Ttidal7:

Don't forget that they first of all partners in NextTech, before the flames of love burnt them together. I think she deserved to know.
Moreover, her god just survived a plane a cataclysmic plane, he shouldn't be back to work, should be at home. But I admit she's naturally stubborn.

I understand, right. But she needs to trust Daniel in some situations, just like this one, he clearly told her to wait for him and not for her to be on the next plane to Australia, geez.

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She could feel that the military vehicles that had gone ahead of the van, transporting the artificial ants, might have something to do with the monster on the loose. She assumed that it was the military that probably needed the excavants. She could not place her finger on why Udi Daniel was so involved that he could not leave for the United States to care for himself.

Vehicular traffic built from the gate of the Landmarks Hotels where Tom Harry and Udi Daniel waited to receive the excavants. Ellinaz Ivanovo stretched her neck and could see that an open truck loaded with parts of a mechanical system, was coming out of the hotel ito the main road.

The hotel's car park was full of assorted vehicles and the movement of persons in the open was hurried. Heads of different security organs of the federal government gathered in the Landmarks Hotels for an emergency meeting. The Prime Minister had instructed that they should connect with Udi Daniel to chart the way forward to destroy the monster.

All the Security Heads pledged their support for the scientist.Tom Harry got to know that the artificial ants were already on the way to the Landmarks Hotels and he burst the door to the hall where they held the security meeting. He asked Udi Daniel to leave at once. The meeting abruptly ended as the scientist left the hall. They walked down towards the gate and saw the van that carried the excavants, negotiating a bend to come through the gate of the hotel and Tom Harry waved the driver to follow the open truck that carried the parts of the mechanical system.

Ellinaz Ivanovo could see Udi Daniel with the bright headlamps of the military vehicles that escorted the van with the artificial ants. She could not stop wondering about what Udi Daniel had got himself into. The traffic eased out and the car she was in, pulled close to the gate of the Landmarks Hotels. Udi Daniel raised his head occasionally as he stood beside the gate with Tom Harry to see incoming cars.

Tom Harry had told him that Ellinaz Ivanovo was coming in one of the cars. The car finally pulled up inside the Landmarks Hotels and Ellinaz Ivanovo got out hurriedly. She looked away from Udi Daniel as the scientist doubled his stride to open the car door her before her feet could touch the ground..

"What's going on? Is this part of NextTech operation? She fired at him looking away before he could come close enough.

"Can you please ride softly on me? Udi Daniel said as he tried to take her left hand.

"It's you that's not riding softly on yourself. You have just survived a crash and you're in the middle of what I don't know. You have begun to keep me from knowing your engagements for NextTech. I'm the Chairperson of the Board of Directors that the company has just constipated, for your reminder", Ellinaz Ivanovo snarled.

"Can we please talk about this inside? Udi Daniel said before he grabbed Ellinaz Ivanovo around her waist and took her into the hotel.

Tom Harry and some Security Heads had watched the little drama impatiently. All the equipment needed for the battle had been transported to the battle ground. Various technicians were now waiting for the scientist. Udi Daniel tried to get Ellinaz Ivanovo up to date and explained his involvement, as they waited for him. She expressed her feelings about his involvement vehemently and instantly.

"You're not going anywhere this night!" Ellinaz Ivanovo barked in the room.

"It's a serious national issue here. I will talk about it in details when I return. It's going to take just about two hours to set things up. I just came out of a meeting with the heads of all the security organs in Australia. The Prime Minister is standing by".

Ellinaz Ivanovo drew close to him and looked into his eyes before she said, "Don't tell me this has anything to do with the monster on the loose".

"To be honest, it has everything to do with the monster", Udi Daniel admitted.

"NextTech is not officially involved in this and you're not going out there to be torn to pieces. The monster could be somewhere in the dark lurking to pounce. By the way, what would the artificial ants do in an operation to kill a monster?"

Udi Daniel looked at his wristwatch and responded, "See Elly, there's no time for this, I will explain things better to you when I return. For your information, it's one of our creatures that turned into the monster, that is causing panic across the whole of Australia". Ellinaz Ivanovo covered her mouth in disbelief, as he added, "You can now see why I am so involved".

Tom Harry breezed into the hotel room with a stern face to announce the impatience of those waiting for the scientist, "Dan, the Australian government is waiting for you in frustration!"

"I'm coming out now Sir".

She didn't stand in the way as Udi Daniel gathered and packed his computers and other systems to leave for the location. Udi Daniel drove behind other vehicles as they left the Landmarks Hotels in a convoy. The location for the trap was close to the rear gate of the Beach Side Hotels.

The technicians had begun working in the night already before Udi Daniel arrived. He marked out the position on the ground where he wanted the base of the mechanical system to be mounted. The parts were prefabricated and it was easy for the technicians to couple the body of the machines.

Other technicians worked farther from the base of the machines, to install the outdoor equipment of the far end of a radio link facing the Landmarks Hotels. Udi Daniel scrolled up the assembly details of the mechanical system on a drawing sheet and gave it to the lead technician.

Thanks for the update boss
I guess this is where Adiam’s reign of terror will come to an end lol
I am so enjoying this 😩😩😩

Uncertain future for the Demon of Diamonds

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This update is technical, just take anything you can out of it.





He remembered Ellinaz Ivanovo back in the hotel as he hurried to get his computer system to start loading the task of the night into the minds of the ants. The Australian soldiers watched as the excavants got activated one after the other.

He passed a command and the ants crawled on all fours to a two-meter diameter circle that he had drawn on the ground, four meters from the base of the mechanical system that was being assembled. He scrolled down the screen of the device and tapped ''Load Diggers'' and "Start Work".

The digger ants released their fangs and took their positions on the circle. He stepped aside and watched the progress the excavants were making on the computer screen. He monitored the depth reached at every level as the ants continued to tear the ground with a blinding speed. They dug seven meters deep in two minutes and he stopped the operation. The ants crept out of the hole.

The assembling of the mechanical system got completed and Udi Daniel pushed a button on the machine; two steel arms shot out and hooked a chain that knitted a heavy iron disc of about two meters in thickness. He pushed another button and the steel arms raised the iron disc weighing five thousand kilogrammes into the air, to a height of about seven meters.

He moved the steel arms to position the iron disc directly above the hole. M He pushed yet another button and the iron disc started dropping into the hole slowly. The military forces and the Security Heads still had not got the point as they watched on.

