tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15136540955876588782024-03-21T21:55:52.893-07:00The Peace CrusadersCopyright © with the authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar. Over 3000 readers have visited this blog. (If you like the preview of this novel "The Peace Crusaders", please bring this blog to the notice of fellow readers).Shyam Bhatawdekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07461455000937083816noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513654095587658878.post-74354078582047424192015-10-31T11:16:00.002-07:002020-06-16T01:17:01.503-07:00The Peace Crusaders: Chapter 25<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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next week a team of judges affiliated to the international court was
transported blindfolded to the underground rocky hiding place in the mountain
at 21,500 feet height by Victor’s special vehicle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
panel of judges had already examined all the testimonies that were presented to
them in the form of videos and audio recordings. Amar, Victor, Adarsh, and
Shakti had sent them the video and audio recordings in the same manner that
they had adopted in sending them to the media people all over the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Later
in an audio message sent to each judge they had requested the judges to conduct
the necessary trials to decide the punishments of all the convicts. For this
purpose they had briefed them by way of an audio message on how the judges would
be transported to a place where the victims were imprisoned. Considering the
seriousness of the series of extraordinary and far-reaching events that took
place on the planet and the presence of very authentic proofs to substantiate
the crimes of the convicts involved, the judges of the international court
considered it their quintessential moral responsibility to take up the
assignment as requested by Amar, Victor, Adarsh, and Shakti. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the previous week they had also dispatched to the judges the entire proceedings
of their June 1 meeting with the convicts as an additional testimony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the prisoners except Zahin were brought in front of the judges in the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">None
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the end of the trial the chief of the panel of judges pronounced the judgment
that was in two parts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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carefully and without prejudices we have come to certain conclusions. Each one
of you is now declared the worst criminal of the humanity. This declaration is
important for the knowledge of the citizens of our entire planet. For your untold
heinous acts against the humanity you are being awarded death sentence. You
will be put to sleep forever the soonest possible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2: All the billions and billions of unaccounted money that you have been wangling
via your disgraceful underhand dealings of various descriptions and stashed in
various banks and other financial dealings under your own name, names of your
family members, relatives, friends and business associates, any kind of
fictitious entities etc will be immediately confiscated. An exact assessment of
this unimaginably large amount will be made within next three months. Retrieval
of such large sums of money is expected to significantly bring down the tax
burden of the people. The entire money will be pooled up and used for the
upliftment of the citizens of our planet by creating job opportunities,
imparting education to all at affordable expenses, providing cheap medical care
to everyone, and making available the essentials of life at reasonable rates.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cells. All the food items were garnished with an appropriate quantity of a new
formula of the magic portion capable of inducing painless and instant death.
Within a few minutes of consuming the food each convict fell down on floor to
breathe his last.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to be jailed in a normal jail of Seher for a period of ten years. During this
period he would be asked to carry out special humanitarian projects in Seher as
well as in the countries where necessary. After this period he would be freed
and treated like any other citizen of the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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documentation as the basis to inform the citizens of the planet by the
concerned official agencies as well as by the media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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impact of the magical potion that was administered to them in the flight started
showing and when they woke up the next day in their respective homes they had forgotten
about the entire episode. Yet their selectively retained memory could still
confirm their participation in the conduct of the trials and their judgments. Amar,
Victor, Adarsh, and Shakti thought this as an important aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Uttam, Babu, Minmin, and the secretary of Zintun volunteered to sip adequate
quantity of yet another formula of the magic potion that cleared all their
memory of the places, people, and events associated with the disappearance
acts. They didn’t want to share any of those secrets with anyone on the
planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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concerned official agencies and the media were given the videotape of the
trials and judgments. They shared it with the public of the planet in the most
transparent manner without any editing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the ensuing days and months, many more corrupt politicians, corporate czars,
and terrorists as well as their cronies who were involved in planning wars,
terror, and other cruel acts on humanity also disappeared mysteriously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ongoing disappearance shook the remaining corrupt lot with an unknown creepy fear.
As a result they started distancing themselves from the criminal acts. Finally
they had no alternative but to stop their crimes. Many of them even committed
suicides out of fear and others did it out of shame. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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public of planet Berth had witnessed the true colors of many of their so-called
leaders in political, bureaucratic, and corporate world on which they relied
heavily so far. The citizens of planet Berth learnt to socially and
professionally boycott these kinds of enemies of humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more significant development took place in all the countries of the planet
Berth. The job vacancies in the militaries of almost all the countries went abegging.
Despite quite attractive salaries and perquisite being offered by the
militaries to attract the candidates, no one was willing to join the army, navy,
and air force. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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anymore. Their existing members deserted them by large numbers and finally they
had no followers. The so-called leaders of terrorist organizations were taken
in the custody of law, some of them surrendered themselves for legitimate
punishments. Some of them committed suicides.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gradually. They stopped getting the orders for their products. Continuance of
these companies was not feasible any longer. Many of these companies
diversified into products and services of peaceful nature and retained their
employees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the billions that Amar and Victor had, they started a company that would deal
in two domains- first one: electronics, computers and communication, and
second: automobiles and aeronautics. They appointed Shakti and Adarsh as their
CEOs respectively. Their company provided employment to some 10,000 persons in
the first phase. The salaries of the CEOs were only six times the salaries of
the lowest paid employees. Every employee including the CEOs was entitled for
profit sharing based on his or her merit and contribution to the company. In
the very first year of its operation the company did very well and so awarded
cars, houses, education fund, and jewelry as rewards to its 2,500 deserving
employees. The subsequent years profits were still better and everyone in the
company shared more and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about all round benefits of this model of running a corporate company many
other companies started adopting the same model and profited. The distinction
between the people of 1% club and those of 99% club started getting obliterated
systematically and gradually. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sizable number of conscientious and peace loving people of high value structure
had already come forward to support the human society in the best possible ways
in almost all the countries of planet Berth. They started volunteering
themselves to offer their services through various government organizations,
NGOs, research centers, corporate bodies, educational institutes etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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triumphed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Victor, Adarsh, and Shakti continued working relentlessly. They sustained
forever their crusade to maintain peace on planet Berth. Their identity
remained intact and unknown to the people of planet Berth. Many berthlings
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Twins, do not fool us. You two are in fact the masters of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">piracy, not them. You very well know that with your little </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">brains you can only get some little teeny-weeny kinky idea </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of frivolity. But you can’t get the real seminal ones like </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">these two did or your many other brilliant employees can </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">do. So, you guys stole their money spinning ideas and then </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">threw both of them out of your company. You treat other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">employees too more or less the same way. Your highly </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">talented employees work hard and sincerely for you. If you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">boast that you have deployed some of your money in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">company, they are entitled to boast more than you for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">applying their brains and intelligence that are far better than </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">yours and far more important then the money you invest. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They design, develop, and manufacture the top-class </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">products needed by the human society. And what you do </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">then? You steal and file their brilliant ideas as the patents </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">under your own names and then you fire many of them. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Those who stay back in the company with you because of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">their certain compulsions, you pay them pittance. You draw </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">your own salaries and profits in millions and billions, many </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">thousand times what you pay to these highly deserving </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">employees. You had been simply exploiting their </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">helplessness. Do you now understand why you have been </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">jailed here?” Adarsh said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti then turned to Zintun. He beckoned him, “Hey, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you…yes Zintun I’m speaking to you. Your turn now.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You lesser people, don’t act smart with me. You don’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">know my reputation. I have become the prime minister of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the powerful nation Chinhut not for nothing. I’ve killed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">thousands of people like you,” Zintun shouted in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">frustration.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Calm down Zintun. You are a nobody now. Your party, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">special army, and other governmental agencies do not want </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you in Chinhut. They have already appointed your </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">successor- a cleaner person. They also think that for your </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">evil acts God has punished you by making you vanish.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then Shakti paused for while to provide one general piece </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of information to the attendees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK, at this stage of my talk let me acquaint all of you with </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">one piece of important information. All of you have lost </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">your jobs and in your place new persons have been at least </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">provisionally appointed. In general 99% people of planet </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Berth have cheered the massive disappearance act effected </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by the God,” said Shakti. “Well, coming back to you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun, tell everyone what dirty acts of yours brought you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in this cave.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Who are you to ask?” Zintun wanted to say something </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">more but he developed a severe pain in his groin. That </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">made him shut up. He moaned. That attracted everyone’s </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">attention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti clarified why Zintun was moaning, “Zintun is </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">having pain in his groin because lately he was castrated by </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the women of his country whom he had been sexually </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">abusing for past many years. While that may be construed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">as one reason for him to be in this jail, there are several </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">other charges against him that are equally serious.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">To this Lobhilal shouted enthusiastically, “Yes, this bugger </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is the worst known expansionist. He threatened me to wage </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">a war on my country to snatch a big piece of a disputed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">land on our border. For your info I’m Lobhilal, ex-prime </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minister of Desh.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“And Lobhilal, you greedy insect, you were willing to trade </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that piece of land by losing the war in exchange of a hefty </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sum of money from me and a sizable partnership in the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">projects that I planned to implement by developing that </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">property,” countercharged Zintun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“We are glad all your devious transactions are out in the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">open. For once both of you are speaking stark truth. Those </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">are the reasons why both of you have been punished,” said </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“And let me add one more fact. What Zintun just revealed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is the reason why ex-chief of armed forces of Desh, the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">perennial partner of Lobhilal in all the shady deals, is also </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">present here,” Amar clarified.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar asked the chief of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">armed forces of Desh to raise his hand to identify himself </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to the gathering. He obeyed without a whimper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar went on to say, “Zintun, you are also in collusion </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with the ex-president of Unon, your friend Korruptkin to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">promote wars and increase the manufacture and sale of all </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">kinds of dangerous armaments and other paraphernalia like </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">warships, fighter interceptor planes etc to a large number of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">countries of our planet. You two had recently organized a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">massive conference of CEOs of armament companies of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chinhut and Unon to chalk out your strategies in this </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">regard. Those CEOs too are in the process of being hauled </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">up here. They will also be put on trial alongside you guys.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Korruptkin in the mean time raised his hand and said, “The </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">person this gentleman is referring is me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell couldn’t stop reacting. Addressing Korruptkin </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell blurted out. “What was just informed to us is a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">news to me, Korruptkin. You kept the whole affair of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conference a secret you cheat! It means you and Zintun </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have been lobbying against me to become the sole suppliers </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the weaponry by leaving me out of this business. You </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">two wanted to monopolize this most profitable business. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">You wanted to pocket all the loot for yourselves. It’s just </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">not fair.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It’s interesting to see yesterday’s chums becoming foes </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">today,” observed Adarsh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">On hearing Gushnell’s charges Korruptkin flared up and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">shouted, “And won’t you tell the gathering here that you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">played the meanest conspiracy against me by installing </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam, the activist of Lohab gas leakage as my personal </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bodyguard. To deceive me further you even arranged the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">plastic surgery of his face and presented him to me as </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Balwan- a changed name. A real estate businessman of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Nuplace by name Vicky told me all this just a couple of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">days back right in this dungeon.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell got a shock of his life by this revelation. He said, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Oh my God! My own man sitting there and presiding this </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">meeting stabbed me in my back. Korruptkin, I was not a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">party in installing Uttam as Balwan. He had recommended </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him to me. Ask him.” He seemed to have forgotten his own </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personal bodyguard’s name under the influence of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">potion. He showed his finger toward Adarsh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“This Uttam made a fool of all of us- me, Hardnuts my ex- </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">CEO of Universal Chemicals, the one sitting over here to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">my right and Nuplace’s ex-president Darpok, the one at the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">far extreme left of me. He got our signatures on the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">gunpoint and walked away with the gas leakage </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">compensation money- a daylight dacoity,” said Korruptkin </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">theatrically.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh asked them to cut short their mudslinging. The </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">culprits were deliberately provoked to point the finger at </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">each other and in the process come out naked with their </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">vilest past. Having achieved this objective Adarsh ordered, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Now stop that nonsensical drama, Korruptkin. That’s why </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Darpok and Hardnuts are also here. Now let us proceed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with the remaining items of deliberations. We will now fill </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you up with the rest of the stories why some more guys are </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">also here.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar took over from Adarsh and spoke, “Each of you will </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">identify yourselves by raising your hands as I go on </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">unraveling your murky deeds. Lobhilal of Desh and Hayan </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of Pashan- the neighboring country- have been engaging </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">their armed forces and indirectly their civilians in a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">perennial war that’s going on for donkey’s years. Lately </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal and his ex-chief of armed forces were even trying </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to negotiate purchase of arms for this war from Gushnell </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">expecting huge kickbacks. Interestingly Gushnell also sells </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">similar weapons to Desh’s staunch rival Pashan. Both Desh </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and Pashan, adversaries of each other, get the weapons </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from the same source i.e. Gushnell’s Bigland and in turn </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Bigland makes tons of money by selling products that kill </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the human race in bulk. In addition as informed sometime </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">earlier in this meeting Lobhilal, for his personal profits, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was willing to accept a war on his country Desh proposed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by Zintun. What a great patriot at a prime ministerial level! </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Had that war really taken place it would have also resulted </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in significant bloodshed.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh narrated the story, “Of these six, the first three are </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the persons who falsely implicated Sharifyar with racial </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">charges against him. He was then studying in Bigland- a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">brilliant scholar full with ideals. His institute’s director </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">didn’t support him a bit. So Sharifyar was jailed, tried in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the court and punished. Finally he was deported from </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Bigland. The jailor of the jail of Bigland where he was put </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">behind the bars, the judge of the court of Bigland where he </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was put on trial, and the director of the institute of Bigland </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">where he studied are the next three persons.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh then continued his narration, “All the six of them </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">are racists and they embrace Hennothenic faith. They hate </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the persons belonging to Eggothenic faith. Sharifyar is </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Eggothenic and so he became their target. This incident of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">injustice turned Sharifyar’s life topsy-turvy. He became an </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Eggothenic fundamentalist and vowed to finish everyone </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">who belonged to Hennothenic faith. The result was he </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">schemed to topple the ex-king Maramar of Seher with </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell’s help by fighting a war against Maramar, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">become supremo of Seher and then terrorize the people in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Bigland, Unon, and every other country where Hennothenic </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people resided. Being the supremo of Seher he could use all </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the state’s resources legitimately. As a preparatory practice drill </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">he even bombed many places in Bigland and Unon </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">well before he took over as the supremo. Though Sharifyar </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was a good man, the racist people of this planet made him a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bad man too. He has now become an extremist and cannot </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">change for better; he is so full of hatred. These six people </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and Sharifyar need to be punished and therefore they are all </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">here.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor summarized, “Now all of you know each other’s </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ghastliest character, thinking, and acts. That’s why all of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you have been locked up here. This place is absolutely </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">impregnable. So don’t even dream of escaping from here. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Soon we are arranging to hold an international court here. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">A team of international judges will be stationed here to hear </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and see the audio and video recordings of all of your </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conversations and actions of past few years. And after due </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">trial your punishment will be announced. Any questions?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell raised his hand and said, “I have a question. I was </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in Lobhilal’s hut that evening and during the initial stage of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the party I got blanked out. When I woke up I was here. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">How this miracle took place? Who did it?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor replied, “Uttam with his knowledge of preparation </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of chemicals was a big help in creating a special liquid </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">called “potion”, some of our associates also call it “magic </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">potion”. Babu the headwaiter managed to dispense that </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">magic potion to you and other participants of that party </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">except your wife Helen. Helen was in league with Babu. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She hates for your adulterous behavior involving your lady </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">secretary. On consuming the magic potion in your drinks </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">all of you became unconscious. We have developed a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">special vehicle made with the use of the most powerful jeep </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that Zintun used to own and the two most powerful </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">motorbikes that the twins used to own. Within no time, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal, his ex-chief of armed forces, and Hayan were </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">transported using that multipurpose on demand </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">configurable vehicle capable of running at supersonic and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hypersonic speeds on land, water and in air.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor replied, “The modus operandi was the same at every </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">venue of disappearance act i.e. to make the subjects </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">consume the magic potion in their drinks, make them </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">unconscious, and transport them in our specially configured </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">vehicles. By the way our vehicles can also be maneuvered </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">driverless.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell enquired, “Who administered the magic potion at </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">each venue?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor replied, “In case of Zintun, his own lady secretary </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and a lady called Minmin both victims of Zintun’s sexual </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">advances did the job at the time when Zintun was engaged </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in an orgy with multiple women in his private villa. One of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">us was stationed outside the villa. As soon as he heard the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">shriek of Zintun he knew that the girls had castrated him. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He soon made arrangements to transport Zintun here. In </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">case of Maramar, Sharifyar, and Zahin, Zahin’s wife did it </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in an official meeting in Zahin’s house. Zahin’s wife agreed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to do it because her husband was in it. Zahin is in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">repentance state of mind and he requested his wife to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">cooperate with us. The international court will try Zahin </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">along with you guys here but he is likely to be released </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from here with some specific conditions.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Again Victor replied, “The meeting to sell Universal </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chemical’s plant of Lohab was arranged in the presidential </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">villa in Unon. Uttam in the disguise of Balwan was present </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">there as the personal bodyguard of Korruptkin. He </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">administered the magic potion. Vicky was not given any </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">magic potion.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Korruptkin asked, “Why Vicky wasn’t given the magic </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">potion?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor replied, “Because I am Vicky. I presented myself to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you guys in the disguise of Vicky. We had managed to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">design a website of Vicky’s company with Vicky’s name as </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">its CEO. The disguised Vicky’s photograph was also </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">displayed on the site. One of my friend’s office was used as </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Vicky’s office. So when you guys did a background check </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">on Vicky everything about Vicky looked genuine to all of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you. You were easily fooled.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Hope, now everyone is satisfied with the explanations. On </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">this note we will say goodbye to all of you,” Victor said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar hurriedly added, “Hear this latest news before we say </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">goodbye. I just received it on my communication device. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The war between Isonia and Kasban over the claim of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">disputed holy town has stopped totally. The militaries of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">both the countries, under immense pressure from their </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">civilian citizens, have refused to toe the line of Isonia’s </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">president and Kasban’s king. They have even appealed that </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">both of them should step down. But they ….”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">While he was trying to figure out about his existing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">situation, he suddenly heard a familiar voice. It was a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">female voice.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Hi lover, how are you doing?” the voice asked.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">It took him considerable time to comprehend the message. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">It felt as if his cerebral power had gone sluggish. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Finally he could recognize the female who had directed the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">endearments at him. He mumbled, “My darling secretary!!”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Zintun, sir, I asked you how are you doing?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Not ‘sir’ again.” Zintun didn’t fail to remind her about the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">way he wished to be addressed by her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK, darling. Is that OK now? So how are you doing?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I’m not doing well at all. Look at my condition.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I can see that.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Now you are here and better things could happen to me.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Zintun don’t ever dream of such things from me. And let </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">me present you now my principal associate who was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">responsible for your present confinement to this deserted </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">place.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Minmin who was standing in the background and so wasn’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in sight of Zintun, came forward.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She said, “Zintun, you scum! You have been spoiling the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">lives of so many girls and women all these days. It was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">good that you called for me that day in your office under </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the pretext of offering me a job. Your personal secretary </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">who despises you to the core finally found an intelligent </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and courageous lady in me who could help her to punish </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you on behalf of all those who became prey to your lust. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Finally we punished you that night.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then the secretary spoke, “Let me tell you more about that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">night. The orgy thing was a sheer plot. We knew that you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">would lap up the idea of an orgy with multiple partners. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Just like Minmin and me, a large number of other girls </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">humiliated by you were also very eager to take revenge on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you. Minmin and I worked out a plan. As per the plan </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Minmin arranged for a special potion. She calls it a magic </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">potion. Now she will narrate to you the rest of the story. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Listen carefully, it’s very interesting.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then Minmin said, “I mixed a particular dose of the magic </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">potion in your drink. I also mixed a different dose of it in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the drinks of the other girls. All of you got intoxicated to a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">good degree. In that condition the girls could gather enough </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">courage to castrate you. They literally cut your balls and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that ugly rod of yours. We have finally robbed you of your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">manhood and made a eunuch of you. Earlier the girls used </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to shriek in pain because of your barbaric acts and you used </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to enjoy it. This time you shrieked with pain for a change </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and we clapped with utmost satisfaction. No one except us </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was around to hear you holler in pain. Soon after you were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">totally unconscious under the spell of the stronger dose of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the magic potion. The girls were dropped at their respective </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">homes. But they wouldn’t remember anything that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">happened on that fateful night. That too was the effect of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the magic potion. The magic potion will also help them to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">forget about your atrocities on them and they would lead a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">normal life here onward.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun now realized why he had lost his testicles and penis. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">For the first time in life Zintun became nonplussed. He had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">always underestimated the women power. He had always </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">treated them as a pleasure-giving commodity. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Nevertheless he had the audacity to beg for his release. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Please get me out of here. You know this place and how to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">get out from here. I will go out with you now.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The secretary responded, “Darling, it is next to impossible. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">We were brought here blindfolded and we will be moved </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">out from here the same way. So you will have to live here </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">for the rest of your life. Your personal army and all the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">governmental agencies got tired of searching you and now </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">they have given up after two weeks.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then the secretary and Minmin spat on his face and walked </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">On the same day Zahin’s wife was brought in the cave </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">blindfold. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zahin was very happy seeing her there. Zahin was locked </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inside the cabin and so he could not come out despite his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">desire of taking her in his embrace.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I met Amar on my way to this place. In due course of time </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">he will arrange to release a bulletin based on which media </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">will let the planet know about how you became a pawn in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the hands of Maramar to mete out the atrocities on people.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Then what will happen?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Amar has checked on the legalities. He told me that you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">would be presented before an international court and the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">justice will be done. As per the exiting laws you may be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">jailed for a considerable period or asked to carry out certain </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">humanitarian activities under strict observations.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I’m happy. I will be able to repent and wash away my sins </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in this manner.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Well, Zahin. I am not allowed to stay here much longer. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">am supposed to see Maramar and Sharifyar who you know </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">are here. So shall I take your leave?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Hope I meet you soon as a reformed person.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zahin and his wife managed to kiss each other despite the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">iron bars on the door. With tears welled up in their eyes </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">they bade farewell.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then she walked up some hundred feet or so. She reached </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">an electronically guarded cubicle of Maramar. Temporarily </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the cubicle was divided into two halves. The divider used </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was a very strong iron screen. In one part of the cubicle </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Maramar stood by his bed. On the other part of the cabin </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sharifyar was just brought in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They scoffed at each other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">immediately after their first confrontation in two weeks. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then both faced Zahin’s wife simultaneously.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Without much introductory exchanges, she spoke, “I’m </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">happy that two worst men of our planet are finally being </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">treated as criminals. Why, you really are the criminals of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the highest order. You have had no qualms in scheming </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">horrible things, killing people in wars, exploiting human </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">beings, amassing wealth through corrupt practices, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">spreading religious hatred, terrorizing the innocent people </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with bomb explosions, and everything else that is inhuman. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The list of your crimes is unending.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Don’t lecture us lady. You are the schemer. What did you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and your husband do to us that night? You gave me that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fruit juice and I was feeling quite dizzy. And the next </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">moment when I opened my eyes I found myself in this </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">godforsaken hole,” Maramar yelled.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sharifyar joined Maramar in blaming Zahin’s wife though </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">otherwise they were each other’s enemies. He said, “Yes </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you and your husband are responsible. Your husband and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you became too ambitious. You want to run Seher. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Maramar and I were the thorns in your way. So you plotted </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to remove us. You pretty well seem to know this dump and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you brought us here after we became unconscious. Where </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is that deceitful husband of yours?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“He is here too. He too is jailed just like you,” Zahin’s wife </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">replied.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Don’t become smart. Don’t tell lies. Tell us his correct </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">whereabouts. I gave him the position and money and this is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the treatment I get from him?” asked Maramar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I told you he is here in this jail. He is also a party to your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">crimes. But he is willing to repent and reform. He will be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">put on an international trial and the justice will be done. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">But you two are way beyond any justice. That’s the reason </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I mixed a special potion in your fruit juice that night. I did </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that to my husband too. I myself didn’t drink the juice. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pretended to go inside to fetch the papers. My husband was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">not sick. Rather he was hale and hearty. He just bluffed that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">he wished to handover some secret documents. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">dosages in your drinks and my husband’s drink were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">different. He recovered from unconsciousness much faster </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">than you two. You slept for two days and nights in this </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">jail.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You brought us here?” Sharifyar asked.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Frankly speaking I have absolutely no knowledge of who </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">brought you here and how?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You seem to know this place. Why don’t you arrange to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">take us from here to Seher? We three will sort out our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">differences and make sure that we become equal partners in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">every deal here onwards,” Maramar proposed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You rotten creatures will never improve. I will be taking </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">your leave in the next minute. I wish to tell you quickly that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you will remain here in this place till you die. Your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deputies have searched the two of you in every nook and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corner of the planet. After they failed to locate you, they </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have given up. Majority of the citizens of Seher and the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">entire planet are very happy on your disappearance. Your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">grave misdeeds are public now.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then she left.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sharifyar was given a mild dose of magic potion in some </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">juice by a waiter who looked like a robot. The same waiter </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">later transferred him to Sharifyar’s own cabin.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor disguised as Vicky piloted the smart vehicle he had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">designed. He maneuvered it at different speeds. He played </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">acrobatics with it. Finally he arrived at the cave.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He met Korruptkin, Hardnuts, and Darpok. They were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">temporarily brought into one single cabin from the ones </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">where they were put in captivity. A human figure looking </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">like a robot brought them to the new cabin. This temporary </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">cabin had three partitions made of strong iron screens. