The Voice

The Voice Episode 3

The Voice – Episode 3

A story by Alabede Jude

Cole and Akinola waited in anticipation as they both tapped PLAY.

The screen went blank immediately they clicked the play icon. They waited ….

Waited…

But nothing happened.

Still blank…

Long silence…

Then suddenly, both screen lights came on and a timer appeared counting down rapidly, showing

12 mins 25 secs.

Cole and Akinola looked up at each other, their mouth was opened wide agape with both fear and surprise.

They couldn’t comprehend what was happening as the timer looked real like a bomb timer but how the timer got to be reading on their phones was a mystery.

Cole looked back at the screen, the timer was now reading 7 mins 4 secs. his hands were shaking vigorously that the phone almost fell off his hands.

He looked back at Akinola who also looked at him at the same moment . He saw Akinola nodding his head and he knew what it meant.

Without a second thought, they both ran out of the office and off to the cyber division with the phone in their hands which was now giving a beeping sound indicating that they have little or no time left.

•••••••••••
@ the same time

Location: Cole’s residence

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“What’s happening?” Nora asked fearfully, her heart beating faster than normal. The only time her heart had beat that way was on her wedding day with Cole.

It was when the priest asked the dreaded question they always asked.

“Speak now or forever hold your peace” The priest said and there was an intense silence in the auditorium.

Nora’s mind had wandered away, she looked on at every prying eyes looking at where their hands were positioned, was it held up or down?

Her heart started beating gradually like it always does, then later it seemed to have lost control that it was almost heard by the audience but Cole suppressed it by clutching to her tight and then, no hands came up which eased the tension and she was at peace, but she wasn’t sure if that would be the situation here too.

“Nora! Nora!” Emily called on top of her voice jolting Nora back to reality.

“Emily what is it?” Nora asked.

Emily looked surprised and pouted her l-ips in abhorrence, she looked baffled and shocked.

“Are you out of your mind?” she asked rhetorically. “Don’t you see there is a bomb timer reading on our phones?”

That was it, that was all she had to hear. She sprung up checking her phone immediately and oops! It was 3 mins 50 secs.

She looked at Emily with a terrified look on her face, scared to the core. Emily was more scared than she was.

“What are we going to do?” came the question from Nora.

Emily shook her head.

“No idea”

“Are we going to die?!” Nora shouted rattled at the thought.

The two phones started giving a beeping sound as the timer read 1 min 00 sec.

Emily looked up at Nora and their gaze met, each having a fearful look. On a normal day, Emily would have laughed and joked about it but it wasn’t something to joke about, it was something more serious than peeing in the p-nts.

“I think I have an idea” Emily said thoughtfully raising her index finger.

“What’s it?”

“let’s throw our phones away in the pool”

••••••••
Location: CIB TOWER

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The cyber is a division unit in the Criminal Investigation Bureau. It has two large rooms which was well equipped with computer facilities and technology gadgets which helps facilitate in cyber securities and for investigating cyber attacks by criminals, overseas adversaries, and terrorists. The threat was incredibly serious—and growing. Cyber intrusions were becoming more commonplace, more dangerous, and more sophisticated. Citizens were targeted by fraudsters and identity thieves, and children were targeted by online predators. Just as the CIB transformed itself to an anti crime investigator to the terrorist threat and a similar transformation to address the pervasive and evolving cyber threat. This enhanced the Cyber Division’s investigative capacity to sharpen its focus on intrusions into government and private computer networks which was why the cyber is mostly needed.

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All eyes in the cyber unit turned to Cole and Akinola immediately they stepped in. Cole couldn’t hide his surprise on seeing everybody’s phone emitting an intensive beeping sound and almost immediately, showing a blinking red light. Within a second, everybody’s gaze was on their phones and a second later, their face changed to a more serious one.

“Please do something!” Cole shouted more terrified.

All cyber agents sprung up to their feet and started punching the keyboard like a pro which they were. They were computer experts specifically trained to ensure maximum security on cybercrime. Each and every one of them were working on one thing or the other with intense fear.

“Can you stop it? or we devise another plan before this thing goes off” The DG fearfully asked.

“We can’t really say for now sir” Mr Sylvester who was the head of the cyber unit replied without looking at the DG but rather has his focus on the computer screen.

