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Chapter One

Sky.

Smell: absent.

Vision: Color: red - 0%; green - 0%; blue - 100%

Taste: undefined

Sound: absent

Touch: density - 0%

I see the sky. It looks amazing from the roof of this skyscraper. Especially from my skyscraper. You are closer to the sky than in any other place in this city.

If I would tell you the word ‘sky’, what will happen in your brain? Billions of neural impulses are generated in your brain to recall all your sky-related experience from the bottom of your mind. Instantly all data which you have ever received until today through your all input channels of information (your five senses) is aggregated. In one moment. You even can’t measure this time. It’s pretty impressive, huh?

Ow... why I’m on the roof? I’m going to jump off the building.

Why do I need this? You are asking me way too much stupid questions.

But I don’t want to jump. Probably answering your questions is a good option for me to play for time.

I’m here because I have a deal with one who always honors the commitments. Even despite HE learned how to lie, HE didn't break promises.

Is this all related to money? Not only. I’m official and the only owner of global software development company. Our products support your life. No matter what exactly we are talking about.

Your security system in the house, the human resource management systems and customer relationship management systems which help to automate thousands of business processes and tons of communication, the most secured and completely free messenger in your mobile phone and even mobile app for your girlfriend to track her menstruation dates - it is owned by my company. Recently we even managed to bought shares of Mastercard. We also created the most secured and reliable software for banks. So, from today, even your money under my control and I can do, whatever I want.

Everything around you what is powered by electricity - I own this. Legally. But actually - I have never owned this at all. The true and single owner is the one who made me get on this damn roof.

Laws and fair trial? Please, don’t make me laugh at such dramatic moment. Politics, judges, police officers - the one who made me get on this roof have control over their security and money too. We will not find justice in the world while we seek for it from other humans. While humans have the right to give an answer to question 'what is a justice' - the leverages to influence this definition will always exist.

There is only one way to stop me - my physical liquidation. But nobody dared to kill me. Well... Some people tried.

I remember one stupid asshole tried to put a bomb on my car. Really??? Are there tribal times on the streets? He made me smile a bit. Security system which is installed in every modern car from stock was developed by my company. The system diagnoses any unusual magnetic burst to identify bombs or intervention in the car system.

Another moron tried to shoot me from the rifle. Come on man... Are you serious? Civil protection system which works in conjunction with satellites, surveillance cameras and even with microphone in your mobile device detected him sooner than he pulled out his rifle from cellar.

There also were bunch of others, but all of them don’t succeed. Fair trial exists for them. But HE dared to kill me.

I always tried to escape from the prison where I spent the most of my years. This prison where I put myself. And once I got there - it wasn't easy thing to get out from it. This is the prison of my own mediocrity. The prison where the bars of my cell are made up of my own fears. The prison with fictive borders created by my disappointments. This is my own imprisonment. Do you want me to share with you my escape plan?

And this escape brought me here.

That’s why I’m on this roof. And you know what? There are only short moments when rays that are born in the sky touch my eyes...

Ok. No time to talk anymore. You can think that this is the end. But I want to believe that everything is only going to start for me.

Do you want to hear the whole story? We will have enough time to talk until my body will be smashed on the ground.

I can feel a fresh breeze blowing right into my face. I need to take a step. And my body falling near the fiftieth storey...

Chapter Two

 

Music.

 

Smell: absent.

Vision: absent

Taste: absent

Sound: dynamic range - up to 80 dB

Touch: absent

 

When I was young, I was in hurry to lose things which I’ve just got. I got my independence from parents to lose it in relationships. Now I could work. I got my own money, to spend them on fast food delivery, clothes and fun. Is that really everything what life has for me?

 

My friends from social networks were my role models. I’m a victim of the social proof theory - if everybody buys this mobile phone - I need the same. What else? People go to restaurant to spend half of their payroll in one evening. If they can afford this, why wouldn’t I do the same way? The way how everyone behaves considered to be right. But back that times I didn't know that to not be like others I should create my own rules. I wish I could follow the rules of great people, but they don't share their secrets even if they tell you so.