He released the "Downstairs" control button when the iron disc had gone nto the hole to about three meters and he walked around the hole. Satisfied, he hook his head and gave thumps up to the technicians.

He went back to the base of the mechanical system and began to control the steel arms to raise the iron disc from the hole, to seven meters above.

He opened a point on the machine and cut two pairs of wires and pulled them out. He extended the wires and connected one pair to the electronic latch that he had kept close to the hole, and the other pair he connected to a red box that had pluggable interfaces.

He plugged a digital camera stick with five eyes to an interface on the red box and ntegrated the red box to the control of the mechanical system with fiber optic cables. He moved to terminate the connection on an interface in the radio equipment.

He looked at his wristwatch, four hours had gone. He had promised Ellinaz Ivanovo he would be back in the next two hours when he knew it was not going to be possible. He picked a tin wire gauze he had linked to the electronic latch, and used it to cover the hole.

He opened a small box and brought a piece of the "Mystery Diamond" that Tom Harry had given him. The diamond shone as he tied it to the wire guaze at the far edge of the hole. He did it hurriedly and installed three mirrors with stands, to reflect and direct the image of the piece of diamond into the Coral Sea.

"Everyone should run now!" Udi Daniel said.

Soldiers still stood around the mechanical system even as the technicians were leaving. Gradually, the soldiers dispersed and walked along the shore of the Coral Sea as bomber jets moved to and fro above the sea in the night.

Udi Daniel returned to the hotel to see Ellinaz Invanavo sitting on a chair in the room. She did not look up or utter a word. Udi Daniel powered on the computer on the table and connected it to a modem through a switch, and opened an application on the screen. The location of the battle ground came up and he enlarged the environment to see everything closely. He tapped a key on the keyboard and the computer showed another view angle of the environment, the Coral Sea and the formation of the military forces on the seashore.

Suddenly, Tom Harry pushed the door open without notice and saw Udi Daniel punching keys.

"How did it go?" The Minister asked.

Udi Daniel pointed to another computer screen and said, "That's a live transmission from the location. You can tap the arrow keys to move around".

This is getting interesting,

The end is near for Adiam 🌚🌚
Keep it coming boss

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The scientist got up and taggered away to haul himself to the bed, after ensuring that control signals to and fro the mechanical system were well received by an application in his computer system. Ellinaz Ivanovo looked at him with pity. He slept off as soon as he hit the bed. Tom Harry slowly moved the screen background and took in all the settings.. He would have loved to ask Udi Daniel to explain how it would work, but he would have to wait for him to wake up. He felf he deserved to rest. Tom Harry put a call through to the Prime Minister as he stopd up.

"Hello Tom!" Bobby Roberts boomed expectantly.

"We're done here", The Minister updated him.

"Can tbe setup be covered live like it was done the during the recovery operation of the diamond from the Coral Sea?" Bobby Roberts asked".

"It's not possible, it's risky to position TV transmission equipment to cover the location except we want to feed the monster".

"I want Australians to know that my government is doing everything possible to win the battle".

"I'm sorry, it's not going to walk".

Udi Daniel had woken up and he could hear the Prime Minister express his disappointment at the other end.

"If the Prime Minister wants it transmitted, it can be done from here", Udi Daniel said behind the Minister on his bed.

"Just a minute", the Minister said to Bobby Roberts at the other end.

"Is that really possible?" Tom Harry asked Udi Daniel,

Ellinaz Ivanovo laughed in the background at the question. She was warming up to the involvement of her god in the whole thing.

"It can be done, tell the Prime Minister that the National Television Station iwould get the video streaming from here. All it would take is for NTS to open up for the connection".

Tom Harry suppressed a smile as he said into the phone, "Udi Daniel could make it happen from here, he says all it would take is for NTS to open for the streaming".

"Let it happen now!" Udi Daniel could feel the excitement of Bobby Roberts at the other end.

The conversation ended and Tom Harry lturned to Udi Daniel and said, "You're just a bundle of solutions".

Ellinaz Ivanovo got up from the chair since Udi Daniel came in from the battle field. She had been fighting the temptation to be nterested. She took the seat near one of the computers to look closely at the screen as Tom Harry stood up to discuss the requirements for the video traffic to be routed to the National Televesion Station in Canberra.

As Tom Harry left the room, Udi Daniel walked up to Ellinaz Ivanovo. She was engrossed with the environment where her god had worked. She could not notice the footsteps of Udi Daniel behind her. He stood right behind her as she used the arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate around the location.

She stopped moving the background when she saw bomber jets flying at a low altitude over the Coral Sea, to and fro in different directions. She moved to the left hand side and saw the battle formation of soldiers mounting different artilleries on the shoreline. She moved and stopped at a beautiful beach dotted with curvy coconut trees, where hundreds of birds perched and chirped.

She zoomed out the background and could see clearly the vast arrays of birds of different species and colours. Most of the coconut trees had full bunches of coconut fruits hanging around the neck of the palm trees. She moved to where a band of beautifully coloured butterflies jostled for space to access the nectar of a flowering plant, near a coconut tree. She smiled at nature. She was attracted to the environment. Udi Daniel could see her face brightening up.

"Do you like the beach?" She turned to see Udi Daniel touching her shoulder with affection.

"Yeah but a monster is somewhere around".

Udi Daniel held her hands and pulled her up to her feet, Ellinaz Ivanovo did not resist or protest. She seemed to have let go her heaviness and had come to be on the same wavelength with the scientist."The monster is about to be grinded and the beach would soon be free", Udi Daniel said as they continued to enjoy the sceneries.

A telecommunications service provider established the connectivity between the Landmarks Hotels and the National Television Station after Tom Harry had informed the Director of NTS. The director sent the necessary devices and IDs for Udi Daniel to start pipping the video traffic. The Minister hurriedly returned to the Landmarks Hotels hoping that the monster would not come out before the streaming would begin.

About seven hours had passed since Udi Daniel came back from the location and nothing had happened. The Security Heads that had taken a shelter some distance from the setup, were beginning to think that the work of Udi Daniel could be an exercise in futility,when something happened. They all had their binoculars on, and could see everything around the area.

I hate suspense 😭
I don’t like suspense at all but that is exactly what the OP is doing right now🌚
It’s not fair oh
You’re doing well for real, I’m entertained with this beautiful story
Thumbs up

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Adiam had recovered rapidly from its wounds and had grown its tail to full length. The demon had shot out of the deep black hole to the sea floor and headed for the Museum, for unfinished business, when it received reflections of mirror images of diamonds from the surface of the sea. It changed direction.

