Nociceptor: A Military Cyberpunk Thriller by J. N. Chaney & Jia Shen

Author:J. N. Chaney & Jia Shen [Chaney, J. N. & Shen, Jia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Cyberpunk
ISBN: 9798710195277
Amazon: B08WSHBL9D
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2021-02-15T22:00:00+00:00

14

I returned to London that afternoon and went directly to the safehouse in Chelsea. When I walked in, there was no one in sight.

“Edward? Anyone here?” I lifted my voice to carry through the rooms.

“One minute, Jean-Paul,” Edward called from his bedroom. I sat down on a chair in the living room and checked my messages. I gestured in the air and tabbed through, noticing a confirmation that Samara had already updated my prescriptions.

Edward came out of his room a moment later, swiping through something himself. His eyes were unfocused, and his attention distracted, yet he walked through the living room as though he’d lived here for months.

I watched him pace along the couch. I’d never seen this absentminded side of his personality before, but I assumed he was reviewing something he intended to show me. When he finally stopped, he looked down at me and said, “I’m sending you what I have.”

The file transferred to my dataspike in seconds, and I opened it to find an archive with dozens of entries.

“What am I looking at here?” I asked him, seeing only that it had something to do with Jovani Pang.

“I think I found a connection, although I’m not sure what it means. It might explain why Pang seems to think he’s so important. Take a look at his past addresses.”

I scrolled through and brought it up. There were gaps in Pang’s history, but the addresses showed that he had mostly lived in the Xi’an area, with stints in St. Petersburg and even Siberia.

“Now take a look at the collection titled Location Subject Two.”

I brought that up as well and saw considerable overlap between the two lists. They weren’t an exact match by any means, but Subject Two had spent time in the same cities, at roughly the same times, and in the same order. The pattern suggested that one of the two was actively trying to follow the other one. And based on the timing, it looked like Pang was following Subject Two.

“Okay, more than a little interesting,” I admitted.

“Now have a look at the bank transfers between Pang and the Solomon Company.”

I reviewed the transfers and saw that the Solomon Company had made a number of payments to Pang over the years, in varying but fairly large amounts.

“Okay.” I nodded. “So what does the Solomon Company do?”

“They don’t seem to do anything. In theory, they’re an investment company, but I couldn’t find any evidence that anyone but Jovani Pang had ever invested in anything.”

“Company ownership?”

“I gave it a try, but the Solomon Company is owned by another completely notional corporation, which is owned by yet another, which is owned by still another. It’s a shell corporation to obscure the real ownership. Take a look at the collection marked Transfers to SC.”

I saw that the Solomon Company had received a large transfer from the Benison Fund. “That name sounds familiar.”

“The Benison Fund?” he replied. “A private charity, mostly known for its disaster relief donations. Founded by Ivan Solovyov.”

A chill ran down my neck at the name.

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