Dark Overlord New Horizon (The Children Of The Gods Paranormal Romance Series Book 38) by I. T. Lucas

Author:I. T. Lucas [Lucas, I. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

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Kalugal

Kalugal smiled. Jacki was smart and resourceful. Hiding her immunity had been the right thing to do.

“I’m still suspicious. After all, we are dealing with the government, and they have access to the latest technology. They might have implanted the trainees with trackers that are undetectable by conventional means. What did you use to check them?”

“Bridget, the doctor you spoke with when Jin got sick, ran them through her medical equipment. I don’t remember what exactly she used. It was either an ultrasound or a CT scan.”

“Still, we can’t rule out the possibility of undetectable trackers. If you value your village’s secret location, which I know you do, don’t let any of them in there.”

“Too late. Jin is already here.”

“Did she transition?”

“Not yet.”

“Tell her and Arwel that I wish them good luck.”

“That’s nice of you.” Kian’s tone was mocking.

“I’m a nice guy. If anyone is the villain in this story, it’s you. I was just living my life, minding my own business, and then you decided to send a spy to tether me. What happened after that is on you.”

“I can’t argue with that. But that doesn’t make you a Boy Scout.”

Kalugal chuckled. “From what I’ve read, Boy Scouts are not all that nice either. The organization filed for bankruptcy because of all the sex abuse lawsuits it was slapped with. Perhaps you should include former scouts in your rehabilitation charity.”

“I wish I could help every victim, but regrettably, I can’t. I can’t even put a dent in the damn trafficking in my own city. We eradicate one cell, and another pops up someplace else. It’s incredibly frustrating.”

Kian was repeating the mistake of many other do-gooders. He was addressing the symptoms instead of the underlying disease.

In contrast, Kalugal’s plan was to cut off the rotten weeds at the roots by depriving them of nourishment, aka funds.

Once paper money was eradicated and all monetary transactions were made electronically, he could easily shut down the accounts of traffickers, terrorists, scammers, and all the other leeches that were feeding on the blood of innocents. He would starve them like the malignant parasites they were until they shriveled down, fell off, and died.

If he had access to the system that the government employed to flag trigger words, he could implement his plan much earlier. But that was most likely not doable. He would have to develop and fund a similar system on his own, and unless there was a significant breakthrough in technology that made it simpler and less costly to build, it would take him several more decades to achieve his utopian future.

Except, Kian would probably see Kalugal’s vision as dystopian rather than utopian because it would come at a stiff price in the form of reduced privacy and autonomy.

Whether the trade-off was worth it was a matter of opinion, and Kalugal would love to have a philosophical discussion about it with his cousin.

Naturally, he would present it as a hypothetical.

“We should meet, Kian. Or at least have a video conference. I’m at a disadvantage.

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