The day had broken clear as the sun announced its presence in the eastern sky. Adiam traced the light waves that had communicated the images of diamonds to the surface, and could see tens of military attack helicopters, bomber jets and drones, covering the sea sky. It buried its head in the sea and stretched its tail to form a coil on the surface of the sea.

The reflections of the sun on the surface where Adiam positioned its tail looked like a dangling silverlight in the binoculars of one of the Security Heads, as he concentrated his vision on the spot.
He excitedly observed a phenomenon.

"Hey! Look at an object in the reflection of the sun on the sea!"

They all switched their focus on the spot and froze. They saw what looked like a bundle of shiny black tubes unwinding in the reflection.The Navy gunboats cruised around near the heap of black tubes that was spreading out. A Navy and Air Force commander made a radio call to the joint Military Base to check out what it could be.

Adiam heard the sound of bombers flying towards where it was feeling the warmth of the sun, so close. While the Heads of Security were still watching; in a flash, the monster outstretched its tail and smashed down three bomber jets into the sea. It withdrew as gunboats opened fire. Adiam appeared between two firing gunboats and swung its tail side to side, to whip the boats to capsize.

Bombers flew in, in numbers to release bombs but the monster was gone! Nine Naval and six Airforce officers died, and few others suffered various degrees of wounds. The Navy commanded all his officers to return to base, seeing that they would never have the chance to kill the monster in the sea.

Ellinaz Ivanovo had screamed at the screen as the tail of Adiam had sent the Airforce bombers and the naval gunboats into the sea.Tom Harry and Udi Daniel had rushed down to see what she was pointing on the screen. Udi Daniel tapped a key on the keyboard and the action was replayed on the screen.

"You haven't seen the monster yet", Tom Harry said.

Ellinaz Ivanovo's eyes were almost popping out of their sockets. She continued to cover her mouth in dread. Tom Harry walked out of the room to see if the action was playing on TV, as Udi Daniel calmed Ellinaz Ivanovo down. She turned and whispered a question in horror.

"I can't believe this, how could one of the humarines have changed to become a monster?"

Udi Daniel replied, "It's deeper than you see. Adiam was pulled back by a strange force during the operation to recover the diamond from the sea, and by the time it got out, the humarine was possessed".

"I would pretend I didn't hear the most unnatural thing ever said", Ellinaz Ivanovo shook her head in doubt as she said it.

Like Bobby Roberts, she would not believe in things that were not scientifically proven. Udi Daniel was going to point her to the changes in the mind programs of Adiam, when he heard panic footsteps of Tom Harry.

"It's live on TV! Why is the monster not coming out?" The Minister asked huskily as he held the door.

'It's distracted above the sea and around the ground", Udi Daniel responded.

"Do you want the Australian government to withdraw their forces from above and on the sea? Ellinaz Ivanovo asked the scientist.

Udi Daniel nodded his head and said, "That's the point, including all the soldiers and their military hardwares".

"I'm going to get the Prime Minister to know about this right now", Tom Harry said as he pulled a cellphone from his breast pocket.

"Hello Tom", The Prime Minister answered at the other end".

"Sir, fourteen hours have past since Udi Daniel finished at the location and the monster hasn't come close to the location".

"Have you talked about it with him?"

"I just did.

"What did he say?"

"He wants all the forces to pull out from above the sea, on the sea and from the beaches".

"Consider it done", the Bobby Roberts said snappily and hung up.

The battle ground showed in a big flat TV screen at the Pacy Junction in the center of Brisbane. People scurried about and around to beat the curfew that was in effect as the evening was approaching fast. They stole glances at the screen every now and then, and could see the bomber jets and the military attack helicopters leaving the sky above the Coral Sea.

Some persons stood still before the screen to wonder about the withdrawal of the forces. The constant presence of the forces above the Coral Sea had given them a false sense of security. The action of the military forces fueled their fear, but a piece of news that filtered in from the federal government on the live TV, strengthened them.

A bar rolled on the screen telling them that the withdrawal was a strategy employed to draw out the monster. This action did not go well with the Security Heads. They still had doubts about the ability of the scientist to handle the situation.

The school of thought that the diamond should be returned to the Coral Sea, for peace to reign in Australia, got new followers everyday. The Prime Minister found this line of reasoning very disturbing, as the opinion gained momentum throughout Australia. The governor of Queensland surprisingly held the same view that was propagating fast across the country. Bobby Roberts decided to see the outcome of the setup of Udi Daniel before doing anything about the view or opinions of Australians.

Udi Daniel adjusted the focus of the radio feed horn on the monitoring system and the digital multi-focus camera, from the Landmarks Hotels, and the number of people that gathered around the big flat TV screen increased at the Pacy Junction in Brisbane. The numbers shot up to a crowd as Adiam lifted its tail into the open from the Coral Sea.

Now Adiam will meet its end anytime soon

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Adiam discreetly emerged from the water slowly to see everywhere quiet. It turned his head three sixty degrees on it's neck and could see no living thing except birds, butterflies and insects. It drew out its tail with gusto to the surface of the sea, and stretched it out completely. It stood upon the sea water on its webbed hind limbs and straightened itself. Udi Daniel estimated its height to be 14 ft 9 in as Ellinaz Ivanovo continued to screem.

"Holiest God!" Tom Harry exclaimed as Adiam walked upon the sea water towards the shoreline.

"This is the Devil himself, it's not a monster", Ellinaz spurted her statement.

'It's amazing that you believe in the existence of Satan, but don't believe in God", Udi Daniel directed at Ellinaz.

Unlike her, Ellinaz Ivanovo did not respond to Udi Daniel. She concentrated on the monster as it grracefully threaded on the Coral Sea, like a tigress confident of a game. It shook off the trickle of water down his body, as it traced the mirror image of the diamond with the most intensive reflection. Its eyes were glowing in the evening like fire flames as it finally stepped out of the water. Udi Daniel turned to Tom Harry who was standing right behind him.

"The military forces mustn't shoot at it, else it will disappear and may not appear this way again", Udi Daniel said to the Minister.

"We've handled that already", Tom Harry said.

"It's immense!" Ellinaz Ivanovo said as she zoomed out on Adiam. "It's taking its time to reach the source of the diamond image".

"It's supernaturally intelligent" Udi Daniel reacted to Ellinaz.

In the twinkle of an eye, Adiam disappeared and appeared at the battle ground. Udi Daniel watched with magnetizing attention now!. He no longer responded to Ellinaz Ivanovos unending questions. He wanted to be free, free from the demon and the angel that dictated his life in the dreams.

