After having lunch with joe and Noah. We walked back to the building. I needn't to ask about lawrence because as soon as we entered the cafeteria everyone eating inside was having hot gossip on this particular person. I found out that the person I am looking for might be him . I just need to meet him to confirm.
" Thanks for the meal " I smiled as I showed my gratitude. Thanks to you both now i can easily look for lawrence.
" I wanted to continue our talk but we need to be present somewhere after lunch break" joe said with disappointed look.
" Let's go " Noah pulled joe to walk with him.
" Let's meet again " I waved my hand.
Okay now let's go back to my room. I walked to the elevator but suddenly someone shouted my name.
" Ashu"
I looked back at the source of the voice. It belong to a tall women. She had mask on her face with a hat shadowing her eyes. She was wearing black jacket and blue jeans. Looking at her and the way she called my name.
" Ashu you are here " she walked to me. " F* it was hard to sneak in city m then I thought."
" Ashley ?" I had doubts.
" Hi Ashu " she squeezed me in her warm hug.
" How did you get pass the security?" I removed myself from her suffocating hug and looked at Ashley.
" Easy" she winked at with her signature pose.
I chuckled as I was feeling relax after things happening around me.
" You look exhausted. Are you taking care of yourself? " Ashley slid down her mask to chin.
I nodded.
" Let's catch up to things we are missing " Ashley said as she walked to back exit of building. I just followed her behind.
Though I didn't expect that she would be able to come in city m but maybe she had grown since I first met her.
Ashley that I first met was sociophobic and isolated from other worldly things . Thanks to her I survived being sent to laboratories for experiment. Thanks to her abilities she could sneak in any place and hack them she saved me. I owe her my life. She took care of me and trained me to be independent. I still don't know why she who hates interacting with strangers refugeed an stranger like me. But if I ask she only says that because I reminded someone to her. Her real identity is Mistry too. Who she is and where did she used to live and what her origins are? These are nothing but unsolved question that I dare to ask. They might her feelings that she had buried.
" Look you need to be careful" Ashley stood in front of another person. " People might be suspicious of you "
I looked at this said person who was wearing causal cloths and black glasses with hairs in a ponytail style.
Ben? He looks different than before.
" Look like I said you are more suspicious looking then me " ben said as he slid up his glasses with his middle finger. " What's with that mask and hat? I told you it's more susceptible"
" Is that so? Then why are you wearing black glasses? " Ashley sneered at him.
" Of course this much is normal " Ben said proudly.
What? They look like kids competing. I was little worried when I was sending Ben to Ashley. I thought with Ashley not being social with others they won't work well with each other but turns out they get alone well. Maybe it's because they both have common interest. 'Introvert '
No wonder Ben always messed up because everyone around him was lively and chatty.
He was also isolated when he was young so he doesn't like to be in crowds and as Ashley lives in isolation that must have intrigued there relationship.
Anyway it's a good thing as long as they are more efficient with their work.
There hot argument quickly come to end and Ashley took out a suitcase from car.
" If it wasn't because of the apocalypse I wouldn't have come personally " Ashley complained.
" How is this?" She opened the suitcase .
" Is this what you told me before? "
"Yes " She proudly said while patting her chest.
Looking at the suit robe in the suit case. I picked it and wore it. My body felt light as I walked.
"What do you think?" Ashley asked as she was waiting for my answer. " I know the last suit was destroyed but this is different"
I fisted in the air to see as mentioned by Ashley this one is different. My movement and reactions seems to have increased but I needed something else. Ashley knew what I was thinking.
" I have upgraded this suit with an ability to conceal the tracks of wearer. No one will locate your tracks as long as you are wearing this suit " she said. " And with the help of ben we have made a connecting device so you can contact me and ben whenever and wherever and once I go back I will upgrade it with jack too so we can be in touch."
Now this is what I needed.
" By the way you can also hide your presence from the world window too but it's one time use so be careful when using it " Ashley happily explained me other benefits.
Now that I think about it looks like I am holding and A grade item from game's perspective. And what's more it's one time use but it's worth. I need to use it when I need it the most!
After talking about suit.
Ashley opened the private channel to connect with lily.
" Lily wanted to inform you on the situation personally"
Soon the channel connected and a virtual screen appeared with lily's figure.
" Ash " lily waved her hand . " This means both Ashley and ben were able to safely sneak in "
" Yes we did " Ashley answered.
" That's good but don't come back " lily said " I have found some hidden secrets of City m"
" What did you find? " there was not much information on city m as it was hard to get through security alarms.
" The hidden tunnel underground the city m "
"Hidden tunnel underground the city m? Are you talking about the underground route used by professor and principal only."
