The Script of Evil

46 The battle of persuasion

Nico and Francois stowed their equipment and they evaded the task team because their first priority is now in tandem with the rest of their new group. The rescue operation must be arranged and everyone must gather at the meeting this evening. They know Morrison will demand answers and luckily the task team was absent when they emerged from the fort. They are probably still at the neighboring smallholding to which the wrong set of stairs and tunnel led them astray. The other people departed with Jack's car while Nico and Francois walked to their car hidden amongst bushes on an adjacent piece of land. They were gone before the task team could track them.

Now every one of the group has organized what they could and the task team probably followed them and is surely watching them unobtrusively. All the guests have met the others and took their seats. The conference room is designed as an amphitheater and Emilie stands with Nico at the microphone ready to address all of them. They deliberately turned the blinds of the big windows so that the air outside and the city are clearly visible and so that all of them will be able to see when the things fall from the sky. All of them must see so that they believe the strange news they are going to hear soon.

The building is strategically situated in the Govan Mbeki main street with a few nightclubs still open. Quite a few cars are parked with theirs alongside the street and people are standing and talking near the cars. From the conference hall, the group is looking down at a restaurant askew from them with people on the pavement sitting at tables with peaceful music caressing them from inside.

Nico and Francois scrutinize the building opposite in search of a sharpshooter with a listening device aimed at them but they see nothing. They deliberately keep the windows closed so that the pipe type listening device can't detect sound through open windows. Now they are looking out for a laser light from the opposite buildings but a laser can also be aimed at an angle from the street below. Probably they won't know whether the task will by some way or another eavesdrop on them. The task team is now suddenly a threat because they don't know what to expect of Morrison. He will be furious and suspicious because they didn't report back and now this meeting! He would seriously want to know what is at hand.

Emilie starts the proceedings: "Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. I am Emilie Shaw, a marketing manager, and this is the conference hall of our company and luckily I could quickly arrange the meeting for all of us here. I am glad to see that so many of you are at such short notice able to join us. I have arrived only this morning from England and am surprised, just as you are, with the news that we must meet urgently. I don't know what you were told, but I know you were all contacted by people who care a lot about your well-being and for this reason glad to get you here in any way possible."

Emilie points at Nico next to her. "Nico is the South African member of an international task team that investigates an occult group whose actions necessitate this meeting. Nico will explain to you why we are meeting here and thereafter you are welcome to ask questions and then we can discuss our plan of action."

Nico takes over and commences with the hard task of convincing the audience: "People, we are now going to tell you a secret which was divulged to our eight people today and we have little time left. Tonight there are going to be released things over the dark side of the earth. These things will bring a deadly plague all over the earth which will destroy all civilization as we know it. That is why we opened the blinds so that you can see it and, hopefully, when you have seen them, you will believe us and we can then work together on a plan to save our families and whomever we can convince in time.

"Things resembling spiders will fall in swarms from heaven. They are not going to attack anybody tonight and are going to creep into mainly the sewerage systems, lay eggs and multiply but on Friday night they will emerge from their hideouts and attack people in the cities and towns. One bite will ensure that people become sick within seven days and will then change into man-eating monsters so that people are going to attack one another and the world will become chaotic. After the first seven days, people will infect others in the same way as it happens with the cold or flu virus. Everyone infected will change into a man-eating monster within 24 hours. People, from Friday onwards all institutions will collapse and the world as we know it will perish. There will be no law and order and all money will be worthless.