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">These separators kept the three of them physically away </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from each other but they could see each other.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor disguised as Vicky stood outside this cabin and said, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Good evening gentleman or should I address you as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">scoundrels?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Hey you Vicky there!” One of the three exclaimed. Others </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were also quite surprised to see him there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“How come we are jailed and you are standing free </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">outside?” asked Darpok. “How come I don’t remember </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">anything of that night’s meeting except that Korruptkin’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personal bodyguard Balwan got a few papers signed by us </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">at the gun point. Looks like we were quite intoxicated by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that time and so couldn’t fight him and signed the papers. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">don’t know what those papers were. After signing the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">papers I was totally blanked out. When I opened my eyes I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was lying on a hard bed in one gated cubicle. Let me ask </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Korruptkin and Hardnuts what experience they went </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">through.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Hardnuts answered, “My experience was exactly the same </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">as yours.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Mine too,” repeated Korruptkin. “But who was that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Balwan? Surely he had sneaked in as my bodyguard to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">achieve some other motives. But he was sponsored by no </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">less than the president Gushnell. It was a big conspiracy </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">against me. I will settle scores with him soon.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Vicky clarified, “The papers you guys signed were to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sanction the full compensation to the victims of Universal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chemical’s gas leakage disaster of Lohab plant of Nuplace. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Despite the victims’ detailed workout of a justifiable </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">compensation amount you mercenaries were not willing to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">give them even 6% of what they had claimed. Finally they </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">had to think of a plan to get you to sign the official papers </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sanctioning full 100% compensation as claimed. Balwan </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was their agent. His real name is Uttam and you know </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam very well. He is the leader of the activists </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">demanding the compensation. He fooled you guys by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">changing his face by a plastic surgery. Now as per those </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">signed papers Universal Chemicals cannot sell the Lohab </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">plant and its land. Also the company will have to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">recondition the plant, make it foolproof from safety point of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">view, and provide employment to the relatives of victims.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So Vicky, you also seem to be a party to this plot since </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you keep so much of inside information,” Hardnuts asked.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes. Now don’t ask me any further details.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Then how are we here, in a jail? And you are free?” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Darpok asked. He was quite puzzled.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Vicky clarified, “All I can tell you is that Balwan or now </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">we can say Uttam mixed a special type of potion in your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">drinks. It was meant to make you unconscious for around </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">two days. Within that time you were transported here and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deposited in three different cubicles which are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">electronically secure.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Vicky, can you help to get us out of here?” Korruptkin </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pleaded.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Sorry Korruptkin, I can’t help. I believe you guys have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">been involved in many other equally serious crimes like </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">selling deadly weaponry to various warring countries and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">also promoting the wars so that the sales of your weapons </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">would increase. With so many charges against you, you are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">perhaps destined to continue living in this jail. Now I have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to go. Take care.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He left the place without bothering to look back. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ordered an attendant to take care of them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">A robot-like human attendant asked the three to drink a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">specially prepared drink in which a dash of the special </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">potion was added. They became zombies after taking the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">drink. Then they were transported to their respective cabins </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">easily.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The inmates remained in their individual cells that were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">equipped with the tightest possible electronic security </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">system. They were not supposed to socialize and were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">served their food by the robots in their own quarters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 25: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">After a great search they could hit the jackpot. Here was the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">place of such a description in the tallest mountain range of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Desh. It was a huge cave at 21,500 feet height. It was deep </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">down the surface and was formed due to hundreds of years </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of nature’s actions. In the cave were naturally formed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">cubicles. The underground den covered a good measure of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rocky land. It must have been at least ten acres. Amar and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor with the assistance of Adarsh and Shakti had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">converted the cave into a sophisticated jail. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar and Victor designed and installed a foolproof </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">security system in and around the cave. It was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">electronically controlled with very intelligent software </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">apps. It was impossible even for the smallest creatures to be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">around and inside the cave without the permission granted </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by the system.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They constructed a conference hall in the middle of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">cave to seat some fifty people around an oval shaped table </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">naturally formed from a huge rock. A well-equipped </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">kitchen and pantry were also commissioned to serve an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ordinary food fit for human consumption to around fifty </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people at a time. Twenty multipurpose robots with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">features of human beings were designed and assembled. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They shared the responsibilities of cooking, attending the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inmates, serving them food, and transporting. The cave </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">didn’t house any human beings other than the jailbirds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar, Victor, Adarsh, and Shakti designed its interior </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">using the already formed cubicles in it. To start with they </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">got ready some fifty living quarters equipped to provide </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">reliefs in line with the human rights requirements. Amar </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and Victor customized these cubicles into proper living </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">quarters using iron, wood, and mortar. Then they furnished </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">each room with a bed and toilet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In one of such cubicles Gushnell was lying on the bed like </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">a zombie. A fortnight had passed after his widely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">publicized disappearance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He opened his eyes when he heard a mild knocking sound </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">at the door of his cubicle. He thought he was hallucinating </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">because he saw Helen in front of his quarters. He ran to the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">door made of the iron rods. He could not open it as it was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">electronically locked but he could see Helen through the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">gaps between the rods.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He exclaimed, “Darling, I missed you. I don’t know where </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I am and how many days I’ve been living here. I don’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">know who jailed me like this. How you knew I’m here?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Have patience. I’ll answer each one of your questions in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">due course of time. But seeing you like this gives me </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">immense pleasure. I am delighted to watch you in this </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">helpless condition,” said Helen, his wife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You’re not serious?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I am. I’m 100% serious. I’m very happy to see you in this </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">miserable state because you deserved this and nothing else. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">And for your information I am the sole reason for you to be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">here.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I can’t believe a word you say. We had almost reconciled </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that I day, I remember clearly.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Reconciled? My foot! I always wanted to take revenge </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">because of what you did to me. You humiliated me in front </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the whole world by your stupid affair with that secretary </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of yours.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But I promised you to be loyal to you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Stop that crap Gushnell. People like you don’t improve. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Also living with you I realized that you are not the same </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">person whom I loved and married. I married you because </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you possessed laudable morals. But after tasting the power </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you became worse than any brute. You started plotting </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wars all over the world, supplied weapons to all the warring </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">nations, and enjoyed watching millions of people of you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">own country and other countries being killed. You became </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corrupt and started making untold money. You exploited </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">whosoever was exploitable. Your policies supported </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">indirect slavery. You sold your soul completely.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Stop it Helen. Don’t blame me. I got into a corrupting </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">system. I was thrown into a whirlpool and I was sucked.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“How could you become so spineless? Your rationale is no </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">answer for becoming a lecher and a killer. You could have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fought the system or got away from it in time. You were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the president and you should have been bold enough to take </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sane decisions that would benefit humanity as a whole. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people of the entire planet would have been with you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What you tell me happens only in movies or fiction. But </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">now coming to the point, frankly tell me Helen who is at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the root of all this? Who is that bastard? You cannot be the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">one. You can’t be so harsh; I know it. Who brought me </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wherever I’m now?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I told you I did it. Do you remember the evening party </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal hosted in his so-called hut?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I remember. We had Hayan, that chief of armed forces of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal, Lobhilal himself, and his wife. You and me,” said </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“That’s right. Looks like you still hold a clear memory </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">despite taking in that miraculous potion in your drinks. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">headwaiter Babu served all of us drinks. But I didn’t drink </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">because I knew that Babu had mixed a medicinal liquid </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">called “potion” into it. It has wonderful properties </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">depending on how much of it you use and how you use it. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">All of you guys gulped two rounds of it. You became </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">unconscious on taking your drinks. Lobhilal had ordered </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Babu to entertain his entire staff-in-attendance to serve </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">drinks and dinner. So the entire staff also became </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">unconscious. Then someone dumped you, Hayan, Lobhilal, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and his chief in a vehicle and that vehicle brought you here. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Now you are here for over a fortnight. As far as Lobhilal’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wife, she became unconscious soon after she took a few </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sips of the drink laced with the potion. She was sent home </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in a car. She doesn’t know a thing about what happened in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the hut.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Helen, tell me who are the people behind all this? I will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">take them to task. Please inform the vice president to make </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">immediate arrangements to free me from here. Now you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">know this place.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I know nothing of this place.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Why, you have already reached here. So you definitely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">know how to reach this place and get out of it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I haven’t come here on my own. Someone I don’t know </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">brought me here in a funny looking vehicle. Throughout </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">my journey I was blindfolded. So I’m totally in the dark. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was told that I would receive the same treatment on my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">journey back home. I’m sorry I can’t help you and my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">guess is no one else also can help you. So, Gushnell, you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">are doomed now forever. Make this place your home for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the rest of your life. This is the last time you are seeing me. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Goodbye.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Helen didn’t wait or look back to hear Gushnell’s response.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In one of the other cubicles Lobhilal was pacing up and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">down. He was terribly irritated because he had not been </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">able to sleep well for the past two weeks or so. He was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">irritated also because he couldn’t eat the food that was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">being served to him in his living quarters. He was trying </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hard to recollect the events that might have taken place </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">during and after the party in his hut a fortnight ago. But his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">memory failed him totally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">As he was walking in the room he saw a somewhat familiar </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">face near the iron gate of his room. He was not in a position </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to place that man. He wrecked his brain to recognize the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">face but he could not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He saw the man coming forward. The man spoke out, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Lobhilal, do not strain your empty brain. It has become </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">too slow to remember anything. I know that you are trying </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to place me but knowing your lowly character I’m sure that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you cannot recognize me. After all I’m a small fry in front </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of you. Your types of guys never remember their roots. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">You also didn’t recognize me when I came to you for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">employment?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Were you in my employment anytime?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“When?’</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Till recently. Right up to the day of the party in your hut </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fifteen days ago.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“How come I don’t remember to have seen you?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Because your brain has become sluggish due to the drinks </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that you consumed that night.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But I never get adversely affected by any kind of drinks. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have a tremendous capacity to hold them without really </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">getting drunk.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You are right. But that night I had mixed a special potion </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in your and your staff’s drinks. That special potion made all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of you unconscious for a couple of days. Now do you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">remember me?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Aren’t you Babu? My headwaiter.” Lobhilal had to strain </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his mind to recognize Babu.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes, I’m Babu, your headwaiter. Now you got it right.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But you mentioned a few seconds earlier that I didn’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">recognize you even when you came to me for a job? What </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">does that mean?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I have to repeat. Your type of man forgets his own roots. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Recall your early days when you were young. You were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">my neighbor then. You didn’t even have a decent job and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">used to borrow from me. Do you remember?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Oh, you are that Babu. I recall now. And you had a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">daughter. How is she?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">At this point Babu got in to a severe rage and he wanted to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hit Lobhilal. But the iron door between him and Lobhilal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">prevented him from making his attack.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You insect! You brute!! Do you still have the nerve to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inquire of my daughter? You killed her.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What rot are you talking? How can you make such an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">allegation?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You enticed my daughter, made her pregnant, and then </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deserted her. She told you that she was carrying your child </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and you should marry her. But you were so cruel that you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ignored her totally. You even doubted her integrity by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">saying that she was carrying someone else’s child. On top </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of it you shamelessly married another girl with many </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">disabilities just because her father was an influential man. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He promised you to make you into a big man of repute. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have never seen a worst opportunist like you ever before.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I never did anything to your daughter.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 25: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 15: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><span style="color: #888888; font-size: 19.3261px;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.in/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">First breaking news: “The Worst Catastrophes Hit Nine </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Countries of the Planet: A Sheer Coincidence or God’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deliberate Act?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Every newspaper, every news channel on television, and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">every radio station of each one of 138 countries of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">planet Berth went crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The breaking news had filled all the pages of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">newspapers and all the tabloids. They were printing the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">updates of the news every two hours. All the news channels </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">on television were telecasting the explosive news item all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the 24 hours of the day. All the stations on radio were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">continuously broadcasting it throughout the day and night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Well before the respective official agencies in Desh, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chinhut, Seher, Bigland, Unon, and Pashan could complete </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">their investigative search operations and announce a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">confirmation of this kind of total disappearance of their top </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">most bosses, the news was already confirmed by the media </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of every description. The breaking news reached the wives </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and families of the missing persons much earlier than what </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the governmental secret and security services could do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The official governmental agencies and the immediate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deputies of the missing top brass were in two minds </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">whether to confirm the news or not. But the continued </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bombardment of the news by the media left them with no </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">alternative but to confirm that the top shots were missing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">since the evening of the earlier day and were not traceable </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">despite exhaustive and meticulous search operations. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">extreme public pressure made them to succumb.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The media started publishing the names and related details </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the missing persons. Most of the published lists were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">incomplete. The local media of respective countries did not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">possess the names of all of missing persons. By noontime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that day, one or two international news agencies could </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bring out a list, which they claimed as near total.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The list included the following names, their designations, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and their nationalities:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">A note at the end of the list mentioned that two more top </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personalities, Merciles and Willy, the twin CEOs of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Technowiz of Unon, remained missing over many months </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and still untraceable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Following types of news items, comments, analysis, and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">gossip reverberated the entire environment. The scenario </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was a mixed bag- mysterious, enigmatic, exhilarating, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">exciting, awesome, pleasing, superstitious, religious etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Who disappeared in thin air? The biggest crooks of our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">planet!! Why such a brouhaha? Who cares? Enjoy folks!!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It’s never late- the justice. God punishes the evil </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ultimately.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It’s no coincidence that before the grand disappearance, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the entire planet was cursed by the godly punishments. At </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">so many places particularly in the countries to which these </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">jokers belong the natural calamities of huge proportions </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">took place. The heavenly masters are forewarning all of us: </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">stop the wars, stop the terror, and stop all the nonsense </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">otherwise the entire planet Berth will be doomed.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Is it coincidence that the disappearance and the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">catastrophes took place on the same day? Or does it have </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">any grave significance?And catastrophes taking place in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">only those countries where wars were taking place and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corruption was at its peak- was this too a sheer coincidence </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">or God’s warning to stop the nonsense?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Who did it? God did it. Even a superman or a spiderman </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">cannot accomplish the kidnapping or disappearance of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">most powerful beasts of planet Berth at the same time- it’s </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">not the job of any human being. It cannot be a coincidence </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that some supernatural things happened in different parts of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the planet at the same time. I remember the night was eerie. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The sky was overcast in most of the countries. It was a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">night of lightening and thunder. And then Bigland </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">experienced a deadly earthquake of MM 8 intensity and 7.5 </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">magnitude on Richter scale in some towns. The biggest </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">volcano of the planet situated in Chinhut erupted again </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">yesterday night in the most dangerous way. In Desh the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">worst snowfall occurred in those areas where in past </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">several centuries not even a flake of snow had ever </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">dropped. In Seher a few of the oil wells caught fire </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">mysteriously and the rising flames could be seen from the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">places hundreds of miles away from Seher. Unon and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Nuplace were hit by the worst Tsunami of the decade. It </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rained cats and dogs in Pashan and the floods destroyed all </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the crops signaling wearisome famine possibilities. In </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Isonia and Kasban- the two countries from the central part </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the planet- a very large sized meteor struck the ground in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the holy city on which these two countries are claiming </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">their ownership and fighting with each other. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The God precisely timed the disappearance of the most </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corrupt and most cruel people of our planet with warnings </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to others, particularly their immediate deputies and other </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">persons of such sinister character to stay away from wars, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">terrorist actions, corruption, and human exploitation. These </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">warnings came in various forms of catastrophes.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Soon the TV channels, radio stations, and newspapers </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">started releasing several updates on the main story. In the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">introductory remark to the updates on the missing persons’ </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">news, a common theme was being constantly relayed. It </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">claimed that they were telecasting and broadcasting these </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">updates based on the audio and video clips they were </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">continually receiving wirelessly in digital format from </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">someone they didn’t know. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The contents were being relayed absolutely unedited, as </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">they seemed to be very authentic. There was no way of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tempering with them or editing them in any way. The </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">digital audio and video messages were very securely </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">encrypted and were accompanied by unique decrypting </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">software. The media emphasized again and again that they </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were receiving the information from some unknown places </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and unknown sources. However the places and the sources </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">remained untraceable despite their best efforts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The updates were watched or heard with maximum interest </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and attention by the people all over Berth. The contents </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were starkly revealing. The general public of 99% club all </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">over the planet was shocked to hear and see the blackest </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deeds of many of their so called leaders of the 1% club.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">As an aftermath of the numerous fiery news items, in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">addition to the verbal and written reactions of the general </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">public and various experts, violent physical reactions were </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">also reported from various parts of the planet, particularly </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from the countries where the vanishing act took place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Various TV channels televised a video clip where </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">extravagant interiors of the retirement home of Lobhilal the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">well-known hut were shown. The opulence of the hut particularly </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">loads of jewelry items of gold and precious </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">stones, thousands of dresses, and shoes of Lobhilal’s wife </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">etc shattered the myth that surrounded Lobhilal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">All along </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people used to think that Lobhilal would really live a very </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">simple life just like one of them after his retirement. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They were equally shocked to hear the news that informed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">them about how Lobhilal and his chief of the armed forces </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were always ready to trade their country and threw their </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">countrymen in the wars for personal gains. This </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">information annoyed the public beyond limits. A huge </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">crowd invaded Lobhilal’s hut, hurled slogans against him, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and torched the hut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">First he went to Universal Chemical’s Unon head office </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">located in the same city. He gave one set of the papers to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the finance chief of the company. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The finance chief of Universal Chemicals was waiting in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his office to know the outcome of the meeting his boss was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">attending.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam introduced himself by showing his identity card to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the finance chief. The card displayed his title as “Personal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Bodyguard to the President of Unon”. He placed the signed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">set of papers in front of the finance chief and said, “Your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">CEO Mr Hardnuts and the presidents of Unon and Nuplace </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have signed this document that authorizes immediate wire </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">transfer of the compensation money to Nuplace.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But today’s meeting, I understand, was to negotiate a deal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with one Mr Vicky regarding the sale of our company’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">property in Nuplace in its town of Lohab,” the finance chief </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">said showing some surprise and some doubt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You are right. But a ticklish issue arose that involved </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">disbursement of the compensation money as was claimed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by the victims of Lohab gas leakage tragedy. Vicky wanted </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that to be settled first. He was willing to take up a good </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">portion of that burden on himself in addition to paying a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hefty price for buying your company’s property in Nuplace. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Our president and your CEO agreed with this arrangement. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They still saw a huge profit in the deal offered by Vicky. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Right now they are discussing the deal. In the meantime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">CEO Hardnuts wants you to wire transfer the money to the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">trust created for the welfare of the gas leakage victims at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lohab. I have to go back to the meeting to confirm to Mr </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Vicky that the money was wire transferred.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The finance chief shuffled the papers quickly, examined the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">signatures and the official seals, felt satisfied on various </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">legalities, read the amount, and then using </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his desk top </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">computer wire transferred the money to the victims’ </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">welfare trust of Lohab.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He took a printout of the completed transaction and passed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">it on to Uttam. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam examined the printout carefully for its correctness. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam said, “Thank you. I will have to rush back to the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">meeting. Mr Hardnuts advised me to tell you to go home. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He will brief you about the property deal tomorrow </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">morning. Good night.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam then went to the nearest courier company of good </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">repute. He instructed them to send one envelop containing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">one set of papers to the victim’s welfare trust of Lohab and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">another envelop containing another set to the government </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of Nuplace. He insisted, “Please make sure that these </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">envelopes reach the respective addressees by tomorrow </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">morning. Here is the extra money you wanted for the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">express services.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He reached Bigland the next day. He waited there for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh who was yet to reach Bigland from Desh. On </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh’s arrival in Bigland Uttam met him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Both of them rushed to the surgeon who had carried out the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">plastic surgery on Uttam. The surgeon welcomed them in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the operation room. He exactly knew what was to be done. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Soon you will be back to your original looks Mr Uttam. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">You have been a good patient. Behave well this time too.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Will he be shipshape to conduct a meeting in Nuplace </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tomorrow?” Adarsh inquired. By this time the doctor had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">administered anesthesia and Uttam was snoozing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He knocked at the door of his modest house where he used </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to live with his wife and son. Wife opened the door; she </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">couldn’t believe she was seeing Uttam. Tears welled up in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">her eyes as Uttam embraced her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I am so happy you are home. Now there are no charges </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">against you. We can live together happily again.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes darling. And you will be happier to know that we </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have won our case against the company. I have the legal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">documents with me. The company has already sent the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">entire compensation money we had claimed. It has already </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">been transferred into the bank account of the victims’ </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">welfare trust of Lohab,” Uttam declared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But the company was not even willing to pay 6% of what </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">we had asked. How come they agreed to cough up 16 or 17 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">times more?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“That is a very long story. I will tell you about it some day </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">later in detail,” said Uttam.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK.” Uttam’s wife was satisfied with the fact that her </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">husband returned to her intact. She would catch up with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">story leisurely in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Dear friends, as you are aware we have been negotiating </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with the corporate office of Universal Chemicals to get the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">justified compensation amount. We wanted justice. We </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">didn’t want more money to make profits like many of these </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corporate giants do. We were pained by the sufferings of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">our people and animals. Whole environment got </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">contaminated. Sheer negligence of the local as well as the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corporate management of the company resulted in a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sorrowful tragedy. The numbers are astronomical. I had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">shared with you these numbers in one of our meetings </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">earlier. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Any compensation money whatsoever its amount can never </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">correct the wrongs for many generations to come. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">company was willing to pay us a meager 6% of what we </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">had claimed. They mocked at us. Later on the corporate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">management and government of Unon even dared to call </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the entire accident as an act of sabotage by our fellow </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">employees. Our own corrupt government was completely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sold out to Unon. It supported Universal Chemicals. It </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deserted us totally. But with your support we have been </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fighting for justice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">We will utilize this money prudently to take care of your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sufferings. The taskforce that was formed earlier will work </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">out the exact compensation amount for each one of you and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">give the same to you within a fixed time frame. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">A portion of the money will be used for community </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rebuilding- healthcare, education, jobs etc. These items are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of great importance to all of us. The agreed contract </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">stipulates reconditioning the plant and filling all the job </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">vacancies by the family members of the deceased and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">incapacitated employees. The detailed announcements will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">be made tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The external affairs minister joked, “Otherwise how will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you get time to watch the wonderful movies?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then the conference room got abuzz with some general </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">gossip.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Our chief of armed forces is very smart. He enters the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">meeting rooms just around the time the prime minister </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">walks in. His timings are always perfect. He is also missing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">today.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Oh. The prime minister had thrown a party in the hut in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the honor of president Gushnell of Bigland and his wife. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Wonder if he got stuck there?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I understand that the prime minister of Hayan of our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">enemy country Pashan was summoned by the president </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell. Gushnell is almost like a boss to Hayan. Our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">prime minister is seeking president Gushnell’s help in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">declaration of ceasefire. I guess the war currently in full </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">swing between our country and Pashan on our southern </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">border will stop soon. The credit will go to our PM.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The participants of the meetings chitchatted like this for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">almost half an hour.