"My turn then… What goes up the hill with four legs and comes down with five legs?" Solaris asked.
The old man started thinking hard when he heard the question of the little boy. But no matter how harder he thinks he was not able to answer the little boy's question. Then by the rules of the game, he gave the boy 50 bronze coins. The boy accepted the 50 bronze coins and then took out some more bronze coins from his satchel and handed it over to the old man…
"I would like to have one token please," Solaris said.
"Wait you are ending the game?" the old man asked.
"Yes," Solaris said. Then the old man reluctantly gave took out a token. But before he could give the token to Solaris, he asked him…
"Before I give you this token, why don't you first tell me the answer to your question?" the old man asked. To which Solaris took out 10 bronze coins from his bag and gave them to the old man.
The old man saw this and became angry. He became angry as he fell for a little trick of a child nonetheless. But as the child won fair and square he handed him over the token…
…
After waiting for a whole full hour, Solaris's turn finally came. When he came to the hospital he thought that maybe the end of the line was on the first floor. But boy he was wrong. The line started from the gate of the hospital and went straight towards a room on the fourth floor. That is why it took him about an hour to reach the end of the line.
When Solaris got to the end he saw that guy was sitting at the entrance of a room. That guy was a teenager and was sitting on a desk and chair. Beside the teenager, there was also a middle-aged man standing by the desk. On the desk, there was a giant glass orb. One by one child would go and put their hands on the ball. After they would do that all the children would faint. But the middle-aged man would grab that fainting child and take him/her in the room.
Like 10 children at a time were tested. After 10 mins, all the children who fainted would come back out. And then after that batch of the other 10 children would be tested. Seeing this pattern Solaris understood why was this test happening in a hospital. But what he didn't get was why the hell were these people fainting all of the sudden?
Solaris's batch was the last batch of the children that would be tested. And Solaris was the last child that would be tested today. When Solaris 's turn came, the teenager looked at him and said…
"Touch the orb." The teenager said.
"That is it?" Solaris asked.
"Yes." The teenager replied.
Then Solaris touched the orb. As he did that, Solaris started feeling very dense energy had started entering his body. This energy was very very dense when compared to Qi back in the cultivation world. The energy felt like a living organism that had started roaming around his body from his brain to his heart. It went through all of his organs. When the energy moved in his body, the feeling it gave was comparable to as if a snake was roaming around inside your body.
Solaris had a very strong mind. But his body was very weak. So when the energy left his body, Solaris stepped back two steps. While he stepped back his head started spinning rapidly. His eyes started hurting. The middle-aged man was there to catch Solariswhen he finally faints. But to his surprise, Solaris never did. He took some steps back but he didn't faint. And this surprised both the teenager and the middle-aged man…
"Woah easy there… Are you fine? Do you feel like that you would faint?" the middle-aged man asked.
"No, I am fine… It is just that my head just spinning so I am feeling a little bit groggy…" Solaris said.
"Come with me. There is a bed in the room. You could sit down on the bed for a while." The middle-aged man said.
Then the man took Solaris inside the room. There he saw that there were 10 beds in the room. All the children that came with the Solarisin his batch were lying on these beds. That middle-aged man escorted Solaris to his bed. As Solaris sat down on the bed, the middle-aged man sat beside him…
"You would feel fine in just a few moments. Can you talk now? I would like to ask you some questions." The middle-aged man said.
"Yes?" Solaris said while massaging his head.
"What is your name boy?" the man asked.
"Solaris." He replied.
"How old are you?" the man asked.
"I am around 10-12 years old," Solaris said.
"You don't know how old are you?" the man asked.
"I have been an orphan for as long as I could remember. So I am not sure about how old I am." Solaris said
"Don't worry about it. You would be able to know how old are you once we get out of here. And congratulation boy. You will be going to garden with us." The man said.
"What garden?" Solarisasked.
"You know… Emerald Garden." That man said.
"And what might that be?" Solarisasked
"…" the middle-aged man looked at Solaris as he didn't understand whether the boy was joking with him or not.