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by Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy

thoughts and similar likings! Sometimes we wondered are we from same family or mother! Or is it a destiny by god to make us meet each other, whom he has mistakenly coded with same nature and thoughts!

  I have 7 minutes 10 seconds left with me, this is when someone has hit my head badly, I have no other go, but to move out of Johnson. I am completely devastated and I have no hope, but return to my body. There was another hit on my neck and I am there back in my body.

  It’s Farman who is sitting next to me, yes it’s him. I remember his face, I have seen in Johnson’s mind. It’s again my luck, certainly! He took a cigar from my pocket and he started lighting it. I am expecting a word from him! A word, which can save my Nisha. Please talk to me, Farman!

  He was not revealing a word to me! I have 5 minutes 35 seconds left with me. I took the initiative and asked him, who he is? How he can take the cigar from me, without my permission? The instigation never worked, he must be in some serious thoughts and was not ready to reveal even a word. I know people wait to listen one word from great scholars, but here I am waiting for Farman.

  I read the fragments of thoughts, clusters of information and variation in neural activities from peoples mind and I can take the last 19 minutes history from them. I am not a mutant and not a part in X men series! But I read people’s mind and travel in their mind; I attach myself with data pockets of thoughts, and when they speak, it’s like a wireless network, where I reach my destination in another person’s mind. Again I reveal myself there and start reading the new mind! I am not a computer virus! But I can coexist like a Trojan without revealing myself in their mind. Their mind can think on its own and I can read in parallel!

  Farman asked me, whether I am interested to see my creator back in heaven?!

  Its 3 minutes before Farman received that message from an unknown foreigner. He will get a million dollar from that person in another 15 minutes. It means Venus will meet Farman in 15 minutes. But I have only 4 minutes 10 seconds left with me. I am sure Venus is somewhere here, but finding him without knowing identity in this huge crowd is impossible.

  As I had my share of fortune, now I got my share of misfortune also. The train has arrived in platform 7, and more than thousand people coming out in that small platform of 4 meters width. This is chaos! And life of Nisha is hanging with 3 minutes 22 seconds.

  Nisha was not talking to me for last two days. She was angry with me and she left office early today and I am a fool, who allowed her to go. She gets often angry and I know she is very possessive about me. Each of my word matters to her a lot. The fact is I am closer to her, than herself! And I am no less! We fight, but it’s the indication that how close we are! How much we expect each other to be there for one another! I was just laughing for Jim’s Jokes, he is my manager, but Nisha never likes him. Will that not be enough! It was a week before, she told me, that she sees only me, everywhere, and she makes lot of silly mistakes! She also asked me, why it is like that? She is really innocent and what can I answer!

  I will do anything to save her and I can’t wait any longer. I read Farman again, other than message he received, he has not spoken to anyone in last 19 minutes. He has no clue about the foreigner, from and how he will come and meet him.

  Now the only clue is, he had received a message from mobile of the foreigner. I did navigate his mind but I have no clue on the phone number, it’s an internet based messenger. Now somehow I need to reach the unknown, for me he is Venus!

  I haven’t done something like this in the past and I am not sure whether I can do it, but this is when I need to believe myself, that I can do that! When I travel in people mind I pin my identity in their thoughts, this helps me not to lose myself under any condition. I can trace back myself or I can do quick navigation in their mind. For them, it’s someone they have seen in someplace, it’s just a remembrance! But now, I have to travel through a path, which is dynamic and electromagnetic and wireless based, it’s the internet packets which I need to use. I am going to use the wireless path from where the data from other mobile has come. This is very tricky, as I can’t pin my identity and I have to first reach the relay station and from there I have to reach the other handset. If anytime, the service goes off in Farman’s mobile or in Venus mobile then I will be stuck there forever! Also the data traces will be already dying, so the path is not an easy journey!