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then the private secretary of the prime minister Lobhilal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">peeped in and declared, “I request you gentlemen to go </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">back to your offices. The prime minister seems to have got </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">stuck somewhere. We are trying to locate him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Did you check the hut?” Defense minister inquired.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“He isn’t there. He isn’t at home either. His wife was very </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">worried. She reached home in the night but her husband </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">didn’t accompany her. She mentioned that she had started </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">feeling sick after taking a few sips of the drink served in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">party. President Gushnell’s wife Helen escorted her to her </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bedroom. Then she slept in the hut. She conjectured that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">she was perhaps dropped home in a car in her sleeping </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">condition since she wasn’t well. Therefore she didn’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">follow all the proceedings of the party.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Have you checked up with our chief of the armed forces? </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He is always late for the meetings. Though he is my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">subordinate he always comes later than me in all the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">meetings. One of these days I intend taking him to task for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his various insubordinations.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Since the chief was with the prime minister yesterday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">night we thought he might be knowing prime minister’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">plans for the day. So we checked up his office. He had not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">reached his office. So we contacted his home. He isn’t there </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">too. God knows where he disappeared. His wife is equally </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">worried,” the secretary informed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The secretary took up the call on her cell phone, “Who’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I’m Adarsh, president Gushnell’s personal bodyguard. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">President’s wife rang me in the morning around breakfast </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">time. She informed that she waited for the president to join </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">her in the dining room. He didn’t turn up even after a long </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wait. Then she went searching for him. She was not able to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">locate her husband in the hut or in its outer premises.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What’s all this? Now president Gushnell too?” the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personal secretary spoke in a frustrating tone. “Here I’m </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">already waiting for the prime minister and the chief of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">armed forces. Both are absconding, nowhere to be found </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">despite my hectic search to locate them.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You mean to say both of them are not traceable just like </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">president Gushnell? In fact I rang you to tell me the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">whereabouts of the president. I thought he might be with </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">your prime minister. I checked with the security staff here. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They did not see president inside or outside the hut since </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">quite early morning.” Adarsh sounded puzzled on the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">phone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The secretary’s phone buzzed again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Excuse me. My phone is ringing. Please stand by. I will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">attend to it and revert.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The secretary then spoke with the new caller. She heard </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him and then they continued their conversation for a few </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minutes. After she was done with this new caller she </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">reverted to Adarsh and said, “Now listen to this latest </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">breaking news. Our enemy country Pashan’s prime minister </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Hayan is also missing- the prime minister of our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">neighboring country who also attended yesterday’s party in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the hut. The general manager of the hotel where he was put </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">up informed about this second missing prime minister. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Prime minister Hayan’s accompanying aides and the entire </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hotel staff searched every nook and cranny of the hotel but </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">they could not locate Hayan. What’s happening?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It seems a serious matter. Let us alarm all the concerned </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">agencies.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I will get all of them working. Four big guns are missing-one </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">president, two prime ministers, and one chief of armed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">forces. Never in my life I ever came across such an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">illustrious missing persons’ list.” The secretary felt amused </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">as well as baffled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then she rang all the concerned departments to investigate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the entire matter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“He has not reached the office as yet. I will check and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">revert to you,” the secretary replied.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“How come? He is very punctual in attending the office. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He should have been in the office half an hour ago. Have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you checked his residence?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I did. He isn’t there too. His executive assistant who </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">accompanies him in the morning to the office from his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">residence found that Mr Zintun wasn’t at his residence </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">when he reached there. He thought that as an exception he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">might have started for the office earlier than the usual days. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">When I told him about Mr Zintun’s absence in the office, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">he sounded quite puzzled.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“That’s strange and quite unlike Mr Zintun,” the minister </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">remarked. “Please connect me to him when he comes.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun’s secretary didn’t want to share with the minister the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rest of her conversation she had with the executive </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">assistant.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Executive assistant had said, “I had handed over that new </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">girl to you yesterday evening at 7 PM as decided. Didn’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you meet the boss there? You were to introduce this new </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">girl to the boss?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I took the girl inside the villa, made her feel comfortable </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">there. Then when the boss came I introduced the girl to the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">boss and then promptly left the villa for my home. That’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the usual practice, you know about it,” the secretary </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bluffed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So that’s the last you saw the boss?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes,” the secretary confirmed. She knew that no one other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">than her knew about the orgy at the villa.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">A few more phone calls came. Also a few top officials </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personally came to her office and inquired if the boss was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in office. By now a good one-hour had passed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She called the chief of the security department on his cell </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">phone. She sounded quite disturbed as she spoke with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">chief. She managed to say, “Hey there, the boss is not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">traceable. Do you know about his whereabouts?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What do you mean?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“He hasn’t reached the office as yet. I thought you must be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">knowing. You cover him all the time.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Not when he goes to the villa. Yesterday evening he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">specifically asked us to leave him alone. He does it </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">occasionally. Who are we to question his wisdom? He also </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">has his private army at his disposal and we know about it. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Did he go to the villa yesterday night after the close of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">office? The electronic security system in the villa is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">absolutely foolproof; better than what my security staff can </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">provide him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“How do I know? He doesn’t tell me everything,” the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">secretary said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“He doesn’t tell me either about his visits to the villa,” the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">chief of security quipped. “But his not reaching the office </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">has become a matter of concern to me now, I must locate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him.” Then he promptly disconnected the call.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">May 1, night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In Seher, when chief financial and war strategist Zahin’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wife returned to the bedroom after a few minutes of whiling </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">away the time inside her house she found that her husband, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">king Maramar, and chief of the armed forces Sharifyar </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were not present in the room.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She searched the entire house. She didn’t find them </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">anywhere in the house or outside the house. She wanted to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">make sure if they were in any other area of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She rang king Maramar’s office. His executive assistant </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">picked the phone and politely said, “What can I do for you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">madam?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Tonight the king and the chief of the armed forces had a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conference at my home with my ailing husband. While they </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were deliberating, I went away for some ten minutes from </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the bedroom where the meeting was in progress. When I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">returned I didn’t find all the three of them. Have they </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">reached the king’s office by any chance?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“No madam, I am alone here. The king had asked me to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">stay back in the office till he returned. That’s why I am still </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in the office. But I wasn’t aware of this meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“My husband was quite seriously sick. He wasn’t in any </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">position to get up and walk. I wonder how he is missing. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Can you please ring the chief of the armed forces whether </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the three have gone to his office?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“May I keep you on hold for a while? I will revert quickly.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The executive assistant got busy telephoning Sharifyar. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">First he rang Sharifyar’s office phone. He didn’t get any </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">response. He then rang Sharifyar’s home number and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inquired.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sharifyar’s wife mentioned, “He is not home yet. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I’m worried. He left his office in the evening but has not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">returned till now. By now he often returns home. Please </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">locate my husband and inform me.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The executive assistant switched on the connection to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zahin’s wife and said, “Madam, your husband and the king </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">are not in the chief of the armed forces office or house. His </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wife also wondered about the whereabouts of her husband.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Please inform your security department and the secret </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">services. They may be able to locate the three gentlemen. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Please keep me posted.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes madam.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">May 1, late night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">On such occasions Lobhilal had made it a ritual to publicize </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his generosity by sumptuously feeding the attending </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">security staff, officers, and servants. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">So he ordered his headwaiter, “Babu, while you are serving </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">us quite diligently please make sure to take care of each </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and every staff member present around the hut with drinks </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and dinner.” He looked at Gushnell and Helen. He found </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">appreciative and quizzical expressions on their faces at the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">same time. He was more than satisfied for the effect he had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">created.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The party went into full swing with the second serving of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">still more exquisite drinks and eats. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Babu served guests and staff with the highest interest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">On the surface Zintun’s secretary maintained an extremely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">intimate relationship with Zintun in every way though she </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">really hated him from the core of her heart. This was a ploy </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">she wanted to carry on with till she was ready to take her </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">revenge on Zintun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">This morning she went to Zintun’s office, poured a drink </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">for him, sat on his lap as usual, and showed the photograph </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of a new girl chosen by his executive assistant for the night. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun scrutinized the picture of the girl quite carefully.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She said, “Sir, this is the most beautiful girl that is being </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">offered to you till date. I wish you to remember the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">occasion. Therefore we are going to make it very special </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">for you. Other girls who had enjoyed your company earlier </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">will present this new girl to you. I will personally select out </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">those girls who had given you the best kind of pleasure. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">know your taste. I will also join the orgy. The venue will be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">your private villa and not your private office. Private office </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">for the ordinary and private villa for the extraordinary, isn’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that rule?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“When you are organizing such a fantastic treat for me do </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you think you have to seek my permission?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun was enamored by the very idea put forth by his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">secretary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Shall we start the program at 8 PM at your private villa </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sir?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She contacted some ten girls who were likely to please the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">prime minister once again on a promise of getting large </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">numbers of expensive gifts in return.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Minmin in turn met Shakti in his office. She informed him, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“As decided the program is scheduled to start at 8 PM </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tonight at the prime minister’s private villa. Eleven more </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">girls in addition to the secretary will join us.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti said, “Please go ahead and execute the plan with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">help of Zintun’s secretary. I too will keep myself ready.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In Zintun’s office his secretary entered Zintun’s office at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">around 5 PM. She served Zintun a drink, sat on his lap, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">planted a passionate kiss, and said, “Sir, I am going to the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">villa now. I will make all the arrangements to suit the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">occasion- decoration, lighting, tapestry, carpets, linen, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">towels, soaps, perfumes, dresses, silverware, crockery, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">drinks, food, every other thing that is necessary. And yes, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">one more thing- I wish to send away all your villa staff </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">while we girls are alone with you. This is our usual </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">protocol for the villa. Villa’s tight electronic security </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">system will be armed as usual. Please be there by 8 PM. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Bye sir.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Don’t keep calling me ‘sir’, I told you so many times.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Bye darling,” she planted one more lewd kiss. “I will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">always make sure to address you as my darling in future.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then she left for the villa.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">At 7.00 PM the executive assistant brought with him the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">girl of the day, handed her over to the personal secretary </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and left the villa immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">At 7.15 PM sharp ten girls joined her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She gathered the girls in one of the rooms of the villa. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They all carried apprehensive looks. They were afraid that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun would violate them once more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">She first addressed the new girl, “Do you know why you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have been brought here? Perhaps you may not fully know </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">it. Let me clarify that you have been brought here to please </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun. And in case of Zintun pleasing him means getting </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">raped by him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The secretary further added, “Don’t feel frightened. If you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">follow my instructions you will not have to suffer the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">atrocious act and yet you will be able to take revenge on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun for his disgusting intentions. Don’t worry, you will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">still be entitled to the sumptuous presents the executive </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">assistant has promised you for your tonight’s engagement.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Relax girls. Don’t be afraid of me at all just because I am </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun’s secretary and I have called you the second time. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Today it is for an entirely different purpose. This evening </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">we are going to punish Zintun for all his dirty acts not only </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with you but also with me. Frankly I am also one of you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">having gone through the same shameful humiliation at the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hands of Zintun. That’s why I wish to ask you if given an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">absolute free hand how many of you will like to punish </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun. Please raise your hands.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">All the ten girls raised their hands instantly. One of them </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hysterically cried, “I’ll squash that insect if given a chance. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">One more girl joined, “I am also 100% sure that I will like </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to kill him if given a free hand and no punishment.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK, good. Listen girls, we are in it together now. So </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">today’s program is to punish Zintun severely and take </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">revenge. Get ready for it. I will now explain the modus </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">operandi. You girls will concentrate on entertaining Zintun. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Pretend to join and enjoy the orgy wholeheartedly. Give </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun your company in drinks too. I will take care of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rest with your help. What help I need I will tell you then </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and there.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">All the eleven girls were now extremely happy that finally </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">they would be able to take revenge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">No sooner he entered the villa all the thirteen girls flocked </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">around him and offered their goblets of drinks with utmost </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">eagerness and pleasure. The first one to offer the goblet </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was the new girl.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The personal secretary introduced her to Zintun, “Sir, here </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is your tonight’s beauty. Accept her. Very soon she will be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">all yours. Just have a little patience.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun felt exhilarated to have the bevy of nymphs around </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him. He felt charmed by the new girl. He behaved like a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">perfect playboy and Casanova combined. He obliged them </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by taking a sip from each goblet turn by turn. He knew that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">more rounds of drinks and other amazing indulgences were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to follow to fill the entire evening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti was outside the villa and he heard a shriek followed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by bouts of laughter and giggles from inside the villa.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zahin’s wife rang the king Maramar. She said, “Here is a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">very bad news. My husband is on the deathbed. He was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">suffering from a deadly disease all along. But the doctors </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">could not diagnose earlier. Suddenly this weekend the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">disease took a fatal turn. Despite the best treatment by the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">attending doctors, he continues to worsen. The doctors have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">given up all the hopes and advised me to start praying for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his life. Please hurry up and come to our place. My </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">husband wishes to personally handover to you and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sharifyar some secret papers of highest criticality. As per </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him these papers should not fall in any other person’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hands.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I understand his anxiety. He is a true statesman. For him </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">nation’s security is more important even in the face of his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">death. I will soon be there madam. I understand your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">husband’s anxiety. I will ask Sharifyar to reach your house. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Hope you have the highest security bandobast around your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">house as usual. Then Sharifyar and I don’t have to worry </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">about.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Our house is fully protected with the highest category of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">national security.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Good, Sharifyar and I will be there in next fifteen </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minutes.” King Maramar declared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">For a moment Maramar thought of ditching Sharifyar. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was aware that Sharifyar was drifting away from him. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lately he had started doubting Sharifyar’s loyalty. But he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">didn’t want to give even the slightest hint about his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">knowledge of Sharifyar’s conspiratory intentions toward </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him. In the next few days he wanted to declare to his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">countrymen to have caught Sharifyar on the wrong foot, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">declare him as a traitor, and put him behind the bars for his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">various nefarious acts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Presently Maramar and Sharifyar seated themselves on two </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">comfortable chairs that were placed near ailing Zahin’s bed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in his master bedroom. They wore a pretentiously somber </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">expression to suit the occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Please do not bother with the formalities. We will quickly </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">finish the important work and leave your husband to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">continue to take rest,” Maramar pleaded. Sharifyar joined.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It’s not a formality. In fact I am requesting your favor. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">May I request you to raise a toast to my husband’s health?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Maramar and Sharifyar could not refuse the request made </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by Zahin’s wife. Zahin’s wife gave a small glass to Zahin </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and held one herself. The three of them wished for the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">speedy recovery of Zahin. Then they drank the juice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zahin’s wife said, “Please enjoy your juice. Kindly help </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">yourself with more from this pitcher,” she indicated to a jug </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">full with fresh juice. She also placed a platter of dry fruits </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in front of them. “In the meantime I will go to my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">husband’s home office and fetch the papers he intended to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">handover to you gentlemen.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">When Zahin’s wife returned, she could not find them on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">their chairs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Tonight’s high-level meeting was organized in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">presidential vacation home in Unon. It was an exclusive </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">piece of architecture in a scenic countryside. It meant to be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the official resting place for Unon’s president away from </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the city’s humdrum routine. A moat around it protected it. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In addition the vacation home was fitted with a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sophisticated electronic security system.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam in his new disguise and with his new name Balwan </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">accompanied the president all the twenty-four hours of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">day. The recent bomb blasts had turned the president </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">extremely paranoid. Tonight too Uttam, now Balwan, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">accompanied the president Korruptkin to the vacation </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In its impeccably appointed conference room Hardnuts </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">(CEO of Universal Chemicals), Darpok (president of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Nuplace), and Vicky (real estate tycoon of Nuplace) were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">waiting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">A good number of their aides had briefed them on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">what and how to negotiate in the meeting on various </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">official matters connected with the agenda. However as per </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the protocol the aides didn’t attend such top-level meetings. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">So they weren’t present at the venue. Such an arrangement </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">always suited the attendees of these kinds of meetings </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">where unofficial negotiations were more important. And in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">such negotiations of personal interests the participating top </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">shots were already experts and would not need any aides.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Before coming to the meeting Hardnuts and Darpok had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">done a complete check on Vicky and his business. They </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were satisfied with Vicky’s credibility after their </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">investigations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">On meeting each other, the three of them exchanged </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pleasantries and got engaged in small talk.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Around this time president Korruptkin entered the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conference room. The business deliberations started in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">right earnest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Korruptkin beckoned Uttam who was standing in the corner </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the room. He knew Uttam only by his new name </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Balwan. He spoke with him softly, “Balwan, can you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">please arrange drinks for all of us?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam went toward the well equipped bar. He placed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">different types of glasses on a tray and poured out variety </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of drinks into them. He took out some snacks from a large </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fridge, warmed them up in a microwave oven, and arranged </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">them in plates in a tray. He then circulated the tray to the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">four participants of the meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Darpok was quite appreciative of the array of drinks on the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tray. He said exuberantly, “Wow! That’s some hospitality! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Thanks for your selection of drinks, Mr Korruptkin.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I always believe in absolute classiness Mr Darpok,” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Korruptkin boasted. “Gentlemen, let us start the meeting. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">want the outcome to be a win-win thing.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">After lapse of around ten minutes Uttam who was an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">onlooker so far sensed a distinctly pronounced slur in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">speech of Korruptkin, Hardnuts, and Darpok. They were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">intoxicated to a great extent. Vicky still remained pretty </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sober.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Suddenly a noise akin to a pistol shot reverberated the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">room. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The shooter was none other than Uttam. He aimed his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pistol at them and warned, “Don’t move. A slight </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">movement will mean your instant death. Don’t show any </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">kind of smartness, I am a trained bodyguard and you know </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">what it means.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam stepped forward. He placed on the center table a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">stack of white sheets that looked like a legal document. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ordered, “Here are these papers and pens. These are four </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sets of the papers. Each one of you except Mr Vicky will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sign each page of this document on all the four sets. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Anyone who doesn’t follow my orders will have to lose his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">life. I will shoot that person mercilessly.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But tell us what is it that you want us to sign,” Hardnuts </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inquired. His motive was obviously to delay the things.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Hardnuts, shut up and sign,” Uttam aimed the pistol at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Hardnuts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They had no alternative but to sign. They signed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam collected the papers and took them in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his custody.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He then mentioned, “I have already organized the official </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">seals required to stamp this document to make it legal. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They will be then valid in any court of our planet.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He waved goodbye and rushed toward the door. He bolted </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the door from outside and before the four of them in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">room could take any action he was gone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Vicky looked at the three of them quizzically, “What was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">all this drama?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He posed as a man of moderate living. Simple living </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">despite being the prime minister of an important country </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">like Desh put him in the ranks of statesmen of very high </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">morals. Also he had carefully cultivated his gift of gab. So </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his talks often contained some wisecracks that were widely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">publicized as examples of his high thinking. Majority of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">99% league was impressed by his simplicity and his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">thoughts of wisdom. He had become the darling of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people of Desh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Newspapers and TV channels sang songs of his next </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">forthcoming event as another example of his simple living </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and high thinking. The latest news screamed the following </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">content:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“As another example of our prime minister Lobhilal’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">simple living and high thinking, he has decided to entertain </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his official guests president Gushnell of Bigland and his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wife Helen not in any seven star luxury hotel but in his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">modest hut that he has built as his retirement home.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Four days before Lobhilal and his wife were to entertain </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell and Helen in the hut, Amar, Victor, Adarsh, and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti met each other at an appointed place. Then as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">decided in their last meeting, Amar and Victor took Adarsh </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and Shakti to the large hiding den where they had hidden </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the twins Merciles and Willy- the junkies and the ex-bosses </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of Amar and Victor. All the four of them took a tour of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hiding place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh said, “This hiding den is the perfect place to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">achieve our objectives.” Shakti seconded it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then four of them proceeded toward one of their shacks. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">After reaching the shack they sat on the faded carpet, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">poured some coffee in their tumblers, munched their </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">favorite snacks, and kicked off their vital meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh opened the meeting. He spoke, “Let us take stock of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">situation. Each of us took some responsibilities. Have we </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fulfilled them? As far as I am concerned I organized our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">physical fitness training. I believe the training we all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">underwent in Bigland was useful. We are physically quite </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fit and mentally quite alert to undertake this mammoth </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">mission.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh continued, “Well, Uttam underwent the plastic </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">surgery. You cannot recognize Uttam anymore. The plastic </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">surgeon in Bigland did a great face job of Uttam. Then I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">did a great job of training him for the job of a personal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bodyguard of a high profile dignitary. My boss Gushnell </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">interviewed Uttam and was satisfied beyond doubt. He rang </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Unon’s president Korruptkin and took all the credit for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">discovering Uttam. I have already dispatched Uttam to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Unon and he is serving Korruptkin very well. Korruptkin </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sent a good feedback of Uttam to my boss. In my last </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">confidential communication with Uttam, I have briefed him </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">about his next move.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Good, you seem to have done everything that you agreed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to do.” Victor said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Let me add one more thing,” Adarsh said. “I had briefed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">all of you about the big row that recently took place </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">between Gushnell and Helen. Helen is in no mood to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pardon Gushnell. Taking divorce is the least of the things </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">she aims at. She hates Gushnell for many things in addition </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to the adultery. She blames him for many of his decisions </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that propelled several wars and resulted in killings of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">millions of military and civilian persons of Bigland and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">many other countries. She hates him for the fact that he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">encourages sale of dangerous weaponry to a large number </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of countries and promotes more wars. As per her, he and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his cronies are planning another war soon. They might </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">invade Seher. She overheard their conversation. She feels </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">he is responsible for a very large-scale homicide and he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">must be punished severely.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Death. Helen met me once again after the day the fight </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">between her and her husband took place. Helen has many </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">more things to say about Gushnell. As per Helen Gushnell </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is a mass murderer and he has no reason to live anymore. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">His economic and financial policies help the moneyed guys </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to exploit the ordinary citizens in his own country and in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rest of the world. She shared with me her plan of punishing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell. In my last telecom with Shakti I had briefed him </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">about that plan and I was to brief Amar and Victor in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">today’s meeting,” said Adarsh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK, tell us about it when your turn comes up. Now I am </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">impatient to tell you the actions I have already taken.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Not only that we are able to pick up all the communication </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that takes place in the vicinity of these devices irrespective </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of whether the communication was made using these </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">devices or not. Most importantly we are also able to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">retrieve all the pieces of communication that took place </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">over past one year and more by these devices or near these </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">devices. So I downloaded every bit of very sensitive </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">information. I have already passed on all the information </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">collected till date to Shakti for further analysis and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">interpretations. Shakti has been in touch with each one of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">us and briefed us on the important inferences he drew out </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the information.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You deserve our heartiest congratulations. You have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">proved to be the key of our mission. We salute your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">technical excellence in information technology, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">communications, and electronics,” Shakti said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">All of them clapped in appreciation. Now it was Victor’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">turn to present his work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor spoke, “It’s my turn to report to you guys. Shakti </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">helped me in locating the robust 4X4 jeep that I wanted. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Thanks Shakti. Now the jeep is in our possession.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You are welcome,” said Shakti.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor continued, “We already had the two most </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sophisticated motor bikes with the most powerful engines, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the ones we had taken from the twins.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What is the latest status of their conversion?” Adarsh said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“By using advanced electronics, sophisticated mechanical </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">engineering, marine engineering, aeronautical engineering, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and latest computer hardware and software we can now use </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">them in a standalone way or in various combinations. