CHAPTER 3
Dr. Venkat was still not fully awake, lying on the middle seat of a conference room, he barely knew how he was there. Looking on the wall upfront, all started coming to his mind..the daily schedule..the daily lemon tea and then the sudden visit of two gentlemen who have apparently sedated him, got him in their vehicle and now he is here sitting in this conference room alone. He tried to stand up but couldn't do so because of the dose maybe. There were no windows, just one door for entry and exit. Then suddenly the screen in front of him came to life..while loading the screen displayed a logo. This was the only thing which answered to almost all of his questions. While he was thinking a man appeared on the screen in front of him, he knew this was no ordinary meeting otherwise the director of RACE wouldn't be talking to him. The system took sometime in starting till then Dr. Venkat can observe on director Dutta's expression, he knew Mr. Dutta for quite a time now. He was a normal project supervisor at RACE but due to his brilliant ideas and cunning mind he has secured this position. But today was different....he was calm and was looking like he was not able to breathe. The system started and voice of Director Dutta crackled through the speakers, Dr. Venkat had heard his voice before, it hasn't changed, nothing has changed at all, he thought.
Mr. Dutta spoke in a very friendly manner and was sorry for this type of disturbance to Dr. Venkat. He said "Venkat sorry to disturb you in this early hour, but you must understand that i do not have any other choice....". "Your life is in grave danger..someone knows about ARYA and that someone will do anything to get it, you must follow the protocol and join us asap in order to keep it safe..they already have the loctag ". This last sentence made Dr. Venkat more tensed as he knew that the situation has just escalated to level critical. He continued with " they have already killed a dozen of our people and were very close to you when we had you replaced with one of ours..". They have replaced me?? Dr. Venkat was now feeling worried, after 15 years why is it happening again. The memories of the past still haunt him, still those images give him pain. Now this pain has reemerged reminding him of his final days at RACE.
Director Dutta completed by saying "Now you are the only man who could help us get ARYA back, you have to give your personal loctag to us...we know you have one..and we need it right now..."
This was more frightening for Dr. Venkat, how can they know about my loctag. He surely had one hidden in one of his safe house..he duplicated the original because he knew its important to have a duplicate for the location of ARYA.
Dr. Venkat nodded to this, he kept a copy of the loctag because he wanted to keep it safe..but he doesn't have it right now...
He gave them the location of his safe house and the pass key required..he also asked them to bring some stuff from the locker which might be of some help.
The loctag...a very basic looking watch which when connected with same configuration receiver marks the exact point and time of the connected stello...
Dr. Venkat knew that the stello which holds ARYA was a personal design of Dr. S.N..it wasn't the same as other stellos..stellos were basically carrier satellites which were released in orbit and may contain some very vital equipment which when required can be obtained by commanding it to re enter earth's atmosphere and release the required package..using the jet powered engine it would accurately land on the marked air base...but this stello was different...
As he moved towards the screen to tell this to Director Dutta, he stopped as he was talking to someone on the phone and was looking quite tensed.....
Dr. Venkat was still not fully awake, lying on the middle seat of a conference room, he barely knew how he was there. Looking on the wall upfront, all started coming to his mind..the daily schedule..the daily lemon tea and then the sudden visit of two gentlemen who have apparently sedated him, got him in their vehicle and now he is here sitting in this conference room alone. He tried to stand up but couldn't do so because of the dose maybe. There were no windows, just one door for entry and exit. Then suddenly the screen in front of him came to life..while loading the screen displayed a logo. This was the only thing which answered to almost all of his questions. While he was thinking a man appeared on the screen in front of him, he knew this was no ordinary meeting otherwise the director of RACE wouldn't be talking to him. The system took sometime in starting till then Dr. Venkat can observe on director Dutta's expression, he knew Mr. Dutta for quite a time now. He was a normal project supervisor at RACE but due to his brilliant ideas and cunning mind he has secured this position. But today was different....he was calm and was looking like he was not able to breathe. The system started and voice of Director Dutta crackled through the speakers, Dr. Venkat had heard his voice before, it hasn't changed, nothing has changed at all, he thought.
Mr. Dutta spoke in a very friendly manner and was sorry for this type of disturbance to Dr. Venkat. He said "Venkat sorry to disturb you in this early hour, but you must understand that i do not have any other choice....". "Your life is in grave danger..someone knows about ARYA and that someone will do anything to get it, you must follow the protocol and join us asap in order to keep it safe..they already have the loctag ". This last sentence made Dr. Venkat more tensed as he knew that the situation has just escalated to level critical. He continued with " they have already killed a dozen of our people and were very close to you when we had you replaced with one of ours..". They have replaced me?? Dr. Venkat was now feeling worried, after 15 years why is it happening again. The memories of the past still haunt him, still those images give him pain. Now this pain has reemerged reminding him of his final days at RACE.
Director Dutta completed by saying "Now you are the only man who could help us get ARYA back, you have to give your personal loctag to us...we know you have one..and we need it right now..."
This was more frightening for Dr. Venkat, how can they know about my loctag. He surely had one hidden in one of his safe house..he duplicated the original because he knew its important to have a duplicate for the location of ARYA.
Dr. Venkat nodded to this, he kept a copy of the loctag because he wanted to keep it safe..but he doesn't have it right now...
He gave them the location of his safe house and the pass key required..he also asked them to bring some stuff from the locker which might be of some help.
The loctag...a very basic looking watch which when connected with same configuration receiver marks the exact point and time of the connected stello...
Dr. Venkat knew that the stello which holds ARYA was a personal design of Dr. S.N..it wasn't the same as other stellos..stellos were basically carrier satellites which were released in orbit and may contain some very vital equipment which when required can be obtained by commanding it to re enter earth's atmosphere and release the required package..using the jet powered engine it would accurately land on the marked air base...but this stello was different...
As he moved towards the screen to tell this to Director Dutta, he stopped as he was talking to someone on the phone and was looking quite tensed.....
