TERRA EMPIRE: ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR

Episode 51 AMNESINOX

Balin looked at the Ambassador, his expression radiating great curiosity, he replied, “Theodor Janus once mentioned it unintentionally while we were chatting. I didn't understand what he meant at the time. Did he ever say anything about that to you?”

“What did he say to you?” the Ambassador asked back, like a gossip who had just found a hot topic as gossip.

“Not something important. It's just that I thought that person was a bit crazy by saying that I should be a part of that world,” Balin shrugged. “Mr. Howell, I was just looking for information about the person I was going to work with, and the man's words made me question his sanity a little.”

“I thought Prime Minister Hampbull was crazy when he told me. Turns out there's something in this world that you don't understand, Mr. Starches. The oldest kingdom in the world that could be something real after I met Mr. Janus.”

“The oldest kingdom in the world? And what does that have to do with the nuclear reactor project?”

James Howell raved at length about what he knew, as well as the conclusion, about Terra Empire but as far as he knew it was something Prime Minister Hampbull told him and heard from Mr. Janus.no more…

It's just that because he thought Balin Pati did not know anything, then the man told it pretently. He ended his story with an attitude as if he was the smartest person on earth, “So we have to be careful about someone, he said, it could be that the people around us are Terra Empire spies. That's why I questioned you first, Mr. Starch!”

“Prudence is indeed necessary, Mr. Howell's! That's why maybe they're also careful to strangers who know about Terra Empire.”

“Why is that?”

“Because not everyone should know about Terra Empire..”

Balin quickly fired a shocker-pulse from Tazzer at his wrist. The shocker-pulse, or electric shocker, stung Howell's fingers outstretched near Balin. It didn't take a fraction of a second to work and Howell was knocked unconscious when two small floating boxes flew from Tazzer's bracelet on the Ambassador's head, then form an object that resembles a headphone once in each temple Howell.

“Auris connection to Amnesinox,” Balin gave the program command and after that the object in James Howell's head formed a visualization of magnification five times of what appeared to be part of James Howell's brain.

Pulling out or erasing human memory is not easy. Although humans are creatures that easily forget something, but the memory is still attached to the memory of the brain. If not careful then he can damage all of one's memory and will make him forget everything. Fortunately there was Amnesinox ready to work helping Balin erase whatever he wanted to get rid of from James Howell's memory, and it was certainly about Terra Empire.

“Show memory last five minutes,” back Balin says. “Prepare procedure.”

The Auris hologram conjures up images of keyboards and a complex set of binary codex calculations. Each time Balin types something on a hologram keyboard, the codex calculates quickly and each calculation result displays a number, a certain part of Howell's brain fluoresces. Keep moving until the codex finally manages to find what Balin asked for, a conversation in the last five minutes while with him in this workspace.

Binary codex turned into a series of pictures with a series of events when Balin entered the workspace James Howell, chatting with him, surprised to see his business card, until finally the Ambassador fainted drugged by a needle Tazzer. The command was used to hold the series of images of the incident in one frame and erase them from Howell's memory.

“Delete also everything about Terra Empire..”.

The phrase Terra Empire which had been altered as a binary codex then issued another series of images, long before Balin had met him, which was when James Howell had dinner with Mr. Janus and his meeting with Prime Minister Hampbull when he told the Ambassador to lobby about the nuclear reactor project, maybe that's the moment when the Prime Minister of Australia opened a secret about Terra Empire.

The three yellow dots in Howell's brain visualisation slow down as the percentage of Amnesinox continues to climb. The three-point yellow light emission weakened and disappeared completely once the download figure reached one hundred percent. The image of the scene in the visualization of Amnesinox again turns into irregular matrix numbers.

“Auris off from Amnesinox,” Balin command and instantaneous visualization and holograms lost.

Prefect Pati took off a pair of small boxes of Amnesinox from Howell's head and muttered as he patted the man's head, “Now I can calmly leave you. You can no longer babble anywhere about Terra Empire because it's gone from your memory.”.

As his business was done, Balin then walked out of James Howell's study. The beautiful secretary immediately greeted him with a bright smile. The girl had just finished fixing the lipstick and had her cheeks peeled back with a pink hue, while the fragrance was stronger than before.

“It's finished meeting with Mr. Howell, Mr Balin?”

“Already! And it feels like he just told me so you wouldn't have to wait for him.”

“Why is that?” ask the girl confused.

“Because I asked him for permission to buy you coffee before going home.”

The girl immediately blushed,“True?”

“Oh, you can ask it yourself if you do not believe..”.

Balin had prepared with Tazzer when it turned out that the girl had decided to go in and ask the superior. The existence of an eyewitness who saw James Howell in a fainting state at this time was not something Balin wanted, the man needed about five minutes to go before the effects of his shockers disappeared and the Ambassador woke up again. So if the girl comes in, she'll definitely be the next Amnesinox patient.

Fortunately the girl replied, “Where may I not believe you, Mr. Balin! Mr Guests. Howell are all honorable people. If you want to take me for coffee, it will be an honor for me.”

“I am honored that a girl as beautiful as you can immediately agree to my invitation,” Balin smiled.

The remark further melted the Secretary who had already fallen in love with Balin. But the girl asked doubtfully, “But really it's okay if you invite me?”

Balin noticed the girl's gaze on his finger and laughed, “Today there is a girl investigating whether I am married or not, just to accept the offer to drink coffee.”

The secretary became clumsy, giggled amused to cover up his guilt, “Just want to make sure our coffee drinking event is not disturbed. You don't want to be bothered by your partner's phone while we're busy chatting in the company of coffee, do you?”

“Actually there is indeed a disturbance for us, no..not a partner's phone..I have a dinner appointment,” said Balin sighed. “But it's still eight o'clock tonight. Right now I still have a lot of time to hang out enjoying a nice glass of coffee.”

“I promise will always make you on time.again it is my expertise as a secretary, reminding someone's agenda!”.

“I'm sure of it,” says Balin. “Then there is a suggestion where we can get a good coffee around here, miss.?”

“My name is Devita.”

“Uuh, what a name! As beautiful as the face of the owner,” Balin responded with an enchanted expression that made Devita even harder to master. The girl unknowingly hooked her arm to Balin Pati's arm before the two walked out of the Australian Embassy building to Starbucks next to Devita's office on Karet Kuningan Street.

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