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">standalone vehicles or the combinations can be configured </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in a jiffy. Each one can be made capable of traveling on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">road, in water or in sky. If you wish to drive them you are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">most welcome or you can as well operate them driverless. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They are essentially self-driven vehicles now. Also air </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">traffic control or any other agency cannot track the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">movement of these vehicles because of a special technical </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">innovation I have incorporated in them. Will you not clap </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">for me now in the same spirit as you did for Amar’s feat?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Everyone clapped without any reservation. Victor bowed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">repetitively to the three.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He continued his reporting. He said, “So we are absolutely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ready with transportation logistics- you have many variants </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of vehicles at your disposal. You can use them any way you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">like. Amar used one of the versions of the vehicle recently </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">quite successfully. OK, one more thing. By now you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">already know how I spotted Uttam in our jungles. I told that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">story to each of you a few days back. Well, unless you want </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to know anything else from me, I will hand over the turn to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti. Over to you Shakti.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti said, “Thanks Victor. The war continues between </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Isonia and Kasban- the two small sized countries, situated </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in the central part of planet Berth. It’s over a dispute about </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">a holy town. The killings on both sides go unabated.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“And right now we have no clue over how to contain or </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">stop it. Am I right Shakti?” Amar added.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes, no clue whatsoever as of now for these two countries. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">But soon we will have to think of some plan for these two </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">countries too,” Shakti confirmed. “But I have something </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">else very important to share. It took place very recently.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The rest of the three looked at him with a question mark. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He then briefed Amar, Victor, and Adarsh on everything </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that happened to his economics student Minmin. He took </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">them through the entire story of her rape by the prime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minister Zintun of Chinhut, how they met his personal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">secretary who was already a victim of Zintun’s sexual </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">perversions and the plan they made to punish Zintun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti continued, “By now each one of us has complete </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">information on the evil intentions of Gushnell, Maramar, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and Sharifyar. Gushnell wants to declare a war on Seher </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and win it with the help from Sharifyar- the chief of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">armed forces of Seher. Sharifyar will stage a coup against </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">king Maramar to coincide the war. In all of this do you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">guys remember Zahin- the namesake financial and war </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">strategist of Maramar? I had requested Amar to find more </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">information about Zahin. Have you found it Amar?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes I recall it clearly. Tell us about the private </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conversation between Zahin and his wife,” Shakti asked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes we should and I have already done it. By now I have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">come to realize that the owners of these 96 ultramodern </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">communication machines easily respond to the calls they </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">receive over these particular machines. They take the caller </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">as an authenticated caller of their device. So I rang Zahin </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the other day. He picked up his device and spoke with me </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with a great deal of understanding. I followed up my call by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personally meeting him at a secret place he suggested. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor’s multipurpose and magically configured supersonic </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">vehicle came very handy,” Amar said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What transpired in the meeting with Zahin?” Shakti </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inquired.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It was an extremely useful conference. Zahin wants action </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">against Maramar as much as we desire it to be. So he is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">willing to cooperate with us. We have chalked out a plan, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">which I wish to share with you guys now and seek your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">approval. After you approve I will give my go ahead to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zahin,” said Amar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar didn’t want to waste another </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minute. He contacted Zahin immediately. He just said, “Go </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">ahead.” Zahin knew the code. He answered, “Done thing.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar then turned to Shakti, “Shakti, could you figure out </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">anything on Lobhilal? I gave you a lot of dope on Lobhilal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that I had retrieved from time to time.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti replied, “Do you all remember we started our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">mission with a premise of identifying the scheming type </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people- the biggest rogues of the human tribe. They are less </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in numbers, say just about 1% but create 99% of all the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">menaces we see and experience on our planet. Despite their </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">cunningness and cruelty they are likely to leave behind </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">some clues of their dirty acts of one kind or other. So what </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">if they may be rich and famous. It doesn’t make them </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">superior to anyone. They are also made up of clay after all; </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">they too are naked in their bathrooms just like anyone else. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">So the second premise was to collect and analyze </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">information leading to these clues. The clues would be the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">key to formalize our plans to fulfill our mission. And </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">thirdly we needed to identify the links- the persons- who </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">would be willing to help in executing our plans.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes. Following these premises, we have now been able to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pin down Lobhilal too. Lobhilal comes from a very </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">unimpressive background- literally an illiterate but </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">streetwise smart, devoid of all human values and the most </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corrupt politician on planet Berth. He has already sold his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">country to outsiders. When he was nobody and young, he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fell in love with a girl next-door belonging to his own </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">community. But it wasn’t love it was mere lust.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Why do you say this, Shakti?” Adarsh asked. Victor also </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">had the same question in his mind.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It is because Lobhilal abused the girl but married the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">daughter of a very rich and influential man- a kingmaker. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The kingmaker’s daughter had some serious physical </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deformities and no man was willing to marry her except </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal. Lobhilal made his girlfriend pregnant but married </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">this kingmaker’s daughter on a condition that the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">kingmaker should help him achieve his ambitions of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">becoming a big man in Desh’s elite society. The girlfriend </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">could not bear this shock and committed suicide.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Oh, what a shame! Why do we have such insects in our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">human society?” Adarsh observed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“They exist and they thrive,” Shakti said. “The kingmaker </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">used his influence to help his son-in-law to join his political </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">party at a pretty high hierarchical position. Nobody dared </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">object him. Lobhilal being the street-smart guy made his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">way up and up and finally got himself elected as the prime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minister of Desh. People of Desh in the 99% league take </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pride in having chosen a man of ordinary beginnings that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">too from a downtrodden community as their prime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minister.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What I will tell you next will make sense. Suicide of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal’s one time girlfriend left her father totally broken. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He went to a temple and took a vow in front of the god’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">idol, ‘I will avenge my daughter’s killer. I will not die till I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">finish that Lobhilal. I hate that man’. The latest about </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Babu- the girl’s father- is that he is in the employ of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal as his headwaiter. Lobhilal does not recognize </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Babu as the girl’s father. After all he had seen Babu some </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">twenty years back.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I realized it myself. The doctor who attended you is a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">good friend of mine. I have requested him to treat this case </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">as exhaustion. The doctor exactly did that. Are you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">satisfied?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Thanks sir, you have been thoughtful. Now please listen to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">my tale of disgrace. I will request you not to divulge it to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">anyone. I swear what I will tell you is 100% truth.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I promise.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK. Listen. Yesterday after I reached my hostel room, a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">well</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">dressed person came and introduced himself as an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">official from the prime minister’s office. His business card </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">showed his designation as executive assistant to the prime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minister of Chinhut- the animal Zintun.” Minmin was in a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rage as she spoke.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“How did he know your whereabouts?” Shakti asked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Here let me tell you that I had applied to a few select </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">organizations for a job in anticipation of completing my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">graduation, one of them being the prime minister’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">secretariat. They needed an economist. The executive </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">assistant told me that I filled the bill. He mentioned that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun was highly impressed by my resume. Zintun was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">quite interested in interviewing me for the position.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But why did he send his executive assistant to contact you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personally? He could have asked his office to ring you or </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inform you by an email about the interview as is done </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">normally.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It occurred to me too. And on my asking the same </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">question to the executive assistant, he gave me quite a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">plausible and convincing explanation. He mentioned that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the economist’s post was in prime minister’s secretariat </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">itself and it was quite a strategic post. The selected </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">incumbent would be frequently required to work closely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with the prime minister himself. He wanted young and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fresh blood with super intelligence. He had interviewed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">many applicants in the past but none could impress him. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">When he saw my resume he knew that he had finally found </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">a right person. So he wanted to communicate it to me not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by an email or a phone call but by sending his emissary to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">me who could personally explain the things.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So you felt flattered?” Shakti asked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Obviously. I was flattered beyond any measure. That’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">where I made the biggest mistake of my life. I was floating </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">on cloud seven. I was already dreaming to become a world </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">class economist.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So where did he take you?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“The executive assistant escorted me to the private office of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the prime minister. It was a lavish mansion. Prime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minister’s chamber was located in its deep interior where it </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was impossible to enter without the prime minister’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">authorization. The executive assistant handed me over to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the private secretary of the prime minister - a good-looking </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">female in her early thirties but with a somewhat </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">melancholy demeanor.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Was there anyone else in the office?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“None, only me and the secretary. She was expecting me. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">saw my name on her appointments diary. She told me to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wait just for two minutes and then an extraordinary thing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">happened. She whispered, ‘Go away, and don’t meet the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">prime minister.’ Then she slipped a very small piece of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">paper and asked me to deposit it in my purse. She asked me </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to see it later in my hostel room in case I still insisted in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">attending the interview.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Did you see what was written on the chit?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I could not read as I was called inside the prime minister’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">chamber by this time. I did not heed to her advice at all and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was determined to meet the prime minister to bag the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">coveted job. I wish I had listened to her advice.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti gave Minmin a glass of orange juice. He sensed she </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">needed strength to tell him what happened next. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Minmin drank some juice and spoke again, “That animal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun welcomed me like a gentleman. He requested me to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">make myself comfortable on an exquisite couch meant for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his guests. He then offered me a glass of some fruit juice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He started the interview in the right earnest. Within a few </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minutes I started to feel dizzy. It was the effect of that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">juice. Then Zintun made his lecherous advances. He raped </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">me. I screamed and screamed and tried to fight him. I could </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">not fight him off despite being a karate champion. My </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">senses had been dulled. This could have been due to that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">drink I was given. I was a virgin and experienced severe </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pain. It wasn’t just the physical pain but also the pain that I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was experiencing due to the worst kind of humiliation. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">just could not save me.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti added, “But you couldn’t have resisted. You were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">powerless.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes, I felt totally powerless under the influence of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">drug. I became totally lifeless. When I woke up I was in my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bed in my hostel room. It was none of my fault yet I felt </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">horribly violated. I could not eat or sleep or do anything. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Yet I dragged myself to your class, I was determined to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fight it out. I am generally a person of strong mind. But the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">trauma overtook my thinking abilities and I succumbed to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">an overdose of sleeping pills. I keep a bottle of them in my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">purse.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I told you the rest,” Shakti added.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Sir, I’m happy that I’m alive. Now I wish to fight it out.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“It’s not easy to fight with a Zintun kind of rogue. You </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">already know the tales of his cruelty. If you wish to teach </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him a lesson, you will need to put your brain to real good </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">use. You will have to think of a real foolproof plan to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">punish him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The address the secretary gave was her home address. Her </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">home was located in a remote corner of the capital city of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chinhut. She had a reason to live in such seclusion. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">When Shakti and Minmin met her at her residence and got </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">properly introduced to each other she revealed, “That </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">animal Zintun killed my interest and enthusiasm to live. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">That’s why I chose to live in this remote place where I can </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">be alone. But I was a carefree girl in my village. However </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the poverty at home and compulsion of earning a decent </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">salary to support my family brought me to this city. I did </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">my secretarial course here. One day the executive assistant </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to Zintun saw me in the institute. He moves around the city </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to search for girls who are vulnerable types. The executive </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">assistant’s main job is to act as a pimp for Zintun.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Though his designation is executive assistant, his primary </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">job is to frequently procure girls and women for Zintun. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zintun is a bachelor and in habit of sleeping with only </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">virgin girls from time to time. He is the most lecherous man </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I’ve ever seen. I was lured by the promise of a highly paid </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">job of a private secretary and thus got trapped. I ultimately </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">became a prey to Zintun’s lust. I got the job all right but I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">had to pay a heavy price for it. Now I die hundred times a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">day everyday.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“That’s the reason you warned me. I was a real fool not to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">follow your hint. Had I heeded to your tipoff I wouldn’t be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in the soup I’m in. Did you warn the other girls who went </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to Zintun before me?” Minmin queried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The masked man declared, “Let me begin by saying that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I’m the head of a wing of a larger organization whose name </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">will be made known in the near future. But for the time </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">being feel satisfied with the knowledge that I’m </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">representing the wing called “Fighter Revolutionaries of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Economic Exploitation” or “FREE” for its short name. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">had released an audio message earlier taking the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">responsibility for the blast that destroyed a few factories of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Unon and Bigland. I had also mentioned that our actions </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">had just started and we would intensify our attacks in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">future. We are here to remove the yawning gap between the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rich and the poor of this planet because it is the major </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">reason for wars and terror actions. So I appeal to all the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sensible citizens of this planet to support this noble cause. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Let me now submit a very important clarification. These </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">blasts were executed by our organization FREE and FREE </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">alone. An impression was created in the minds of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people that the blasts were staged by the activists headed by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">one guy named Uttam fighting for justice and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">compensation to the victims of the gas leakage tragedy of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Universal Chemicals plant at Lohab. I wish to put it straight </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">on record that the blasts in the factories of Bigland and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Unon have nothing to do with the gas leakage disaster of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Nuplace. But in a way we indirectly supported their cause </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">when we look at the blasts in retrospect. Uttam and his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">associates are absolutely unconnected with the blasts and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">also our organization FREE.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What you say is true. I need not have to hide like a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">criminal now. However I’ve an important and unfinished </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">task at my hand. I have yet to seek proper justice and fair </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">compensation that the victims of the Lohab have a right </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">on,” Uttam opined.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Here is the latest development. My boss spoke with me </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sometime ago. President Korruptkin of Unon was in touch </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with my boss Gushnell. He is on lookout for a new personal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bodyguard for himself. He insists that his new bodyguard </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">should be of my caliber and I must approve him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“The existing one has lost his trust. Korruptkin has accused </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him of some conspiracies and sent him to jail. He feels </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">threatened by the current terror-filled scenario of his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">country. Recent bomb blasts in some factories have shaken </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Plus the workers of Universal Chemicals and many other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">factories of Unon have not liked the treatment meted out by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the CEO Hardnuts to the victims of Lohab gas leak </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">disaster. They believe that Korruptkin and Hardnuts and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">many other CEOs are in cahoots and often gang up against </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the workforce of Unon as well as of the countries where the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">manufacturing activities are outsourced.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So Korruptkin is under threat from two sides- the terrorists </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and his own people from the 99% club. Am I right?” Amar </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">asked. He wanted to be sure that his assessment of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">situation in Unon was correct.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes. Your assessment of the situation is correct. Therefore </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">he wants to appoint a new bodyguard at the earliest. I am </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">supposed to report about it to my boss tomorrow.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So what do you propose to do?” Amar asked. Others in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">shack listened to the conversation between Adarsh and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar on the speak phone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You must have seen the recent telecast from the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">spokesperson of the terrorist organization FREE. Their </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">declaration of owning the bomb blast of Unon leaves Uttam </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in the clear. Though I have not met Uttam in person, yet </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">whatever information and photographs I have collected of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him makes him a great candidate to take this position of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personal bodyguard to Korruptkin. He is fighting for a great </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">cause against the likes of Korruptkin and Hardnuts and he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">can be very useful to our mission too. By positioning him </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">close to Korruptkin we can achieve our final objectives and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in the process also help Uttam achieve his.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes, Victor and I corroborate your appraisal of Uttam. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam holds a great physique and possesses highly superior </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">mental alertness. His passion to get the best compensation </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from Universal Chemicals for the Lohab gas victims adds a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">great deal to his qualifications. Your boss as well as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">president of Unon will like him for his overall personality. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">But the biggest hurdle is his looks. He has been in the news </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">quite often and is a recognizable face. As of now Uttam is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">still a big enemy of Korruptkin and his cronies. We will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">need to change his looks drastically. We will also need to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">give him new identity, a new name. For your information </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam is right here and listening to our conversation. Later </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">we will share with you the entire story on how we met </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK I will be eager to hear the story. For now please ask </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">him his willingness to take up this job. Also will he be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">willing to undertake a plastic surgery to change his face and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">also to change his name?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Please hang on. Let me check.” Amar turned to Uttam and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">also looked at Victor to seek his approval of the plan. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor gave an affirmative nod.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam was also quite quick in making up his mind. He was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">highly passionate about getting the compensation for the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">gas victims and he somehow believed that by being part of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">this plan he might be able to achieve it. He told Amar and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor, “I am game for it. Go ahead.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar spoke in the speak phone, “You heard what Uttam </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">just said?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I heard that. That takes things in the right direction. Please </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">dispatch Uttam straight to me without any delay. President </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell wants me to fully train the person I select before </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">handing him over to president Korruptkin.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“And will you arrange his plastic surgery there?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I will organize the plastic surgery here. With minute </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">changes at the crucial spots the face can be changed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">drastically. Also the technology here dramatically reduces </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the time required for the plastic surgery and the post </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">operation treatment. The finesse will also be better. We are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in a hurry to position the bodyguard of president </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Korruptkin. Hey Uttam, are you ready to come here the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">soonest possible?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam replied in the speak phone, “I can fly even </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tomorrow. My paperwork for traveling to Bigland, Unon, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and a few other countries is quite in readiness. Will inform </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you the flight details.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Great. I will receive you at the airport here. Bye for now, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">all you guys there.” Adarsh signed off.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Hardnuts, you are right. You must deal with this Uttam </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">immediately and inform me. But frankly speaking </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">destruction of your factories in the bomb blast, in fact, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">came as a boon- you got all the insurance money and the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">old plants had become quite obsolete. Though blasts </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">resulted in the deaths of a few of your factory workers, we </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">got away cheaply by giving some moderate compensation </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to the families of the deceased workers.” Korruptkin gave </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">out a mild laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">His conversation with the president did not pacify his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">anxiety. On the other hand it aggravated his worries. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was quite worried over these issues. On one hand he had to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tackle the headache created by the possible resurfacing of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam and on the other hand he had to get rid of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">property of Universal Chemicals at Lohab.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">A few days </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">passed with this kind of overburden of worries on him. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then one evening while he was brooding over the matters </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with a glass of hard drinks in his hand he heard a buzz on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his telephone. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He felt irritated by this untimely intrusion. He was in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">middle of his thoughts on the two topics that were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">constantly bothering him. He spoke angrily, “Who’s that?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I am Vicky from Nuplace. I am interested in your property </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of Lohab. Am I speaking with Mr Hardnuts, the CEO of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Universal Chemicals?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Hardnuts’s countenance brightened. He thought that the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">telephone call was a good omen. He brought softness in his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">voice and spoke, “Hello Mr Vicky, I’m Hardnuts. Yes, I’m </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the CEO.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I want to meet you soon. I know that your previous </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">efforts to sell the property failed because it did not fetch </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">much money. My offer will be almost ten times the highest </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">offer you have received so far. I’m sure you cannot refuse </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">it. Can you give me a suitable date and time for our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">meeting? I am willing to travel to your place.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Wait a sec.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">While he asked Vicky to hang on, Hardnuts rang </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Korruptkin from his other phone. He briefed the president </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">about Vicky and his offer. Then he checked up, “Will you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">like to be in the meeting sir?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I will like to be in the meeting. Ask him to come here at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his earliest convenience. Let me know the date and time of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">meeting after you finalize with him,” the president said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Sir, I wish to involve Nuplace’s president Darpok also in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">this meeting. We will need his seal on this deal for it to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">become legal. Also as you know he did a favor to me by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">helping me to slip out of his country safely at the time of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lohab gas episode. I will like to return the favor by dishing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">out some money to him, which I will additionally extract </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from this man Vicky. We wouldn’t lose anything.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“May 1 suits me the best as of now. Is that OK with you?” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inquired Vicky.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK with me. Vicky, so please make it on May 1 at 8 PM </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">at the presidential vacation home. President Korruptkin will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">like to be present in the meeting. His involvement is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">necessary, as the whole thing has taken a political turn. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">am inviting your president Darpok too to put his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">governmental seal and close the deal.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“As far as I am concerned, it’s a done thing. I am eager to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">finalize the deal as soon as possible. I will be there as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">desired by you. I extend my special thanks to you for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">roping in Mr Darpok. We can thus finalize the deal in every </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">respect in the shortest possible time without any recourse to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the red tape in my country. Also you will get your money </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">immediately. Thanks again, Bye.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 25: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He sensed something unusual. At a distance, behind a large </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sprawling tree he saw a streak of sharp light. In fact the tree </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">came in sight due to presence of the light. He spoke to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">himself, “That is something very strange. It is the first time </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I am ever feeling the presence of any other human being in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">this forest. I guess someone is holding a flashlight and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">directing it toward some nearby object. It is a dangerous </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sign for us. I must probe into it immediately.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He applied the brake of the bike gradually. He didn’t want </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to alarm the intruder. The sudden stoppage of the bike </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">could have resulted in a screeching noise. Victor thought, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I cannot take slightest of risk. This man could become a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">problem element of our mission. I must find out who he is.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor parked the bike. He retrieved a pistol from the glove </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">compartment of the bike and cautiously moved toward the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">person with the flashlight. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The person with the flashlight was startled as Victor </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">shouted, “Hands up! Don’t move an inch or I will shoot </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you with my gun.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The intruder raised his hands above his shoulders indicating </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his surrender to Victor. Victor was quick to snatch the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">flashlight from him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I will like to search you thoroughly. Do you have any </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">belongings? I will like to search them too. By the way what </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is your name?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Uttam. My name is Uttam,” came the reply.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Show me your belongings.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I have just about one small suitcase and it is lying there.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam pointed toward a nearby tree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor asked him to remove his shoes, socks, belt, and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">jacket. Then he did thorough body search of Uttam. He did </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">not find any weapon or any other hazardous thing on his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">person. Then he pushed him toward the tree and ordered, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Open your suitcase and empty its contents one by one.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam obeyed Victor. Victor did not notice anything in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">suitcase that could harm anyone. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He asked Uttam, “Now tell me what are you doing in this </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">thick forest in the dead of a dark night?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“This is not my first day. I have been hiding in this jungle </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from the day I was declared the most sought after terrorist </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by the two countries Unon and Bigland. But let me </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hurriedly say that I am not at all a terrorist.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Then who are you and why are you hiding?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Are you aware of the gas leakage disaster of Universal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chemicals? It happened at a town called Lohab in my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">country Nuplace.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Who is not aware of it? It was the worst disaster that killed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">far more people than a war does. I have been following up </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the events that took place post the disaster. Wait; are you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the same Uttam who took the lead in negotiating the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">compensation from Universal Chemicals? Are you not the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">same person who did his best but failed to get the money </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from the company’s corporate office in Unon? Even your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">own government didn’t support you!” Victor asked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam replied, “Then you must have also heard about the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">blasts that took place in two factories of Universal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chemicals in Unon and three factories of another </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">corporation in Bigland. The factories and the offices in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">these two powerful countries were totally demolished due </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to the blasts,” Uttam said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Before Uttam could utter another word Victor said, “So you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">are that culprit, the mastermind behind all these blasts?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“No. I am not. I sincerely and honestly tell you I wasn’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">involved in the blasts. I am not a type of person who will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">like to see so many innocent people being killed. If you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">recall a self-proclaimed group called “Fighter </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Revolutionaries of Economic Exploitation (FREE)” took </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">responsibility of the blasts. It had released an audio </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">recording concerning the blasts in Unon and Bigland.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“That must be you. The audio message was quite related to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the situations you and your workers were facing in your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">company,” Victor surmised.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam clarified, “That was to mislead the audience. It was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to connect the blasts in Unon and Bigland to me. Even they </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">named the group as “Fighter Revolutionaries of Economic </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Exploitation (FREE)” to mislead. They wanted Unon and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Bigland to focus on me. These countries fell in their trap.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes, they listed you the most wanted man.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I wanted to survive. I wanted to be alive to still fight for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">getting the rightful compensation from Universal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Chemicals for the workers and citizens of my town Lohab. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">So I immediately flew out of my country and came to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Desh- to your country. I disguised myself. I hid in all kinds </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of places. I went on searching for a real safe place. With </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">very great difficulty I finally found this dense jungle that is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">totally marooned. I sleep under the trees and everyday I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">keep changing the locations in this forest. Today for the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">first time I lit the flashlight that too in the dead of night and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I was caught by you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I don’t know how much I should trust you. So till I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">confirm what you are saying is correct, you will remain in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">my captivity. Collect your suitcase and come with me.