The Attack

We started looking into the details of ROAR in the dark web. Cherry connected to the dark web. After two hours, he was able to trace out some links to the ROAR website and showed it to me.

The home page carried a message, "If you believe that God's order is out of order, and you think it is time for revisiting the God's own order of life, then you are at the right place – The ROAR, Rise Of Almighty to Reorganize."

Revisit God's order? What do they mean by that? I asked myself and felt that this was similar to what I felt when I saw the news on TV about a new breed of animals that had been created accidentally by scientists while they were trying to create a medicine for animals.

It was quite confusing but for a moment, I felt link between all these events. But how can a cult group do all this?

Maybe I was thinking too much as I was going through a lot of stress and lack of sleep for almost last ten or fifteen days. I felt I needed a break from all this.

"Cherry, can we try to find out the origin of this website, where it is hosted and who is running all this?" I asked.

"This website is run by an anonymous group, and it is in complete stealth mode, which is why I am unable to break in any further. It is not letting me get a hang of its administration console. It is changing its identity very quickly and fooled me into some kind of honey pots," said Cherry.

"Honey pots?" I questioned.

"To put it very simple, honeypots are like baits or traps. They appear to be legitimate part of a website or software but are isolated, monitored and set to attract the hacker or attacker and divert him, letting them do what they want inside the trap. In order to understand their motives," replied Cherry and continued to show what he found.

He looked surprised for a moment. He had found a page with information as followed, "The human being believed in God who never showed up, then he believed in fellow human beings who were never human. This world was created by an invisible God and needs to be revisited by the invisible God himself. Let us change the tradition, values, and habits and create a new religion."

We started looking in detail into all the information that Cherry was able to retrieve. What we finally found was that the cult group is trying to create a new religion altogether with new practices, new traditions and with the motive of killing or suppressing the rest of the religions.

The registered user base and the posts related to this group, requests coming to it showed that the cult group was already successful in taking this new religion into effect and it had followers from all parts of the world.

Almost one-third of the India, China, Russia, United states, Japan population were registered users of this group and they had started following the practices recommended by the group.

This does not appear to be a small thing to me. I felt someone is trying to kill the age-old culture and traditions and trying to exploit people's minds.

"Cherry, we are handling another case, where the victim is a software engineer named Vicky, who died of extreme stress and NEAR syndrome. I have the chat transcript from the company owning the instant messaging software. Somehow, I am not convinced with what I have found in the chat history. I want

you to go through it and see if there is anything suspicious."

Cherry looked into the chat transcripts, after an hour he said, "Jai, you are correct, I suspect the chat transcripts."

I don't think chat transcripts we got from the company who owned the messenger are legitimate. Let me hack into the messenger server and databases tonight and find out what is going on. Cherry left my apartment and I went to sleep.

There was a knock on the door while I was sleeping. I got up and looked at the clock – it was 3:30 AM. Who could be knocking at the door at this time? I opened the door. To my surprise, I found a person wearing a black cloth overall and covering his face with a mask, along with a big fat monkey.

The monkey was fat, strong and its teeth were sharp. Its claws were very large and it looked like a cross between a gorilla and a pig.

The man asked me, "Are you the one investigating Jennifer's case?"

"Yes," I replied. He said, "Stop it immediately, or you are going to payback."

"Who the hell are you and how come you came here? Why did security allow you to get in here?"

I screamed and before even I could complete my sentence. He injected something into my left arm. In a moment, I started screaming. He started beating me.

He said, "This is the new breed of monkey we created, this is going to kill all the human beings like you who come in the way of the new religion."

He kicked me in my stomach and the monkey bit me hard on my neck. I started vomiting blood everywhere and fell down.

I got up. I checked my left hand for the injection mark. Checked my neck for the monkey bites. Huh! I realized that it was a nightmare. I got up from the floor and drank some water. I had been thinking about new breed of animals, victims being drugged for the last two days. And for the last two days, it was all about Jennifer and the cult group. I think all this led to a nightmare. Somehow my subconscious mind believed that all these incidents were interrelated and that is what showed up in my dream.

I couldn't get any more sleep, so I sipped a strong coffee. It was 3:30 AM. I thought Mr. Smith would have been busy working as I haven't heard from him in the last two days. I called him. "Hey Smith, how are things?

Haven't heard from you for the last two days." I asked him.

'Jai, called me so late? What made you stay awake till this time?" asked Smith. I didn't want to tell him about my nightmare and waste his time.

"Nothing, Smith. I just got up, was unable to sleep. Thought of talking to you." I told him.

Smith continued, "Okay! We found some clues about the missing businessmen. Found that they were all in an underwater island. But this is purely based on some eyewitness' on a tourist cruise ship. Few of the tourists who went scuba diving underwater told us that they had seen an underwater island. Our coast guard and navy tried locating it on the radar but nothing showed up. We are trying to find it with the help of our satellites. We may be getting the coordinates shortly, if all this is true."

"Oh! Then, what the boat owner told me in Goa was correct. I also heard something similar here, Smith. Let's wait to hear from the navy, if we get something positive then we will start looking into in that direction." In addition, I told him about the cult group, and what we found about it.

Smith told that he has seen some cult groups but was not sure about this one. We talked for

a while and I returned for a sleep at six in the morning.

I had a very good sleep for the next two hours, maybe I felt more relaxed after hearing from Smith that we finally had a clue.

In the next few days, all the businessmen were found on an underwater island near Argentina. All of them were from different parts of the world and were hiding there. Respective army groups took them into custody. The two missing businessmen from India were also part of it.

I joined the prosecution of both businessmen the next day. I was given thirty minutes to interrogate both the businessmen as they were part of a bigger crisis and the case that was being handled under international matters.

During the interrogation, I found many things from them and prepared a report to submit to the headquarters. But before I could submit the report there was news that the businessmen were sentenced for imprisonment, charged under cheating and abetting financial fraud.

The international court had declared that all the businessmen collectively declared loses and created an artificial financial crisis leading to the collapse of the world economy. I knew that this was not something intentionally done by any of these businessmen.

However, they had accepted the court judgment and wanted to stay inside a jail in order to avoid any further complications.

I called Cherry and asked him to come to my apartment. I also called Sekhar and Cathie to join in.