Chapter 1
Bank Ghost
Lieutenant Colonel Wael and a lot of officers, police secretaries and soldiers ran behind him in front of the bank gate, they were not stung by the cold winter sun, they found the tiny bank guard stuck in a corner in the fetal position with wide eyes, staring into the space, trembling like a small penguin hatched without feathers in the Arctic, he heard the Lieutenant Colonel's question about what happened, did not pay attention to him, and then responded to assure himself that what he saw was a terrifying reality, not fiction " goblins .. Goblins in the bank .. People .. People were all screAmeeng, " and he kept squeezing his lungs to get on with their job and not stop .
And this was one month after the discovery of that tomb .
About thirty days ago, at a cold night in Upper Egypt, an archaeologist stepped forward a group of workers covered in sweat, and their features were blurred by dust, he seemed numb with surprise, froze in his place, and began to stare at the walls of the tomb, then stretched out his hand without moving his eyes to a worker next to him to take from him a searchlight, it's it, it's it, the Tomb of the servant of Abu Feis II, who became famous for sorcery and harnessing Jinn to steal the treasures of the enemies of his sire .
Not a week passed until rumors flew * the discovery of the Tomb of the leader of Thieves during the reign of the fifteenth pharaonic dynasty near the valley of the Queens* strange heist incidents in the valley of the Queens * widespread panic among the residents of Luxor because of the Ghost Thief *
The satellite TV brought in analysts, one of whom said, " the Pharaohs were the geniuses of the world .. we can expect anything from them "and a meeting with an eyewitness in a Saidi [ upper Egypt's ] accent" I saw the tomb with my own eyes trembling as a train ", and in another program the presenter tried to put together his question " a curse like that, does that .. mean .. is it possible ? "The guest rubbed his nose : " this tale just distracts the mind , the world is full of mystery .. And wow, strange things, mankind does not understand anything about it yet."
Until Kareem stole the remote control and returned the channel of the match between Real Madrid and Barca, he did not miss a shot before , his hand learned stability in shooting drills at the police academy, and he did not care about the grumbling of news fans in the cafe, including his friend Adel [ the lawyer ] who said " isn't it possible that this is an important case, Captain ? "
Kareem waved his hand carelessly : " It has nothing to do with the public funds investigators."
And if it had everything to do with the public funds investigation, he wouldn't have been more careless . He does not hide his carelessness, his green eyes exuded carelessness, ( carelessness ) Ooh, it's the paradise of the world, it never lets you in need to the psychologist, it never lets you in need to self-development books, and the energy consumption of your gaze on it, have you watched lectures about how to become happy ? No no, just don't bother, these words were deliberately etched by repetition into Kareem's head - the head with the longest hair in his department - since the accident of his older brother .
Then the match ended and Kareem encouraged the winner of the match, to be not sad about who beat whom, then he fell asleep in his bed and dreamed of a beauty queen he would marry, other than the one he married in yesterday's dream, but it's okay, they are all in his dream marriages are beauty queens, then his phone alarm rang with the voice of the match commentator "goooooooool" so Kareem woke up to the sound of the audience shouting, and moved his arm and he began to feel pain in it after dreAmeeng that he was the flag bearer in yesterday's match " I could have dreamed that I am Ronaldo ! "He straightened up and bent his arm to get rid of paralysis .
As for the opposite world, Martin blew the activity Horn announcing the sunrise over the US state of Texas, and stood in the middle of the House garden as an army commander summoning his soldiers to the field, you think he is thirty years old but he is fifty; his wife Mary, who looked twenty but she is forty, woke up from sleep, their eldest son Mason with an athletic body as a bodybuilding champion competing with his peers in the twenties, and their youngest son, ten-year-old genius Max, was already awake after finishing analyzing the book ( Security and politics in the Middle East countries), then fifteen-year-old middle daughter Matilda woke up, who dyed her golden hair black to feel special among this blonde family, barely opened her eyes from lack of sleep after long conversations on social media, and they are heading to the air boxing class as usual on Monday mornings, they are sweating, and Kareem is stabbing the air like a professional swordsman, Fuck That bee ! How can it dodge a broom with such agility ! And after it completed her daily routine, it went out the window, and Kareem did not despair of following it, hopefully only one shot, until it strutted towards the flowers of the neighbors ' balcony , the beautiful nest of bees for terrorist operations, but it's okay, no reason to be angry, just keep away from What hurts you, maybe it falls down . Maybe the Rose jar will fall , it will not remain attractive after falling from the fourth floor, well no one is looking, he tried to poke the jar, and his old neighbor's wife suddenly popped up; the broom fell from him to the street, worthy of her nickname : a light-moving mattress !
The members of the M family practiced yoga and breathed deeply among the flowers, and the phone counts down for them so that time does not occupy their minds .