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor and Uttam walked toward the motorcycle. Victor </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">zoomed his bike toward the shack with Uttam at the pillion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In the shack the communication machine was purring. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor spoke in it, “Hey Shakti, how are you doing? Hope I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">didn’t make you wait.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Where were you? I rang you exactly at the appointed time. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">You are late by five full minutes.” Shakti was on the other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">end of the line.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I am really sorry. A new development took place while I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was on my way to the shack. I noticed an intruder in our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">jungle. I have brought him here. His name is Uttam. You </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">remember we spoke about him when we reviewed the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">incidents of gas leakage disaster of Lohab of Nuplace. We </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">thought he was the mastermind of the factory blasts in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Unon and Bigland. From the information collected till then </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">we thought that through his terror group “FREE” he was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">infusing terror in these countries to press his demand for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">higher compensation to the victims of the gas tragedy.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Victor, that conclusion was not correct. In the meantime </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar hacked a few more of the 96 communication devices. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Particularly he has extracted past one year’s conversations </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that took place on Maramar’s and Sharifyar’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">communication systems. Amar gets 100% marks for his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hacking skills; hats off to him. I analyzed all the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">information I got from Amar. The analysis pinpoints not at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Uttam but at Sharifyar.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You need to tell me more in order for me to understand </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">this new angle,” said Victor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Victor, you already know that the cracks between the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">friendship of Gushnell and Maramar resulted in Gushnell’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">threat of war on Seher. Gushnell, through his intelligence </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">agencies knows Sharifyar’s intentions of planning a coup </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">against Maramar. So he has joined hands with Sharifyar. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sharifyar wants to take advantage of this situation to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">achieve his many objectives. Therefore he has agreed to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">collude with Gushnell.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I can’t fully comprehend Sharifyar’s collusion with </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gushnell?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Sharifyar is aiming many things at a time. He wants to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">become the legal custodian of his country Seher with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">help of Gushnell. Then once he gets all the powers of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">head of the state he will systematically and legally unroll </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his revenge on the people of Hennothenic faith of Bigland. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He will impose sanctions on Bigland so that the cheap oil </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">supply from the overflowing wells of Seher to Bigland will </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">be totally cut off. He will start terror attacks with gorilla </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tactics in which he is highly adept.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“That is ridiculous. Terror attacks by a recognized head of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the state?” Victor expressed his bewilderment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Let me answer that. Amar has been able to retrieve some </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conversations that keep taking place between Sharifyar and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his confidant who works for him. Amar does some jugglery </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with his electronic equipment that gets connected with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">environment where any conversation is taking place and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">which he wants to listen to. He has been able to hear many </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">such conversations that give us very accurate pieces of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">inside information. Lately he could hear strings of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conversations between Sharifyar and his confidant.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Tell me more. I am curious.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So to answer your question, Sharifyar does not find any </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">difference between the conventional wars and terror. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">says that the organized wars by the established legal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">governments have been killing far larger numbers of people </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">than what the terror attacks have done.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What else is his take on it?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“He says that the powerful countries have been waging </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wars on many other countries. That is one style of fighting </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the enemy and is acceptable to the so-called civilized </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">society. But he will be using another style. However when </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">someone uses his style without being part of an established </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">government, it is called terror. But the same thing is called </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">war- an acceptable war- when the same person or group of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">persons who occupy the seats of power legally in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">government of a country does it. So soon he will become </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the head of Seher and he will use his style of war against all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of those who humiliated him. He will openly call his terror </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">a war.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">For a moment the communication seemed to pause. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then Victor said, “Well, that makes me to think. One thing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is sure. Both, whether you call it war or terror, they kill </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">people. They kill both types of people, people who stage or </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">fight war and those who stage an act of terror or face terror. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Both also kill lots of civilians. Anyways it is a complicated </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">subject. Please tell me more.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes. So Sharifyar will embrace terror to take revenge. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">wants to punish all the people who belong to Hennothenics </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">faith- mainly the people of Bigland and Unon and such </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">countries of Eastern hemisphere of our planet. And now let </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">me reveal one important thing. Well before taking over as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the head of Seher, he has already started his terror attacks.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Which ones?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“One of his groups that fights the economic disparities and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">human exploitations called “Fighter Revolutionaries of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Economic Exploitation” short form being “FREE” already </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">attacked factories and offices in Unon and Bigland. Amar </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">heard this revelation made by Sharifyar to his confidant. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sharifyar is going to own those terror attacks very soon and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">make it public. He wants to correct the public impression, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">which believes that Uttam the leader of the gas leakage </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">victims of town Lohab of Nuplace country launched the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">terror attacks. He wants the public and governments of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">planet Berth to know that he was responsible for those </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">deadly attacks and Uttam was not the mastermind behind </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">them. He feels mighty proud of those terror attacks- his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">first ones to be followed by many more.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor listened to this piece of information very carefully. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Any other details you wish to fill me with?” Victor was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">curious to know if Shakti had some more news to share </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“None. And what a coincidence! I wanted to pass on the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">information related to the factory blasts in Unon and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Bigland and you wanted a story that would prove </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">innocence or otherwise of Uttam. Uttam is in the clear. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is absolutely innocent. But keep him with you and fully </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">support him till he gets the best compensation from </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Universal Chemicals. One more thing I wish to share,”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK. Tell me.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“King Maramar has a habit of using one person called </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Zahin as his sounding board. Also he uses this person to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pass on his orders to carry out all the atrocities on the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">public of Seher. The atrocities include spying, torture, and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">murders of people who oppose Maramar etc. Maramar has </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">appointed Zahin his chief financial and war strategist. But </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that is only a glamorous designation. The fact is Zahin has </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">zero powers. He is just an overpaid pawn in the hands of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Maramar. But people now believe that Zahin is the real </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">villain and Maramar is advised by him on all the issues </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">related to finance and national security.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“How is this information relevant to our mission?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“After Amar gathered this information about Zahin, he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">requested Adarsh to dig out complete background of Zahin. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">What Adarsh found about Zahin is quite startling. Zahin </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">has an excellent family background. His family holds very </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">high human values. But it’s a huge family with numerous </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">family members and very little family income. So after </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">finishing his MBA as a gold medalist of a top most </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">business school of Bigland, he returned to Seher and to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">support his family financially he took up a job in king </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Maramar’s secretariat. Soon he impressed Maramar with </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his academic brilliance and utmost loyalty. Maramar </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">promoted him in quick successions and soon made him his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">chief financial and war strategist. To begin with everything </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">seemed OK to Zahin but soon he realized that he had </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">complexly got entangled in the clutches of Maramar. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Maramar paid him a very high salary to keep his mouth and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">mind shut.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What you are hinting at is that Zahin is in a real fix now </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and despite his decent background he has been compelled </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by Maramar to carry out the dirty business. He may still be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">man of clean conscious and if we help him out of the fix he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">can give us lot more inside information,” Victor </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">paraphrased his own understanding and waited for reaction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Your conclusion seems plausible. Let us hope that way. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">We should work on Zahin a bit more but with lot of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">caution. Also look after Uttam well. Being a very good </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">chemist and having worked in a chemical plant, he may be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">good at preparing formulas. We may need such a person.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti warned. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“And now let me say bye to you.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Bye for now,” said Victor and signed off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“As if your act was not. I just put it in some colorful </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pictures in the movie. Moviegoers loved it. I can’t help. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">And so from nowhere now I have become the most sought </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">after film director. The producers are too eager to have me </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">direct their next films. You are aware that I have become </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the richest movie director of the year.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Let us not bicker over these matters now. Let bygones be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bygones. Well, Helen. Listen. I want to make up with you. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">will totally stop seeing that woman if you continue to be on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">my side.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So that you can keep all that money I get from the movies </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I direct.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I know the money you make is significant but I make lots </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of money otherwise too. So it is not for your money. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">sincerely want to make up.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Don’t beat around the bush. First of all it is not a make up </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">but it will be a patch up. Secondly after you finish your </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">term, your sources of money will dry up for you. You get </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the money from those sources because you have the power </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">as the president to favor them. It won’t be true anymore.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I am not after your money. The fact is that I realized my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">folly and I wish to remain a loyal husband. Won’t you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">forgive me? You have already told the media that it was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">entirely that woman’s fault; she had become too ambitious. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">You also told the media that you don’t hold anything </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">against me. Then why do you talk of divorce now?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Look here what all of us tell the media from time to time </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is all humbug stories. You know it and I know it too. What </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">I told the media was a lie; it was to save my face and my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">humiliation. The fact is I despise you and will continue </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">doing it till end. You were not only cheating on me but also </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">bad-mouthed me and made fun of me behind my back in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">your lovey-dovey exchanges with your secretary. That’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">why the talk of divorce.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“God damn it. You foolish lady,” Gushnell threw a few </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">objects lying in the bedroom at Helen. One little object hit </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Helen lightly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Helen cried, “You fool, you are hurting me.” Then she </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hollered for help, “Help, help! This beast is going to kill </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">me. Adarsh where are you? Help me or I will dial the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">emergency helpline.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Later in the day when Gushnell was having his regular </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">siesta, Helen sent for Adarsh. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">When Adarsh walked in she made him sit comfortably.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Adarsh, you heard everything that transpired this morning </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">between my husband and me. You are also in the know of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">minutest and nastiest details of the scandal involving my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">husband and his private secretary- rather the whole world </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">knows about it. With that backdrop I want to take a severe </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">revenge, divorce alone is not an appropriate response to my </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">husband’s misdeeds. I wish I could shorten his life.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I just wanted you to remind that this morning you were the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">witness to my husband’s misbehavior. He was in an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">uncontrollable rage and threw things at me. I would have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">been badly hurt had I not ducked the attack. Do you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">agree?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So what I request you is to be on my side as my witness in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">case something untoward happens. I don’t know what that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">could be. But I am scared.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lately he was working on a project to develop a technology </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">by which even the conversations that took place among </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">various people even without using these powerful devices </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">but still available in the space in the vicinity of these </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">devices could be retrieved and decoded. Thus Amar would </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">be able to hear the live conversations as well as record such </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conversations on his device and listen to them later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“We are reaching Bigland tomorrow. We will arrive by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">different flights for obvious reasons. We don’t want to be </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">seen together by anyone,” Amar cautioned Adarsh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes. I get it. Therefore, even after reaching here, I expect </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you to meet me one-on-one and not together. I will brief </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you on your training schedules on meeting.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Victor will soon get in touch with you using his device </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and inform you Shakti’s and his itineraries. Bye for now.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Despite a very packed program they had kept one </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">night aside for a meeting together at an absolutely safe </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">place chosen by Adarsh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">After exchanging quick pleasantries they started talking </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">business in all the seriousness. They delved on their future </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">plans in detail. Then they were left with some free time. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They would use it for a little tete-a-tete.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh reminded Victor, “You have yet to tell us the story </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of Amar’s genius.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes, let us get started. And it’s not just about Amar. I’m </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">also an actor in the drama that will now be unfolded before </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“We are impatient to know,” Shakti said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar and Victor were waiting in the posh lobby of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Technowiz Corp. It was the most advanced tech company </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the world, headquartered in Unon. Both of them were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">waiting for their turn for the interview with the twins </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Merciles and Willy. Merciles and Willy were the world </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">famous promoters and founders of Technowiz Corp.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar and Victor were a bit shaky. Amar told Victor, “I am </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">a bit nervous to face the intimidating personalities of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Merciles and Willy.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So am I,” Victor said. “But we must get recruited by them. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">We must not miss this lifetime chance to work for a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">company like Technowiz Corp.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Merciles quipped, “Well buddy, you are already hired. I </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">have a complete background check on you. So we are not </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">going to waste time. Go to HR and get your contract.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">As soon as Merciles finished, Willy asked, “Have you ever </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">smoked pot in your life?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“No. None,” Amar replied without understanding the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">context of the question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Then how are you going to appreciate the beauty and art?” </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Willy quizzed. “Here you will be required to design high </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tech products that will have brain as well as beauty. How </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">will you ever integrate beauty with the high tech if you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">haven’t experienced beauty? Think about it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“The meeting is dismissed,” Merciles concluded. “You can </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">go now.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">As Amar and Victor, now overjoyed at their success, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">walked toward HR department to sign the contracts, Victor </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">questioned, “Amar, do you think the twins are junkies? The </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">eyes of both of them were bloodshot and they seemed to be </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in some kind of trance.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I suspect it too. They talked quite irrelevantly about doing </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">pot and beauty and integrating beauty with high tech in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">their products. But who cares? Let us make the most of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">opportunity of working in Technowiz,” Amar said </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">philosophically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor surmised, “What Willy and Merciles hinted was you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">can experience some kind of beauty and art when you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">smoke pot. Absurd, absolutely ridiculous! But as you say, </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">who cares if we are getting a chance to carry out some great </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">work because of resources and freedom of this company.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Over the next two years Amar and Victor worked on an </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">extremely high tech product. Both of them worked day and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">night to conceptualize, design, and develop the product that </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">would revolutionize the world. It was possible only with </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the brains of the likes of Amar and Victor. Amar was a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">genius in electronics, computer hardware, and software. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor was a genius in mechanical, automobile, marine, and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">aeronautical engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Merciles and Willy always spied on their recruits </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">particularly the ones who were capable of dishing out great </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">products. And to invigorate their motivational levels, they </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">used to throw some bribes from time to time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">After an </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">year’s time Merciles invited Victor and Amar in his office </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and said in an appreciative tone, “We are allotting you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">company’s shares that would make each one of you a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">billionaire at today’s stock price. We are expecting you to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">present your work to us soon.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Two years had passed. Victor and Amar had just completed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the finishing touches on their product. “Now we need to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">present our product to the twins. We cannot proceed further </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">unless our rough cut prototype is approved by Willy and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Merciles,” Amar told Victor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">So they took an appointment with Willy and Merciles. By </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the time the presentation by Amar and Victor wasn’t even </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">half way through, Merciles shouted, “Stop it. Your product </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">is all crap.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Merciles complemented what Willy spoke. “Never argue </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">with us on the artistic aspects of our company’s products. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">We make money because our products are sophisticatedly </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">gorgeous. Buyers lap them up and pay through their nose.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“But no one can beat technologically the product we just </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">presented. The cosmetic dressing up can be done easily </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">before we bring it on the production line,” Victor argued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You are arguing again. Stop it. And stop mocking the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">beauty by terming it as cosmetic dressing. The meeting is </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">dismissed till you make the product a piece of art,” Willy </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Merciles added, “You indicated in your presentation that </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the product you designed need to be used only for peaceful </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">purpose since they can be quite lethal if used militarily. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then hear my decision on it right away. We are going to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">market it to all the arms producing companies all over the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">world. That’s where the money is.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar objected, “No. It will be very dangerous. Already the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">planet is torn by the wars. Our product will make the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">weapons many times more capable and dangerous. Using </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that kind of weaponry will destroy humanity.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“OK. I accept your warnings in good spirit,” Merciles </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">conceded. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">He looked at Willy and winked. Amar and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor noticed it but did not make much of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Willy confirmed what Merciles just said, “We give our </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">word. We will use the product only for peaceful purpose. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Please concentrate on the development without any </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">apprehension.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar and Victor completed the beautification part of their </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">product within a month after which one more meeting took </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">place among the four.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar made the presentation. He concluded, “Victor and I </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">now handover the entire hardware, software, and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">documentation of the product to you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Well gentlemen, thanks. But you guys are fired. It has </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">been brought to our notice that you two stole the product </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">idea from one of your colleagues. We got it verified by our </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">security staff. We have zero tolerance in our company for </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">this kind of plagiarism. Our company rules specify this and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">you have accepted the terms and conditions while signing </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the contract. However to display the generosity and beauty </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of our hearts we wouldn’t touch the shares allotted to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">They remain with you guys,” Merciles declared. The fact </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was it wasn’t legally possible for Merciles, Willy, and their </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">company Technowiz to impound the shares they had </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">already allotted to Amar and Victor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then Willy asked his secretary to send in five senior </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">security officers. They escorted Amar and Victor out of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">company premises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Later their friend who worked for the same company told </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar and Victor, “The twins have applied for registration </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of patent of the product you two developed on their own </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">names. They will be known as the inventors of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">remarkably seminal product you actually invented. Also </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">they have announced board’s approval to market this </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">product to all the companies all over the world engaged in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">manufacturing weapons and arms of all kinds.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti and Adarsh listened to the entire story quite intently. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Then Shakti opined, “That is quite a sad story. It ended in a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">tragedy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor said, “No. You need to hear one more story </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">connected to this one. I had mentioned about two stories in </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">our last meeting. You heard the first one. Now here is the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">second story.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar took a clue from Victor and narrated the second </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">story, the one with a happy ending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar said, “The whole thing was very shocking to Victor </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and me. We had put our heart and soul into that product we </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">developed. And then we saw the twins stealing it away </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from us right under </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">our nose. They took its patent and branded us as thieves. No other company was willing to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">employ us. We were literally on the streets.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh queried, “But you had those shares.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar nodded, “Yes. That was the saving grace. Both of us </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">were billionaires now. We could use that money to lead a </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">comfortable life. But we were hurt deep inside. Victor and I </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">went over the entire episode several times. We assessed </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that our loss was nothing as compared to what would </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">happen to entire humanity if our products were used in the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">weapons. The weapons would become many times more </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">powerful and kill the people at an unimaginably faster </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">rate.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti asked, “Do you have any solution? The product you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">developed must be already in use in the wars. That’s why </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">we see enormous casualties in the wars these days.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor clarified, “No. We averted it fully. Amar, I’m sorry </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">to have interrupted you. Please go on.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar continued, “We decided that we would not spend our </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">billions for our own comforts. We decided to put them to </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">some better use for the entire humanity. We decided to stop </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the wars. It was an almost impossible mission and we </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">needed lots of money to see it completed. Luckily we had </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">that kind of money with us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“What was you next step then?” Adarsh asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar said, “Within a week of us getting fired we </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">kidnapped the twins. By that time no harm was done. The </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">product and its details were kept safely in Willy’s office. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">We took them in our custody. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">The twins were crazy guys. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">In addition to being junkies they loved to ride fast and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">powerful bikes. They also possessed those ultramodern </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">communication devices. We took hold of the two bikes and </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the two communication devices. Now you know how we </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">got hold of those two wonderful bikes and the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">communication devices.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Where are the twins? Hope you didn’t murder them?” </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti laughed jokingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“No. They are still in our captivity at a place that no one on </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">the planet can locate. In fact a hectic and longish search </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">followed the twin’s disappearance. After all they were rich </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and famous. But time is a big healer. Over a period people </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">forgot about them completely. Life and time don’t stop </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">because of presence or absence of anyone. None is </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">indispensible. No one is great to be remembered for ever.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“I’m curious to know how you guys captured the twins.” </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar gestured at Victor to proceed with the rest of the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor said, “Amar hacked their high tech communication </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">devices. He is the greatest hacker on the planet. We knew </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">from our observations that the twins would accept the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">telephonic calls only on their impregnable communication </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">machines. If someone could make through the twin’s </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">machines it was concluded that the caller was an important </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">person. As you are aware by now only 98 persons owned </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">these sophisticated devices. Only these 98 devices could </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">talk to each other and no one else was admitted in this </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">circuit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Did you threaten the twins?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“No, quite the opposite. We befriended them. The twins are </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">junkies of the worst order. They are always looking out for </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">opportunities to get the drugs from some source or the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">other. So, I introduced myself as a high-class drug dealer </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">and offered them the latest and the most potent new types </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">of psychedelic drugs.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Were they hooked?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“They were hooked lock, stock, and barrel. They invited us </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">at their vacation villa. They used to have their drug sessions </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in its serene surroundings. They also used to meet the </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">potential drug peddlers at this isolated place.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“You must have gone there, drugged them, and then </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">captured them?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“No. We did not carry any drugs with us. We had no idea </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">how to procure drugs. All we knew was that the villa was </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">absolutely unguarded by any security men. The twins </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">didn’t want anyone around when they did the pot. The villa </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">was guarded by a highly sophisticated electronic security </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">system. Amar could have easily broken it. He is the genius. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">But we had an appointment already fixed and the twins </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">disarmed the security. The twins welcomed us. They were </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">already in their deep trance. They had drugged themselves </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">heavily.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Victor took a pause, took a drink of water, and continued </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">telling his story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“So the twins are still there? When are you taking us to this </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">hiding place of yours? In our mission we have talked about </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">a hiding place. Do you think this one will do?” Adarsh was </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">looking out for serious answers from Victor and Amar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Shakti replied, “No problem for me too. I will meet you </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">guys in Desh on April 27 as suggested by Victor. My </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">institute is closed for a week then.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Amar spoke on behalf of Adarsh, “I know for sure that </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Adarsh should not have any problem on April 27 because </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">his boss is planning a holiday in Desh with prime minister </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Lobhilal then. Lobhilal has arranged the highest level of </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">Desh’s security for Gushnell and his wife Helen. And so </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">because of these arrangements despite being Gushnell’s </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">personal bodyguard Adarsh can afford to be away for some </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">time under the pretext of meeting his folks in his hometown </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">in Desh. Thus he will be able to attend the meeting with us </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">on April 27. Am I right Adarsh?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">“Yes, definitely. I can do it during the daytime on April 27. </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">On the other days I will have to be in the attendance of my </span><span style="font-size: 21.2587px; line-height: 22.4px;">boss,” Adarsh</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Human race has been created to fight,” Zintun shared his </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">belief. “I have the first hand experience, I’ve lived it. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">That’s why I’m so confidently declaring this philosophy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“I fully endorse Mr Zintun’s views,” Korruptkin seconded </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun’s opinion with all the seriousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">These were the opening remarks espoused by the prime </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">minister of Chinhut and the president of Unon in an </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">exclusive conference. Chinhut was hosting the conference. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The opening remarks by Zintun and Korruptkin gave a </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">kick-start to the conference. Then Zintun and Korruptkin </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">left the conference venue for Zintun’s private office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">A large number of CEOs of armament designing, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">producing, and marketing companies of both the countries </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">were already busy in another meeting in another conference </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">hall. A huge entourage of more than 70 CEOs and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">governmental bureaucrats had arrived in the western part of </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Berth all the way from the eastern hemisphere. The flight </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">time of travel from Unon to Chinhut was over 24 hours and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">it would cost exchequer a fortune to finance such a massive </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">tour. Yet the president of Unon thought the expenditure </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">would bring in few thousand times more returns and a </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">significant chunk of it will further enrich his personal kitty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">A CEO of arms producing company, the largest one in </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Chinhut remarked, “Welcome all the delegates. As you are </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">aware we hold these meetings periodically. Chinhut is </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">hosting the conference this time. Make your stay </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">comfortable while you are here. Now allow me to turn to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">the business side of the meeting quickly. I will request Mr </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Richman, the CEO of Unon’s largest company designing </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">and selling the most sophisticated missiles to take over </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">from me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Richman spoke, “Thanks Mr Takagin. As you all know the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">purpose of the meeting is to review the current business </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">status and think of ways of bolstering the sale of military </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">weapons in the future. Statistics confirmed time and again </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">that the most profitable business that existed in the entire </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">planet was to design, produce, and sell military weapons. It </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">is glaringly true in the current scenario. Each one of 138 </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">countries of planet Berth wants to keep itself militarily </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">ready to fight the wars. Lately killing has emerged as the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">biggest need of human race and the products whose use is </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">to kill are the most sought after products. Therefore the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">governments of all the countries of planet Berth have </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">allotted a much bigger chunk of their GDP to buy all kinds </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">of fancy weapons in the ensuing years. This expenditure far </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">exceeds the budgets allocated for education, healthcare, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">food, shelter, and such noble causes.