CHAPTER TWO
Republic city of south
“what the hell this?!”
Looking at the map in his hand given by alfred, max let out an scream. Because on that map was nothing but very poorly drawn building or something similar to it, at least that how that looked. Not only that there was arrow indicating towards that drawing and there was something written below that arrow.
< if you’re reading this means you were succeeded to get out of that facility. My friend told me this might happen so I prepared this in advance. You saw that little firework right---->
(that was little firework huh?!) max thought to himself.
< don’t worry about me I have made it out of there because of my friends little advice. Anyways we have 3days to get to the destination after that the other party will leave. They are our last option to get of this city. One more thing this is closest city to military HQ “the republic city” so don’t do anything that put you on spotlight. Hope you safely reach the destination. >
“ You Fucking kidding me. Give me back my sympathy, my tears. You old shit next time we meet I’m kicking you in back.!”
After max checked the contains of his bag and so called “map” he started to move towards more crowded area to get information about old factory, his destination. After walking in crowded area he looked around and found some stalls that were selling some vegetables and fruits, there were also some different stalls that were selling cheap jewelry. He came to near a stall that were selling fruits and took a look on a particular fruit.
“oh customer that good eye you got there it’s rare fruit in this area.”
“hmm, what’s called?”
“Its called dragon fruit. Its mostly grow in desert area. It might be sour in taste but its very refreshing to eat it.”
“ how much for it?”
“ 1 silver for one dragon fruit.”
“wha- what? That expensive!”
By the way this worlds currency is as following: 5 SmallCopper = 1Copper, 10Copper=1Silver, 100Silver= 1Gold. There also platinum but only rich top of the world people have it. Max had 10 silver and some copper in his bag given by old man.
“huuuuh, if you cant pay don’t waste my time. Go away shu shu!”
(whats with him? You are the one who called me you idiot.)
As max was about to leave but a girl came and stop him. A girl smaller then him about 8 or 9years old by looks of it. She was wearing a ragged light blue dress and small bow on her hair of same color. She was carrying one paper bag with her, in which some vegetable could be seen.
“hey you mister, you are again trying to deceiving someone?!”
“wha- what are you saying little girl I didn’t deceive anyone. I only told him how expansive they can get.!”
(no you didn’t.) max thought.
“hmph, lie all you want I know how you deceive other people for their money.”
“you little-- if you don’t get out from front of my stall I’ll call guards over hear.!”
“ call them and I’ll tell them all about your scam.!”
“you low life slum peoples!!”
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Hearing probability of guards or solider coming this way max face got pale for second, then he took that girls hand and started to run in that crowded road.
“HEY WAIT--!!”
After running for while he stop to take a breath. Then he heard a heavy breathing and small voice came out from beside him.
“aa- excuse me, can you let go of my hand please?!”
“ ah- yes!”
letting go of her hand max face was somewhat red and as for girl, her face looked blushed too. Then settling down on near by bench they started to talk.
“Ah- let me introduce myself, my name is mia.”
“I’m max, just call me max.”
“I’m sorry about earlier.”
“no no I should be thankful for that actually. He was trying to rob me and you stop him, although I wasn’t gonna buy that any way.”
“hehehe, I mean there are many people that try to rob tourist in this city.”
“wh- why do you think I’m tourist?!”
“huh you’re not?!”
“No I mean you could say I’m new in this city, but how did you knew?”
“Oh that, that’s because your clothes. Usually only northern people wear that kind of clothes and they don’t come in this city or rather in this country anymore.”
Yes, as she told that max thought to himself that his clothes and clothes of this cities people were definitely different. Max was wearing brown robes while people he saw was wearing trousers and shirts and women were nicely dressed . But he didn’t understand why people of north didn’t come to this country. So he asked her about it, but she didn’t knew anything in particular. He only could get that there was war in the past between south and north Continent and south won that war and now people of north needed to pay heavy boarder fee to get in the country. They were treated badly by this country’s people so they avoided travelling here all together.
“Here eat this it’s not as good as that dragon fruit you were looking but it’s sweet I guaranty you that much.”
“Is it okay? I mean weren’t it’s for your family?!”
“It’s okay we got plenty of this.!”
“If you say so.”
As max took that small berry like fruit and put in the mouth his expression change from stiff to that of smiling like child.
“hmmmm, it’s really sweet and good. What it’s called?!”
“hehehehe, it’s called honey berry. I picked it myself in forest near the city.”
After talking about the city and all different things max notice peoples stares at them and how mia was uncomfortable
“Is there a problem?!”
“No it’s nothing, it- it’s just that people like me don’t belong in this area I should be going my sister is waiting for me.”
As she said that and then ran off without saying anything more, max let out a sigh. He looked around and people were still saying things like “hmph trash like that should ran like that” or “what a trash doing here?!” and even someone called “that must be trash born by one of the brothels in that slum!”
(this people and that store man also called her slum trash. Whats with this city, how can they called a child like that trash.)
“Oh shit, I forgot main thing to ask her. *sigh* its means I just have to ask someone else huh *sigh*!”
After wandering around and gathering information max found out that the old factory that old man talk about was near slum area. You could get there in hour or two by any transportation but unfortunately no one would go there, not because of discrimination but because there was no return ride to pay after all it was slum area. So max decided to wake to the place after all he got direction and knew where the place was.
“I hope we meet again.”
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Someplace near facility
*siren* *siren* *siren*
“So can anybody explain me what happened here, why my base is on fire and how it happened?!”
The man who asked this was staring intensely at the half burned building which max has escaped and old man alfred had put fire on. It was there captain who was in charge of this base, captain price.
“cap- ah captain price you see--”
“SPEAK UP SO I CAN HEAR YOU!”
“YES. You see sir there was an intruder who did this.!”
“So you catch that intruder, right?!”
“ah- a no sir we couldn’t !!”
As anger erupt from captain price he was immediately calmed down by other voice which called out for him
“SIR, report of damage.”
“*sigh* thanks 1st lieutenant you may return.”
As he was scanning through report he found some odd things in it.
(Whats this it’s odd, everything is either burned or damage the intruder didn’t took any weapon or anything important. There are some burned bodies but we won’t find it whose those belong to until we test them and there are still some missing test subjects. If I have to say he was after those test subject and result from the beginning but why?!)
“You are 2nd lieutenant right? you created this mess you clean this shit and find that intruder of yours. Is that clear?!”
“YES SIR!”
Then pointing to stand by soldier price said
“you take this report and give it directly to dr. Solomon.”
“ yes sir.”
( I don’t known what were you after but once I find you, I’ll be sure to torture you and get that information out of you.)
As his eyes were full of anger captain price left the scene with his subordinate.