Cole paced the room obviously worried and scared, he rubbed his head with his palm and at the same time checking the screen of his phone. It was counting down rapidly, blinking 57 secs.

He wiped the sweat that had formed on his forehead with his bare palm and continued pacing with worriment.

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“Sir, I have an idea”, a young agent from the cyber unit said, raising up his hand. The DG (Mr Akinola) looked up at him dejectedly, as he gazed at him for a moment and shook his head.

‘What could a small boy of his age do on a death case such as this? He was just a boy of eighteen years and was considered the smartest among his colleagues but that doesn’t mean that he needs his help or whatever idea he got.’ The DG thought to himself.

“What’s the idea!” Cole shouted walking towards him, checking his phone as he walked.

“We have no time left, we have to…” Cole was immediately interrupted by the young boy.

“Sir, there is no bomb!, its only a ploy” he said and stood up facing cole with an apologetic look for the interruption.

“i did a …” the boy was saying but had to stop when all the phones gave a loud beeping sound, it stopped and a loud noise erupted from the devices.

“Hello everyone”, an unknown computerized voice said.

“I can see you having a hærd time solving this but anyway, I don’t mean to harm you yet because this monster hasn’t tell me to. You are wondering who this monster is right?” the voice stopped and laughed, laughing inhumanely.

“Well, even I myself doesn’t know” the voice continued.

“But when this monster entered my brain, I never knew.

But it here to stay. Society can be thankful that there are ways for people like me to relieve by daydreams of some victim being torture. It a big complicated game my friend of the monster play putting victims number down. Follow them, checking up on them, waiting in the dark, waiting, waiting… Maybe you can stop him but I can’t. He has

already chosen his next victim and it might be you, yes you!” the voice scre-med and laughed again.

There was silence at the other end of the phone.

Long silence.

“I will be right back” the voice said after a long silence and it went off.

Everybody gazed at each other surprised and petrified.

“We have no idea of what we are up against” Mr Akinola said and looked on at the team.

“You’ll need to workout something useful, we need a lead” he completed his speech and walked out of the room while Cole followed behind.

“Go get some rest and get that covered up” Mr Akinola said immediately they got to his office.

“I will”, Cole replied.

“You can take a wh0le week off”

Cole gasped, “a wh0le week?”

“Is that too small? if it is, make it two”

•••••••••••
The night was cold and windy, it was a good night to kill. He had watched her for two weeks and he knew she was coming, she always did. The road was straight and clear, he would see her long before she came close. He stood up from the long bench he sat on which was reserved for travelers and made a walk down the des**ted alleyway to the main road. He was always clad in a black suit whenever he want to kill, dressing corporately like every other responsible man. Anyway to himself, he was a good responsible man, a good bad guy. To kill is now part of himself though not a self will but he was compelled.

Compelled by who?

The monster?

He chuckled and smiled. Yes the monster made him do it, they made him do it and he wouldn’t stop until he feels its enough.

He got to the main road, no cars passing by, he didn’t expect any either. He could not afford any witness and he would get none. He looked up and there she was, cat walking like she was having a show off of her walking skills. She was getting closer now, he stepped back and hid behind a coconut tree. He could not make any mistakes albeit the fact that he cared less of making one, even if he did, he got himself covered. He smiled mischievously.

‘Those fools the CIB would never get me, they sure can’t.’, he thought.

He inhaled her scent deeply as the wind blew it to him, he knew she was very close and doesn’t need to scare her away. He shoved his hands into his pocket and brought out a set of hand gloves. He wore it getting ready for the kill. Her high heels shoe clumped on the ground as she moved closer towards him. She was five feet away when he stepped out from behind the tree.

“Hello angel”, he bellowed out disguising his voice.

She freaked out when she saw him.

“What the f**k?”, she scre-med but he immediately lounge an attack at her. He held and twisted her hand and dragged her to himself stifling her throat.

“Do you want to die?”, he asked with a crooked smile looking up at the security cameras, he was less perturbed by it.

“No”, she managed to gasp.

“Neither was she”, he said before slitting her throat with a short knife.

He dropped her lifeless body on the floor by the road side.

He smiled a fulfilling smile and he could also see her smile.

To be continued…

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