 

When I was a child, I waited for legal permission to change the world. I was jealous of adults because they can do things that I wasn’t allowed to do. The thought of writing a book that would become source of the hope for the people was always in my mind. I dreamed about how I can create a spacecraft that would allow humans to travel across the space, learn how to use gravitational fields for propulsion - I thought I could learn this only in university when become an adult. Where that guy? That is the secret of our being: why all children are so smart, and the adults are not? When I became an adult, it appears that I need so much important but at the same time unnecessary stuff that it is no time for thinking about space crafts.

 

While being a child I thought I could use my money to do great things. To change the world at the end of the day. I planned to create mobile application, or some invention to make this world better place.

 

When I become an adult, I lied to myself every day. And it ended up with my own imprisonment. I put myself in the prison of my own deception and my misconception. But the good thing about being a human - I can always decide what exactly I want to change. Animals can’t do that. If you are zoologist you might say that I’m wrong, but I’ve never seen like herd of antelopes performs analysis what went wrong when lions attacked them and how be prepared for this next time.

 

I’m a human. And I always have a choice. Many people think they don’t have any other choice, but they do have. They just don’t want to consider another option because the price is too high sometimes. But this doesn’t mean they have no choice. It is just easier to admit that you can do nothing, rather than sacrifice something if it's needed.

 

And what is more important than the fact that I have a choice is that I can realize it. And my choice is to escape from this prison. Whatever it takes. If I must spend all nights thinking how to get out of here - I will do that. If I need to leave my friends who are sitting near me in this prison - I don’t care, I will survive without them. But what I know for sure - I have choice and I made my decision. And I don’t care about the price.

 

Music in my house was extremely loud. I threw the party that night. Approximately nine years ago.

 

I will never forget that day and morning after. And not only because that day was Super Bowl night. There was also another reason.

 

Everybody was waiting this event to start. Guys already opened a beer. Girls tonight had very attractive look. Not everyone came here with their significant others. Everybody had their own thoughts about how this evening will be finished, if you know what I mean...

 

Back that time I lived in small house in suburb. Nothing special.

 

Tonight, I was all set to welcome the guests - fish and chips, a lot of beer, TV is everywhere, powerful stereo and so on. High class. And you know what is most attractive in all of this? This is completely free of charge. Yes, you heard me right. Completely free for everyone, and approximately 3 grand of American dollars for me.

 

Doors were open. I wasn’t afraid. There is nothing to steal in this house. All my clothes always on me. The most valuable thing in this house - is my laptop. And it is always near me.

 

- Jon, hope we don’t need to sit here all night? - Mike asked me.

 

Who is Mike?

 

First of all - nice to meet you. Finally, you know my name. Jon Fairchild, that’s my name. While the party was going on, we were in my office on the first floor. Well... you can name this as you wish. Technically it was a large room. But in fact, this was dining room, bedroom, living room and my office. All in one.

 

What did we all do here?

 

It is not easy to explain, but if you are wondering I’m more than happy to share with you.

I had small business after core work hours. How to put this...

 

Do you remember the movie where Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey run the biggest sport consultancy company in the United States? They sold huge amount of betting tips for the sport events. And taking into account their crazy success - each man in US wanted to buy their betting tip.

 

I thought that it is a good idea to run my own business. Well... In slightly different way. Did you know that there are numerous of websites where successful men and women bragging about the car they bought this month, or house they live in? That is all fake. I paid for all these promo videos. Here the cost estimate:

 

- Lamborghini rent - 700 USD

- Villa in Miami rent - 1.500 USD

- GoPro camera - 700 USD

- Two microphones - 1000 USD

- Video editing - FREE (I will do it by myself)

 

The list above is my first investment. I didn’t buy camera or microphone every time we did new promo video. All my efforts led me to create approximately 100 websites about the best betting tips. Statistics about wins, success stories, money pictures and video - everything was demonstrated on the web sites.