  I need to be focused and not waste even nano drops of my thought in this journey; else I can be impacted by these waves and will take out my energy to travel. I believe this is possible, because Farman has connected his headset in the phone and listening to some song. I have 2 minutes 14 seconds left with me. Now I am in the messenger data service, and I could trace the path of those internet packets and I could move at the speed of those data packets and now I reached the relay station. I have 2 minutes 13 seconds still left with me. I can see the path from where those packets came, I am moving ahead. Oh no! The path is not visible!

  This could be because either the path is dead or the foreigner is in some out of service area of network. I have to reach Nisha quickly. Every minute I delay she will be stressed and worried. I know her, she can’t bear this and she can’t see this! She might be worried about me, she can never see me suffer, and she would never want me to have any stress! I need to reach her and show I am fine! She can do anything for me, but she can never see me struggle!

  I am locked and I have 1 minute 36 seconds left. She is traditional, but for me she is the most modern woman! She is silent, but yet very talkative in my mind! Till date, I never tried to enter in to her mind and read it, for her I always wanted to be on my own! Because she likes me, for whatever I am on my own! The path is visible now, it means the person has moved to a place where Network is available and I have 1 minute 05 seconds left with me.

  I entered in to Venus! No, he is not! He is Stephen an American, he works under Venus.

  He is waiting here to meet Venus in another 30 seconds. I might have only 30 seconds to get into the mind of Venus and take out the code. But how can I be sure, that Venus would have remembered the code in last 19 minutes. If he hasn’t thought about it or told someone about it, in these 19 minutes, then I can’t save her. I have to believe now, all the information which are short term secret will be remembered too often by people in their mind, because that gives them some benefit or impact. This is human nature, and I should be confident that Venus would have thought about the secret code in the last 19 minutes.

  Another 40 seconds more! Stephen started moving to the train. The crowd has more or less settled and the train is fully occupied. Hundreds of people are there in each coach. Stephen moves in to one of the coach of second class and it’s hugely crowded. He pushes people and moves in to the corner of the coach; there I can see another foreigner with a blue cap and a blue travel bag, showing his back to us. It must be Venus, who is giving me 24 seconds more to save my Nisha. Stephen called Venus, and Venus turned! It’s me! Venus is looking like me! No, Venus is me!

  I have 19 seconds left with me. I couldn’t enter into Venus mind! It’s too hard for me, because he is me! Nisha and I, we both are not interested in marriage, not interested in love, not interested in even roaming around, because we both knew, that we live in one another’s heart! We have nothing to achieve with each other! For her, I would give my affection and my life , so my mind is nothing important than my Nisha! She is more than me for me! I entered in to the mind of Venus and the code is 24750!

  It’s darkening for me…

  Chicago, O’hare Airport:

  It’s always crowded and difficult to move around and now there is huge chaos also there. People are not allowed near Terminal 1. The wireless radio is sending the voice, its “24750”; repeat its “24750”!

  People cheer and huge noise of applaud among the announcement the “Bomb is diffused”!

  FBI agent “Sam” meets the BTPG (Bio Terror Prevention Group) Lead “Clara” and congratulates her! Sam talks to Clara, I was not really confident that you could do
it! Even the field marshals have conveyed their congratulations to you! Without you, today we would have experienced major loss with such a high technology bomb!

  Clara talks to Sam, it’s not me! It’s the secret code which saved us!

  Sam talks to Clara, how you do that! We shoot down this terror suspect 25 minutes before and you came here just 20 minutes before. Clara intervened, and I had only 19 minutes with me.

  Sam asked Clara, if you don’t mind, can you tell how this works?

  Clara talks to Sam; Sure! This is the output of our last 7 years research with the central neurological department. We were working with them to find a way to intervene the human mind and simulate the thoughts. We send Active Neuro elements to the dead person’s body through injection or with any applicable intervention methods, and ensure they reach the person’s brain.

  Sam asked Clara, How do this work?

  Clara replies to Sam; the Active elements have electromagnetic components which are controlled by the computer program we have. We have to just select a script from our database and feed in to those active elements. We study the condition and time available and then we change the parameters and delete few characters from the script. In this case, I had 19

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