Fate of the Universe

ITARI is next level with his ability to hack into the Network. His bots manage to uncover posts made by Dr Valik, before and during his present rantings. Before his tirades, he was only posting research notes and developments, and a few tame commentary on science. There are also articles with his name in them, mostly interviews and biographies of him.

His first aggressive posting occurred about 2 and a half months ago, at night at a location supposedly in a house in a wealthy neignbourhood along the western sea. It was a week ago when he had attended a talk before his change, which was about space travel.

"Alright! I'll get the van ready! Gorovon, shut down the computer come with us!"

Within a few minutes, the group have gathered into a van and is heading out from the isolated observatory. The sun have just peeked from the horizon as the vehicle left the Dusty ground and entered into the main road towards the city of Vas Conra.

"So guys, we will be your get away vehicle. If anything goes wrong, give us a call with this walkie talkie, and we'll come rescue you. Also we've got ourselves guns, but hopefully, we won't have to use them." Saromia says as Gorovon tosses a walkie talkie to the back.

The van drives past other similarly styled vehicles and the looming shadows of the buildings downtown. It did not take long before the van turns into a parking lot and is fully parked.

"Here we are, the Vas Conra Theatre. We'll expect you to come back atleast half an hour after the speech ends. But you can also call us if you wish to leave the place by some other means so we'll not get too worried. Oh, and also it looks like the event will start in 15mins, just to let you know. " Saromia says as she checks her watch after unlocking the van doors.

Purra can feel the anticipation of the audience, along with hints of defiant anger.

Soon the MC came on stage. "Thank you all for coming today! Now, we'll present the Great Preservator to speak with you all about social and mental issues! Give it up for Dr Valik!"

Once the MC left the stage and a green suited, balding senior gentleman enters from the left, the crowd goes wild with cheers and applause.

"It is great to see that more people are starting to believe in my cause. This plague of ill thoughts is worse than the virus that killed 300 million of us. This week, I'll discuss about the reasons for unnatural thinking, and the consequences if we leave them alone for the future of our generation." Dr Valik continues to speak into the microphone at the given podium.

Dr Valik proceeds to passionately talk about how humans have been manipulated since early times to believe that they came from The Great Green Ocean, where a god supposedly shaped humanity from the foam and the sand. He says that there is growing evidence the people were originally from another planet as archaeology slowly reveals. This goes on for about 20 minutes before he continues on to explain what he calls "Sexual Deviancy" to be the result of society's standard falling as the people grief over their mortality.

Meanwhile, Purra is able to notice that a man in front of her is subtly shaking his head eveytime the speaker made another point. Due to stamping down her power, she can't definitely tell if the man disagrees with Dr Valik.

As Princess Purra tries to study the audience, she realises that the person behind her is starting to glare at her as she checks the rear of the crowd. Purra manages to find out that at least 40% are supportive and 5% are against. The rest are hard to discern or are neutral. As she looks back to Dr Valik, she sees that he is now watching her as he monologues. "Now if you wish to ask me questions, please do so at the end of the talk..."