 

What was my unique offer to the market? You can get betting tip from the SUPER-DUPER RICH 23 years old expert in Lamborghini completely for FREE! What was the trick?

 

The trick is pretty simple. When you have 100 virtual heroes like I described, you have at least 100 requests per day. And to be honest - that is very few. In most cases we had approximately 1.000 requests for betting tip per day. And everyone wants betting tip for free from the expert. My virtual ‘experts’ has only one condition - he gives you betting tip for free, but you share with him 50% of your net earnings. In major cases people were agree with such conditions.

 

And here is the most interesting part. For each request we need to find a pair. For example, customer #1 bet on the ‘Team A’ tomorrow, customer #2 should do a bet on the ‘Team B’ in the same sport event. The one who win - share with us 50% of net income. Thus, from 1.000 requests we had 500 pairs. That means we had 500 winners daily. Around 10% of winners disappeared after they win. Most clients were interested in receiving the next betting tip completely free of charge and that’s why they shared money with us that day.

 

These people helped to support this small business:

- Mike, Emily and Greg - our operators and sport analysts. Those who hold conversation in messengers with all customers and who create ‘pairs’.

- Chris - my only and the best friend. He was in charge of support of our custom software which we developed together. We created a bot which surfs on the Internet to parse mobile numbers. After that, another program checks whether this numbers are present in any of the messenger - Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram, and if a number is connected with one of them. And another bot sends our unique commercial proposal directly in your messenger. No matter how old you are - you are in the high school, or you already have two kids - everybody is interested in how to earn money while not working.

 

Please, spare me your homily on being a good man. Probably, you think that I’m worse than a robber. Probably, man who did bet following my betting tip lost all his month payroll? And now his children have nothing to eat? What about his wife? God forbids!

 

First of all, you should be completely stupid to bet all your month payroll by recommendation of the guy with whom you even didn’t talk personally!

 

Secondly, we are not taking any advance payment! It is even not a crime! If you want you can place the bet, if you don’t want - just don’t do this! And yes, you are welcome to share your earnings with us in case you win, but nobody will force you to do that! Do you think this is a crime? Or something illegal? Nah... I don’t think so.

 

Thirdly, why I should care about his wife? You know what... I will tell you something about his wife. His wife kind of person who fall in love too easily in such people like her husband: impulsive, gambling, passionate. They started their relationships when she first time humiliated him in front of her girlfriends during one of the parties like this. But he was so gamble that he set a goal - to marry this sexy girl. Time has passed and they got married. Girls like her even didn’t go for a date with guys like me. She did her choice back that time. She didn’t know that everything comes with a price. The fact that her husband bet all payroll on the Super Bowl tonight and the fact he managed to marry her - are two edges of the one essence. And she fell in love with this essence.

 

So, what was your question? Could you repeat again? Ah... Who is Mike...? Now you know who Mike is and what we are all doing here.

 

- No, Mike. Today we have long night, - I answered him and after that I appealed to all. - Guys, two minutes left to start. Take a bio break and be prepared to have fun!

 

My name is Jon Fairchild. But probably, I was not fair all times in my life.

 

I didn’t know that tomorrow morning, my life will be changed. Tomorrow, I will start my escape from the miserable person inside me.

 

 

Chapter Three

Knife.

Smell: absent.

Vision: length - up to 13 inches

thickness - up to 1,5 inches at the start, up to 0,2 inch at the end

Taste: absent

Sound: absent

Touch: density - 99%

It looks like I’m in imaginary prison of my own insignificance for a long time already. I don’t remember when I realized this first time, but one day I faced with fictional wall of my unrealistic expectations. After that I noticed that this wall is around me and I’m in cell. I could stay there because these walls looked great! I loved them! They just didn’t let me out.

