(May 18, 2011, A.D, 4:50pm)
Elizabeth is on the couch sitting in front of the laptop which her mother is speaking to her through. "Looks like Mathew is leaving today, he may be new, but he certainly did speed up the process, though I don't know which parts of what he says to believe..." Lizbeth said. Elizabeth smiled and nodded a little.
"Dad took a look at that company the genius guy made, he said that he doesn't know whether he should believe the specs." Elizabeth said before laughing a little. Lizbeth laughed a little as well.
"Well, he showed me one of the phone's he made. The phone was quite good, looked like he wasn't lying about the specs, but it's really hard to believe a six-year-old made technology that great... Well, I guess there are just some unexplainable things, like this tomb. Mathew did some tests on it and got the exact age, according to him it's 31,982 years old, though that completely contradicts the estimates of the earliest known civilizations." Lizbeth said as Mathew entered.
"Elizabeth, you've met Koyuki, yes?" Mathew asked. Elizabeth nodded with a confused expression. "How should I explain this..." Mathew said as he thought for a moment. "Koyuki is, an interesting person... I'm sure she came off as a cold person, especially to you, but she can be nice." Mathew said. "She likely gave you a hint." Mathew said as Elizabeth's expression changed to one of thinking.
"Yes, she said the key to a cure is energy." Elizabeth said softly.
"Ah, now to find out which one... Seriously after all this time, she tells you, but not me... I am supposed to be the one with all academic knowledge, but no, there is some restricted information that I have to figure out." Mathew mumbled.
"What was that?" Lizbeth asked Mathew, to which Mathew just shook his head.
"That girl likely said she was on vacation, I'll be honest, she has no idea how to take a break, so she likely did that to feel like she was doing something." Mathew said. After Mathew spoke a golden light shone on Mathew and Koyuki appeared with an emotionless expression.
"Just because I had to let you live, doesn't mean you can go around telling people about my life." Koyuki said as the pressure of the room increased.
"Yeah, yeah, now stop, Lizbeth can't handle the holy pressure you're emitting." Mathew said with a casual tone.
"Oh yeah, I'm used to dealing with the different version of y-" Koyuki started, but was interrupted by a hand on her mouth.
"Hey, hey, not yet!" Mathew said with a freaked out tone.
"Put simply, I am used to people who can handle this pressure." Koyuki said. Koyuki looked to the laptop. "Like her." Koyuki said as she pointed to the laptop screen.
"Elizabeth?" Lizbeth, who was already very confused as to what was going on asked. Mathew sighed.
"Yeah, come speak with me after you're done with your call. Koyuki, you have to go back to heaven, go deal with your job." Mathew said.
"It's your fault I have this job if you hadn't asked God for... Whatever..." Koyuki started but quickly stopped. "Fine, I'll go." Koyuki said as a golden light enveloped her and she disappeared. Mathew left after Koyuki.
"I still am unsure as to what I just saw..." Lizbeth mumbled.
"Well, everything he says is a bit more believable now?" Elizabeth said as if she was asking a question. Lizbeth nodded.
(10 minutes later)
"Looks like time is up, I'll talk to you later Elizabeth, your father sent me a message telling me he'll be at work for an hour or two longer, so he won't be home in time to make dinner, be sure to eat something and don't make a mess." Lizbeth said.
"Bye-bye mother, I won't make a mess!" Elizabeth said as the call came to an end. Elizabeth stood up and turned off the laptop, then went to the kitchen to grab something to eat. 'There is canned goods, bread, peanut butter, hmm, a lot to choose from..." Elizabeth thought to herself.
Elizabeth walked over to the laptop and turned it back on. 'I'll search on Drakelair to find something to make.' Elizabeth thought to herself as she typed in 'easy meals to make'. "None of these are easy! I still have to use the stove!" Elizabeth mumbled to herself with frustration. 'I'll just make a sandwich...' She thought to herself as she opened the jar of peanut butter and grabbed the jar of jam.
Elizabeth opened the bread, took the butter knife and put a layer of peanut butter on a slice of bread. Elizabeth proceeded to mix the jam and get a spoonful of it, she placed the jam on a piece of bread and spread it with the back of the spoon.
Elizabeth put the two slices of bread together and started eating the sandwich. After eating Elizabeth turned on the tv and started watching some shows. 'Hmm, I remember that there was going to be a newscast on the tomb today...' Elizabeth thought to herself. Elizabeth got up as she decided to watch the newscast later.
Later that evening, Elizabeth changed the channel to the news channel. "Welcome back to the Archeology news channel! I am your host, Lao Xian, and today we will be interviewing the two most important team members of the mysterious tomb dig site." A woman who is sat behind a desk said as the camera panned to a couch. On the couch sits Mathew and Lizbeth.
"Today we have Lizbeth, the famous American Archeologist, and Mathew, a world-renowned genius who at the age of six months learned twenty-five languages and learned to write in seven alphabets, a feat thought to be impossible until he proved it otherwise." The woman said. "Let's start off by asking Lizbeth a question. So, earlier today we were informed that this dig site has the potential to completely rewrite what we know about ancient human society and when it began, what exactly is it that has this much potential?" The woman asked.
"That's a great question Lao. To start off, we had the tomb itself dated and it was built over thirty thousand years ago, and as far as we know homo-erectus was primitive and unable to create structures as complex as the tomb, which indicates that humans, the homo-sapiens that we see today, were around much earlier than thought previously." Lizbeth explained.
"This news is quite fascinating, so what process did you use to date the tomb?" Lao Xian asked.
"We used a new form of testing which has been proven to be the most accurate in the world, and to ensure the machine wasn't glitching we used multiple and conducted the same test several times, as each of the members of the dig site were baffled by this number as well." Mathew said.
"You had said it is the most accurate, but earlier it was said that the tomb was a minimum of thirty thousand years, why is it that most other archeologists can get an exact number?" The newswoman asked.
"Most of the time archeologists guestimate, this is to make the findings seem more accurate despite the findings likely being within a much wider range. Now, this structure is quite old, making it even harder to get an exact number, however, my estimate would be somewhere around 31,000-33,000, years." Mathew responded quite quickly.
"I see, this does make sense. Then do you mind if I ask you another question?" Lao Xian asked. Mathew nodded. "You are reported to be religious, do your findings conflict with your beliefs, seeing as the dating of the structure outdated pre-recorded history according to most religions?" Lao Xian asked.
"The simple answer is no. To explain further; it is my belief that God had created the world a much longer time ago than originally thought or presumed based on holy texts, as most holy texts are a humans way of recording a diety's words, this coupled with the fact that my research has shown that we used to be in a larger orbit, meaning our years were longer, it makes complete sense, as we are dating them based on what our modern calendar is. To find the research I am speaking of a quick search on the internet will bring up the study." Mathew said quite simply.
"And what could've shifted our orbit into a smaller one?" Lao Xian asked.
"It says in my study, but I'll answer anyway. The popular story where the world was flooded and the other popular story about a giant meteor, combine the two and you get yourself an Earth thrown into a degrading orbit and a tilted axis, the axis shift allowed for excess rainfall on an otherwise humid, but rainless planet and a giant crater. The giant meteor basically moved earth into a degrading orbit and over the course of tens of thousands of years shortened our solar year." Mathew explained.
"After a while, the axis stabilized, allowing for the excess water to start to dry up, creating the water system. Seasons, by the way, were created as a result of the changed orbit, allowing for different temperatures at different parts of the year." Mathew said.