Kareem rushed to complete wearing his clothes decorated with three stars, a bright jacket, it's good for him not to touch the dusty prayer rug, threw greetings to his parents, snatched a loaf from the breakfast table, his mother called him "son, sit down , and eat with us " . He humed apologizing as every day, and then his father grumbled as usual : "I don't know how he would have been if I hadn't entered him the police college ! " And that was the opening of the day for his book " my discipline and my awesomeness when I was a judge."
The M family passed the dishes between them like a Japanese machine, and then each one ate his prepared food in front of him .
And so every morning , with the time difference, they wake up and we are asleep .
Kareem met the Janitor of the building holding a broom and asked him, " what's the matter, uncle Barakat?"
" No , it's nothing , one of the children threw it over my head , I'll know him by the help of God."
"How would you know him?"
Barakat was waiting for all the children to go to their schools, then he asks each apartment about the broom, he knows the apartment, he knows the brat who threw it, did this guy watch the Mission Impossible movies of Tom Cruise ! Kareem persuaded him to leave the matter to him, so he blessed him, and then Kareem walked a few steps and then returned to take the broom, and Barakat looked inquiringly, and Kareem replied: "I'll confiscate the broom."
As the crime movie actors posed for a photo, M family froze until the camera caught them dressed in pharaonic clothes, Martin shouted: "it's time for a vacation, guys, it's going to be an unforgettable visit."
Kareem drove his car with one brain cell, and activated billions of the remaining cells to focus on the attractions of the street, until he threw his car at someone who appeared out of nowhere, stopped the car quickly and got down shouting : Oh, my god, I barely escaped from Barakat, to get this ! " He ran towards the person on the ground and found him in one piece but writhing in pain with handcuffs on his hands , then surrounded by soldiers and police secretaries from the police building in front of him , and thanked him for preventing that criminal from escaping, and then Colonel Salah followed them: "Bravo to you, Kareem, how did you know that he is a fugitive?" "
- " Ahh , the handcuffs, I caught a glimpse of him while he was running with handcuffs on his hands."
- " wow ! Like father like son."
He then ordered the others to bring the fugitive back, then Kareem grabbed his chest and leaned on his car to catch his breath .
Did you know that 87% of traffic accidents are caused by jeans ! Or that's what Kareem thought .
And when his breathing stabilized, he went to his office, closed the door, put the national anthem banner on top of it so that when someone opens the door, the banner comes down and blocks his vision, then he goes to his chair and snapped his neck, now it's seriousness time, he sat down and took a deep breath, then he tapped his fingers, elbows and back, then took off his shoes and snapped his ankles, then he took out his phone and clicked on it quickly in enthusiasm " nothing better than chatting with chicks ! "Then he laughed maliciously, and almost kissed the phone [ or the fence that separated him and committed suicide from boredom otherwise ] raised his feet on the desk and continued his tapping at lightning speed .
Until suddenly someone opened the door , what an active world, people ! The banner covered his face, obscuring his vision, Kareem gasped and fell off his chair, so Mansour removed the banner, raising his eyebrows , unable to understand Kareem's repeated actions, and that added , on The Color of his brown skin , seriousness to his frowning features .
Kareem sat back, " prosecutor Mansour , what a sweet visit ! I'm so sorry once again about the banner, it seems to be afraid of the prosecutors."
The joke didn't pull Mansour's eyebrows down : " what's wrong, captain Kareem ? I sent you sergeant Gamal because of the case investigation file 132 , you told him it's' not ready yet, what's the delay for ? "
The case 132 ! There are a lot of cases and they are all trivial, but which one is that ? Kareem tried to remember it, did he even see it ? Nothing better than the answer " working on it " with a nod suggesting an understanding of the level of complexity of the case .
Mansour asked him, " You know it, right?" "
Kareem pretended trying to remember it among the many cases he is working on, " isn't it ... ؟ " Waited for Mansour to complete , he did not, Kareem continued: "the fraudulent conversion ... "
- "Monitoring the secretary of the local council "
With him, Kareem quickly said, like smart but lazy pupil: "Monitoring the secretary of the local council ."
Mansour gave him a look that meant [ I know you don't know it ] so Kareem played the role of an ideal employee : "consider it done, with God's help."
- "The chief prosecutor has asked me about it more than once, and I am waiting for the investigations "
- " don't worry about it "
Said Kareem, a professor of confidence and achievement at the Faculty of [ yes ] at [ suck it up ] University, Mansour nodded his head before leaving, Kareem exhaled and put the banner in its place, then returned to the phone and back to square one, and wrote (hahaha, why you can't believe I'm a real officer?)
In Colonel Salah's room, captain Hoda stood in front of him and looked at her with his eyes, saying : "officer means the person responsible for law enforcement, captain."
She stood steadfastly, her gaze forward, her chin up, her posture taut, her arms clasped at her sides : "'he was very impolite to me, sir," and she did not despair of trying to inflate her voice, but she fails to hide its softness .
"You hit the suspect on the scruff of his neck, Hoda ! "
She tried to avoid his wrinkled eyes with her hazel ones and lowered her voice: "I was patting him on the back so that he would feel comfortable and admit, but he suddenly bowed his head down, an unintentional mistake, your honor."