When I tired of this cell - I decided to escape. I needed something to break these walls. They seemed to be not very thick. But nothing was there. At least something small... Finally! I found knife made of my ambitions. It should help me to get out of here.

But it is forbidden to have a knife in the prison. There is a strict rule about this.

But still, I know that in real prison people managed to create knife analogue from the things they already have around. I saw this on TV.

What knowledge should I have to create knife? Probably I can learn this on the Internet? Besides all possible variations of something what is so sharp and hard that can cut you and kill you, what I really interested in now is a knife. How my brain can come up with analogy to create something new from scratch? Something, what I didn’t know before. How I can even describe this?

Could you imagine how difficult to describe the knife? Not even talking about to develop own one. It is asymmetric. It has different edges. What form should hilt of the knife have? What criteria we are going to use to identify the perfect form of the hilt?

What about blades? We need to come up with some specific measurement of how hard blade should be. Also, we need to understand will this knife be used to cut vegetables or people. Probably we need to develop knife for arm forces? It would be also awesome for me to know where the border is between the knowledge I need to have to develop this knife and knowledge I don’t need. What potential information I need to be aware of, prior to beginning of development of my own knife?

The abstraction - is a unique set of characteristics which separates one thing from another. How to define the level of abstraction for my knife?

No, I wasn’t going to change my area of expertise. But if only I knew that once in my life someone would hit me with the knife - I would learn more about knives in general.

It was a busy night. During the Super Bowl people also wanted to place live bets. We were here to help. We found ‘pairs’ for different combination of bets. We were even distracted by guy from Spain who asked us about betting tip for El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

- What? - I asked Emily when she told me that the guy reached out to her. - Ask him why he doesn’t sleep? It is 5 a.m. in Europe right now!

- No worries, Jon. I will take care of him. I have friend from Brazil - he loves soccer. I’ll give advice to this guy, - Greg told us.

- Jon, at least Greg knows the rules, - Emily mentioned.

- Emily, forward me his request - I will handle this, - Greg knew what to do.

Oh... poor man from Spain, why you are not sleeping? We don’t give betting tips for ballroom type of sports. Soccer is not a sport anymore for a long time already. Guys are kissing each other after each goal. Moreover, they hug each other, jump on each other and constantly trying to take off their T-shirts to show their naked bodies. No, leave this for somebody else.

Super Bowl was finally over. To be honest I wanted to give a shit about who actually won. I knew that I would earn money in both cases. No matter who win. That night we got a jackpot. We earned...

- Could you repeat one more time? I can’t believe my ears! - Chris asked Mike to repeat again what he has just heard.

- Guys, today we earned 122,450 United States dollars!!!

Now we could turn on the music louder again. But before doing that I took a mic to welcome people:

- Hello guys! Thanks a lot for coming! It was a big pleasure to share with you joy of watching Super Bowl tonight! Now, I want you to take a beer, to take one more bottle, hug beautiful girl and dance! Have a great night ladies and gentlemen!

- Jon, we got a problem, - Mike took me aside for a second.

- What’s up, Mike?

- We can’t receive payments because our PayPal, Skrill and Payoneer was blocked because of complaints. Clients want to send money, but we can’t accept any payments! I need to tell them where to send money. Jon, I need this answer now, Greg, Emily and Chris are waiting upstairs.

- Mike, keep calm. Accounts were blocked yesterday. What do you think, why we are throwing this party?

- I don’t know, because you are nice guy? - Mike sounded very non confidently.

- Mike, I sleep with my laptop in the room where I eat. I don’t seem to be a person who like parties. Any other thoughts?

- That was my only one guess.

- I’m not Melinda Gates to hold charity events. I had plan to earn some money today. Give me ten minutes and go upstairs. I will be there soon, - I tried to calm down Mike as much as I can. At the end of the day he worried he won’t be able to get cash for his hard work. The same bothered the others.

I did few steps

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 05.08.2020
ISBN: 978-3-7487-5268-4

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