Falling In Love : I Love You, Today And Forever Chapter 123
Advertisement
After taking their leave from the West sisters, the two friends went to Joshua's house. They had to see what the pen drives held and if it was of any use to them. It did not take long for them to go to his house. The road was deserted making it easy for them to drive their cars.
"Boss, did something happen in Madam's house? Did you find out anything?" Ronnie asked while driving. He waiting for his boss all the time while Noah was inside. When finally his boss came out accompanied by Joshua, he noticed that their expressions were serious and something had happened inside.
When Noah had ordered him to drive to Joshua's house, he had started the car without hesitating.
"We found two pen drives."
"Is it the one we were looking for?"
"Maybe. We will have to check it. Did you have dinner?"
"Yes, boss. Long back."
"Good," Noah replied and closed his eyes. However, his mind was not in peace. Even if he found out the information he wanted from the pen drives, he was filled with remorse. It was the guilt of lying to Aria. Though he was doing it for her own benefit by hiding the truth, he was also being selfish. He had a person to save and her father was not in the right condition to meet her right now. It would only break her if they were to meet anytime in the near future.
Once inside Joshua's house, the three men went to his laboratory. It looked nothing less than a scene from a science fiction movie. There were loads of gadgets and computers and a lot of other devices that Noah could not recognize. Though Ronnie had been here before, he couldn't stop himself from looking around in amazement. It was every gadget freak's wonderland.
Joshua snapped his fingers and the devices in the room switched on automatically.
Advertisement
"Welcome home, Master." A voice sounded on the speakers.
"Thank you, Alvis," Joshua spoke and connected one of the pen drives to the nearest computers. He tapped something on his keyboard and the screen enlarged in the air.
"How did you do that?" Ronnie asked in wonder.
"It's a holographic screen." Joshua opened all the files in the pen drives. There were certain case studies, which were of no use to them. Some of them were the reports Oliver had previously published. There a lot of files in there. After spending some time, he found the one which grabbed his attention. It contained the video clips of all the sting operations that had been performed.
Joshua opened the folder and played the videos in it.
"There are the video recordings of the sting operation," Noah commented looking at them. It showed how the doctors had made their victims unconscious and then operating on them.
"What do you think would happen to the doctors involved in this case if these videos were released?" Joshua asked, his eyes fixed on the huge screen.
"They will be dead meat."
Though the crime had been brought forward in front of the media and the public, most of the doctors had escaped and had gone into hiding. Some who couldn't escape their fate were taken away by the police. The hospitals involved in the crime were shut down. However, the doctors who had escaped and the ones who had not been revealed in front of the public had opened their own clinic in secret and were living a good life.
Joshua smiled, his eyes filled with wickedness. He knew what exactly to do, but this was not the time for it. The girls would become suspicious if he released the video now.
They went through all the files in the pen drive, but couldn't find what they were looking for. Joshua then switched the drives and opened it. There was only one file in it. It was a video recording too. It started playing and the three men watched with great interest.
Advertisement
It wan an hour-long clipping. However, there was zero content in it, it was blank. Joshua tried to fast forward it, but it had nothing in it. It was an empty video.
"There goes our hard work," Ronnie stated. He had hoped to find something from the pen drives. Other than the doctors who they had not heard of before, they found nothing.
Noah too was dejected. He had high hopes and everything went down the hill.
"Wait a minute," Joshua said making the two men look at him. He started to type some codes on the computer and the screen lit up again. This time it was not blank.
"How did you do that?" Noah too was dumbfounded.
"The video has been altered such that it can only be viewed when played in reverse. It is not exactly an hour-long clipping, but a short one of about nine minutes."
"You have got to be kidding me." Noah was impressed. Whoever had stored the video file had done a good job in modifying it.
The clip started playing and the room was filled with someone's breathing. It was the cameraman running and panting at the same time. He was following a man in the front. Despite being as quick as a cat, the man did not know he was being followed.
He went to a very secluded place. It was dark, somewhere around dusk. So, it was not clear as to where they exactly were. There were a lot of trees around the man. He walked sneakily looking around to see if anybody was trailing him. Before he could take another step, someone pounced on him and he fell to the ground.
The man was held in a deadlock by his attacker. However, he escaped from his clutches immediately.
"Well, well what do we have here?" He spoke.
"Your death."
Noah and Joshua's eyes widened on hearing the attacker's voice. It was the person they were looking for and the one they wanted to desperately save. He was their mentor, their brother, and their friend.
"I don't think I had an appointment with my death this early." The man stated. His face was completely invisible as his back was facing the camera. Not once did he turn back.
"Expect the unexpected."
"Hmm. But I am not in the mood to die right now. How about I send you back to where you belong?"
"And where would that be?" The attacker asked calmly.
"Hell." The man took out his gun and aimed at his victim.
The three men in the laboratory stared at the screen wide-eyed, their hearts pounding crazily. Their mentor was held at gunpoint.
Before the man could fire, their mentor had kicked his hand and the gun had flown away. A huge blood fight commenced which was unclear in the video. After a while, the man was held in a deadlock again by their mentor.