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The audience was listening intently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">This was the flavor of the conference and the daylong </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">deliberations continued.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">As the CEOs’ conference was in progress, in Zintun’s </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">private office a one-on-one confidential meeting between </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun and Korruptkin started concurrently. Zintun further </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">played on his highly loaded philosophy of human beings’ </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">liking for the wars. He said, “Therefore our cash register </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">will keep clanking. The governments of all the countries of </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">planet Berth will keep buying arms and weaponry from us </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">for years to come.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Korruptkin hurriedly complemented this statement. He </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">said, “And the two of us will keep the overall control over </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">all the countries and all the politicians. It is not for nothing </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">that your fame as a political strategist has spread far and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">wide. And who doesn’t know about your meteoric rise as </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">its result?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">But at this stage of conversation Zintun had one serious </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">objection. He expressed, “Korruptkin, if you keep </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">designing the same hackneyed products, all the nations will </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">keep fighting with the same boring toys. They cannot tomtom </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">any differentiating features of their armies. This </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">boredom will affect our sale. So please ask your designers </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">and developers to put their cerebral faculties to test. Ask </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">them to come out with more and more interesting, lethal, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">and sophisticated weapons every now and then. And we </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">promise to produce them in our country with all the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">aplomb.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“I see your vision. I agree. We have to have varieties and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">new models just like any consumer product. It will enthrall </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">the public,” Korruptkin said. “I’ll instruct my labs and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">research centers accordingly.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“I have one more observation to make. You are not paying </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">my workers enough. If that continues my popularity among </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">my public will be adversely affected. You have to raise </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">their compensation,” Zintun spoke forcefully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Zintun, how’s that possible? We are in a position to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">market and sell these weapons at a price that brings in </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">optimal returns. Paying more to your workers will create </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">problems in pricing and selling.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“All hogwash! Price has nothing to do in armament sale. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The two of us are already monopolizing this business much </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">better than Bigland despite Gushnell’s feverish push to sell </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">weapons from Bigland. Therefore the governments of all </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">the countries of Berth have no option but to buy them from </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">us. And I know that you are already jacking up the prices </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">and keeping all the extra margins to yourself without </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">sharing any part of it with us,” Zintun retorted irritatingly. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Pay us more, jack up the price further, sell, and make still </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">more profit. The suckers will pay thorough their nose.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“I can never win over you. Done. My CEOs will be </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">instructed accordingly. Are you OK now?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun pondered over with a long pause. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Then he broke the silence. He suggested, “But I won’t </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">accept anything less than 30% rise.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Korruptkin thought, “I need to go along with this crazy guy </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">though his demand prima facie seems quite unreasonable. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">But it seems I have no other choice but bow to Zintun’s </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">demand. He and his country finance our research- our </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">trump card. So we are in debt to our necks because of this </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">heavy financing. Our economy will crumble as soon as </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun stops cooperating. Great recession will hit everyone </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">but it will hit me the hardest. I will lose my job, my </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">political career, and my power.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">So he agreed and confirmed, “OK, done thing.” He was </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">convinced that he had no other choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Now that done, I want you to work on another front,” said </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“What?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Increase the demand.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“How?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Produce more wars. Create more terror. It’s all that </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">simple. I would do it easily. But it’s your department. You </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">are marketing and selling. So it’s your job now,” Zintun </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">spoke a bit mischievously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">That didn’t go unnoticed by Korruptkin. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Korruptkin put a brake on his thoughts and replied to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun, “We are doing our best to promote wars. I know </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">you are also trying your best in this direction. I’ll be </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">grateful to get enlightened from you on the subject.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun felt flattered that Korruptkin was seeking his advice. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">He happily tutored him, “Korruptkin, do you know what </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">fear psychosis is? Create it in a big way on the planet. War </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">has to start in human mind. Make people of one race and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">color believe that people of other race and color are their </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">enemy. Make people of one ethnicity and ideologies </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">believe that the people of other ethnicity and ideologies are </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">their foes. In short make everyone believe that his or her </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">existence is under threat from the others. One will </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">definitely like to win over the other when it comes to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">fighting. So each one will like to buy more and more </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">weapons of higher and higher potentials. We will supply to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">each one- to both the adversaries. Do you get this mantra?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Thanks to convey your brilliant philosophy of marketing </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">the weapons.” Korruptkin played on Zintun’s ego.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun felt satisfied with the meeting. He said, “Great. We </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">seem to have done a great job today to keep the entire </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">planet busy for the next decade or more. Now please give </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">me your company in celebrating the moment.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Then the two of them moved to the anteroom where their </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">private seven-course lunch was to be served to mark the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">celebration. A troop of most provocative belly dancers </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">would entertain them during the luncheon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">As they marched toward the anteroom, Zintun gave an </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">impish gesture. He said, “Korruptkin, you and me know </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">how to keep our subordinates busy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“Yes, I know you have arranged a working lunch for them </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">so as not to disturb them from the conference.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“But to compensate I have also planned a lavish banquet </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">for them in the evening,”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Zintun boasted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">“But without the belly dancers!” Korruptkin laughed out </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">loud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The seven-course lunch was served with the choicest and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">heady drinks and cocktails that the two heads of the two </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">powerful countries cherished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Later the two intoxicated brutes exchanged lewd, loud, and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">dirty jokes with each other. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Two limousines were in readiness with their respective </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">drivers. The two drunken men would be dumped in them </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">and deposited in their seven star abodes in absolute secrecy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The two were revered as great men of the planet in the 1% </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">club and even many in 99% crowd also felt awed by Zintun </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">and Korruptkin. Zintun was made famous by the media as </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">punyatma (meaning sacred soul in Chinhut’s local </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">language) and Korruptkin as a visionary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Sharifyar was the chief of the armed forces of Seher. He </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">was one of the canniest persons on the planet Berth. He was </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">also venomously revengeful person to the extent that he </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">soon became famous as Kattarkhooni meaning staunch </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">murderer in Seher’s local language. He was revengeful of </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">all those who mocked his religious beliefs. Only recently he </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">had killed twelve persons of the minority sect of </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Hennothenics religion because they had eve-teased a lady </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">belonging to the country’s mainstream religion </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Eggothenics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">People of Seher belonged mainly to two religious sects. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">The people who believed that egg came first belonged to </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Eggothenics. Others who believed hen came first followed </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">the religion called Hennothenics. Hennothenics were in </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">minority in Seher. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Almost all the people living in most of countries in the </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">eastern hemisphere of planet Berth had their faith in </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Hennothenics. Large population of the countries situated in </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">the central part of Berth followed Eggothenics as their </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">religion. The western hemisphere was dominated by a </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">single religion Deshiyog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Sharifyar was never a person he later became. He was true </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">to his name Sharifyar, meaning a cultured person in Seher’s </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">local language. The events that were responsible for his </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">transformation to his nickname Kattarkhooni still haunted </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">him. He lived those nightmarish experiences every moment </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">and those experiences killed his pride hundred times a day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">The harrowing personality of the jailor was still quite vivid </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">in Sharifyar’s mind. The jailor opened the sliding iron gate </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">of his cell, spat on him, and abused, “You scum, dirty </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Eggothenic bastard! We are going to make your life </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">miserable in these seven days of imprisonment here. You </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">will forget to pray your Eggothenic god in your </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">dishonorable language of your country. Now eat this shit </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">before we torture you again.” He pushed forward a plate </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">full with the food that exuded foul smell. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Sharifyar was in severe pain because of his bruised face </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">and lips. The police had tortured him before he was brought </span><span style="line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">to the jail. He somehow collected himself and spoke, “I </span><span style="line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">maintain I’m innocent.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“I’m innocent. I’m not racist. In fact it’s the other way</span><span style="line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">round. Three of my classmates are racists. They are citizens </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">of Bigland. They are sons and daughters of some very </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">influential politicians. They do not like my being in this </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">country and they hate my religion, my color, and my </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">language. They insist that I return to my country Seher. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">They keep harassing me,” said Sharifyar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“But the eye-witnesses have testified on oath that you </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">shouted at them and hurled abuses. You made derogatory </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">remarks on their Hennothenics religion. You insulted them </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">by saying that they belonged to an inferior race and color. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">You mocked at their mother tongue which is also the </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">official language of our country,” the judge mentioned. “I </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">also have the audio-recordings. You do not have any </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">eyewitness and you have chosen not be represented by any lawyer. Even the diplomats of your country from your </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">embassy here have not come in your support though an </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">intimation of your criminal involvement was sent to them.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“I have not appointed a lawyer as I cannot afford his fee. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">The lawyer given to me by the court insisted that I should </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">plead guilty. I chose not to have that sort of lawyer. Yes, I </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">admit I don’t have any eye-witness.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“I am afraid gentleman, I cannot condone your crime. You </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">have committed a serious offence. But being a student on </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">scholarship in our university we will deal with you </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">leniently. You will be immediately deported from our </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">country and will never be allowed back here.” The judge gave his ruling. “And by the way you speak our language </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">quite poorly. Your pronunciations are all wrong though </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">grammatically passable. I wonder how you got scholarship </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">from our university.” The judge dismissed the court.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">The police escorted Sharifyar to the college premises where </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">his professors as well as the director of the college were </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">already waiting for him. They handed over the official </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">letter pronouncing his rustication from the institute. They </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">also gave him the copy of the judgment ordering his </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">deportation. The director hurled out a homily at him as his </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">parting gift, “Mister, never ever dare to comment on others’ </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">religion, race, color, and language. Better luck in your </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">home country.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">When he came home in his country he remembered every </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">word of what his director had said. He swore on the holy </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">book of his Eggothenics religion, “I was a simple man </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">oblivious of the reality that the organized religions could be </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">misused by some to create and promote hatred. Though I </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">was innocent the people of other religion and race wronged </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">me. Now I’m a different person. I will now punish and </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">finish everyone who would speak ill of my religion, my </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">color, my race, and my language. To empower me to do so I will try to grab a top official position in country’s armed </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">forces or in police soon enough.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Obviously governmental officials of Bigland who had </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">humiliated him became his number one enemy. He also </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">decided on punishing every citizen of Bigland and every </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">other country that would denigrate his religion or race.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">One more person on the planet Berth became a </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">fundamentalist and an extremist.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">He strived to become chief of the armed forces of Seher to </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">fulfill his objectives. A day came when king Maramar </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">appointed him the chief of his country’s armed forces. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Soon it became clear to Sharifyar that he could not remain </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">loyal to king Maramar. He once mentioned to one of his </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">army officers who was also his confidant, “The king though </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">an Eggothenic behaves more like a Hennothenic. I don’t </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">approve such a behavior at a king’s level. Worse, he is </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">hand-in-glove with Bigland and its president Gushnell. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">They are our enemy number one. He has sold out our oil </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">wells to Gushnell for a song and making our people poor </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">and poorer.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Sharifyar wanted to share one more reason why he despised </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Maramar. But he did not speak it out, he just talked to himelf, “I have one more score to settle with Maramar. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">When I was being tried in the court of Bigland on the </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">charges of racism against me, I was left alone to fend for </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">myself. No one from Maramar’s office came to my rescue. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Whether Maramar knew about it or not, he is definitely </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">responsible for creating such a rotten culture of corruption </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">and apathy in Seher. I must punish him for that too.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“But sir, you are developing a close tie with Gushnell </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">yourself. You two seem to be on pretty friendly terms,” </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Sharifyar’s confidant said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Humiliation suffered by Sharifyar in Bigland haunted him </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">all the twenty-four hours of everyday. “I need to destroy </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">that country and its people,” he used to meditate. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">With these kinds of thoughts hovering over his mind, he </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">replied to his confidant, “Yes you are right. I am </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">developing camaraderie with Gushnell. But it’s mainly to </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">use him and his army for our own benefit. I will be using </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Bigland’s army to first unseat king Maramar, become </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">country’s supremo and then dictate terms with Gushnell. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">From my recent intel updates I have come to know about a </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">serious discord between Gushnell and Maramar.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“You mean to say the intimate personal friendship between </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">the two has ended.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“A definite yes,” Sharifyar confirmed. “Bigland’s army </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">will backup the coup we are about to stage against the king. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">You know about our preparedness for the coup. But we </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">need the reinforcement of Bigland for the purpose.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“But then Gushnell and his army will be seen as the </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">winners and they would rule us.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“Yes they would defeat our country in the war with our </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">backing. But they will let us run its messy affairs; they are </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">not interested in the messy day-to-day administration. They </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">are simply interested in our oil and also the huge money </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">they will make under the garb of reconstruction of the </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">country gone out of shape. So they would like to install a </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">government that will be subservient to them. The </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">arrangement between Gushnell and me is reciprocatory. If </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">he makes me the supremo I will allow him to do whatever </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">he wants to do with our country and its resources.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“Sorry to say this sir. But then he has bought you too. You </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">seem to have forgotten all the economic atrocities of </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Bigland on us. In fact it seems you are going to continue </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">with our </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 27.0566px;">king’s methods.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">“No. As soon as I become the supremo I will start my real </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">program of destroying Bigland. I will act expeditiously to </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">garner the support of all the Eggothenic countries to </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">terrorize Bigland, Unon, and the other Hennothenic </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">countries.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">He looked in the eyes of his confidant for an effect. He was </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">feeling charged up. His subordinate army officer nodded </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">indicating his appreciation as if inviting him to continue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">So he continued, “Our acts of terror would humiliate them </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">to the core. But our acts of terror will no more be termed as </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">the act of terrorism since I will be committing them as the </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">legitimate head of a country. Additionally I will impose </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">economic sanctions on them; earlier they used to impose </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">sanctions on us. Now it’s our turn. We are very rich in oil </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">and other natural resources. Their resources have all dried </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">up because of their foolish economic policies. They believe </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">that economy grows when people consume. How stupid? </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">So now they just can’t do without us. They will ultimately </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">come begging to us. When they kneel down and beg for </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">mercy, I will kick their asses and spit in their faces.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Then he silently suggested to himself, “My revenge would </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">end then.” He laughed out loud with perceived contentment. He was </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">almost hysterical. His confidant joined him in laughter </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">without knowing the boss’s real reason for being hysterical. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Sharifyar ordered his confidant to leave him alone. He </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">ordered, “I wish to rest for a while. Please carry on with </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">your task of consolidating the support to topple the king’s </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">regime.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Sharifyar then savored a dream he often dreamt but with </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">open eyes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">The jailor of the jail of Bigland where he was put behind </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">the bars, the judge of the court of Bigland where he was put </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">on trial, and the director of the institute of Bigland where </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">he studied for a short period were brought to Seher. They </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">were under his custody in a jail behind the bars. The TV </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">channels of the entire world were invited to telecast live the </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">episode that was about to take place. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">In that episode Sharifyar would open the sliding iron gate </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">of the jail where the jailor, the judge, and the director were </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">kept in captivity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">He would then look into their eyes, slap </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">them hard, spit on their faces, and rattle out, “You scum, </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">dirty Hennothenic bastards! You three will be immediately </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">deported not only from my country but from our planet Berth altogether and will never be allowed back here. So </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">get ready to be beheaded. The entire world will watch this </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">grandeur live. Mister, never ever dare to mess up with me </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">and my religion, race, color, and language. And by the way </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">you three speak my mother tongue extremely poorly, </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">shame on you. Your pronunciations are all cockeyed and </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">your grammar is all screwed up. I wonder if you are worthy </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">to be on this planet any more.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">Sharifyar relished one more dream:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">In this dream he used to fantasize the presidents and prime </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">ministers of Unon, Bigland, Chinhut, and such advanced </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">countries and their cronies- the CEOs of gigantic sized </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">corporations and their financial advisors etc- working on </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">the shop floors of the factories of Seher. They were </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">engaged in carrying out some semiskilled or unskilled work </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">in the factories.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">They were being paid their wages as per the terms and </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">conditions of the outsourcing contracts laid out by these </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">countries. So they were getting wages that were some thirty </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">times less than the workers of the advanced countries and at </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">least twenty thousand times less than their own salaries </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 27.0565719604492px;">back home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">In his dream he used to fantasize that all of them were </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">literally starving to death, as they could not buy enough </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">food in their meager wages. In the final scene he used to </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">fantasize them dying of starvation. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">And before they were about to die he used to lecture to </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">them, “Don’t ever financially mess up with our people who </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">work as hard as you and your people do back home. Our </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">people soon would get ready for a renaissance and in doing </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">so would not spare those who had exploited them all these </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">donkey’s years.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Yet the whole planet was abuzz with wars of one kind or </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the other. Thousands of ordinary people in armed forces </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and ordinary citizens of great number of countries were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">getting killed to satisfy the whims and fancies of few </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">notoriously powerful goons legally and illegally holding </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">top positions of governments, corporations, and fanatic </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">groups. 1% was bossing over the rest 99%. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">One of the 99% was an ordinary worker of Universal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Chemicals in a small town of Lohab in a developing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">country called Nuplace. Nuplace is located in the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">neighborhood of the country Desh. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">This ordinary worker felt irrepressibly suppressed under the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">control of top management of Universal Chemicals. And </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">out of blue he emerged a leader of all the workers of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Universal Chemicals and also the residents of Lohab.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Ironically and sadly he was branded as the person </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">responsible for a war threatened by Unon on Nuplace. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Uttam was his name. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Uttam had lost his father and two brothers in the worst ever </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">gas leakage disaster of Universal Chemicals, Lohab.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Within a month of that fateful day Uttam addressed a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">gathering of all those who were affected by the Universal </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Chemicals, Lohab disaster. He narrated the grim picture of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the aftermath of the disaster at Universal Chemicals, Lohab </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to a massive gathering. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He said with his adrenaline pumping up, face reddened, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“It’s time we strengthen our solidarity. We must fight as a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">single community. We must fight the culprits whose greed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and xenophobic attitude have been the sole reason to kill or </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">permanently disable the current generation and the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">subsequent generations of hundreds of thousands of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">workers, their family members, their friends, and other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">citizens in our town of Lohab. It’s the worst gas leakage </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">tragedy our planet has seen till this day. The disaster has </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">killed more people than what a war does in modern times. I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">see this disaster as a war on us by the company.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">An attendee in the audience asked, “Sir, can you tell us </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">how many people were affected by the deadly poisonous </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">gas that leaked from the factory of Universal Chemicals?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Uttam replied, “For the past one month, immediately after </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the planet’s worst industrial tragedy, I along with other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">volunteers have been on the job of assessing the numbers. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Our study shows that the poisonous gas not only affected </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the shift workers but the gas made way to every nook and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">corner of our town. Over 700,000 persons were affected. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Around 10,000 people died due to direct attack of the gas </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">within a couple of days. Another 10,000 died of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">diseases caused by the gas.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Around 680,000 persons have been injured. These injuries </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">include partial as well as permanent injuries. The affected </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">ones include around 200,000 children and 55,000 pregnant </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">women. It is feared that the babies born to these women </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">would have serious abnormalities. These abnormalities may </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">even get passed on to next several generations. More than </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">10,000 cows, buffaloes, goats, and other animals died too. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The waters of the lakes and rivers got contaminated and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">fish cannot be consumed.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“We understand that the CEO of the company was here in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">our town when the disaster took place? I forget his name </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">but I do remember it’s somewhat weird,” one more inquiry </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">came from the gathering.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Hardnuts is the CEO’s name. He is normally stationed at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the company’s headquarters in Unon. He came here a few </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">days before the disaster took place. He was here to take </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">decisions on whether the plant should be stopped for a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">couple of months for a thorough maintenance. Our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">workers’ union has been demanding the shutdown. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">local top management had refused. So we escalated the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">matter to our head office in Unon. We emphasized the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">danger of possible gas leakage and its fatal effects in case </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the plant was allowed to run in its existing condition. We </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">gave a notice of a strike.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Is that the reason Hardnuts came running?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Yes. But he ruled out closing the factory for three months, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the time required for total overhaul and reconditioning of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the plant. He took this decision in consultation with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">local bosses despite knowing that the plant stood at the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">brink of a colossal accident. They argued the company </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">would lose a very significant share of business to its </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">competitors if the plant closed for three months.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“So why didn’t the workers go on strike?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Well, before they could go on strike, the accident took </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">place. As you know the CEO Hardnuts was in town. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">was sneakily driven away to a safe place and then allowed </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to fly back to his country under the instruction of Darpok our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">country’s president. We have proof to show that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Hardnuts transferred a huge sum of money in Darpok’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">private bank account for bestowing this favor.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“We heard that the company is refusing to pay the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">compensation to the affected people.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“They are willing to pay us only 6% of what we have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">claimed. Our incompetent and impotent government is sold </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">out to them. Our judiciary is also sold out. The court has </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">decreed 6%. The chief justice has been bribed by the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">company.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“We don’t accept it. We will have to fight it out. Uttam sir, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">we are with you.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The entire gathering chanted in chorus, “We are together in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">it. United we win. Let us fight it.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Uttam said, “We will fight it. We need to form a core group </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of persons who will work closely with me.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Instantly many persons of the gathering volunteered </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">enthusiastically. Uttam enlisted ten of them immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He told them, “I’m thankful for your overwhelming </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">response. I look forward to work with all of you closely.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Then as a group they negotiated with the local </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">management, the head office as well as the governmental </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">bigwigs of both the countries. The result was a big naught.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The group appealed to the president of Unon. The president </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Korruptkin refused to entertain them. He declared, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Hardnuts and his company are in the clear. They are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">absolutely innocent. Company’s local management, the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">workers, and the government of Nuplace are responsible </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">for the disaster. We have an insider information claiming </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">that it was an act of sabotage by Lohab workers.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">A few days passed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Then a news item flashed repeatedly on the television </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">screens stunned the whole planet one day. The news was:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“The two factories of Universal Chemicals, a prestigious </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">multinational company of the powerful nation Unon were </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">totally demolished due to several powerful blasts inside the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">premises of the factories.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Two bombs were thrown also at the company’s head </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">quarters and the building has collapsed. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Hundreds of workers and managers present in the factories </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and head office are feared dead.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The reasons for the utterly shocking incident are yet not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">known. Prima facie it seems to be an act of a deplorable </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">sabotage. The political pundits see a connection between </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">this and the Lohab gas leakage tragedy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Korruptkin- the powerful president of the powerful nation </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of Unon- feels terribly humiliated. And now the latest </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">update- he declared to bring to justice the culprits </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">responsible for the heinous act.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">That evening Korruptkin addressed his countrymen. “Our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">intelligence informs us that a group of ex-workers of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Universal Chemicals plant of Lohab in the underdeveloped </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">country of Nuplace are behind the blasts. We requested </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Nuplace’s president Darpok to cooperate with us in pinning </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">down the culprits. But the president refuses to cooperate for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">fear of getting dethroned by the people of his country in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">case he helps us. We have been humiliated in front of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">entire humanity of the planet by Nuplace and its people. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The culprits should be brought to justice. I am declaring a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">war on them. I need your understanding and pride.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Thus another war was about to take place now on planet </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Berth with a potential of killing large numbers of people </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">belonging to the 99% community.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">On very next day of declaration of war by Korruptkin, a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">few more incidents of blasts in three factories and offices of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">a corporation in another country were reported by the press. