"A hundred" Interrupted an impassionate voice, as its owner, a lanky individual with an ever-present sleepy expression in his eyes, made his way into the room. Ruvan, one of the younger members at CTS, was the local computer nerd. Although still considered as a newbie by the senior members, unlike them, he was from the Y-generation, the folks who had not known the world without internet and mobile smartphones, and hence had a much better feel of the technological pulse in the world.
"Is that no. of victims, or no. of mutations?" Asked nonplussed Kid, clearly annoyed with the audacity of Ruvan of interrupting veterans in mid-conversation.
"No. of mutations, the affected machines are over two eighty. That's a lower estimate, we obviously can't get the exact figures." replied Ruvan, almost to himself, his mind wandering off to some other problem whose solution was alluding him.
Kid couldn't help being awed. He had seen lots of kids like Ruvan, genius', nerds, confident, but unlike others, this one seemed totally passive, unmindful of recognition. Yet, when it came to delivery, noone quite came close. His pet project, Vixens, started as a minor project in university, was quickly noticed and taken over by CTS. Now the virus had successfully affected over two eighty thousand computers world wide in under a week, and was still unnoticed.
"Just came to keep you posted Doc. Forgive me, but I can't be away from my server right now." excused Ruvan.
"The audacity of the lad" thought Kid as he turned his attention again to the matter at hand. Evolutionary viruses may be sci-fi delight, but he can't lose focus now.
9. Zephyr
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a quick comment
start building upon whatever characters we have now. ruvan kid mine, the company and the problematic doctor are all in it now . you already have a woman in the story. so anymore characters and it's gonna blow
keep up the good work.
make it even better
many thanks to our (first probably)regular reader for the advice :)...it ll be taken into account
however, you are free to criticise...this chapter felt a little unbalanced to me after writing it. Is it so or am i just hypercritical?
good idea of the labels for characters varun.
and thank you very much pushpendra for following thoroughly.
Sorry i didn't get time to write the next xhapter, but I somehow expected someone else will do it today.i.e somefrom from the invites we sent. Anyways I will need time to thing..torke check in tomorrow morning.
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