The monster could see the piece of diamond glittering in the fading sun. It stood close to the monitoring system, and swiped its tail to curve into a semicircle to pick the piece of diamond. Udi Daniel watched the action in disappointment as the tail got past the diamond slowy like e gentle snake towards the electronic latch. Ellinaz Ivanovo looked at Udi Daniel as he sighed aloud in the room. The brain of the scientist turned in his head as he pulled up a control console connected to the mechanical system. He fired two commands in quick succession.

"What's happening to you?" Ellinaz Ivanovo asked as Uci Daniel began to sweat copiously from his head
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"The monster knows it's a trap", Udi Daniel responded.

"What do we do now?" Tom Harry asked.

"I don't know", Udi Daniel replied.

"Should we call on the military?" Tom Harry asked.

"Not yet, the forces don't even have any chance, it moves faster than light".

Adiam's tail moved on the electronic latch and disconnected the tin wires that held the piece of diamond. The demon was shocked to see that the iron disc above did not drop into the hole. Udi Daniel had disabled the trigger system on the latch and transferred control to an application in his computer system at the Landmarks Hotels.

Adiam drew back its tail and made it to creep on the wire guaze to touch the piece of diamond. It twisted the tip of its tail to hold and cut it off, and suddenly, the diamond fell off from the grasp of the tail into the hole. Adiam made its head to spin around again before it passed its tail through the wire guaze to pull the diamond out. It bent over the hole to see the piece of diamond.

"Kill the monster now!" Udi Daniel yelled at Tom Harry.

"What should I do?" The Minister asked.

"My hands can no longer move, just hit the Enter key for me! The scientist said as he trembled.

The whole of Brisbane came to live and it resonated across Australia and beyond, as the Minister hit the key. The iron disc had crushed Adiam into the hole. The Minister quivered with his eyes glued to the Enter key. He could not believe that it was a stroke of a key that destroyed the monster.

Udi Daniel could see that the demon was raising the weight of the iron disc out of the hole and he called on Ellinaz Ivanovo to pull up an application. He instructed her to tap some keys on the keyboard and the arms of the mechanical system shot out, and rested on the iron disc. He got her to tap another key and the pressure on the iron disc doubled, the demon stopped pushing but It caused the ground to shake more violently.

Finally 🤩🤩🤩
Thanks for the update OP

I don’t think the demon will go down without a fight

EvidenceOfGrace saw tomorrow, but YoungBruzzy could only see the moment

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The trees surrounding the area of the trap swayed and danced to the rythm of the vibrating earth, as the mechanical system shook up to its base. The quaking continued for about one hour thirteen minutes before the ground began to show signs of cracks around the setup. Tom Harry rushed from his hotel room where he had gone to watch the action on TV, into Udi Daniel's room, breathing heavily as he spoke out:

"There's about to be an earthquake in the location!"

"Why do you feel so?" Udi Daniel asked the Minister.
"Watch the ground closely, it's splitting!"

Ellinaz Ivanovo zoomed out and said aloud, "It's true, the ground is tearing up!"

"Won't the monster escape?” Tom Harry expressed his concern.

"Even if an earthquake occurred, Adiam wouldn't escape". Udi Daniel boosted confidence.

A disturbing thought pricked the mind of Udi Daniel as he hit rock bottom. For the first time he thought about what would happen to the demon inside Adiam. He looked lost asa part of the battlefield was now in his mind. Tom Harry was also drawn into his own world. He racked his head for anything that could help. They just watched on, hoping for the good or the bad. Udi Daniel's hands remained frozen and he could not process what was happening to him.

The Prime Minister sat at the edge of his seat in the Federal Capital Territory, watching the whole thing as it unfolded. He was rising to grab his cellphone and punch some numbers to reach the Security Heads, when he saw that the tremor generated by the monster, was travelling fast through the ground around the location, spreading through to the beaches.

Bobby Roberts stopped dialing the numbers that he had punched on the phone as he saw a good number of bomber jets and military attack helicopters moving in. Tom Harry heaved a sigh of relief when the forces appeared on the screen. Eight military attack helicopters arrived at the area and hovered above the location. The vibration reached a destructive level as buildings around the area showed signs of cracks on the walls.

The foundation of the mechanical system cracked open and the system was tilting to the ground. The steel arms that pressed against the iron disc were falling off. Suddenly, a blast of extremely hot black matter sprayed out from the cracks, like molten magmas shooting from a volcanic eruption, with a high pressure-force that made the helicopters above flipped ove, and burst into flames in the air before hitting the ground. The vibration stopped and calm returned with incontrollable celebration in the streets of Australia.

Soldiers raced to the location to ensure no choice for the monster, as a black creature that looked like a spider galloped its way from a wide crack towards the sea. No one noticed the little creature as it headed for the Coral Sea and sprang into the water.
Udi Daniel became a super hero to the ruling class. Bobby Roberts invited him and Ellinaz Ivanovo to Canberra where he made plans to host them to a lavish party.

Bobby Roberts kept holding on to Udi Daniel despite having seen that the monster had been completely neutralized. The action of the Prime Minister did not bother the scientist. Days rolled up into weeks and the monster had not come out of the sea to hunt for the diamond, but Bobby Roberts still felt that there could be another monster.

Ellinaz Ivanovo was raring to leave for the United States to attend to issues that begged for attention in NextTech. By the end of the month, the Prime Minister knew it would be difficult to press them to stay more days.

Udi Daniel still feared to travel across any body of water. He recalled vividly the experience in the Big Bird and the crash in the Pacific Ocean, near the Kairuru Island. Ellinaz Ivanovo would not believe that he had revelations in his dreams. He did not know how to convince her to stay some more for the angel to appear to him. Ellinaz Ivanovo already glowed in the excitement to finally leave Australia for the United States. She had finished travel arrangement and Udi Daniel could not do anything about it. He resigned his life to fate.

Wow! This is a great read
You are a great writer boss
Keep it coming

Chapter Eleven






Tourism business flourished again in Australia with frenzy, from the the day the monster was grinded. The government grappled to track the flurry of visitors and activities. The Prime Minister witnessed a spike in the economy. In no time, he was sure that the government would be able to raise the money that Ali Garabed had paid for the Mystery Diamond.