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">It was reported that the blasts killed a large number of their </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">workers and managers. The country was another powerful </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">country Bigland.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">A self-proclaimed group called “Fighter Revolutionaries of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Economic Exploitation (FREE)” took responsibility of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">blasts. It released an audio recording concerning the blasts </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">in Unon and Bigland. The content of the audio was:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“The developed nations are exploiting the workers of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">developing and underdeveloped nations. They pay us </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">meager wages as compared to what they might have to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">shell out if they had to manufacture the goods in their own </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">countries by their own people. We do not receive any </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">medical benefits and many other facilities specified by the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">industrial laws. Also the companies do not provide safe </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">working conditions and no compensation is provided to the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">victims of accidents taking place in the plants. We have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">suffered enough. Now we are out to teach them a lesson for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">being smart. Be ready to face more of such punishments in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">many more countries whose corporate sector is sucking our </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">blood by throwing peanuts at us.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Governments of Unon and Bigland published a list of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">suspects. Uttam of Nuplace- the activist of Lohab gas </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">leakage disaster- topped the list of suspects. But by now </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Uttam had disappeared in thin air. No one knew his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">whereabouts. Search teams of Unon and Bigland could not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">locate him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The historic meeting took place on January 31 in Desh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The participants were Amar, Victor, Adarsh, and Shakti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soon after Shakti delivered the keynote address in the <span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">global conference Victor met him. Then together they </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">proceeded toward the shack from where Victor had spoken </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">with him a couple of weeks ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The vacation in his hometown at Desh rejuvenated Adarsh. </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He enthusiastically looked forward to meet Amar. While he </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">was thinking of Amar, the doorbell rang. He went running </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to the main door of his house, opened it and screamed with </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">joy, “Hey Amar!” They hugged each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">On January 31, in the dead of night the two motorbikes </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">were approaching the shack in the night at 400 kilometers </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">an hour. The atmosphere was quite eerie. It was a dark </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">night with no moon in the sky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Adarsh broke the silence by saying, “It’s rare to see such a </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">dense jungle anywhere else, mighty frightening though. </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The silence all around is making it still scary.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Add to it the chirping of millions of crickets literally </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">tearing the silence. You can hear them over the muffled </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">noise of the bike,” said Amar. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Won’t take more than ten more minutes. I’m thankful for <span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">your patience and agreeing with my request of not probing </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">till we reach the shack.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Victor’s bike was trailing Amar’s. Victor also informed his </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">pillion rider, “Shakti, just ten more minutes and we will </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">reach the shack, our meeting spot.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“You haven’t revealed anything about the purpose of our </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">meeting so far, neither I asked you. But I am getting a bit </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">impatient now having reached such a godforsaken place,” </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Shakti said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Please bear with me for ten more minutes. I’m thankful to </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">you for not probing till now,” Victor pleaded.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“I went by your request to wait till we reach the destination. </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Also kindly introduce me to Amar and Adarsh on reaching </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">there.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">After some ten minutes the four of them settled in the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">shack. Shack displayed some communication equipment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The shack didn’t have any furniture. A faded carpet was the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">only furnishing. They sat on it. Amar poured out the hot </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">coffee from a thermos in four mugs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Amar started the meeting. He presented the worsening state </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of affairs of planet Berth. He said, “Our planet is on the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">brink of irreversible disturbances that would ruin our social </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and human fabric soon. The disturbances are the creation of </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">few individuals belonging to governments of a few nations </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and few fanatic organizations. These individuals hold very </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">important positions and are misusing their positions to </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">fulfill their personal agendas. These are all megalomaniacs </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and they are exploiting the armed personnel and the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">civilians to fulfill their personal ambitions under the garb of </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">patriotism or nationalism or religion. This kind of false </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">patriotism or nationalism or religiousness obviously </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">undermines the concept and spirit of humanity or </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">humanism. The objective of this meeting is to brainstorm to </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">identify such individuals and devise the strategies to stop </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">this nonsense permanently. Now let us start thinking on the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">matter loudly.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Amar looked in the direction of Adarsh and Shakti. They </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">spoke almost at the same time. The essence of what they </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">spoke was, “That’s a pretty decent sketch of the current </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">scenario. We concur with the objectives. We will be happy </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to contribute toward the noble cause.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Victor made a point, “Do you all agree that it’s the top few </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">who need to stop playing smart? As we know the rest of the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">people are compelled to follow their whims and fancies. A </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">few who rebel get crushed right in the beginning.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“I think it’s the corrupt and ruthless rulers who are found in </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">different avatars- heads of the states and their cronies, </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">politicians, kingmakers, power brokers, lobbyists, </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">bureaucrats, corporate honchos, media chiefs, military </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">chiefs, and judiciary,” Shakti spoke elaborating Victor’s </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">point. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Our first job will be to identify and single out all such </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">people. We must then start tracking their thoughts and </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">communication patterns. We must also track their strategies </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and plans. We must know the timelines of their past, </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">present, and future actions. This will give us the valued </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">knowledge needed to thwart their evil actions,” Adarsh </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">suggested.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“How do you propose to use these two devices you have?” </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Adarsh asked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Amar replied, “Ask Victor. He will tell you. I’m a great </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">hacker. I’m already halfway through my hacking project. I </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">will soon hack the rest 96 instruments. I will carry out the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">test run on your device Adarsh. You are an exceptional </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">owner of such an extraordinary gizmo; we’re lucky in that. </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Only extremely powerful persons of Berth possess these </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">devices, you seem to be one of them.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Oh, don’t kid me. But tell me what will you do by </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">hacking?” Shakti inquired.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“By using our two gadgets we will be in a position to track </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">all the incoming and outgoing communication from these </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">96 gadgets. Not only that I may be in a position to retrieve </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">all the communication that took place during last few </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">months, may be say, one year or even more.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Can’t believe you can do it,” Shakti exclaimed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Victor intervened, “Amar is capable of cracking it. I know </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">his genius. I’ll tell that story sometime later. So the first </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">point sorted, let us move ahead.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Adarsh wished to say something. So he raised his hand. </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">When others gestured in affirmation he put in his ideas, “I </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">think all the four of us need to train ourselves physically. </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">This entire project will not only need our cerebral efforts </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">but also our physical efforts. Our bodies must match our </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">brains.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“How do you suggest we do it?” Amar pushed his question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“I am quite friendly with a gym owner in Bigland. He can </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">organize a crash course for us in a private setting. He has </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">one or two excellent trainers. From my personal experience </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">I can say a week’s coaching should be more than adequate. </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Being a personal bodyguard of the president I’ve to train </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">myself quite frequently, so I know a bit about this game.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Excellent, another important thing taken care of. One </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">week is what we can afford. For sure shot results we need </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to wrap up the first and the biggest phase of our entire </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">mission within three months from now,” Victor announced</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“We will need very efficient means of transportation. Am I </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">right?” Shakti asked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Victor replied, “Yes, you are right. We have those two </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">bikes. You have already seen their performance.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“I was floored by the ride.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“We will augment these bikes with one roughshod 4X4 </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">jeep equipped with all kinds of thingamabobs. Let me boast </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">by telling you that I’m an ultimate marine, aeronautical, </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and automobile engineer rolled into one. I have plans of </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">making the jeep fly in air and sail in high seas. I will also </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">make it run, sail, and fly without any need of a human </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">driver; it will be self-driving vehicle, first driverless vehicle </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of its kind. However we have yet to acquire the jeep.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Shakti took initiative. He mentioned, “Prime minister </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun had one such jeep. In the past he used it for </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">inspecting the ceremonial parades of his army. Lately he </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">replaced it by a highly priced glitzy car. He got fed up with </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the jeep when once it’s engine stalled for a few seconds </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">while he was on one of his inspection rounds. The jeep was </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">auctioned and a local garage bought it cheaply. We can buy </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">it from the garage. I will organize the whole thing.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Thanks Shakti,” Amar said. Victor also gave a nod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Adarsh topped up the coffee. He also opened a new packet </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of roasted and salted peanuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Shakti spoke again, “If you guys agree I will like to be our </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">team’s analyst. Being a professor of economics, I have a </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">flair for analyzing data and information. Then I can </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">interpret them, decipher the patterns, and draw out the </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">inferences. Their accuracy will be of utmost importance for </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">us in this critical time bound mission. We cannot afford to </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">go wrong or waste our time in trial and error.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Amar spoke out, “Friends, we have to cover two most </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">dangerous rogues- the kingpins of all the wars- very closely </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">on all time basis. One is president Gushnell of Bigland and </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the other is prime minister Zintun of Chinhut. I propose </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Shakti to take care of Zintun and Adarsh to take care of </span><span style="line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Gushnell.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun, now the prime minister of Chinhut was known as </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the ruthless expansionist among the 1% club as well as the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">99% club. They also recognized him as cruelty personified. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">So they were in his awe during most of their waking hours. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun’s childhood was the reason for him to become what </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">he became. Till he entered his adulthood, he lived in a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">small town in one of its shanties. He was always looked </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">down upon and shunned by the kids and elders of the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">adjoining prosperous neighborhood. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun hated being confined to his 8 by 10 square feet </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">house.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“I want the whole world for myself. I feel suffocated here,” </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">he used to cry out alone. His mind was constantly busy </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">contemplating to achieve this singular ambition. Though he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">never went to any school, he learnt to read with his own </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">efforts. Soon he became voracious reader. His favorite </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">topics included how to become rich, powerful, and famous. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">As he neared his adolescence, clarity suddenly dawned on </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">him. It was his ‘eureka’ moment. He cried out in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">excitement, “Politics!! Only politics can make me rich, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">powerful, and famous quite easily and with certainty.” So </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">he decided to seriously pursue politics as his long-term </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">career.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Soon he started training himself and developed a strong </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">physique. He started hooliganism. He became extortionist. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He recruited vagabond boys of the nearby shanties. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">boys were allotted the territories where they would extract </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">money from the citizens as protection money. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">controlled the gangs ruthlessly. He threw money at the boys </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">whenever they accomplished some tasks for him. He was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">very cruel to those who did not obey him. Sometimes he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">would kill a small offender just to make an example of him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Also if citizens denied paying the protection money he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">would see to it that the entire family was wiped out </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">somehow or other. People were so terrorized that no one </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">dared to give evidence against him. Everyone was very </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">scared of him. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He soon became an undisputed leader.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Now let us go to the shanties of other towns and get more </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">followership. This country has too many poor people and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">we must look after them,” he instructed the boys.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Boys were in his awe and obeyed him truthfully. They used </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to exchange their sentiments with each other, “Big boss has </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">ordered. Better obey him or else be prepared to loose one of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">your limbs or die.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The rich neighborhood also conceded to him after he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">forcefully occupied a huge bungalow. The bungalow was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">forlorn because its solitary owner had died with no one to </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">claim it after his death.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“From now on this bungalow is going to be my home,” </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun promulgated. No one had the guts to defy him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun achieved his first milestone.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">A new idea entered his mind one day while he was </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">absorbed reading a book in geography.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“This seems to be a beautiful island and very close to </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Chinhut. I like its 175 square miles area surrounded by the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">blue seawaters and the green plantations. I want it. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">tribal families living there seem to be simple people devoid </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of any knowledge about the rest of the world. They do not </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">have any modern weapons and conquering them will be an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">easy bet.” He toyed with the idea of owning the island.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">By now he had great many followers far and wide in his </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">country. He used some of his loyal followers to form his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">own personal army. He bought the latest weapons for his </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">personal army.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He spoke with chief of his personal army showing a picture </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of the island, “From a week from now invade this island. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Capturing the island will be a walkover. Just about 200 odd </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">men with their families inhabit the island. Those who </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">oppose don’t deserve our mercy. Finish them. We will use </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the survivors as workers in our various projects there. You </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">guys will be rewarded sumptuously as always. Now don’t </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">show me your face without conquering the island.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Yes sir. As you wish.” The chief had no option.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun arranged a live worldwide telecast of the victorious </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">celebrations a week later. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The breaking news flashed on millions of TV screens in all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the countries of Berth. It said:</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Zintun, the most revered politician of the developing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">country Chinhut has acquired an island admeasuring 175 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">square miles located in the sea north-west of the country. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Though it is his personal property he has generously </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">dedicated it to the people of his country. He plans to have </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">several projects there. This will generate significant </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">revenue and employment opportunities to several thousand </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">citizens of Chinhut.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Chapter 6</span></b></div>
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Chinhut is Desh’s neighboring country in the Western <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">hemisphere of Berth. Both the countries were paupers for </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">donkey’s years. But now they were thought to be doing </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">pretty well for the past decade or so. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Both the countries followed socialistic idealism. Desh </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">followed it under the garb of pseudo-democracy and </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Chinhut under the garb of one party rule (kind of group </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">dictatorship- a group of few people at the helm of the </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">affairs dictating their whims and fancies). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">This socialistic idealism had created in Desh and Chinhut </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">about 1% super rich leaving the rest 99% only marginally </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">better and in some cases poorer than what they were before. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">GDP and per capita income figures often painted an </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">erroneously rosy picture as if everyone was earning a very </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">decent living. But it was not true most of the times for most </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of the countries. The story even in the countries where </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">capitalism or monarchy was prevailing was no different. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun, the prime minister of Chinhut belonged to the 1% </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">club. He was on an official visit to Desh. He was in a </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">private conference with Desh’s prime minister Lobhilal. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The conference room was soundproof with the tightest </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">security ever possible.</span></div>
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“Mr Lobhilal, unless you give me your company <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">wholeheartedly I cannot continue this meeting,” Zintun </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">took couple of sips of his whiskey.</span><br />
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“No. You aren’t. You are not drinking whiskey. You are <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">holding a glass of that rotten fruit juice in your hand. That’s </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">no company.”</span><br />
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“In our country drinking is considered an evil. My political <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">career will be ruined if people see me drinking. But to tell </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">you the truth right now I am drinking a cocktail of whiskey, </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">brandy, and juice and that is stronger than your drink. Our </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">public believes that I am a teetotaler.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“That’s really smart. Now I know I am dealing with a </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">seasoned politician.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“Thanks for the compliments. They say everything is fair in </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">love, politics, and war. I am just religiously following this </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">important principle. Can we now proceed with our </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">meeting?” Lobhilal suggested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">“First and foremost don’t get startled by what I am going to </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">say next. I am not used to beating around the bush. Honesty </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">is my best policy. So let me tell you upfront. I have decided </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to invade your country soon,” Said Zintun.</span></div>
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Before he could utter another word, Lobhilal cut him short <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">by saying, “Sir, I’m still not drunk. I can’t accept it. I’m </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">already mighty upset with your army infiltrating into our </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">land every now and then. But our soldiers on the border </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">post are far superior to yours. As soon as your army </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">surreptitiously tries to occupy a piece of our land our </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">soldiers block them and your army retracts.”</span><br />
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Zintun spoke quite firmly, “Well, that land does not belong <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to your country. Our records show it is ours. Your country </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">wrongly grabbed it and we want it back. Now the war will </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">decide its fate. But I do agree that your army is definitely </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">superior to ours, perhaps the strongest army in the world. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">But I have a strategy up my sleeves to diffuse your army’s </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">involvement in the war I am proposing.”</span><br />
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Lobhilal threw up a rejoinder. “No. The war at this time is <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">just not acceptable to me; it’s out of question. You can’t do </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">that to me. I am not ready to fight another war while we are </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">already engaged in one war on our other border. You may </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">be aware that our entire army is already busy fighting a </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">ferocious war on our other border. You know who our </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">enemy is on that side- that country Pashan and its prime </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">minister Hayan backed by Bigland and its president </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Gushnell. We cannot let that country Pashan win the war. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Our people are highly emotional about it. I will lose my job </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and my political career will be ruined if I let that country </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">win the war. Winning the war against that country is a </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">matter of pride, a matter of life and death for us. Now if </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">you threaten me with another war, I am in no position to </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">divert my armed personnel to fight another war on your </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">border.”</span></div>
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Zintun heard Lobhilal quite patiently. Then he said, “My <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">intelligence agencies tell me that the border area that we </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">wish to include in our territory does not arouse many </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">positive emotions in your people. The land is barren, not </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">fertile. The region is fraught with water scarcity. No </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">economic development, no jobs. So understandably the </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">general sentiment toward it is one of indifference among </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">your public. I’m very sure of that.”</span><br />
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“I too agree with your assessment,” Lobhilal said. <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun continued, “Also, I know your compulsions about </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the need to continue deployment of your entire army on the </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">other border. The people of your country and the opposition </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">leaders of you parliament also concur with this view. And </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">so they will condone your losing a piece of land in another </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">simultaneous war at our border. Anyways the piece of land </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">we want to grab is of no interest to your public and </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">politicians. That’s why I am submitting this fine proposal </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">for your consideration.”</span><br />
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Zintun paused for a long time before he spoke again, <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He said, “Look here I’m making my proposal to you in a </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">very gentlemanly way as of now. I am just politely telling </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">that I will invade your country from this border area while </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">your army is busy in another war. You know my reputation. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">I’m not the one to make ordinary proposals.”</span><br />
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Lobhilal listened to Zintun very carefully. But he was not <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">able to understand Zintun’s proposal in its completeness. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He felt quite confused. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Therefore Lobhilal took one big sip of his strong cocktail. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">He was nervous. He said, “Yes I am aware of your </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">reputation. After all you have proved be the shrewdest </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">politician of our times. In fact to tell you the truth you are </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">my real guru. So I know you can’t make a proposal without </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">some deep meaning in it. I am willing to listen to your </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">proposal but I cannot commit anything right now. So tell</span></div>
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“I have some real grand plans for you. You will be one of <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the main beneficiaries of it. This disputed land on the </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">northern border of your country about which we are </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">discussing is a literal goldmine. It’s pity that none of our </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">countries are utilizing it justifiably. It’s a big chunk of land </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">in a scenic setup with excellent yearlong climatic </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">conditions though suffers somewhat from water scarcity. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Now I have decided to put it to some good use.”</span><br />
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“So are you seriously thinking of grabbing it?” Lobhilal <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">became quite tipsy by now.</span><br />
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Zintun confirmed, “Yes, definitely. That would make me <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">look like a messiah of my people. That image is very </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">important for me. You are aware of my country’s </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">population. We don’t have enough land to accommodate all </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">of them. With this acquisition, I will be seen as providing </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">additional space for our people. My people will admire me </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">still more if I earn this extra piece of land in an aggressive </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">manner, by way of a war. That’s why the drama of the war </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">is essential.” </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Zintun had the capacity of holding alcohol without easily </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">getting drunk. He was in his senses while unfolding his </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">thoughts.</span><br />
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“How about me? I will look like a fool to my countrymena <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">loser,” Lobhilal inquired.</span><br />
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Zintun replied, “No, I will take all the blame. My army will <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">do the stealthy encroachment. The world knows about this </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">habit of mine. You and your army will be taken by surprise. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">You told me earlier it is far more important for your army </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to fight your other enemy because your people hate that </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">enemy country more than us. So we know fully well that </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the leaders of opposition in your parliament and public at </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">large will support you in your decision of concentrating </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">there. So your army will surrender to our army; you would </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">have given such instructions to your army chief. Plus not </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">many civilians live on that land. Whatever their number </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">they will be killed in this war.”</span><br />
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Lobhilal still had one doubt in his mind. He asked, “But <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">why do you think my army chief will listen to me? He is </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">the strongest army chief my country has ever produced. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">Also he has built up a very strong army under him. And he </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">knows about it. Frankly he is quite capable of combating </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">two wars at a time with his existing army personnel and </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">their arsenal. He is even capable of defeating your army if </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">you go ahead with your proposed war on us. However </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">everything depends upon his wishes. He is a very strong </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">headed man.”</span><br />
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Zintun replied, “But I tell you your army chief will accept <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">not to strike back. Every mortal can be bought if the price </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">offered is tempting. My intelligence has researched him </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">thoroughly. They tell me he is corrupt to the core. He </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">makes tons of dough for himself in the purchase deals of </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">armaments. So I’m offering him spoils that he cannot </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">refuse. He will be the second highest beneficiary after you </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">from the projects I have in mind for this land. The money </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">that he makes through purchases of arms is pittance as </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">compared to what he will get from me. For the next several </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">generations you and your army chief and your families will </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">bathe in diamonds and gold.”</span><br />
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Lobhilal poured more whiskey for Zintun and self. He <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">smiled and then spoke out drunkenly, “Now it has started </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">making some sense to me. It’s like game fixing or match </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">fixing that is quite common these days in cricket, soccer, </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">and other money spinning games. Isn’t it? So, OK, tell me </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">what kind of projects you have in mind? Let me ask you </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">unashamedly- how much will be my army chief’s and my </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">share?”</span><br />
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Zintun assessed that he had pocketed Lobhilal. He <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">explained in a relaxed way, “We will create a highland </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">called Zintun highland on the property we grab from your </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">country. To take care of its water scarcity problem we will </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">divert water there from our flooding rivers. Zintun highland </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">will cater to every conceivable requirement of a loaded </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">tourist. It will have casinos, luxury hotels, classic </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">restaurants, megaplexes, nightclubs, cabarets, bars, world’s </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">top-notch entertainers, girls, massage parlors, and what </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">have you. You and your army chief will have substantial </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">shares in all of these. He gave the numbers. Of course I will </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">hold the highest shares.”</span><br />
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“Brilliant! When will you strike?” Lobhilal blurted out. He <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">couldn’t contain his exhilaration after he saw the numbers.</span><br />
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“Very soon. Don’t worry,” said Zintun. “Keep your army <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">chief ready for a brilliant fake performance, what you </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">mentioned earlier- yes, the match fixing. After the war is </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">over, don’t forget to declare the dead soldiers of your army </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">as true martyrs and reward them with the highest colors </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">posthumously. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">That kind of thing doesn’t cost anything. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">But it is of the greatest importance to stir the right emotions </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">among the public.”</span><br />
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Then Zintun and Lobhilal had many more rounds of some <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">real strong drinks. It was time to celebrate. They raised a </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">toast to their newfound friendship. A lavish dinner </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">followed. </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">The meeting ended with a colorful cabaret. Zintun liked it.</span></div>
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“Zintun, the prime minister of Chinhut and Lobhilal, the <span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">prime minister of Desh discussed a range of issues of </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">mutual interest that would expand and deepen the strategic </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">partnership between the two nations. They discussed ways </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">to accelerate the economy to bring short-term and longterm </span><span style="font-size: 14.5200004577637px; line-height: 21.7800006866455px;">benefits to both countries and the world at large.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
conspiracy was brewing in the private office of Maramar, the king of Seher, a
country centrally located on planet Berth. He was also the richest guy of the
entire planet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
office where the conspiracy was brewing was the home office of the king Maramar.
It was secretly positioned in his mansion in his home country Seher. The
mansion was famous for its 500 odd rooms with some 400,000 square feet of
living area. Most of the rooms were furnished with gilded furniture and
artifacts. The land around it admeasured more than 10,000 acres. State of the
art security system ensured that not even an ant could trespass the property. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maramar
owned many similar properties in several countries of Berth. He had invested
heavily in almost every big company of the developed countries like Desh, Chinhut,
Bigland, and Unon. In short he was stinking rich and other rich guys of the
planet could not digest this fact. They were highly jealous of his riches and
also his resultant popularity in high society. Many of them were busy scheming
ways and means by which they could unseat him from his number one position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Pump
in money in BL Oil Limited. Bring up my shareholding in this company to at
least 51%. Kirchoff is acting funny. He is planning to throw me out from the
company’s board. But with 51% shareholding I will throw him. And I know a lot
of scams in which he is involved. I will soon make sure he is behind the bars,”
Maramar spoke out angrily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
sir, you were the one who proposed him for CEO’s position and requested the
board to allot him a big chunk of company’s shares.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes.
That made him almost the second richest person. And now he is becoming too big
for his boots. He has the backing of no less than the president Gushnell.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
sir, the president is your friend.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“He
was. But lately he has been acting funny. He extorts from me a big chunk of
money. The money goes directly into his personal kitty. This extortion is in reciprocation
of the favors extended by him to me. As you know he has allowed the import of
oil for BL Oil Limited and many other oil companies of his country from our
country. With every barrel exported I also become richer. For each barrel, I
get my cut from our country’s exporters.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
sir that arrangement, I understand, still continues.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“No,
over the last few months Gushnell has become far more greedy and ambitious. His
presidency term is about to come to an end. Before that he wants to amass as
much wealth as possible and become the richest person on Berth. So he is asking
me to bribe him 30% more. If I fall in his trap what is left in this business
for me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“And
sir he is already making too much money from a recent movie directed by his
wife. His wife Helen had stopped her association with the movie business after
her husband was elected the president of Bigland. People of Bigland do not like
their president’s wife dealing in movies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maramar
nodded. By his gestures he encouraged the other person in the conversation to
give him further details.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
other person said, “But lately she resumed her work in the movies in
retaliation to her husband’s dirty acts with his personal secretary. You already
know about the amorous relationship of the president with his own lady
secretary. That scandal rocked the entire planet, we all know about it. A movie
was recently made around the scandal and it became the biggest hit of all
times. As I just told you the movie is
based on the scandal and none other than president’s wife directed it
personally. Who else must know the details of the scandal better than her?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Have
you seen the movie?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes.