They did not know what happened. One second their mentor was having his victim in a headlock and the next second a gunshot was heard. Their mentor fell down dead. He had been shot right in the middle of his head exploding his brain.
The man who was held by him laughed like a maniac before the cameraman gasped and the video clip ended. Silence filled the laboratory. They could not believe what they had seen, their friend was murdered. They had hoped to find him alive and to be somewhere in this world at least. Never did they imagine him to be dead and to have been killed this gruesomely.
The worst part was they did not know who had fired the bullet.
Advertisement
- In Serial59 Chapters
A Mailman as a Superhero
The world changed in less than an hour. Across the world people, animals and plants changed, evolved. Some say for the better. Others say for the worse. Some are waiting for the other shoe to drop. They will tell you "There's no such thing as a free lunch." For Rene Wilder it's just another day delivering the mail in the world's coldest capital.
8 274 - In Serial64 Chapters
Echoes of Valhalla
(Currently Updates at about 3 chapters a week, generally on Tues, Wend, Thur if I can swing it. 2k average words per chapter) As a cashier at Trollhålans combined corner store and gas station, Saga is stuck out in nowhere, Sweden. Having recently lost their mother, they are at their wit's end as they are pushing close to 30 with a dead-end job and only a few friends that they hold semi-reasonable contact with. Most of them have families, jobs, and lives that they do not. In what is a stroke of extraordinarily bad luck, they come face to face with a being not from their world. A creature not supposed to be there. A being that kills them over a bag of sliced bread. Only for Saga to reincarnate in another world. Armed with nothing but a poor temperament and a strange magical guide, they find themselves in a strange, yet oddly familiar new world, surrounded by runic magic, undead, magical beasts, half-giants, and more. Now Saga must find a way to make a new life for themselves while also figuring out how to not end up dead, again. Journey alongside Saga as they find themselves and grow, both as a warrior and as a person. Note: The author has English as their second language and has ADD. Grammatical errors are continuously fixed throughout as they are noticed or pointed out.
8 205 - In Serial7 Chapters
The Silver Wheel Game 1: The Fall
There is a place between sleep and dreams where fortunes fly at the whims of the dice. Where people from all walks of life can gamble for more than just money; they can wager their talents, their health, their family... so long as they own it, they can put it on the table for the chance to win the impossible. Where unwitting guests can have their luck and their cunning tested in games where the winner takes all. For time immemorial, the Silver Wheel Gambling House has run by these rules, giving people the opportunity to experience the greatest thrill or the deepest despair. But everything would change one fateful night, when the casino becomes host to an unusual — and diabolical — guest. A guest who raises the stakes forever. The first of a three-part series. You can read part two here, and part three here. Cover art provided by the talented and wonderful nebai.
8 200 - In Serial19 Chapters
I Reincarnated as a Hero's Bad End
Princess Sakura of the powerful human kingdom of Quarnz has a secret. And it has nothing to do with her mother's premature death as young girl. After choking on a cherry seed and nearly dying she has awoken to find that not only does she remember her whole short life flawlessly, but also even more strangely her past life as well. Unfortunately along with some useful knowledge comes a painful truth, she has reincarnated as, what she knew to be from her old world: a Hero's bad end.
8 161 - In Serial18 Chapters
By Myself
The diurnal monsters worship the day, while the nocturnal creatures rule over the night. But nothing opposes two folks more than living on the same land at the same time. Humanity prospered until it reached a pre-industrial age where the largest cities observed the first long chimneys made in brick whereas the smaller villages still had to cut the forest's logs with their axe. But to get to this flourishing era, something had to be sacrificed.
8 197 - In Serial102 Chapters
I Have Even Read the Rulebook!
As all stories begin, Prof died. Yes, truck-kun had something to do with that, but also a bird, a cat and some rebar. When he was presented with with the opportunity in the Afterlife Administration Bureau to be transmigrated into a game-like fantasy world, he did something, no one ever did: he read the Rulebook. Follow Prof on his road to be rich without working, touring a whole new world without a care and witness his realisation, that despite having read the Rulebook the folks living with the System for untold millennia know more about the rules. Important notes: 1, I'm not a native speaker, so be prepared for occassional typos, iffy grammar and maybe awkward sentences. The spell check was running, when I wrote the chapters, but it works in strange ways... If you point out mistakes, I will try to correct them 2, Scheduling will be two chapters a week, posted Saturdays before noon (CET). Depending on how much new chapters I can write consistently there will be probably more but as long as I have leftover chapters, the two per week will be posted no matter what. Chapters will be around 1500-2500 words as MS Word counts it. 3, I did not and will not post this novel on another site, if you find it somewhere else, please inform me 4, The Main Character's progression is slow, there will be no Levels, Skills, Abilities, Feats, Perks and Cheat Powers raining down on him 5, I've put Comedy as a genre because of my writing style not because the novel is a comedy per se. On the other hand, Traumatising Content is there because there is a lot of speciesism - those Elves are not nice people. 6, I put a lot of pop-cultural references into the chapters, try to find them! Enjoy!
8 722