Ali Garabed had been away from Australia to Indonesia, for fact finding mission. He had not been able to think of anything else since he witnessed the recovery operation of the Mystery Diamond from the Coral Sea, by the humarines. The story of the ship loaded with all kinds of diamond, that had sunk into the Indian Ocean centuries ago, seemed to be erasing every other thing that would come to his mind. It was only the thought of the Lost Ship that could assuaged the disappointment of loosing the Mystery Diamond.

He recalled freshly the story told by his grandfather who had traveled far and near across the Indian Ocean, using the Arabian Peninsula as base. His grandfather, Omara Garabed, had said many Australian, Indian, Chinese and Arabian merchants had lost their goods of precious stones in the Indian Ocean. The incidence occurred about four hundred and eighty years ago and the cause could not be figured out at the time.

Opinion groups at that time had widely beloved that Skull and Bones a fierce group of sea pirates that ruled over the Indian Ocean, was most likely responsible for the Lost Ship. The Mughal Empire that reigned across the Indian Ocean at the time had empowered the East India Company to search the ocean for the ship.

The search had gone on for years, recording untold number of casualties, and it yielded nothing. Associates, friends and relatives of some of the merchants that had lost their goods in the ship, had paid the empire huge sums of money for the search to continue, and the Mughal Dynasty had continued to supply divers. This had gone on and on until the empire was toppled by the British Empire.

Before Ali Garabed had left Australia for Indonesia for the fact finding mission of the area of the Indian Ocean where the ship had gone down with its load, he had done some research about the Lost Ship in Australia. Soon after he was discharged from the hospital where he was treated for the heartattack, Ali Garabed had begun gathering hard facts. He knew he would need more than just stories to convince NexTech to release the humarines for the operation.

Consequently, he had traveled around Australia, checking antiquity libraries and museums for artefacts or papers that documented the piece of history. He had found a book that accurately and generously narrated the trade history across the Indian Ocean, about the time that his grandfather had told him. The book contained the history of the Lost Ship and had given some details of the precious stones that were in the ship.

Ali Garabed could not contain his excitement in the library where he had found the book. His joy had doubled, when he found out that the book contained a map of the Indian Ocean and markings of the possible areas where the ship could have washed down. He had negotiated with the library attendant and had paid paid through his nose for the book to be reproduced. He had bought the original copy.

It was stated in the book that the ship had snapped off from an anchor in the territory of Nias Island, in the Indian Ocean, where the ship had belted temporarily due to a terrible monsoon. The ship was going to pull away to Australia where it was expected to offload some goods, before heading to India, and then finally to China, its final destination.
The merchants had gathered all kinds of precious stones. from across Africa, parts of Europe and America, for some years, and had heaped their goods in Zimbabwe where the ship would start sailing across the turbulent Indian Ocean.

Ali Garabed had chartered a jet and had flown to Sumatra in Indonesia, from Australia and connected to Nias Island with a helicopter. He arrived the island and found out that the description of the Nias Island in the book matched, and he went a step further to find where the ships had belted on the island around the historical time.

After Daniel successfully overpowered Adiam, Alli Garabed wanted to start another wild goose chase init 🌚🌚
You’re just too good OP
Keep it coming rush rush

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He sought to see aged men on the island who would likely know the area of the island where ships had belted, in far flung time in history. It turned out that none of the men he interviewed had any idea. The outcome of his mission did not deter him from carrying on. He had come this far and there was no going back. Each time he flashed his mind on the kinds of stones that were in the Lost Ship, he got shivers, agonizing headache, and sleepless nights.

The book detailed the stones, ranging from; Pink Diamonds, Emeralds, Rubies, Sapphires, Tanzanites, Black Opals, Yellow Diamonds, Musgravites, Red Beryls, Red Diamonds, Alexandrites, Jadietes, Grey, Green and Blue Diamonds. His grandfather had told him that one of his forefathers, had over a hundred carat of blue diamonds in the Lost Ship.

He could not believe that the civilization of two empires would let such a loss to go unrecovered over the centuries, that they had reigned across the Indian Ocean.

He suddenly felt something was not adding up. He theorized that if the had the markings of probable area on the Indian Ocean around the Nias Island, it should have as well showed sketches of the spot ships had belted. He primed himself to make sure that the history book was not misleading him.

He returned to Sumatra and began to search for books in the history section of old libraries, specifically for books that contained trade history across the Indian Ocean, around four or five hundred years ago. He moved from one library to another, rummaging entire stack of books, and devouring any that covered the history of trade across the Indian Ocean.

He became weary along the way, still he did not give up. The thought of the precious stones, somewhere at the bottom of the ocean kept supplying him the energy to continue. He was going to resign his research in one of the libraries and look elsewhere, when he found a book titled: "The Great Loss" in an obscured section of the oldest library he had been to.

The book captured everything that he needed to know. It re-echoed the fact that the precious stones were never found. He found out from the book that the monsoon had blown through the harbour, and the ship chain had snapped off the anchor. The monsoon had taken it westward from the harbour. The ship was regarded as the toughest that navigated the turbulent ocean. The reason why it had sunk, still perplexed historians till date.

The British Empire had deployed the best technology in existence at the time, to comb the volatile ocean for years, with no result. It had lost so much financially and recorded many casualties like the Mughal Empire. The search and recovery operation had stopped and the ocean was left to enjoy the riches.

Ali Garabed paid for the book to be reproduced and he obtained the original copy after paying handsomely. The end was his driving force.

The business mogul intended to travel to the US enroute England to meet NextTech, but he decided to first do a last minute check on his email inbox before leaving his hotel room in Indonesia. He found out that a new mail had come in from Australian economic team of the government, who had brokered the deal to transfer ownership of the Mystery Diamond to his company..

The team needed him in Canberra to sign the documents that would authorize the transfer of the first instalment of the money Dynabiz had paid for the diamond.

Ali Garabed decided to leave Indonesia for Australia. He went to Jarkata from Sumatra and boarded a commercial plane to Canberra. As the plane flew into Australia, he recalled how hopeful he had been before and after the deal of the Mystery Diamond was struck. He could not get it why the government had retracted its decision to sell the diamond to Dynabiz, after its recovery.

He let go of the feeling of loss completely as the hope of recovering the precious stones in the Lost Ship, loomed large in his mind. He fantasized with what he could do with the stones as the plane touched down in Canberra International Airport.

Udi Daniel and Ellinaz Ivanovo were being driven to the Canberra Airport in a convoy. His heroism would not be forgotten in a hurry in the history of Australia. Tom Harry drove directly behind the car that had Udi Daniel and Ellinaz Ivanovo.

