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Chapter 13 - Night Bird (Part 1)

Hi, my name is Chess, I am 21 years old and I'm a hacker…, within the low world of the internet I am known as <> you might thing I am just another nickname on the web but honestly I am sorry to disappoint you… since in my last evaluation I scored an IQ of 333, or at least that's what the test indicated… Sounds incredible doesn't it? Maybe you might be thinking that intelligence is a gift, however in my case… it was more like a curse since my parents were not precisely the most brilliant people in the world, my father was a drug addict and my mother an alcoholic… with time I came to think that maybe that diabolical combination was the cause of my high IQ and it was not exactly planned but that's how it turned out.

My childhood was not ease at all, my parents completely unattended me and even my father tried to kill me once amidst his hallucinations, unfortunately my mother was too drunk to do something so I had to manage on my own…, when I managed to escape from my father I hid in the cupboard for a while…, until he left then I took that opportunity to let the gas flow from the stove, with them being so high and drunk it wasn't hard at all to fill up the house with gas, so I stepped outside and just waited there… until a loud explosion happened, I knew that with them dead I could be taken into an orphanage where they would give me out for adoption since no other relative wanted to take care of me and so it was…

Everything happened as I foresaw it, when the police arrived, I told them my sad story and the horrible mistreating I had gone through with my drug addict parents, I also told them that they had sent me into the streets to beg for money while they were getting high inside, when they finished listening to my story one of them hugged and sobbed with me, after all who would doubt the word of a 10 year old?

I admit that I did not think beyond getting to the orphanage, but I have always like leaving room for improvisation, which is why I spent 8 years of my life in there, I never allowed anyone to adopt me since I did not wanted to suffer the hell of having parents again, I liked being on my own, I only trust myself and that's enough. The orphanage saw that I studied until high school level, however it is needless to say that from middle school level I didn't need help from the schools anymore, I used to dive in to the deepest of a library where I read all kinds of books and learned a lot on my own, for some strange reason I could understand everything pretty quickly and it remained imprinted in my memory as a photograph, with just reading a book once it was enough for me to memorize it completely it was then when I decided to take an IQ test just out of curiosity…. The result 333 was impressive even for me, although it helped me to comprehend a lot of things faster.

When I got to high school I was in front of a computer for the first time and despite the fact that I knew them I had never been granted access to any, immediately I saw the world with a different set of eyes and I started tracing a life plan that only required my complete and total independence so I decided to remain in the orphanage until they cut me loose, I did not wanted any social worker chasing me around all the time… so the wisest thing to do was to wait.

When the time finally came, I was free in every way, I had created a fake bank account where a made small transactions from other banks, it is curious how a bank would go crazy if they lost a big sum of money however 200 dollars? How much and 200 dollars be for a bank? It's like a mosquito that feeds from the blood of an elephant, it doesn't even know the mosquito is there, but… 200 dollars a week is enough to live a peaceful life? I don't think so, fortunately there are many banks in the world and if I can get 200 dollars from every single one of them without them noticing, I would not need to worry about money ever again, and so it was.

I thought it was incredible how easy I could manage to slip through the banks security systems, so I started to seek something more challenging like the CIA's or FBI's secret files among other intelligence companies…, believe me when I tell you the world does not spin in the direction you think, I know so many things that humanity doesn't even know they exist.

The world is an interesting place…

-Chess: Larry, open the door…

-Larry: Right away! How was your day?

-Chess: Good (Passes through a small vigilance stand from a residence compound)

Maybe you are wondering, "What do I actually do?" You see… I managed to buy a nice house in a compound with decent security, I spend most of the time in my computer, although sometimes I go out to clubs and bars and other night life amenities, where I usually drink a bit, I think I am smart enough to know when you are abusing alcohol.

-Man: Excuse me… can I buy you a drink?

-Chess: If you do not buy the whole bottle, you better piss off.

-Man: Wow… aren't you the straightforward one… Barman, a bottle of Chateau Petrus please and two glasses

-Chess: Oh my god… how charming… (kisses him on the cheek)

See? Easy… to be honest a woman with such a high IQ, I would consider her truly dangerous, if I was them, I would lock me up in a cell, lock me up and throw the key into the bottom of the sea.

-Larry: The sun is almost out, a very entertaining night, wasn't it Chess?

-Chess: How much wine would you need to drink to take off my bra Larry?

-Larry: I'd drink the whole bottle in a heartbeat.

-Chess: Thought so…

It's amazing how many men have fallen for the same trick and yet my bra remains in its place, honestly the closest they've ever been to my bra is two drinks away from finishing the whole bottle…

I think more than I talk… usually I have extensive reasoning conversations with myself, I have found that the rest of the people only need a certain number of key words to communicate and not elaborate sentences that just make the main idea just fade away, I hope your brains didn't explode after hearing that.

Actually, I am reading the Interpol's top secrets, some of the most dangerous killers in the world are really brilliant, however there is something that has caught my attention <> according to the few reports that exist about him, he's an agent usually sent as a last resort against criminals, despite navigating in the deepest of the archives I can't find anything else… no birth date records, relatives, schools…nothing, there is no record of origin, only small notes from missions he has been sent out to, currently he is in a mission in Japan, and one of his first missions was in Mexico… I will have to look in other sites on my own. I have navigated enough to realize when someone is hiding something from me and Interpol is hiding something, so secret that I can only be hidden in one particular place… in their documents and manuscripts bank, the only place out of hacker's reach.

