It was 9.30 pm. But
the street at south was empty. As time elapse, the guard and people from tribe
ELT became impatient. It passed 12 midnight. A man appeared at the south street
and ran towards the castle. The man was invited into the castle. Not long
afterward, Elliot and Acken were summoned by the chief. In the lounge, the man was
no longer there. The chief sat on the armchair next to the stained glass window
and asked Elliot to sit at the opposite armchair.
“We
are going to have a long talk.”
“…”
, Elliot sat quietly after hesitate for a while. Why did he need me? Is he going to tell me my mission for being sent by ‘him’ now? Had
something bad happened to The North Pack?
“…
Elliot, like what he said, the catastrophe is coming. The North Pack’s people
are attacked by the disease; this is not a normal disease.”
“Sir,
do you have any clue?”
“The
last word left by the victims before their demise was the same… they said, it
was from the death.”
“Did
they mean the virus was from the death?”
“Maybe,
but one thing you must know, the body of the death was burned into ashes after
12 midnight. There shouldn’t be any bacteria left behind. The only explanation
was… their soul. Elliot, you have to solve this no matter what method you
choose.”
“…”
Ghost!
“In
return, I will answer your questions.” The chief said with a big grin like Cheshire
cat.
“Who
is he, the one that form 212 and send me here? How can I go back?”
“He
has the same name as yours, Elliot, both of you look alike, especially your
endless questioning and blonde hair… He was a friend of mine at those day, but
he left not long after his family died in 212. No one knew where he had gone.
Sorry Elliot, I don’t know how to send you back, but as long as you finish the
task given by him, I’m sure you can meet him.”
“Why
did he invent such a cruel rule like 212?”
“Elliot,
don’t get wrong impression of him… He didn’t do it for his own pleasure, he did
it for all of us… Our world is too crowded… The population of people grew
rapidly and our food sources were getting lesser because of natural disaster.
In those years, many died of hunger. Since we cannot balance up the food chain,
then we had to cut down the population. This was what we thought at first… In
the beginning, we killed the criminal in prison but it is not enough. The
growing of population was much more and faster than those we had killed. Hunger
makes people gone wild. At last, the resident was in chaos. They fought over
food. Small quarrel grew bigger and bigger… and then it became war. They fought
days and nights with no time. The explosion of the residents in enduring
anxiety and fear caused confusion in their mental state. They started to lose
memory of their own self and lose the ability to recognize their own family. We
chiefs from north and south tribes can’t do anything to stop the war. That was the
time when 212 was invented by ‘Elliot’. He was a shepherd during that time,
travel from one kingdom to another, a homeless wanderer, probably because of
the experiences he learned during travel, he came up with the idea of 212, we
calculated the numbers of people that we have to kill in order to overcome the
hunger crisis and set up the time of killing. According to the calculation, we
need 10 years.” Years! I thought I’ll never hear of
this again. “After that, we started the rule, the crisis was died off as time
passed, but we, the murderer was getting weaker at memorizing date and year…What
we cared for is 212, we kept paying attention at the clock, waiting for the
time of killing comes. Day by day, we forgot about date and year. We became a
murderer that drenched with blood, we don’t find the cruelness in killing. One
day, the family of ‘Elliot’ came to our tribe to find a safer shelter… One
night, his family was all being killed during 212. He left without a word. And
people guess that he might be feeling guilty for inventing 212 which caused the
death of his family, so he left. After he left, the crisis in other kingdom
became more serious day by day. People was suffered from hunger. At last, the
rule was followed by the other kingdom. When time elapses, our kingdom grew
bigger and bigger, the world ELT was formed at that time.”
There was a moment of silence
after the talk finished. Elliot went to the room to rest. That night, he
dreamed about the old man again.
“Elliot,
I believe you had heard about the catastrophe, use the item that I gave you
last time to finish the disaster…”
“Wait,
you didn’t gave me any item…”, Elliot cried and awake from his dream.
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