[03/07/499 10 h 50]
It's been more than 3 hours since I've been there, I have barely 9 kilometers that separates Meh Taïki. I still had 19 kilometers to go before getting there and I have to get there before nightfall if not, that would like to say that I would have lost a day and but more I should sleep on the edge of the Road because I have no way to spot myself in the middle of the night.
[03/07/499 15 h 00]
More than 5 hours have passed and yet I did only 8 kilometers, because the road and in a pitiful state and I feel more and more fatigue rising and I have almost more energy in my legs. Yet, the hardest thing remains to be done because the city of Meh is 250 meters above sea level that the village of Taiki. And the climb is done during the last 2 kilometers.
I had to succeed in doing these last 11 kilometers until 20 hours tonight, which means that in 5 hours I must succeed in making 11 kilometers. And considering my current state, it seems almost impossible to achieve, but I must do everything to get there.
[03/07/499 19 h 00]
3 kilometers.
I have more than 3 kilometers before arriving in Meh, unfortunately it will be the most trying to do before you get there. But I unfortunately do not have time to stop to take a little rest.
[03/07/499 20 h 00]
I finally start seeing some houses scatter around the city, but the nearest are still a few hundred meters from me.
And it starts to do dark, so I really have to hurry to talk to a few people and thus start finding people who would be interested for meter in pledge my house.
[03/07/499 20 h 20]
After 13 hours of travel, I finally arrived at Meh, the city was much larger than in my memories, so much so that even after 20 hours passing a lot of people are outside in the street.
I managed to find a quiet place or put my bike and my bag.
I took the opportunity to change me and I left to find people interested in our home.
Unfortunately, in more than thirty minutes, I spoke to less than 10 people and none of them were interested in my house.
Seeing that there was almost no longer anyone outside, I enjoyed drinking in a restaurant that I had crossed by returning to the city
I found him and opened the door of the restaurant.
And the interior was much more filled than what I expected, unfortunately, it does not look too much like a family restaurant, but more to a bar or clingy gather in the evening to drink a shot.
The smell inside the restaurant was very strong, a mixture of beer, strong alcohol, tobacco and perspiration.
I decided to advance to this bar and sat down on a seat next to the counter.
At the same time, a man approached me, he had the same smell as the rest of the room, he wore an open yellow shirt in the middle, letting see his belly, far from athletic.
Then, all the other people present in this bar, almost that men with at least thirty, made himself get closer and surrounded me.
No one spoke, he watched me all in the eyes and I did the same and the look at one in the eyes, which allowed me to know how many men were around me.
24.
24 men, all more souls than the others were fixing me without making any noise.
Surprisingly, the voice that dissipated this silence, came from behind me.
It was a man, a little younger than all the others, standing behind the bar, it also seemed much less alcoholic than all other people here:
"What brings you here little? You got lost ? »
"Excuse me, but it's up to me that you talk? I replied.
I pretended to be confident by answering by another question, but in reality I knew that I should not answer anything, for if one of his men strikes me under the effect of alcohol, I do not I'm not sure I can get up. But fortunately for me, I can always try to defend myself with the ax that I tied below my t-shirt. Even if in 1 against 25, it's impossible to get out alive, so I have to pay close attention to my smallers and gestures.
"To whom you want me to speak, you are the only mome in this bar. Are you looking for your parents? »
"Oh, would be almost funny. But Nan, I'm looking for someone else. »
For everyone to hear me, I put myself standing on my seat and shrugged in my voice:
"Well, I'm going to make it simple, I'm looking for someone who would be ready to buy a house in less than 4 days. »
I do not know if it's because they did not understand my request or they have too much to say something, but no one answered me for several seconds. Instead, they looked at each other in the eyes before a man, at the bottom of the bar laughed. And suddenly, absolutely all the people present in the bar, including the man behind the bar, laughed likely.
For almost 20 seconds, all the sources of sound of the bar were emitted by the alcoholic voices of men.
Until a big noise was heard.
A sound of metal and wood.
It was the bartender who had typed a mug against the bar, with a blow, no more laughter was issued, and he enchaina:
"We do not have the time for your bullshit, then do you order something either you release my bar, that's included? »
His gaze proves that he does not bluff, if I ever give an answer that does not suit them, I do not give dear to my skin:
"I'm very serious, in the village of Yo, there is a house I have to sell. So I repeat and asks you if someone is interested in this house. »
This time, no laughs were heard, instead, every person here presents me all with the same look. The kind of looks you meet can in your life, because you know your life is in danger if you see it.
At the sight of these looks, chills began to appear on my arms, my legs, my back and my neck.
And this time it was not the boss, but another man a few meters from me who answered me:
"We do not have anything to fuck your house, so if you continue to fuck us with your kids' stories, I smash the skull against this counter. »
This time more than all the others, my answer was decisive for the rest of my life.
But suddenly, I remembered the fourth rule set out in No. 1, saying that each offense committed before the war will result in immediate death.
So I was going to answer his sentence hoping he knocked me back and he died on the spot. Unfortunately, if my hypothesis is false then it is death that will wait for me:
"Oh, I'm curious to see how you're going to install the skull seen how you're struggling to align three words in a sentence. »
By the time I finish my sentence, I saw him get closer to me, take my head in the hollow of his hand and hit my head with the bar.
I saw the bar closer more and more of my eyes.
I heard a great "Bam".
Then the black hole.
When I woke up, a puddle was at the place where my head was, I could barely see my nose, totally move to the right.
I tried somehow to get up, but I was vertigo and I fell back.
I took me a few seconds before seeing the body of my aggressor on the ground, inert.
My hypothesis was checked and I was still alive, in poor condition, but alive.