42 Second chance (1/2)

Mergen was experiencing not the best of times. A long time ago, when he was an adviser, an expert who entered into a powerful Olympus, he acted according to his conscience. And not how he was whispered by his inner voice ”an employee of the apparatus, an employee of the system, the cog of a huge mechanism of power of the clan world.” While he followed the format, he had a chance to become a significant person in the social world. There were every chance. He quickly climbed the career ladder, every year he traveled abroad for business trips. He was supposed to be a deputy deputy director and in six months and a director!. Car with a personal chauffeur. a good salary of 10,000 dollars a month. He was an enviable bridegroom.

He became an adviser unexpectedly. After he was invited to give an expert assessment. Mergen knew that almost nothing depends on his opinion whether the project will pass or not. Mergen also knew that the clan promoted him, and he made him an adviser. Mergen guessed that the project was important to the clan and had powerful lobbyists.. Big people, big clans ... and not only in Small An, but also of one western empire ...

On the scales of his soul were national interests and his personal. If he had only given his approval, the mechanism would have turned further ... and if he had not, then this decision would be returned to the narrow, purely bureaucratic procedure.

The project was crude, financially expensive, put Small An in a subordinate position, the Western empire received a powerful lever of pressure on the country.

Mergen did not want this. So he made a decision ...

He was summoned for discussion, there were key players ... Mergen voiced his concerns and said that it was better to abandon the project. Suddenly, he was supported by one of the patriarchs of the 5 most influential clans in Small An.

The project was wrapped ... it did not work ... someone was very disappointed, angry, indignant ... but Mergen will find out about this later.

A month later, Mergen was dismissed from the advisers ... after two, he was no longer the most enviable groom in Small An, after three he was included in the black clan list. After four he was denied the position of deputy director. Five months later he was fired from a prestigious research center. All his applications for new jobs were rejected. After seven months, his neighbors stopped talking to him. A year later, when they met him on the street, they lowered their eyes to the asphalt and crossed to the other side of the street.

After a year and a half, an echo was heard on his mobile phone. After a year and seven months, all his mail services and social networks were hacked.

Two years later, powerful guys from the pressure groups of clans began to visit him, during the year they came 352 days. This went on for 16 years.

All of his friends and acquaintances were recruited; those who did not want to betray him were forced to go to other countries.

When Mergen wanted to leave Small An himself, he was not allowed to leave for some reason.. He became restricted to leave. For some reason, all his finances in the banks froze ...

He was followed on the street, there was listening equipment in the apartment.

The invitations for the work that were sent to him from the USA, Canada and Australia never reached him, Mergen did not even know about them at all ...

Invitations to the conference came to him after the deadline. There were figures on post stamps that the letter arrived three months ago and Mergen received it only in the fifth month.

The letters sent to them did not reach the addressee.

He has become a complete outcast! Outside of society ... for 16 years, pressure groups of the clan pressed it almost every day!

It was an exemplary flogging, for all those who decided to make an independent decision against the will of the clans.

Formats have changed ... in the blacklist of the ban on work, Mergen remained, but the observation and wiretapping was removed from it.

Mergen with difficulty could not get a job in his specialty ... there was simply no other work ... All his projects were taken away by clans ... He could only get a job as a laboratory assistant. Although a couple of years ago, he was a middle manager in a prestigious research center. For 14 years he has lost his qualifications, ambitions, interest in life.

Mergen was 55 years old!

One night, his blood pressure jumped ... 225 to 155 ... and Mergen turned off ...

2.

Mergen woke up in the morning! He was again 28 years old! A week later he was to become the deputy director of science.