The Adventures of Mark Spinner - The Detective by I.T. Eren

Author:I.T. Eren [Eren, I.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Mark received a lot of training during the three-month theoretic process. The big, burly project leader, Mr. Mallhan, taught him the mechanics of time travel. With his small, round, metal-rimmed glasses and his long white beard, this man looked as if he had given his years to science. He also had the deep, coarse voice of a smoker.

Mr. Mallhan explained that when the date and geographic location of the desired destination were entered into the system the traveling detective—as well as all his belongings in the capsule—would be beamed into the past. His arrival date and time were preset, and the detective used his chronometer to monitor the entire duration of his trip.

It was not possible to keep observing detectives who traveled to the past during the entire journey. For instance, if the detective went away for five hours, and he got into trouble, a problem was detected only if the detective pressed the early-return button, sending a signal to headquarters. And headquarters only knew what happened during the course of a trip after the detective returned and submitted his report. Whether the detective completed his duty in the past or not, was found out by looking at the expected effect of the travel on the present time. If the detective thought that he fulfilled his duty but the expected effect did not take place in the present time, then the detective was deemed unsuccessful, even though he did what he was supposed to do. Of course, Mark did not learn about these directly from what Mr. Mallhan explained but had to ask detailed questions—one after another.

Now Mark understood why detectives were offered such stellar financial opportunities. If they hadn’t those opportunities, they might choose to do whatever they wanted in the past. And it would be almost impossible to find out what they did. Mr. Mallhan talked about the ethical behavior expected from detectives by stressing that the past of each detective was carefully studied, and it was ensured that all had good ones. He added that being a detective was one of the most respected careers.

Mr. Mallhan explained that work and research to develop time travel to the past continued but that the desired growth rate was not possible at the moment because the project was maintained only with very few scientists. After all, exposure was not desired.

Examining a case study regarding past events was the most enjoyable part of the training. Since the identities of the detectives had to be protected, the cases were mentioned by expressions such as “the case study for project number 2314 run by Detective X,” but otherwise, they were explained in full detail. If enough information about criminals was available, detectives went to the past and eliminated all factors that could lead to the crime. If that wasn’t possible, they did things like inform the police to have the suspect captured even before he committed the crime.

However, detectives were never asked to kill someone. They had to stay away from murder. They had to even keep away from guns and try to change events only by using their wits.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.