Chapter 7
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Ibrahim ensured that all the company workers and the capsule technicians had left then he carefully searched his apartment for anything that might be out of place. His search trip didn't last long as he quickly found a number of strange things that wasn’t there before at hidden places. At these places he found some small black balls that looked like mercury drops. Once he found out these strange objects, he realized that these technicians had installed spyware in his apartment. They would watch everyone playing the game. So that drove him to think about a more important dilemma: Were such objects hidden inside capsules too? If so then his escape attempt and his plan would fail. So he quickly broke the capsules off  the wall and used a kitchen knife to open the heart of every capsule. He was an expert in breaking and reassembling the capsules. Back then when everyone knew the importance of the game, there was a passion among Egyptians for the details of the capsule. He didn’t remember how many times he broke his capsule into small pieces and then pieced it together. He had no idea that a small skill that started as a playful game by some Egyptians at the time would save his life now. After he had broken the first capsule and removed the cover of it, he found three pieces of those black balls inside. He did not stop then and broke the capsule into small pieces. He then discovered the existence of two types of those strange objects inside the capsule, one of them was this black ball that he predicted it would record sound, and the other was gray in the form of a small cube that he thought it had something to do with locating his position, or it might be in touch with space satellites to broadcast what the black balls were recording, or might have other functions. He didn't care about that as he continued removing all these objects from the capsules. Then he collected those suspicious pieces in the place of the previous capsule. He then repeated the process again with the rest of the capsules. He finally found that each capsule was filled with an equal number of these foreign bodies. Each capsule contained thirty mixed pieces of those foreign bodies. Ibrahim thought of getting rid of them but he changed his mind, as he feared that they might not need him to run the capsule to spy on him. He decided to leave as it was safer that way. He contacted the company from which he bought the giant car to confirm the date of its arrival to a huge garage underground near the square located at the end of his street. After that he contacted a local company based near his place specialized in supplying workers to transport the furniture and he rented small vehicles sufficient to transport the capsules parts from his apartment towards the garage. Each capsule was consisted of a number of pieces of different sizes, shapes and weights, at least two hundred pieces. After he finished all of this, he sent letters to his studio members, told sex of them that he would pass on them tonight to install the capsules for them, and the other five called them to make sure they got the capsules and told them that he would visit them. These five were a headache for him, as their capsules that they would acquire would be filled with these foreign bodies. If he removed them and leaved it in their room, this wouldn’t change the situation at all. Likewise, what should he tell them when they saw him dismantling their capsules and taking those foreign objects out of them? If he were one of them he would immediately doubt his behavior. This time he regretted not buying all the capsules himself. But in his memories, there was no mention of the presence of any strange objects in the capsules. He sat on his bed trying to think of a solution to protect them. He finally found an idea of ​​setting up temporary headquarters for his studio members on behalf of Sphinx studio. This would help him and make it easy for him to dismantle and reinstall the capsules again. He could also leave those foreign bodies in their places and then asked the players to move permanently to live in those new headquarters. The idea appealed to him although it was too expensive. These five would certainly return to their homes at some point in time and he couldn’t guarantee that they would not gossip about what they were doing in the game. He could not find a better solution though, so he reluctantly decided to use it. He immediately contacted companies specializing in real estate investments and picked four small apartments like his apartment where he now lives in the cities of Mansoura, Minya, Assiut and Aswan. He finished signing their contracts and then sent the addresses of these apartments to the five players and told them that they should be ready to move to these apartments as quickly as possible. As for their capsules, he told them that he would take care of removing and installing them personally. Ibrahim was not worried that they would not accept his offer. It was very common for studio members to live full time in their headquarters in different cities. This move made him lose about one tenth of his remaining money. Nevertheless he did not regret what he did, as this was the only solution that he was able to think of to solve this problem.

After finishing all this, he prepared his own bag and filled it with his clothes and various memoire of his old life. After that he found a message on his phone telling him that the transport workers arrived under his apartment. He pointed to them from the window of his room to ascend to the top. He wasn’t worried about them as these workers were used to transport anything as long as they can carry it. The workers took about an hour to transport different capsules parts from his apartment and carefully packed them into five large trucks. Ibrahim stood in the middle of his apartment staring at each part of it. This small apartment had seen many sweet and bitter moments of his life. He closed the door behind him and with that he turned one page of his past life, and from now on he would become Ibru.

From this moment on his life was like a white page that he had a complete control over it.

He went out of his door and rode a car with them towards the garage. The giant car was parked as a mighty beast in the spacious garage. What happened after that was simple. He completed the procedures for receiving the car from the company representative, then asked him to activate the automated driver service and learned from him within a few minutes the way to operate the car. In this age, it was very easy to issue orders to the electronic driver who would take charge of delivering you to the place you want. You can choose the appropriate speed for travel, choose one or several targets by entering these place coordinates and the electronic driver would take care of the rest. After Ibro finished learning about the basics of automated driving and how to deal with it, he found that the workers were about to finish stacking the pieces in the giant trailer attached to the cabin of the beast.  He waited for a few minutes for them to finish, then waited until they left and then headed to the cabin. When he stood in front of the cabin he felt that he was standing in front of a huge three-story building. It was not an exaggeration as the cabin was divided into two huge floors, connected by a twisted metal ladder with the technique of automatic moving stairs. The first floor contained a table and some of the most comfortable seats in addition to the control panel for the giant vehicle. Through this panel he activated the feature of the driver and then wrote the coordinates of the eleven individuals inside it. He chose that the automatic driver control the speed of travel and the method of movement, whether walking by pneumatic wheels or moving using modern floating technology, as it found it appropriate. Then he moved carrying his bag to the second floor to find a small bed and next to it a compact shelf on top of it various pieces of frozen foods with instant freezing technology, which would lose their freezing and turn to room temperature and be like fresh food as soon as he unwraps these. He sat on the bed and felt the car started the engine and began moving out of the garage. He did not care about the trip and began to revise the record of the movement of the shipment from the ship to his apartment with great anticipation.

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