'What type of gadgets will be useful?' Marin thought.
She was sitting near to Greyson who was driving the car rashly. Marin was keen on seeing the gadget specialist. She had not used such gadgets in her life. She believed that those gadgets would be useful to her. Marin reminded herself that she was far away from Paigne and Fatan Khan. She escaped from them narrowly and she was grateful to Greyson.
Suddenly Greyson slowed the car and stopped it. Marin looked puzzled at him. Greyson said, "Don't worry. There's a Samsun showroom out there." he said as he pointed his right hand towards a Samsung showroom which looked quite big. He went on.
"Marcus said that we should have mobile phones and so you go there and buy a cheap smart phone for you and me." He finished and glanced at Marin for her reply.
"You are not coming?" Marin asked.
"No you alone go." Greyson said as he offered nearly 10,000/- rupees to Marin.
Marin got it and said, "OK." She said and she got out of the car and went to the Samsung showroom.
After fifteen minutes Marin returned with a bag which contained two brand new Samsung smart phones. Also she bought SIM cards for the new phones.
Greyson thanked her and started the engine.
"How many minutes to go?" Marin said as she put on seat belt.
"Less than twenty minutes." Greyson replied.
Marin nodded.
After a few minutes a thought crashed in Marin's mind. 'Why I can't tell this to Jake?' she thought.
According to Paigne's history, Jake did not do any mistakes. He didn't kill anyone.
"Why can't we tell this Jake?" she asked Greyson.
Greyson thought for a minute and said, "Won't he kill Milan?"
"No!" Marin shouted.
"If no, we shall try." Greyson said.
Marin nodded.
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They reached the gadget specialist's house.
"Here it is." Greyson said as he stopped the car.
The sky looked so dark and indicated that it would rain soon. Greyson had parked his car under a banyan tree. There were a few houses scattered in that area. The whole are looked completely silent.
"Come with me." Greyson said. Marin followed.
The house was not too big. It was painted brown. It looked old and Marin doubted that whether Marcus would be there or not.
They went closer to the house. Greyson touched the gate of the house and glanced at Marin. Marin didn't know why he glanced at her.
"PURPOSE OF YOUR VISIT"
There came the voice from a speaker hanging on the wall which was near to the wall. Marin looked puzzled and Greyson smiled.
He said, "To meet Marcus." To Marin's astonishment, the gate opened automatically. Greyson went in and signaled Marin to step in.
Without any second thoughts, Marin went in. Then the gate closed automatically.
"What would happen if any thieves tried to come in, if they knew this?" Marin said.
Greyson looked over at her and said, "There are nearly fifteen CCTV cameras positioned around the house. Right now, Marcus would have noticed our entry and he would be coming for us. The main door of his house was made of titanium. Also there was a code for it and it was known only to him."
This made sense to Marin. Before she could open her mouth to speak, she heard a distinct sound in the door and finally it opened.
Marin noticed a guy standing closer to the door. He was fit. He was wearing black suits which suited him well. Moreover he wore gloves and his face was enveloped by a mask. His appearance made him look like a scientist or geneticist. The guy was Marcus Red. Marcus raised his right hand and shook it. Greyson too did the same indicating that they were best friends. Interestingly he had six fingers in his right hand.
Greyson signaled Marin to come in as he stepped in. When Marin went in, the door slammed shut immediately. It took about a minute to make out the interior beauty of the room.
The interior walls were painted blue. The place where Marin was standing was square. It was leveled with blue tiles and there was a ceiling fan. On one corner Marin noticed a fish tank with five guppies in it. Another thing which puzzled her was that there were nearly ten switches on her right. There was only one ceiling fan and three tube lights. Also she found a distinct square marking in front of her, where Greyson and Marcus were chatting. Still Marcus didn't remove his mask and he spoke through it. But after a minute, Greyson came over Marin and said, "Come with me."
Marin said, "Where?"
"To that marking." Greyson said and went to the square marking. Without any arguments, Marin too went there.
Marcus went near to the wall which bore switches and pressed the third one and came back to his position.
Within three seconds, Marin felt that she was moving downwards. Marin screamed in fear. She felt as if she were in an elevator. The three were in a descending motion. Within ten seconds, they came to a halt. Marin was breathing heavily as she was frightened. Greyson came near to her and said, "Come out of the marked area." Marin nodded and came out of it. Within a couple of seconds, the same square area went up. Marin was puzzled.
Marin was standing in a white room and they were in underground. She wished that there should be adequate oxygen supply to her.
"How was this experience?"Marcus spoke for the first time to Marin.
"I couldn't believe it." Marin said in surprise.
For the first time, Marcus Red removed his mask and gave a smile at Marin. Marin looked at Marcus carefully. He had a round face, blue eyes and dark grey hair.
"Nice to meet you." Marcus said and he extended his hand to Marin.
Marin shook it and said, "Thanks."
The room contained many shelves with many different objects. Marin assumed those as gadgets.
There was a ceiling fan and there were three plastic chairs underneath it. The three took their seats.
"Let's enter the topic." Greyson said and looked at both Marin and Marcus anxiously.
"What type of gadgets do you want?" Marcus said. Marin admired him as he directly asked the most important question.
"Well, we need some gadgets which will be useful for us for kidnapping." Greyson said.
"OK. Wait a minute." Marcus said as he went near to one of the shelves and took out a gadget from it.
At first Marin thought that it was not a gadget at all as Marcus took out a TORCH LIGHT.
Marcus said, "You may think that it's an ordinary torch light. But it's something special."
"In which way?" Greyson asked.
"Let me explain." Marcus said as he held the torch light in his right hand and he positioned himself in front of Marin and Greyson as if he were a college lecturer.
"I can assure you that it would be very useful for kidnapping." he said as he showed the switch of the torch light and said, "In normal torch lights the switch is used for turning it ON and OFF. But here there are two buttons labeled as 1 and 2."
Marin looked baffled and Greyson was admiring his friend's invention.
"It's uses?" Marin asked.
Marcus nodded and said "In every torch lights there will be a light source which emits light. But here instead of it there is a chip inside and it plays two vital roles. When you press 1, the chip will emit a series of waves which will cut off all the phone signals. So while kidnapping no one could receive or dial a call."
"Will it work?" Greyson asked.
"Check it out."
Greyson and Marin nodded and took out their new smart phones and asked Marcus to press the number 1. Both were shocked as there were no signals in their mobiles. Greyson clapped with a cheer. Marin was excited as well as shocked.
"Now I shall explain the use of number 2." Marcus said.
"It will play the vital role as when you press it, it would jam all the CCTV cameras in that particular area." He stopped.
This time Greyson was too excited as he hugged Marcus. Marin was confident that these two would be very useful for carrying out their act of kidnapping.
Marcus nodded and went closer to one of the shelves and took out a small thing which fascinated Marin. This was used by all the students. It was a SHARPENER.
"This sharpener has a GPS in the place of a blade which would be present in all sharpeners. You could use it to show your location to your partner." Marcus finished.
"That's cool." Greyson exclaimed.
Suddenly an idea dashed Marin's mind. She was confident that that idea would be very useful. She rose from her seat and said, "I have an idea."
"What idea?" Greyson asked.
Marin nodded and said, "I could carry out that idea myself with the help of the sharpener."