I saw the movie recently. The love scenes between the characters resembling
quite like the president and his secretary are the highlights of the movie. The
scenes are fantastically titillating. May I recommend this movie to you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Now
since you are praising it so much I must see it soon. I missed seeing the video
clip that was in limited circulation for a very limited period of time
immediately after the scandal took place. I was told the dirty act was recorded
live on the closed circuit television in president’s own mansion. At least I
must see the movie.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I
have a smuggled DVD. I will share it with you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I
will have to watch it stealthily but don’t tell my wife. She is a jealous type.
She already casts doubts on my character too. But you are straying me away from
the main topic of our conversation that got interrupted as this more
interesting topic crept in.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Sir,
you were telling about the president demanding more.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes.
But I have pointblank refused to toe the line. So he became very angry. He
threatened me with his plan of declaring a war on Seher under a false pretext
that I have been exploiting my people over past thirty years, torturing them, even
killing them, and my people don’t want to see me as their king. Therefore his
country should intervene to uphold their human rights. Bigland has an irritating
habit of intervening in the affairs of other countries with some ulterior
motives. In our case, the fact is, Gushnell has his eyes on our oil wells. If
he defeats us in war, he can do anything under the name of rebuilding Seher as
his country’s post war activity. Ultimately he and his family will personally
benefit from it under the garb of his country Bigland helping out
reconstruction of Seher after its possible devastation from the war.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
how can you lose the war? You have a very strong army and you have full
civilian support from the entire population of Seher.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You
are not aware of the latest development. A few opportunists and fanatically
religious officers of my army abhor my somewhat non-religious indulgences. Lately
they have been openly showing their rebellious attitude toward me. They dare do
so mainly because of the instigations from Gushnell. So they are misleading a
significant portion of our people to go against me. I’m going to deal with
these rebels soon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maramar
paused for a while. He brooded over what to say next. Then he continued, “They
say that I do not follow our religion properly and I am exploiting the people.
My family and I are getting rich but the people of Seher are becoming poor and
poorer. And so these fanatical army officers backed by a very large chunk of
population of our country are now against me. They are planning a coup.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maramar
took a deep sigh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I
can’t believe. You have ruled them for over 30 years and they have always
behaved as your obedient servants all these years. What happened suddenly that
they are showing the audacity to go against you? Is it a part of any conspiracy
masterminded by any external agency?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“As
I told you my strong guess is Gushnell is behind all this. He would strike just
around the time our army and the civilian population stage the coup. He is
supporting these fanatics led by a few army officers who are basically
opportunists and have nothing to do with religion. They ultimately want power. Gushnell
must have agreed to throw some spoils and goodies at them. I guess they will
form a government after my ouster, a government that will remain subservient to
Gushnell. But I can safely profess that will be his funeral, going from frying
pan to fire. These opportunistic snakes will finally bite Gushnell. ”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nobody
spoke for a while before the conversation resumed. The atmosphere of the room
had become pretty tense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
sir, right now you are in a real difficult situation. You must get out of it as
soon as possible. We can consider other developments later on.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You
are saying I am in real difficult situation? Not me alone dear, you too. You
too will drown in case I drown. That’s why move fast. As a part of my strategy
to counter Gushnell’s evil plans of war on us, first buy 51% shares of BL Oil
Limited and throw out that silly CEO Kirchoff. That will shake up his mentor
Gushnell. Gushnell makes tons of money from BL Oil Limited. He uses Kirchoff
for the purpose. With Kirchoff gone from the company Gushnell will feel cheesed
off and his attention will be diverted for a while. He will inadvertently
postpone his intention of waging a war on us. That gives me sufficient time to
plan out a strategy for a counteroffensive.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
Bigland is a very tough enemy. They have the latest and the best warfare
gadgets. The war will result in huge casualties of armed forces and civilians
of our country.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Oh,
everything is fair in love and war. Don’t become so sentimental. You are my
closest confidant and I guarantee you would become one of the richest persons of
our planet very soon. Just keep following my designs. I have already made you
my chief financial and war strategist at a salary that is envy of many of your
colleagues.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
chief financial and war strategist to king Maramar felt momentarily enamored by
this assurance. Maramar had bestowed this weighty title to him to only use him
as his sounding board and to get all the dirty things done. And in reality the
strategist was not supposed to strategize anything. Only Maramar did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet
Maramar used to like his so called strategist for his analytical abilities and
for eliciting the right questions out of him. This helped Maramar to finalize
his strategies and plans in a better way.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Leave
it to me sir. Just like the old times you need not have to bother anymore even
now. I will proceed with your designs,” he uttered mechanically, he had no
choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
the namesake chief financial and war strategist of king Maramar stepped out of
the king’s mansion and sat in his car protected by extremely high level of
security bandobast he felt ashamed of himself. But this wasn’t the first time
he felt so low and ashamed. He had been getting this feeling of shame and low
self-worth every time he came out of meetings with King Maramar. He detested it
every time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
introspected and thought, “I’ve been reduced to lower than a domestic servant
of Maramar with zero self-worth. The king is using me as a mere messenger boy. I
simply pass on particularly his unpleasant and cruel diktats to various
officials of Seher for implementation. And all of them believe that I am a
party to such unpleasant and cruel decisions. These officials then carry out
all kinds of atrocities on Seher’s public under Maramar’s directions released
through me. Many times these atrocities have included very harsh and
unjustifiable punishments and tortures including death sentences to the people
of Seher. These officials often convey
to the people that I was a party to those decisions. Now I cannot bear the
burden of so many brutalities and murders on my head. I’m not worthy of living.
I wish I could free myself from the clutches of Maramar- but that seems so
difficult. Maramar will never release me alive from this job, as I know so many
of his secrets. It’s shame on me that I have become his slave to carry out all
his dirty work.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Zahin’s
eyes became moist with tears. He felt frustrated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Zahin,
the chief financial and war strategist of the king, was none other than the brilliant
person who once topped his class of master of business administration course of
the most prestigious business school of Bigland. He broke all the previous
records of academic excellence. His name still shone on the wall of fame of the
institute. He was also a person filled with lofty ideals. It had made his
parents and family members bask in pride. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
had been working in Maramar’s secretariat for seven years now. But despite
working for a crook of the order of Maramar, his sensibilities always pricked
him whenever he handled any dirty job for Maramar. His conscientiousness still
remained intact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shyam Bhatawdekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07461455000937083816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513654095587658878.post-45520727003754153832015-04-29T05:27:00.000-07:002020-06-16T01:06:37.132-07:00The Peace Crusaders: Chapter 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 25: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Chapter 4</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Victor
was aiming to recruit someone who had spent a good amount of time in Chinhut
and knew that country and its ways of working. He had shortlisted three
persons. One name seemed quite familiar. The name was Shakti. He looked at it
again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Victor
thought, “Could he be the same person who shared my room during my post
graduation days? He was quite fascinated by this country Chinhut because of its
huge population and its dire poverty. He used to think in terms of settling
there and helping its people.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Deep
in thoughts he punched the numbers on his cell phone. The bell on the other
side kept ringing. He tried again after some ten minutes with no luck. He
paused for a few minutes and rang again saying to self, “This is the last time
to this so called Shakti. I will turn to other two guys if Shakti doesn’t
respond this time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
he heard a voice. “Shakti here. Whosoever is calling me deserves my apology. I
couldn’t have answered your call since I was in a session with my students of
my advanced economics course.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I
understand. Let me hurriedly tell you I am Victor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Victor,
who?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I’m
calling from Desh. Are you the same Shakti who shared my room during our
post-grad time?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hey
you dude! What the hell you are up to by telephoning me after so many years?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Shakti,
you won’t believe how relieved I am now after knowing that you are my old
roommate. How long you have been in Chinhut?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“It’s
almost more than a decade. I have seen this country’s metamorphosis from very
close quarters.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
now it’s almost the second or may be the third most powerful country on planet
Berth and the most powerful in Western side of the planet where it’s mainland
is located.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You
are right in that expression of yours. Lately it has occupied literally so much
of extra land in many developing and even the developed countries particularly
in central and southern parts of the planet. So you need to call the original
boundaries of Chinhut its main land.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Tell
me briefly how all this whole metamorphosis took place?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Once
a very poor nation it became powerful in just a decade’s time. The reason? It
had more than 30% population of the entire planet. Corporate giants of all the
developed countries saw a huge potential of making money there. It was an exceptionally
huge base of consumers provided the consumers could be made capable of buying.
So they invested heavily in Chinhut.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Was
it easy for them to invest? No bureaucracy? The hanky-panky dealings?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Of
course all the deals were rife with hanky-panky things of the worst caliber.
You can’t think of such corporate deals in any country and more so in a country
like Chinhut without collusion with the country’s governmental bigwigs. They
grabbed bribes of gigantic proportions from the potential investors. The hungry
dogs and worst opportunists.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The
new investments must have had an impact on employment and economy?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes.
So with these investments new ventures came up and a significant percentage of people
got employment. Also the new investors introduced the concept of buying on loan
or borrowings so far unknown to the normal public of Chinhut. So soon the
public acquired natural as well as an artificially created purchasing power and
they started buying helter-skelter. The insane buying fuelled up the
artificially created economy. In turn the corporate investors of Chinhut, foreign
investors, country’s politicians, and their cronies had a field day.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“How
did Chinhut expand its wings in the other countries? Its people are everywhere
and they have acquired so much of land in all kinds of countries.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“With
the riches created, it was now Chinhut’s turn to invest in the developing
countries. But the politicians and the rich guys of Chinhut were far smarter
than the investors of the other developed countries. Not only did they invest,
they also exported their manpower to the countries where they made the
investments. Chinhut had a big problem of having extraordinarily large
population with very limited land to accommodate them and to produce enough
food for them. The solution lied in throwing out as many from the country as
possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“But
I’m sure the people who were exported must have been from the lower strata of
the society?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes.
Absolutely. They threw out from the country as many unskilled, semiskilled, and
low earning people as possible. They did depute a few high ranking individuals
also but their deputation was temporary in nature. Their main job was to
strictly control the displaced people of the lower rung to stop them from cribbing
and complaining. Their other job was to expand the businesses further as an
extension of Chinhut’s expansionist mentality.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Smart
move!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Really
smart! This gave Chinhut an opportunity to have its people placed in every nook
and corner of the planet. The politicians and the power brokers here think that
this strategy could also be politically useful for them in the future.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Ours
was not a general conversation Shakti. It was to confirm my knowledge about Chinhut
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“OK.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Shakti,
I need your help. I know you to be a man of objectivity and very high
principles. Here in Desh we are trying to form a small group of likeminded
people who hold high values and who will be willing to contribute toward welfare
of our entire planet. Can you make to Desh in next couple of weeks so that we
can discuss this matter further in more details?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“In
fact I have been invited to deliver the keynote address next month in a global
conference being held in Desh. I can meet with you then.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Thanks
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 25: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">On the planet Berth, some serious actions started in utter secrecy from two dilapidated but inconspicuous shacks simultaneously outside of two villages in Desh- a moderately developed country located in the western hemisphere of Berth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Though a fairly developed country, a few locales on it had still remained totally unexplored and underdeveloped. The deep interiors of some of its countryside presented a forlorn scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">On a dirt road of these desolate places two bikers were riding the most powerful bikes ever known to anybody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">One of them shouted, “Hey, what a pickup, 105 kilometers per hour in just 2.5 seconds. Look here, I am now driving the beast at its fastest speed of 410 kilometers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">The other spoke out at the top of his voice, “Me too. I am amazed at its 1685 CC engine. Capable of producing over 600 HP. That’s why the machine is flying. Incredible!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“The two shacks we have constructed in the densest forest are not easily penetrable. The shacks are inconspicuous and that’s very important. Also with two shacks at our disposal we have two alternative places to meet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“I will set out my recruitment spree as soon as I reach the shack in the next half hour. Hopefully when we draw out our final plans we will have more people on our team. And I hope they will be as concerned about things as we are.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“I have already started thinking on who to include. We need to do it very cautiously. Any Tom, Dick, and Harry will not do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Yep. Here I go.” The first one took the right hand branch of the fork.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“And here I go too.” The second one went the left side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Both the shacks were equipped with ultramodern communication devices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only 98 most influential and richest people of Berth owned such devices. But this number got reduced to 96. The missing two devices were now in the possession of their new owners. The new owners were Amar and Victor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Mysteriously both the previous owners also went missing. They just vanished. Vanished in thin air! Intensive and extensive searches yielded no results. Ultimately the police departments of most of the 138 countries gave up and finally everyone on Berth forgot about this missing episode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">The cell phone of Adarsh buzzed in the golden room of the presidential villa. Adarsh was surprised to see the caller’s name on his phone’s screen. The surprise immediately got converted to excitement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Hey you! Ringing me after such a long gap?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Shush. Are you alone there? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can I continue our conversation?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Yes. But how could you ever reach me with so many security hurdles on my communication line?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“I know how important you have become now. Only 97 persons of the world can reach you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Only if you possess those specially designed ultramodern communication interfaces.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Will you believe if I say I have one?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Coming from you, I have to believe. You are honesty personified. I have known you from the school days.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Where are you right now?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“I am at the president’s villa in the east coast.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Oh the one in which a few billions worth of taxpayers’ money has been pumped. The place where the president of Bigland- one of the most powerful countries of our planet- enjoys his holidays with his family and allows the ordinary people of the world to die in incessant wars. And now my best friend Adarsh also enjoys the same luxuries.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“That’s my job. Being president Gushnell’s personal bodyguard I am responsible for his security. Bigland does not believe in propagating the wars but Bigland definitely intervenes only in the most deserving situations ultimately to bring in peace and justice. Though located in the eastern corner of the planet, Bigland helps maintain peace on the whole planet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“I am just kidding. I know you inside out from our childhood. You are not the one to enjoy other people’s money. I accede you are doing your duty. But on your second point about your country’s interventions I can discuss with you endlessly, but not on the phone. All I can say right now is Bigland does nothing about peace. On the contrary it even sells weaponry to many countries thus supporting the wars. It encourages wars to benefit a few individuals and maintain their power position of supremacy. Its top shots poke their noses in all the wrong things. They discourteously impose their own screwed up and unwelcome brand of self-righteousness on rest of the world. Lately Bigland has created more enemies than friends. Unless your country demonstrates a regard for the people and culture of other courtiers, this trend will continue”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“OK. I give up. I know it’s impossible to argue with you on the topics you get passionate about. Now tell me why you rang me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“To discuss the second point, the very point I have gotten passionate about lately. I am very serious. And I need your help. Tell me when can you meet me in Desh?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“You need not have to wait long. My annual vacation is due the next month. I have not visited my home after my becoming citizen here and my visit there is overdue.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">“Great. I look forward to our meeting. Bye.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 25: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-25.html</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Chapter 15: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
universe started developing some 14 billion years ago. They say the famous Big
Bang created the universe- a super large one. And so, the universe turned out
to be an unimaginably huge space with a diameter of 93 billion light years. Plus
it has the capability of further expanding that too at a rate faster than even
the speed of light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite
innumerable stars and planets that got created in the universe in these 14
billion years, it’s pity that only two planets are known to have life on them.
These planets are Earth and Berth. Both the planets are strikingly identical in
almost everything- the timeline of evolution of life on them, their atmosphere,
and the most important of all- the existence of human species on both the
planets. It is also very interesting and surprising that even the languages and
the cultures that got developed on the two planets are almost identical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Age of
Earth and Berth are estimated at 4.5 to 5 billion years. Presently both are
endowed with an atmosphere that is conducive to life. Yet the life on Earth and
Berth came much later after their creation. Initially these two planets gave
birth to somewhat simpler forms of animals some 600 million years ago. And much
later the modern humans came into existence 200,000 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On both
the planets the humanlike creatures progressed in almost identical manners. Over
the years they turned out far more intelligent and cruel, and very soon took
control over all the other forms and species of creatures. In it, they were
together and united.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However
as the time passed and they felt assured that there remained no threats and
dangers from other animals, they started suspecting each other. The unity among
them started showing cracks. Their greed and selfishness surfaced. Many of them
started scheming. The powerful ones and the cunning among them started
exploiting the weaklings. They exploited even those who were indifferent to
greed and also those who were satisfied with what they had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soon
the few powerful ones, the scheming ones, the cunning types colluded together
and took complete control over the rest of the human race of Berth. They
started ruling. Soon they started snatching the possessions of the people whom
they controlled by applying all kinds of highly smart tricks. Where their smart
tricks did not work they exerted their cruelty. Now bereft of their possessions
these losers started begging for mercy of the powerful ones for their very
survival. So the human race got divided into two classes, the rulers and the
ruled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
phenomenon was taking place simultaneously in different regions or territories of
the planet. In each territory you had the rulers and the ruled ones. These
regions later got their names as different countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If in
Earth’s diameter of 7918 miles, there are 196 regions or 196 countries; Berth
also has some similar numbers. Berth is a bit smaller compared to Earth at 6576
miles diameter with its 138 countries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
powerful, moneyed, scheming, cunning, and cruel guys now ruled each of the 138
countries on Berth. Different tricks of forming governments namely monarchy,
dictatorship, communism, democracy were tried in these 138 countries.
Invariably these tricks finally returned mostly the super rogue politicians for
the top governmental positions in most of these countries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In turn
these rogue politicians distributed goodies, spoils, and favors in tons to
their cronies, associates, and partners- the power brokers, the lobbyists, the
bureaucrats, the corporate honchos, the media chiefs, the military chiefs, and
even the judiciary. One set of scoundrels colluding with other set of
scoundrels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">These
rascals, though just about 1% of the total population, now controlled the rest
99% gullible human beings on the planet Berth. But they cleverly did it within
the ambits of laws and constitution of the land. After all they themselves were
the lawmakers. And they had framed the constitution and the laws for their own
benefits and also to cover all their misdeeds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However
the latest trend showed that this 1% included not only the regular individuals
with lots of money as described above but also included the scheming
fundamentalists and fanatics. In the past these extremists used to terrorize
the existing governments to gain power and money. But lately they had learnt that
they themselves could occupy the top governmental positions legally and
constitutionally just the way the moneyed guys did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
extremists understood that all they needed to do was to exploit the religious
sentiments of the general public, promising prosperity to all of them and in
turn gaining their overwhelming support. They knew that the people had got
disillusioned with the existing rulers and they didn’t mind giving them an
opportunity. But the reality that emerged was totally different. Wherever these
fundamentalists formed the governments those states remained in as much pitiful
conditions as they were under the former rulers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On the
planet Berth this combined 1% became the worst nuisance for the rest 99%. Every
now and then they conceptualized, designed, and conducted skirmishes, battles,
and wars that affected the 99% in the most horrible ways tantamount to their murders
and deaths- this entire dirty act only to fulfill 1%’s selfish desires of
draconian proportions. They were also the cause of rising inequality of wealth
distribution. By exploiting the knowledge and skills of other 99% gullible and
dependent human beings, by paying them pittance in return, they became stinking
rich and in turn, horribly arrogant. It was estimated that just 70 richest persons
on the planet Berth owned more than the total wealth of the 70% poorest of the
entire humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The 99%
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whimper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But
lately two berthlings Amar and Victor decided not to remain the silent
spectators anymore. Initially they used to just get irked up by the day-to-day
bloody happenings. But lately they ended up seething with anger. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They
were fast friends. They were on the same wavelength in terms of their
ideologies and thinking with high degrees of intellectual and emotional
maturity. They had even worked together as employees of the same company. Often
they used to meet to exchange their concerns about the sorry state of affairs
of their planet. Their meeting place was a very private and secluded place
where none could track them easily. Yet they were always very cautious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Their
last meeting took place when two small countries Isonia and Kasban began a bloody
war to capture a holy town over which both the countries claimed their
ownership. The politicians in power of the two countries had instigated the
war. War took a toll on the lives of large numbers of innocent citizens of both
the countries. The killings still continued and the peace was nowhere in sight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their next meeting they would bring in some more likeminded persons from
different parts of planet Berth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 24: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_51.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 23: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html" style="color: #993322; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-23_30.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 22: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-22.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 21: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-21.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 20: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-20.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 19: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-19.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 18: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-18.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 17: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-17.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 16: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-16.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 15: </span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-15.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 14: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-14.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 13: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-13.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 12: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-12.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 11: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-11.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 10: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-10.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 9: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-9.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 8: </span><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-8.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 7: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-7.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 6: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-6.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 5: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-5.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 4: </span><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 20.328px;"><u></u></span></span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-4.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 3: </span><a href="https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html" style="font-size: 14.52px;">https://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-3.html</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 2: </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2_28.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 1: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-2.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Chapter 0: </span><a href="http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">http://peacecrusaders.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-peace-crusaders-chapter-1.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Berth’
is one of the latest known extra solar planets. It is an Earth-like and
Earth-sized planet. It revolves around its Sun-like star ‘Altakep’. Among many
stars and their planetary system of the universe discovered till date, Berth is
the only planet other than Earth where exactly humanlike species of Earth exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the
recent years, these humanlike species called berthlings got very busy carrying
out some very sinister activities in many parts of the planet Berth. The
situations on Berth presented an exact replica of the situations prevalent on Earth
where also its inhabitants- the earthlings- had made wars and killings their
daily habit. These were the darkest days of Berth as they were for Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And on
one of such dark days two berthlings- the inhabitants of Berth- were in a serious
conversation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yesterday
the bastards killed an entire family of civilians. I am sorry for using the abusive
expression. But I couldn’t help; I am really highly perturbed this time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“This
is not the first time someone was killed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes.
Yet yesterday’s was the ghastliest. Imagine entire family being killed in one
go, that too intentionally. Till date it used to be some scattered incidences
of civilian killings.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes. I
read about it too. They killed the head of the family a 63 year old man, his
wife 59, their three sons and two daughters age ranging from 21 to 37, and five
children- a baby of 24 days, her brothers 5 and 11 year old and her cousins- a
boy 4 and a girl 6.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“They
killed all the twelve mercilessly. The whole thing was premeditated. They
intentionally targeted not just one but two missiles at the house where these
innocent people lived.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Then
the killings in retaliation were the nastiest. The opposition bastards razed an
entire village exterminating its more than 450 residents in one go. I too am
sorry for using the abusive expression. You know I don’t use it normally. But
today I’m disconcerted beyond any limit.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“As if
the continual massive causalities of military personnel of both sides were not
enough, both sides went after civilians too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Enough
is enough. It’s beyond our tolerance limit now. People in the armed forces as
well as the civilians are being murdered en masse just to cater to the whims of
some madcaps and maniacs wrongfully occupying the top and influential positions
of various countries of Berth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Ironically
these maniacs don’t send their sons and daughters to fight these wars. They
want others to die, not their own sons and daughters. Smart alecks these fools!
Utterly impotent creatures!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Cowards
of highest order, all of them. They are totally devoid of any meaningful ideals
and values. They are only stuffed with hypocrisy, corruption, deceit,
selfishness, greed, power mongering, expansionism, exploitation, discrimination,
racism, fundamentalism, and cruelty.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The two
berthlings were exchanging notes on the latest ghastly incidents that took place
a day before. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Isonia
and Kasban- the two small sized countries, situated in the central part of
planet Berth had engaged themselves in a bloody war to capture a holy town.
Each country was claiming its ownership of the holy town. This matter hinged
around the emotions of the people of two countries, after all it wasn’t about
any ordinary place, it was all about a holy and religious place. And
politicians of both the sides were busy exploiting their emotions. They were
keeping them busy in a war to divert their attention from the utterly poor
living conditions faced by most of the citizens of both the countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The
politicians and their cronies from different nations are responsible for not
only what is happening between these two countries but the entire planet is
disturbed with the numerous wars that have erupted or are about to erupt at
different geographical locations,” said the first berthling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The
task ahead of us is really gigantic,” said the second.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
they dismissed the meeting with a promise of meeting soon again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I will let you know where to meet the next
time. The walls of this place may have ears to them- it may not be completely safe.
We should never ever leave a hint of what we speak and do,” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Then,
see you soon. We need to do a lot of work in the meantime.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Bye,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">They
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