120 What He Encountered Six Years Ago (1/2)

Day 4 – 6:07 PM – Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church, Lakeville Subdivision, Molino VII, Bacoor City, Cavite

Everyone saw that flash of purple light from Mark's house and they were all flabbergasted seeing how the infected around the area were agitated after that flash of light happened. They could not help but look at Mark with confusion.

”Gege, what is that light?”

Mei asked Mark, voicing the words in everyone's mind at the moment.

Mark on the other hand was having a hard time to answer that question. He recognized that flash of light since he had seen it several times before.

It was six years ago when he experienced a very spectacular event that would surely not happen once again even if he reincarnated.

At that day six years ago, he was walking home after college. He was running late at that time because they had to chase of the deadline of their thesis. Because of the time they finished their work which was almost eleven in the evening, it was hard to find a passenger vehicle to commute and as such, he had to walk all the way home.

In eagerness to reach his house faster, he strayed away from the main road and went towards several secluded streets for a shortcut. In the end, he saved a lot of time going through those dangerous streets. Even though those places were dangerous due to being secluded and the lack of people, he was not fazed. It he was to ask, with his face, he was the one who would look like a criminal. Some of the people walking at those streets even tried to stay away from him as he passed by.

One of the areas he passed by that time was a wide undeveloped plot of land with a dirt path going through it. Aside from the dirt path, the place was covered with grass and trees. Walking through that plot of land looked scary. Nevertheless, he walked through like it was nothing. He had several more frightening encounters when he was a child as such, walking through a place like that would be nothing. He also did not expect that something would happen.

Mark was wrong at that time however…

There was a flash of light in the sky which he learned later that it came from the explosion of the large meteorite after a missile from the United States hit it. That flash illuminated the dark sky as if it was day time for several seconds. That was not the issue however. After the meteorite exploded, he saw quite a number of balls of light flashing across the sky like dragon balls scattering across the world. One of those balls of light and the biggest one were actually heading straight towards him.

Thinking that it was a dangerous thing, he started to run away. He managed to get out of the plot and watched the falling ball of light. The ball of light fell into the plot of land but the explosion he expected however did not happen. Out of curiosity, he went back and saw the actual appearance of the ball of light exactly at the place where he stood before while watching the sky.

At that place, he saw a double terminated crystal with a vivid violet color defying the laws of physics and was floating about three feet in the air while flashing a violet colored light. Around the double terminated crystal, there were three marble sized sphere crystals circling around.

Fascinated by the sight, Mark subconsciously moved closer. He then saw that while one of the sphere crystals had the same appearance as the double terminated crystal, the other two did not. The two had the same vivid violet color outside but he could see a golden orb glowing inside one and while there was a red orb glowing inside the other.

Mark went closer even more to inspect the odd crystals but he did not expect that the crystal with the golden orb would fly towards him. He tried to dodge but the crystal kept on following. Without any other choice, he caught the crystal with his bare hands. Managing to catch it, he felt relieved just to see the crystal crumble into golden wisps of light and entered his body.

He panicked a bit as he was caught off guard by the event. Seeing something unknown enter your body was an experience anyone would panic to. Feeling that there was nothing wrong with his body, he felt a bit relieved but it still bothered him.

He then approached the remaining floating crystals but none of them behaved the same way as the one that flew towards him. Mark then took off his jacket and wrapped the crystals with it bringing the crystals home. He did not understand why he did it but he just thought of bring it home for no apparent reason at that time.

After arriving home, he removed the crystals from the jacket and all of it continued to behave the same way when he found them. The bigger crystal floated three feet from the ground while the smaller crystals flew around the larger one in an orbit. He tried touching the two other sphere crystals but nothing happened. With that, he encased the crystal except for the one with a red glow in a large glass sealed jar. The crystals inside the jar continued to behave the same way hovering at the center of the jar.

The bizarre crystals became one of his precious collections. However, due to the bizarreness of the crystals, he did not dare display it or someone might see it accidentally and just hid the jar inside the closet.

That night however, he fell ill. He had fever for the whole night. He was afraid that it was because of the crystal that entered his body but he recovered the next morning. Due to being fan of manga, anime and video games, he also thought that the crystal would give him some sort of ability. Nonetheless, the crystal did not seem so end he felt like an idiot for trying out several things like some spider dude before he learned to shoot webs.

Thus, he continued his normal life then. A normal life staying as far away from places with many people due to him feeling exhausted for staying at those places for a long time.

However, one thing that made him happy was that his exhausted mind would feel revitalized after going home ever since he found the crystals.

Time passed and he felt that he was starting to develop a sort of dislike in overly populated places and he would feel exhausted even faster. That was when he learned that he was an Empath and his ability in that field was growing.

A year later, another bizarre thing happened at the crystals at the jar. Mark saw a bright purple light seeping out of his closet flashing several times. When he checked, he saw another marble sized crystal inside the jar aside from the previous one. And thus, six years later, there were now six marble sized crystals floating around the larger crystal.

Back to the current time, Mark could not think of any reason for the crystals for flash that bright light at this moment in time. It was not the time for it to produce another marble sized crystal. Furthermore, that flash was obviously brighter than the previous circumstances even baffling him some more.

Unless, those crystals had some relation to the outbreak which Mark found hard to imagine.

The crystals appeared six years ago and the outbreak started four days ago. The only thing that could link the two was that both circumstances originated from a meteorite coming from space.

Mark suddenly woke up from his deep thinking as he saw a small hand waving in front of his face while he contemplated.

”Can you move your hand away from my face?”

Mark looked at Emika who was gleefully making fun of him.

”Hehe, I thought Scary Uncle was sleeping.”

Emika hurriedly pulled her hand back.

”Gege, is something wrong?”

Mei worriedly asked which made Mark shook his head.

”I'm just thinking why that flash of light happened.”

”Then Boss, you don't know what made that flash of light?”

Melissa interjected.

”Actually, I know what caused it. But it shouldn't create a bright flash like that and not at this time of the year.”

Everyone stared at him with askance.