I just hope Daniel would not take on this deadly recovery mission again. He should have learnt his lesson with the case of Adiam and the diamond.

Happy new month Boss

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Tom Harry was the first person to alight in the convoy at the international wing of the airport, and he led the way to the departure hall. Ali Garabed recognized the Minister from a about forty meters, as he came through the arrival gate. He doubled his strides and caught up with him. He looked behind the Minister and picked out Udi Daniel. He was overly excited.

"Hey Minister! Good to see you again!" Ali Garabed said, stretching his right hand to Tom Harry for a handshake.

Tom Harry shook hands with the business tycoon, as he introduced him to Udi Daniel and Ellinaz Ivanovo. Ali Garabed smartly grabbed Udi Daniel's outstretched and said hello to Ellinaz Ivanovo. He pulled the Minister to a corner and whispered into his left ear.

"I'd like to discuss business with NextTech, can I have the attention of the scientist".

Tom Harry walked to meet the scientist who was chatting with Ellinaz Ivanovo and said, "He wants to talk with you briefly about business?"

Udi Daniel nodded at Ellinaz Ivanovo and she walked up to Ali Garabed. They settled on a double chair in the departure hall as Ali Garabed opened his briefcase on his lap. Ellinaz Ivanovo adjusted herself on the chair.

"I would like you to see this first, before I say anything", Ali Garabed said as he presented four pieces of glossy papers to her.

Each of the papers contained the enlarged images of the precious stones. Ellinaz Ivanovo eye's shone as she looked longingly at the images. The appeal of the stones got her spellbound. Ali Garabed could see that she was held captive by the stones.

"They're stunningly beautiful. Do you sell them? Ellinaz Ivanovo asked as she returned the papers to Ali Garabed.

"You can keep the papers", the business mogul said and continued. "The stones are wasting away in the Indian Ocean". Ellinaz Ivanovo's eyes dilated as she realized where Alr Garabed was going with the conversation. "I watched how the humarines deployed by NextTech had recoverd the block of diamond from the Coral Sea, and I'm confident that the machines could be used to recover the stones from the ocean".

Ellinaz Ivanovo stole a glance at Udi Daniel before she said, "NextTech would handle it if the conditions were right. First off, are you sure of the presence of the stones in the Indian Ocean?"

Ali Garabed responded by opening his briefcase again and took out the book titled: "The Great Loss" and gave it to her saying, "This book contains all that you need to know. I have done all the research work".

Ellinaz Ivanovo looked at her wristwatch and said: "I'm interested in this. Let's meet again to further our discussion. I would need to discuss this with the scientist".

Ali Garabed smiled and said, "It would be my greatest pleasure to see you again".

Ellinaz Ivanovo stood up and stretched her right hand to give him a business card and said, "I expect you in Washington DC".

She walked back to meet Udi Daniel who was looking intently at the papers in her hand. She hooked the left hand of the young inventor, with her right hand and they strolled away to where a chartered jet was waiting. Tom Harry waved them away and joined Ali Garabed out of the departure hall.

Ellinaz Ivanovo did not mention a thing about the business discussion she had with Ali Garabed until they were settled in the jet. Udi Daniel could tell from the expression on her face, since her meeting with Ali Garabed, that something very interesting was in the offing for her.

As the plane balanced on the runway to take off, she gave Udi Daniel one of the papers that Ali Garabed had given her. He looked at the front page and flipped it over to check the back page, the images of the precious stones sparkled in the inside the jet.
"They're beautiful stones, are you going to buy them?" Udi Daniel said.

Ellinaz Ivanovo did not answer the question right away. The paper she had given him contained the images of a blue diamond, red beryls, tanzanites, yellow diamond and black opal. Udi Daniel was still looking at the first paper, when she placed the whole papers on his lap. He picked the papers one after the other and examined them as the jet plane attained the right altitude for straight flight. He was about to look through the images again, when she answered his question.

"I'm not buying them, I'm going to find them".

Udi Daniel raised his head shockingly and looked at her squarely in the face.

"Where are these stones?" He asked.

"They're somewhere at the bottom of the Indian Ocean", Ellinaz Ivanovo replied.

She could see that Udi Daniel had withdrawn his interest all of a sudden.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Ellinaz Ivanovo asked as she touched him.

"You wouldn't understand. You would never even try to understand".

Sadly, I see Daniel getting involved in this quest again. Never underestimate the power of a desperate woman

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"But you haven't said anything to me, what's this about?'

"NextTech would no longer embark on any operation to dig out stones from the earth or recover them from any body of water", Udi Daniel said with a note of finality.

"I'm blown away!" Ellinaz Ivanovo expressed shock.

Udi Daniel turned to face her and said, "Sadly, that's the new reality".

"It's this a joke or what?"

"I just said it's the new reality".

"The primary reason NextTech was set up is to save human miners from dying in minefields around the world, especially in dangerous zones, and you tell me now, that it's all over!" Ellinaz Ivanovo said with vehemence.

"You don't get me Ellie, NextTech isn't folding up, we will continue to supply mining companies, archeological and space traveling companies, and even underwater recovery companies, machines for their operation, but NextTech wouldn't be directly involved from now on".

"Why have you taken this decision?"

"Let me let out a little bit, did you find it ordinary back in the Landmarks Hotels, that my hands were frozen up, when I was just a click away from killing the monster?"

Ellinaz Ivanovo laughed derisively at the scientist and said, ", You of all people should know better, it was only a medical condition, I don't have the right word for it now. You had survived a plane crash, such things could happen, don't ascribe it to anything supernatural".

"Was it a medical situation too, when my hands were restored immediately the vibration stopped around the trap in Brisbane?"

"Look Dan, you're going for a thorough mental examination when we arrive home".

"I don't need it, I'm perfectly fine".

"No you're not".

"I knew you would never reason with me", Udi Daniel said shaking his head.

"You scare me!" Ellinaz Ivanovo said and rested her back on her seat and took a deep breath.

Ellinaz Ivanovo tried to get him to open up on his fears but he would not speak about it. Udi Daniel dozed off as she continued to press him to spill it all. She let him be and opened up the book that Ali Garabed had given to her. She finished the book from cover to cover inside the jet before they would arrive Washington.

What she found in the book about the Lost Ship, made her consider the recovery of the stones even more so much worth the while. She did a mental calculation of the cost of an eighty centimeters square box, full of pink diamond bars and her body got covered with goosebumps. The ship had carried one hundred and twenty of such boxes. She turned and looked at Udi Daniel who was still deeply asleep. She was becoming increasingly restlesss and could not bear the torture anymore. She woke up the scientist.

