Ben and Conan returned to the city, upon returning Ben sighed for having achieved nothing and even facing some major issues.
" You can stay here today if you feel tired." Ben offered.
" Nah, there is no need for that. I am not tired, I will go back to the hotel."
Ben opened the garage for Conan to take his bike, he sat on his bike and was about to leave.
" Hey, I want to be a Traveler too. Will you take me with you after 6 months when you leave?" Ben asked abruptly.
Conan was a little surprised by what Ben asked of him, he thought that maybe it was because of him that Ben was saying such a thing or he was just doing this on a whim.
" It's dangerous, you will lose your citizenship here. So say it only if you are serious." Conan made things clear. " And also I am sorry but I would like to travel alone, even if it's you who is a friend of mine, I would still prefer to travel alone."
" I am serious Conan, I was going to leave one of these days. I thought it would be a good thing if I travel with a friend." Ben replied. " It's alright if we don't go together but can you please at least help me with one thing."
" What is it?" Conan asked, he was trying to discourage ben if he was just deciding this on a whim but the latter was serious about this.
" Can you please train me and tell me about the things that I should know before becoming a traveller?" Ben said with a little hesitation. " I will pay you if you want."
" Are you going to pay me for everything?" Conan laughed, " Since the day we have met you are just compensating me for this and that. This time, I should do something that a friend must do, I will help you this much and make you fit enough to travel."
Conan patted his shoulders and then left Ben with a smile on his face. Ben entered his house and started to arrange things, he took out some keys from his waist bag and opened a room. It was his room where he made and designed his equipments.
The room was messy, there were various blueprints inside the room, and he could see some tools on the floor that he may have forgotten to pick up last time he had come here. He put the broken potato gun in a black cardboard box and then opened another box. The box contained real guns which he had never used before and even some blueprints.
Guns may not be effective against people like Yelena nowadays but against normal people, they are still very effective. After the threat of the outsider, humanity banned the use of firearms. Guns didn't work against them and were not able to protect them against that threat which wiped out eighty per cent of humanity's population.
The guns were no threat to the enemy but were a big threat to humans so their production was banned and even military personnel were prohibited from using them. Ben put the box back and closed the door to the room again.
" You returned." A man wearing the hat of a chef walked down the stairs and spotted ben.
" Uncle, you are still awake."
" I just came after closing the bakery maybe you were in that room once again. Where have you been before this?" His uncle asked.
" I was hanging out with a friend."
" Answer me, Ben, I will not be angry at you. I looked all around the city and you were not found anywhere."
" I was out of the city," Ben answered.
" You! You know that is a crime, you are just a normal citizen and I am sure that you didn't have any permit either."
" I didn't get caught."
" It's no use arguing with you, well whatever. You can eat if you want there must be something in the fridge." Ben's uncle rubbed his head.
" Uncle I want to talk to you about something, please let's sit there" Ben gestured towards the sofas in the hall, Ben's uncle sat on one of the sofas and Ben went on to bring something to drink.
" What is it, boy? You said you didn't get caught so what's the trouble?"
" Nothing, I am just thinking of becoming a traveller." Hearing Ben's words his uncle stopped drinking for a few seconds and then in one gulp drank everything in the glass.
" I will not stop you, Ben, I have no right to stop you."
" You have the right to stop me, uncle."
" Then, don't do it."
" I need to do it, I want to find out what happened to my father. Every year he sends me money but never calls me, he had never talked to me for many years. I just can't stay here anymore without knowing anything about him. I am going to find him and have him answer my question and for that, I want to travel."
" You don't even know where to find him."
" I will search the entire world if I have to."
" Then good luck." Ben's uncle said and left after drinking one more glass.
' I can't travel with Conan as he said so I will have to make sure that I am at least ready to travel by myself. However, where would I find dad, What if he doesn't even want me to find him?' Ben put both his hands on his face thinking about the future, in his mind he was devising a plan for various possibilities in the future if he decides to become a traveller or tried to find his dad.
After thinking for a while he slapped his cheeks with both of his hands. " I should Calm down, there is no benefit in overthinking things."
Just as he was about to go to sleep, his phone started to ring. It was an unknown and secured number but he decided to answer the call anyway.