-Chess: Agent Guty…

Let's see what you are doing in Japan, it seems that it's another of your missions, I access the Interpol's database finding reports of the advance in his current case…

-Chess: Bingo!

Everything indicates that all his progress reports are eliminated once the case is closed, I know this because there are only small reports from his previous missions, I think in some way they try to erase every tie from the Agent to the world and the places he has been sent to… the question is, why? I have read so many other articles about fantastic agents who are still existing within the database like agent Smith who retired recently. However, this agent works in the shadows and walks without leaving a trace, besides the reports that still exist indicate that the criminals the agent has faced are considered global threats… really? I will definitely get to the bottom of this…

-Chess: Damn it… the reports are written in Japanese…

Truth be told, learning human languages has always been tedious for me, I like computer languages a thousand times better… also I have always been able to make my way with the English I know everywhere I go… then… Why bother?

-Chess: Hell will burn tonight, Damn it!

In a few seconds I gather enough of books on how to learn Japanese, I think it's a very popular language… let's see…

-Chess: "こんにちは" ok… one more time… "こんにちは,もう一杯お茶をいただけますか?" Hahahaha.

I can't help but to laugh at this language, it's pretty funny, I like it, let's see about the writing… these little figures are very interesting…, writing in Japanese seems similar to painting, each sentence is a work of art, perhaps I don't like learning languages, but I think Japanese will be the exception.

-Chess: Tomorrow I will get sushi to celebrate…

Afet a couple of hours of oral and written practice I managed to master the language, it wasn't as hard as I thought, if I am being honest, I liked it a lot, I even downloaded a couple of songs I liked.

-Chess: こう言うのが正しいでしょうか…もっと前から日本語がこんなに好きになると知りたかったです?

Very well, now that I know Japanese, I go back to the reports which I completely devour in minutes, it's incredible what we got here, I have seen many entertaining series but this for sure takes the number one spot, Ah! This stimulates my brain…, a school where they murder students and no one knows why, holy crap! There is not a single record, nothing! How do you start a mission like this, no leads, no evidence, no suspects and with a record of 61 dead agents before you, you are suicidal Agent Guty…

Dying of curiosity, I continue reading the reports hmmm… a girl named Akasha… mmhmm… the principal… messages on the whiteboard… Did you take a blood sample? Hmm… the messages disappear quickly to avoid traumatizing the students, it's a valid reason, but now that agent Guty is there they shouldn't do that, they are taking evidence away from him… let's keep going… suspect kills himself in front of the school…, a heavy chill courses through my skin while I read about the suicide of one of the suspects… I don't need to have an IQ of 333 to see the kind of monster that is sitting in that school… making one of your puppets kill himself to avoid giving up evidence is the control of this guy over his puppets so high? This person isn't human… How can he get inside people's heads to do something like this? This is what you are up against? Without any support, nothing to back him up, he will end up dead in short time…

-Chess: Oh my god…

I stretch a bit to free the tension in my shoulders then I extend my hand and take a Dorito to dip it in nacho cheese and eat it… I have a slim complexion so no matter how much I each I never gain weight…, I caress subtly the piercing in my nose then I continue reading… hmm… Countdown?

-Chess: The bastard gave him a deadline, fuck…

 The reports from Guty are quite direct and summarized, I feel like there are things that he is leaving out so I will have to hack into his computer to get more details… Using a small tracing program, I developed one afternoon while I was bored, I get his laptop's IP address, then I access all his files and download them to my own computer so I can calmly read them…

-Chess: Poison? They poisoned him with Clostridium botulinum, but this poison is mortal, how was it that…

What I find inside Agent Guty's computer is truly baffling information, how can someone survive a poisoning by Clostridium botulinum, if the ambulance was there for him there must be a record from the hospital hat says what was administered to him to keep him from dying, so I look in the archive of every ambulance in that day, filtering by his department's address…

-Chess: Here it is

It was ambulance number 498, headed in his address direction but there is no other record of the return of the vehicle… It never came back. Then what happened to it? I checked the hospitals log without success, so I deviate to the area of ambulance discharge, maybe it broke down somewhere along the way and it had to be scrapped…

-Chess: Let's see…

Everything indicates that I was right, I find the record of the vehicles discharge which says that the ambulance was stolen before reaching its destination… really? I dig deeper without finding a record about it… as if the unit was swallowed by the earth.

-Chess: Something doesn't add up… there is no way that the ambulance went missing without leaving a trace and nobody noticing.

Quickly I access the police records of the city, looking for a search request of the lost unit, unfortunately there isn't such request, the unit was lost, and no one is asking anything about it…, maybe there is a secret government hospital, no… I don't think so.

-Chess: It's been a while since I hacked into the pharmaceutical industry…

Some of the most recent breakthroughs in medicine do not reach the market due to low commercial value, perhaps the cure for this poison has already been discovered, but hasn't reached the market…

-Chess: It's a possibility.

There are different cures for mortal diseases, however the pharmaceutical industry keeps them hidden for various reasons like regulating mortality… commercial value, social control amongst other things, few people know how the world works, its not a system for everyone…

After checking the pharmaceutical records, I do not find anything related to the venom… so I go back to the beginning and star searching the web again for something that might lead me to that ambulance, in that moment in a Japanese social network someone reported finding an ambulance completely wrecked and abandoned in the middle of nowhere… Huh?

-Chess: What?! Are you fucking kidding me>

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