Chapter 708 - Mechid Pathogen, The Nature of the Incoming Disaster (1/2)

Day 152 - 1:42 AM - Sanctuary, Catanduanes Mountains, Municipality of Bagamanoc, Catanduanes

After Nineteenth confirmed what the writings on her book were, everyone's attention became focused on it. It was information about the thing that was going to hit Earth soon. There was no way that anyone would not feel the urgency to know anything about it.

However, the first few pages had unexpected information.

Instead of the information about the planet the debris came from, it was a report of the first sighting of planetary debris.

”Wait a minute...” Mark's eyes fell on the date of the doc.u.mentation. ”They knew about it more than two months ago?”

That was right. The doc.u.mentation dated about two and a half months ago, and it seemed that even Fourth and Nineteenth were surprised by that fact. At the time that the Eyes knew nothing about the second wave yet. However, by the looks of it, the aliens knew about the planetary debris. It was even before the inhabitants of Earth knew about it.

Then, why did Professor Alston not tell Mark about this when they exchanged information with each other.

At that thought, Mark shook his head.

It was not that Professor Alston did not know. Mark never asked anything about something that he did not know would happen. That alien professor only answered Mark's questions, after all. Furthermore, it was not his duty to tell anyone about the incoming catastrophe.

Mark continued reading further. The report continued with the order to investigate the spotted debris.

”Hmm?” Diwata Iraya's eyes fell on some illegible words. ”What did that mean?”

Nineteenth's book did not display a concrete doc.u.ment in a single language. In fact, to the reader, it showed a language that they could easily understand. In Mark's case, the book was written in English. However, in the eyes of Diwata Iraya, it was written in the Spirit Language.

Still, Mark was also focused on the same word. No, rather than a word, it looked like random symbols packed together.

”My apologies.” Nineteenth lowered her head. ”The doc.u.ment was written in a language barely known to anyone on Earth. While I managed to translate it into a language everyone could understand, some words had no equivalent translation in any language on Earth.”

”Those symbols were the raw words from the doc.u.ment, then?”

Mark asked, and Nineteenth nodded.

Knowing this fact, Mark could only shrug. Even different languages on Earth had some words that were hard to translate into another language. It should not be surprising that there were untranslatable words on a doc.u.ment written in an alien language.

Because of the translation error, everyone could only skip those words. It made Mark remember the time when he was reading badly translated manhua. There was a whole lot of it, after all. When everything of those was gathered and counted together, it would make anyone think if the bad translations were done on purpose. It mostly happened on those Chinese comics, after all. The Japanese and Korean comics, manga and manhwa, barely had these issues after being translated.

Back to reading the doc.u.ments, Mark reached the part where the result of the investigation came in.

Unexpectedly, the first result report was about casualties. As it appeared, the investigation team that Professor Alston sent actually had casualties upon investigating the debris.

This made Mark frown.

That planetary debris did not only carry a different pathogen. It was actually carrying infected in space. Furthermore, the infected were actually capable of destroying a few investigatory space sh.i.p.s of the Graylings.

This was bad news.

Even so, Mark did not start to discuss that and continued to read instead.

Finally, Mark reached the concluded information. It was the report of where the planetary debris came from and what pathogen it carried.

Commercial Star - CS-11 Orbital Trade Station

It was an artificial planet intended to house an artificial race called Mecinas. While it housed the artificial race, the station was also to serve as a Space Trading Hub for space travelers and planetary merchants.

Mark had shivers. It was actually sounded too much from a Sci-fi story. However, he did not stop reading.

The artificial planet was quite small. It had a radius of just a little bit more than two thousand kilometers. It meant that it was just a bit larger than Earth's moon.

However, five hundred years ago, the CS-11 faced a catastrophe after its artificial atmosphere was breached by a large meteoroid.

This information made Mark remember what happened to Earth during the start of the outbreak.

As Mark expected, the meteor contained the pathogen that infected the inhabitants of the artificial planet.

Since it was a Trading Station, it was not only its first inhabitants, the Mecinas, were the ones infected. There were various races that became infected, causing the whole artificial planet to immediately fall into chaos.

It took only a month and all life was wiped out in that small artificial planet.

Being artificially made, however, the planet had its measures.

At the time that all life was extinguished due to a pandemic, the artificial planet was designed to self-destruct.

As such, it immediately exploded, trying to kill all the infected on its surface. It was unlike Eriellis. The planet that Freed came from exploded for unknown reasons, after all.

Unfortunately, there were some miscalculations in the self-destruct sequence. One part of the planet did not explode into smithereens after the supposed explosion did not happen in that area. Because of the explosion from the other areas of the artificial planet, it caused that large part to get hurled into space intact.

Many space organizations went to track that space debris. After all, it was a dangerous thing to be destroyed. However, it seemed to have entered a turbulent space area, causing everyone to lose sight of it.

Now, the very same lost debris reappeared and was hurtling towards Earth, with the surviving infected specimens on its surface.

Mark began to digest all this information as his eyes fell on the data about the Mecinas, the inhabitants of CS-11.

The Mecinas were artificial intelligent creatures created by an ancient race of aliens called Devinas. These artificial creatures were specifically made to monitor the Space Stations created by the Devinas.

Mecinas were half-organism, half-machine creatures. Although they appeared to be humanoids with bodies made of muscle tissues, their bodies had mechanical parts that allowed them to have various functions that a regular organism could not do.

This made Mark quite interested.

”In short, space androids, huh.”

Mark murmured.

He was not wrong.