"How can I help you? Udi Daniel asked sleepily as Ellinaz Ivanovo rocked him on his shoulder.

"I need you to consider the recovery of the precious stones, from the Indian Ocean", Ellinaz Ivanovo replied as she rubbed his back with her right hand.

"I thought we're done with that", Udi Daniel said to assert his resolution.

"Tell me!" Ellinaz Ivanovo said as she freed herself and sat on the lap of Udi Daniel, "What are you afraid of".

"Do you really want to know?" Udi Daniel asked looking directly into her eyes.
"Yes, everything".

"What if I tell you that I'm a pawn in the hands of some very powerful invisible players".

"How? Tell me about it".

"I was actually trapped in Australia to crush the monster because I used the humarines to recover the block of diamond from the Coral Sea".

"And how do you know this?"

"I've been having dreams here and there, before you came to Brisbane. An angel has been consistently in touch with me in trances or dreams. She revealed this to me in the Big Bird before it had crashed in Papua New Guinea".

"Did the angel tell you, that it was Adiam that had changed to become the monster?" Ellinaz Ivanovo asked as she mbibed Udi Daniel's line of thought.

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'She told me that I released the demon of diamonds with my machines in the Coral Sea, and I must return to Australia to clean up my mess".

"Dan, you haven't answered my question".

"I don't need anyone to tell me that it was Adiam that had become the monster, it wasn't by transformation but by possession".

"Possession, by what?"

"The demon of diamonds of course".

"This is meniscal!" Ellinaz Ivanovo said blocking her ears with her hands.

"Did you just call me a meniac?" Udi Daniel asked with his face stone cold.

"I didn't say so, I mean the whole thing. How does it sound to you? Machines possessed by demons? This is unspeakable!"

"Don't doubt this to your own peril, I'm dealing with extra powerful invisible forces right here", Udi Daniel stressed.

"You know what, I'm going to continue to pretend that I didn't hear anything that you have said about demons possessing machines, until you see a psychiatrist and a psychologist. The crash has changed you".

"Ellinaz, I'm more normal than you are", Udi Daniel fought back.

"We will see!" Ellinaz Ivanovo responded.

"You think science is everything?"

"It's you Daniel, who said anything that science can't explain, doesn't exist".

"That's right in the visible world, not in the world that I can't see with my physical eyes or science eyes".

"It's so convenient for you to say".

"Alright Ellie, can you use science to explain to me how and why I was the only survivor when the Big Bird crashed in the Pacific Ocean".

"It could have been anybody".

"Is that all you can say?"

"That's all there's to say Dan".

"You win Ellinaz, but before I give you a Medal of Honor, don't broach up the Indian Ocean and the stones to me again".

Ellinaz Ivanovo got up from the legs of the scientist to take her seat in the private jet and said, "I've resigned all my roles in the running of NextTech with immediate effect! I'm no longer a shareholder from now on!!".

Good riddance to bad rubbish
She could go to hell for all we care.
I knew that girl will want to trap Daniel in that useless emotional nest of hers. Thank Gos Daniel didn’t give her the opportunity to overcome tho. Keep it coming OP

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Udi Daniel could not hide his feelings from her, he reacted on the spot by casting a surprise look at her. She had not been so dispirited for the seven years he had known her. She took his last sentence very offensive. He held her to a high esteem, and she knew it, but right now, she felt the scientist had belittled her.

She was from the stock affluent families in Russia, that commanded mult-billion businesses around the world. When Tillaz, the company that had last employed Udi Daniel had disgraced him out, it was Ellinaz Ivanovo, who had persuaded and empowered him to set up NextTech.

Udi Daniel unfastened his seat belt and drew near to Ellinaz Ivanovo. He could see that tears were streaming down from her eyes. He must have hurt her really bad, the way she recoiled with veins visible around her neck. He placed his left hand around her shoulder and tried to get her attention, but she looked away.

"Ellie, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, to make you cry", Udi Daniel said with a pleading face.

Ellinaz Ivanovo began sobbing as she felt his hand. She could see that the scientist was really all out to make amends, and she was determined to make it hard for him. At the same time, she felt pity for the scientist, who had gone past terrible realities, in the not too distant time.

For the first time, she thought of allowing the recovery of the stones in the Indian Ocean to pass, until the he had regained full control of himself. However, a more stronger thought, was gaining ground in her mind. The blacksmith doesn't wait for the iron to be cold, before beating it to shape. It had to be now! She moved her neck slowly to face Udi Daniel, and he opened his mouth again.

"Ellie, I said I'm sorry", Udi Daniel repeated with a drag.

"What did you do to me?" Ellinaz Ivanovo asked with a fading voice.

"I made you cry".

"No, you reduced me to nothing".

"I can't do that to you, you're all I got. I'm only protecting you from them".

"From who?"

"That's what you wouldn't understand".

"I can die for you Ellinaz. I don't want any monster or strange forces near or around you".

"Dan, what are you protecting me know?"

"I just said it, monsters and strange forces".

"You're at it again".

"Listen to me Ellinaz, before the Big Bird had crashed, in one of my visions, Adiam had risen from the Pacific Ocean, to where you were sunbathing on the beach. It held you by the neck and....I can't say it", Udi Daniel said in dread.

"You see Dan, I think I know what to do now".

"Do you still think I'm crazy?"

"Adiam has been reduced to particles, no more monsters", Ellinaz Ivanovo said and held the face of Udi Daniel in her hands.

"I'm really afraid, I'm not about to risk another adventure into the unknown", Udi Daniel said as Ellinaz Ivanovo shut his mouth up with a piercing kiss.

Oh shit 😭😭😭
What a desperate woman wants, she gets. But I’m sure this is the point in time where Daniel’s dream will come to pass, I mean the vision where he saw Adiam holding Ellinaz’s neck because I am 100% sure that the monster is not dead yet, at least not fully. Adiam’s physical body could have been destroyed in Australia but, the demon is still alive in the coral sea

YoungBruzzy the prophet!
Nothing is certain for now,
The World Unknown in the Indian Ocean.

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By the time they pulled away, Udi Daniel was exhausted, and he collapsed on the chest of Ellinaz Ivanovo. She cuddled him with her long arms, tightly to herself as if the grown-up man was a toddler. They were lost into what the future would hold for them, but in and on, parallel opposite paths.