I saw that tunnel when I came to city m with that omega professor. I don't remember his name.
" Yes have you seen that ?" Lily asked me.
" When I came here the city gates were already shut so some professor guided me through that tunnel to enter in city m "
" Oh that's how but that's not all to that " she said " you know I am currently at grandpa's headquarters and I found some secret documents"
Oh yes I remember she went to Jupiter with aunt Jia before I came here.
" So what did you find?"
" I can't read the documents they are written in strange symbols but it guides to the hidden tunnel inside the city m" she seemed confused like she was looking at this document and telling what she understood.
" Do you have those documents at hand?"
" Yes one second . I made copy when looking at them so look here " she showed the documents.
".... " I remember these symbols cause they were game language letters but I didn't need to learn them just to play game and only hard fan like player remembered everything from game and I just need to play game . This is funny cause why learn them when the game automatically translate in your language!
But this is worst and I need to find a translator for this!
" I can read this" Ben said out of nowhere.
" What!?!" Both lily and I were surprised but Ashley didn't seem fazed .
" This is foreign galaxy language" Ashley said.
Oh right both of them were originally from an other galaxy.
" But why is such a noble language here?" Ashley pondered.
Noble language?
"Whatever the reason is. This seem to be not something simple and there is only one way to know " lily nodded as she offered her thoughts. " Maybe grandpa knows but we need to find it ourselves."
Maybe this was the reason the military people were gathering awekens inside city m! But what's the reason.
It's a story we don't know and some how I have feeling that I needed to know what was behind this story. If I want to know I have to dig in.
" Ashley and Ben you must have understand why lily asked you to stay " I looked at both of them.
" You don't mean to send me there!" Ben seemed to hate the idea of going there. Of course its not easy to sneak in city m but they some how manage to but that doesn't mean they can sneak in the hidden tunnel too.
" It's risky and you know both government and military are keeping eye in city m" Ashley lazyly said .
" I know but we all know ..." I laughed at their silly excuses "this is the way we operate"
With Ashley's ability to sneak in and ben's intelligence they can make it! What's more this can be some hidden secret inside the game!
" A ! Now that Ashu has said this i can't step back " Ashley stretched her one arms.
" Do I have choice ?" Ben asked putting his glasses on his head.
" Noway we are going together " Ashley circled her arm around Ben's shoulder.
" So it's decided " I turned back. " Lily tell jack that I am leaving other things to him until I come back to him okay ?"
I wanted to say this before but because I came rushing so I couldn't leave my message to him.
" Okay I will tell him and.." lily stopped speaking half way.
" What's more?" I asked but the line was suddenly cut off.
" Oh ! It's already reached to the time limit" Ashley closed the private channel.
" So it has time limit too ?"
" Yes and you can talk for five minutes no more and once a day " Ben said the rest .
Already with advance technology. It's hard to hide traces but this is quite the challenging invention even for current system!
Talking about system, rose has still not appeared.
I wonder what's happening up there?
I had a brief discussion on what to do next with Ashley and Ben as I was leaving for dungeon quest soon. Of course I didn't say I was participating cause I can't tell anyone about my awekening or else my plan will fall apart.
I went back to my apartment. I seem to forget something as I walked inside and changed into my slippers. Why is it so dark? I complained as I turned the lights on.
I feel so tired after the long day and rose has not appeared yet! She said the first dungon will appear soon.
I walked back to my room.
Wait a minute. I stopped in front of my dorm room .
Yesterday I left the apartment for a reason.
Why? I walk back but then I felt too tired to think so I just let my tired body lead me inside the bedroom.
I took a hot shower to relax my body. I laid down on the bed with still half dried hairs and fell into deep slumber.
The next morning I woke up as usual and took a shower and changed into other cloths.
I walked out of my room and the sweet smell of homemade food welcomed my nose. I was literally drooling over the food smell I walked into the kitchen.
I see a handsome man setting up breakfast.
I peeped from the door and did not dare to walk in. I remember that day I was going to change my apartment but many things happened and in all I forgot to do for what I left.
" Don't just stand there and peep "
I was caught peeping at him.
I felt awkward.
" Are you making breakfast?" I looked at food on the table.
"Hmm" he nodded and turned to grab the plates and placed on the tables. I see two plates.
"I made lots you can have some " he moved one plate to my side.
" Ah ? " I was confused for this change.
" You don't like mushrooms? " He thought I did want to eat .
"No" I said and quietly sit down beside him and ate the food he made. It didn't taste like professional cooks but still was one of the best dish that I had.
Maybe mushrooms are my favourite? No no why does his personality looks different than I last met him?
What's happening?
To be continued...