
I guess you know nothing about the oil
down there.” 
Jordan says
waiting for a response by
Roxanne, but she just
nods a very eager ‘continue’ with her hands, her eyes and her head.



I will tell her. 
She deserves to know what she is about to miss.  I will tell her the truth and she will suffer
even more when she finds out she should have been more careful who
she is messing with! You
should not have turned against me.  You should have remained loyal,
Roxanne! Now I will have to replace you! I
will tell her the truth and she will go away with it, away forever and this
will be my revenge! Tomorrow I will say the same exact things to the
New Roxanne, who deserves to know! I can’t believe
myself, really! There are two identical Roxannes, the same person, and I can manage true love for the one and
lethal hatred for the other! Jordan thinks and then he starts telling her the
true story of this Chinese
desert.


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The Takla Makan

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