Return Of The Ark

Part 10: Izmit - Istanbul TEM Highway, Resting Facility

Day 2, around 09.00

The black BMW was nowhere in sight. They quickly entered parking lot and parked near the entrance. It was a good place to plan what they were going to do next. They would also calm their hungry stomachs by eating something. They quickly headed to the self-service counter and bought something. Stopping Hacer, who was preparing to pay when they arrived at the cash register, Eren said: "Please, I blow you to it."

"Don't be silly please, there's no need for such things..."

But Eren had already handed his credit card to the cashier.

"Thanks, but I think it's unnecessary machismo."

Hacer picked up her tray and headed for a table by the window, followed by Eren.

He was a little offended that she saw his gesture as machismo. 'It's really hard to understand women,' he thought.

They had just sat down at the table when Hacer asked.

"Can I have your cell phone again?"

"Why?" Eren asked, handing it his phone.

"I'll see if there's anything in the press about that murder."

Eren had just taken a bite from his tray when Hacer suddenly said:

"Oh my God, oh my God! Is his head cut off?" she threw the phone over the table in front of Eren.

Eren picked up the phone to see what she was saying and even though the picture on the screen was blurred, he realized that it showed a body without a head and a object like head, that is a little further away from this body. Hacer, whose stomach was upset by the photo, started to gag. Eren's stomach also felt nauseous with her gagging.

"Wait, wait...Let's see if this is our murder? First, we should understand it," said Eren trying not to look at the photo. Then, after glancing quickly at the text, he said, "Yes, this was our murder."

Hacer gagged once more when he said that. Then she turned her head completely towards the window to avoid seeing the photo again. And she was trying hard not to cry while looking outside.

Eren immediately began to read the news in the newspaper, mumbling.

"Last night, a man's body was found brutally decapitated in the SPA pool of a hotel in Sapanca, which was hosting a symposium on the Archaeology of Religion. The body was identified as that of prof. Dr. Yafes Nuhoglu, who was attending the symposium."

"Yafes Nuhoglu?" said Hagar in surprise.

"Yes," Eren said excitedly, wondering what Hacer would say. "Do you know him?"

"Well,... I think, yes. But I've only seen him once years ago, and I am remembering him because of his strange name, Yafes."

"Yafes!" Eren said thoughtfully. "That's interesting. But from where I remember that name?"

"Yafes is the name of one of Noah's children. He told me when I asked him about it curiously. His name also looks As if noun phrase. Like yours. So, if we consider that his surname is Nuhoglu, the meaning of his name is hidden in his surname. 'Yafes Nuhoglu'. When I was studying archaeology at Oxford, he came and told us about his work in Sirnak where he claimed to be Noah's Ark."

"Yes, I remember now, that's right, Yafes, Ham and Sam. The names of Noah's children."

"After the presentation, I never saw or heard from him again."

"And why might he have written your name on paper?"

"I really don't know. All I remember is that I disagreed with what he said in the presentation."