Udi Daniel's resolution on the operation in the Indian Ocean, would need to defend itself from the flaming arrows of love, shooting from the heart of Ellinaz Ivanovo. She had been there for him since she discovered his talent, playing a mother figure. . Each time she kissed him, he felt waves, like electric sparks, traveling through neon gasses.

He felt strongly that if Ellinaz Ivanovo switched off her love for him, he would stop to exist, but a voice from within, would not stop telling him to protect her from the demon of diamonds. He was knocked out by the dilemma and he slept off in the arms of Ellinaz Ivanovo.

She was not totally oblivious of the circumstances that had seemed to redefine the character of her god. Though she hated to admit it to the scientist, that the monster that had come out of the Coral Sea, had all the physical appearance of the humarine, barring other things, she would never take it that Adiam got possessed in the Coral Sea.

She opined that the only way to explain it away, and make.sense to an enlightened mind, was that Adiam had evolved due to error codes generated in the sea.

As the plane made a sharp descent into Washington, Udi Daniel woke up in the arms of Ellinaz Ivanovo. He stretched his right hand and took the book Ali Garabed had given her.

"The book contains all you need to know about the stones and where to recover them in the Indian Ocean", Ellinaz Ivanovo said with a suppressed smile.

Udi Daniel laughed wryly and said, "I'm not promising you anything", as the private jet touched down in the Baltimore/Washington international airport.

Chapter Twelve





They disembarked from the jet with the book in the hand of Udi Daniel. Ellinaz Ivanovo sensed the scientist was probably considering the operation to recover the stones. She knew he was capable of doing the sublime one moment, but would become unprecedentedly unpredictable at other times.

She knew enough of him to balance the equation of their relationship. She could see that his demeanor was brightened all of a sudden, as they crossed a pavement towards the car park in the airport. She warmed up to him.

"How do you feel, now that you're back home? Ellinaz Invanoo asked as she flashed a disarming smile at him.

"Freedom!" Udi Daniel replied. "You don't know the taste of it, until you're caught in the web of powerful forces".

"Can't yoo do without casting aspersions?" Ellinaz Ivanovo asked as she placed her right hand around his neck.

"You're the interpreter", Udi Daniel responded as he used his left hand to hold her waist.

Ellinaz Ivanovo refrained with effort to not take the scientist on his concept of freedom. She had come to realize that stoking the fire, would never get him to see things naturally.

A white-coloured Limousine pulled up right before them as they took a turn to access the driveway to the park. A smart chauffeur came out and pulled the door open for them. Ellinaz Ivanovo literally dragged Udi Daniel into the Limousine, as he looked stunned and confused.

The scientist knew she belonged to a high caste in Russia, with a very high taste, but he had not seen her ride in a Limo. He was forced to speak out when he saw the driver taking a route directly opposite to NextTech, where he lived in a bungalow.

"What's happening Ellie?" Uri Daniel asked staring into her eyes.

"Like what?" She asked back at him feigning ignorance.

"Where're we headed?'

"I bought a mansion for you while you were away in Australia, we're going Downtown DC", Ellinaz Ivanovo said and giggled.

"But, you didn't tell me all this while".

"I wanted to make it a surprise, after we must have returned from our vacation. I could not wait anymore when I heard your voice, after surviving the plane crash in Papua New Guinea".

"Wow!"

"It's my gift for us".

"You did this for me?"

"Didn't I tell you, that you're my god?"

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Ellinaz Ivanovo's last words melted the heart of the scientist in a way he could not control. Tiny shiny beads of tears rolled up to his eyes and gradually swelled up. He turned to look away from Ellinaz Ivanovo to hide his eyes. But, she had seen them. She turned his head with her left hand with a touch of tenderness and the tears dripped from the face of the scientist. Ellinaz Ivanovo brought a pink hankerchief and dabbed his eyes.

She had never seen him show this sweet side of emotion, she assumed he must have been overwhelmed by her display of how much she cared for him.

Udi Daniel continued to toss up incidences from his past and presence in his mind, as the Limo ate up the distance to Downtown DC. He clearly figured out that Ellinaz Ivanovo was not doing it, to induce him to recover the precious in the Indian Ocean. His heart bled figuratively in pains as Ellinaz Ivanovo ran her soft hand on his back to give him warmth. He could not stand the thought that she could be hurt by anything in the world.

He was ready to sink and swim the devil that would come near. He could never have dreamed, that the most beautiful woman he had ever seen and one of the best billionaire business tactician in the world, would one day become his business partner and would love and worship him.

He would fight death to make her live for eternity. He felt a new lease of life rushing back at him as the Limo went through a massive gate. He opened the first page of the book, "The Great Loss", and covered it without reading a word.

"Don't you think you need some rest from work, Ellinaz Ivanovo asked from the corner of her mouth as she saw him closing the book.

"No, I'm perfectly alright', Udi Daniel replied.

"I advise that you see a doctor for a thorough look up", Ellinaz Ivanovo said as Udi Daniel caught a glimpse through the side window.

"I've already been checked by doctors in Papua New Guinea, Ellie. They're experts and I have a clean bill of health with me, I can show you if you want me to".

He appeared physically sound and mentally too, to Ellinaz Ivanovo, and she could not get where the strange things he had said came from: "Invisibble Players". She admitted to herself that something was about the way he had escaped from the plane crash, but she could not connect it to some invisible machinations.

At times she inclined to want to see things through the lens of the scientist, but each time her mind switched to the Lost Ship loaded with diamonds, every other thing got eviscerated. As if Udi Daniel was reading her mind he turned to face her as the Limo drew up in the front of a king-size mansion.

"Ellie, do you think I survived the plane crash because I'm Udi Daniel? the scientist asked as they alighted.

"I really don't know Dan, I think I have answered that question earlier".

She would not send a wrong signal that she believed in some invisible kingdom. The van that carried Zodiaz, Godiam, Roggi and Illiax, drove past to the garage and a thought flashed up in the mind of Udi Daniel.

"Didn't you check the mind program of Adiam before we left the Landmarks Hotels in Brisbane? The scientist asked her to get her on another line of reasoning.

"Yeah, I did", Ellinaz Ivanovo replied.

"What do you think had altered the mind of the humarine in the Coral Sea? Udi Daniel asked as she moved around to meet him.

"I can't but believe that the mind-controller, might have malfunctioned, making the "Decision-Making Systems" to generate monster error codes in the humarine".

"Damn! Ellinaz, you're the best science fiction writer I have ever seen!"