- "Six times?" "
She began to feel ashamed : " he didn't feel comfortable from the first time."
He sighed and then said , " O Hoda, you are like my daughter, and your father, Major General Mahmoud, is a dear friend of mine, there is more than one way to deal with the suspect, except putting your hand on a defendant."
"Sir, I can't stand a person if they treat me on the basis that I am a girl."
It took the colonel a while to understand this sentence that this girl said .
"I mean, he's underestimated me."
He shook his head in denial: "this is the last time I tell you, Hoda, stick to everything big or small in the law."
Her situation only allowed her to obey reluctantly, secretly cursing all orders .
The earth revolved around its axis, and The Sun sent its rays, causing movement in the bodies of the Living Dead, their noses turned towards the smell of those leaves that sprout in abundance in the bank without roots, and in the bank every employee knelt on his peg, and the regiment of customers snatching the papers of their turns .
"We're late, uncle Ishmael."
Said one of the employees rushing hippopotamus Ismail .
- " I'm coming, I'm coming."
He squeezed his buttocks into the shutters of the door, the bank vault room barely contained him, and then he proceeded to open the vault with a metal facade protruding from the inside of the construction, then turned pale and muttered incomprehensible words .
- " Is there anything wrong, uncle Ismail?" "
- " The vault .. The vault is Empty."
There was only one banknote left in it .
The bank spat its customers to the street, Mansour and Kareem stood motionless in front of the vault, around them the police secretaries and bank employees, their tongues stopped working, and their ears heard whispers " the bank was robbed ! Unbelievable ! That's never happened before in Egypt "
Kareem didn't find a way out of that heavy case, Everytime I dodge a stone, destiny throws on me a mountain ! Mansour's heart was filled with enthusiasm , a case worth doing , an opportunity he intended to hold the teeth on .
They searched for the bank manager, they found him lying in the observation nest, fighting the screens in a staring competition, Hossam, who is distinguished in his well-groomed form, every hair in his head knows its location, the youngest manager in the history of the Bank, jumped off the chair when Mansour called him as if he had been attacked by a monster : "Mansour al-Amir, a prosecutor from Maadi department", "Kareem Al-ghobashi, the public funds investigator", Hossam has not woken up yet, Mansour asked him : "Are you okay, Mr Hossam ?" "There was no response , except that Hossam untied his tie , and all he could say was:" water please."
Hossam picked up the glass of water from the security guard, swallowed it all at once, then took a breath, Mansour asked him what he saw on the monitors .
- " I seek refuge in Allah ... I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan."
Hossam didn't want them to think he was crazy, so he hurried to play the video at 01 : 43 a.m . Kareem and Mansour's eyes widened when they saw a mummified mummy crawling down from the ceiling of the ground floor of the bank, the mummy was wrapped in linen wraps, its feet disappeared with a long tail of linen like the cloak of Kings, The Mummy touched the ground quietly, then moved forward towards the vault without moving its legs or it didn't have any legs, then it stood in front of the vault and put her hand on it and moved its lips as if it was casting a spell, few seconds later it returned from where it started and flew to where it landed .
- "The bathroom is right there, huh?"
Kareem said . his white face turned yellow to match his hair color, leaving Mansour flipping thoughts in his head until his eyes forgot to blink : "not reasonable, not believable" and then warned Hossam " if there is any tricks in the video , you'll ... " But Hossam interrupted ," there is no tricks, the Competent Authority will analyze and confirm, unfortunately the video is real."
- "That's crazy, a mummy ! robbing a bank ! "
Kareem shouted at the door: " a mummy ? That means you saw what I saw."
And from behind came a hoarse voice: " it may be upper Egypt's mummy."
Kareem jumped out of panic until he collided with Mansour's meat-free chest, then turned to the source of the voice, and saw him, huge man with scary features, people used him to scare the children who like to stay up late in his village, Kareem begged him : "sergeant Gamal, I told you a hundred times you should knock before you enter a room "
Gamal replied : "apologies, captain Kareem ."
- "If I died, you would be the reason, sergeant Gamal."
Kareem said it and then said to Mansour: " what we just saw, is it real?" "
Mansour was still lost in thought and decided : "it's definitely a mystery, we'll question all the security guards and employees," and then asked the bank manager : "and I want a copy of the recording."
Customers gathered on the street in front of the bank blocking the way and their numbers were increasing . some of them are pushing the outer gate trying to enter forcibly, and they were shouting at the security guards and the guards were shouting at them, their conversations varied, one of them said : " what a lack of taste ! They locked the door on us, why ? " One explained: "they made us get out after we got in " another one whispered: " I heard the bank was robbed " everyone shouted: " what ?" another one nervously wondered: " what about our money ?" Another one, shooting spray from his mouth, threatened : "we would ruin their lives " an old lady in the shade called the sky: "solve it by your mercy, my Lord."
