61 First Contac (2/2)
”Oh, we're actually a wandering actor troupe! We're performing a fantasy story taking place in a mystical land” Joshua quickly replied.
”Oh really, what's your troupe's name?”
'Stop asking questions!', Joshua thought and replied ”The Fellowship of the Runes!”
”Nice! What's your play about?”
”Well hmm, it's about a group of people who…” Joshua began.
”I'm sorry, Mister Smith, the play is still in preparation and the story is confidential!” Eric interjected.
”I see, a pity but that makes sense. Let me know where and when you'll perform and I'll definitely come and see your play.”
'Lord Joshua, calm down. You're being dragged in the flow of his ridiculous conversation.'
'I suppose I am. Thanks for interfering. Even for me, this situation is getting too absurd, this guy has more loose screws than me. I feel like I'll be banging my head against the wall in a few minutes if we don't take control of things.'
Eric grinned and said: 'I understand your frustration. To be honest, I sometimes get a similar impression from hearing you talk. And yet, once brave enough to traverse of your nonsense you would always be rewarded by finding a source of wisdom. You just have to watch your step carefully.'
'That's… oddly accurate. But I do it willingly, this guy is just spouting nonsense.'
'Mostly but he still said something interesting', Eric replied before turning toward Lucien, ”Mister Smith, can you tell us more about your memory losses? You referred to them as a Wiping. Is that some sort of illness?”
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”Oh dear, Mister Sumthing, did you have a Wiping too recently? It's a pretty frequent phenomenon. A person loses consciousness and when they wake up, they suffer from amnesia. Usually, the missing memory period is rather short, like a few hours. But in some more extreme cases, it can wipe out months or even years of a person's existence. It can randomly happen to anyone and our researchers cannot pinpoint the cause. If you had one recently, you should probably consult a doctor.”
Frequent amnesia everyone is suffering from? That was clearly unnatural. Joshua immediately scanned Lucien's body. His body rank was a mere rank one and while he couldn't scan his soul without installing a client rune in their brain he doubted it was ranked. This guy was too dumb to form a soul world anyway. There was, however, a treasure to be found inside his brain.
”Holly Molly!” he said out loud.
As expected, the limiting rune was present in his brain. However, that wasn't all. An enormous complex rune was spanning through the entirety of his brain matter. In fact, the limiting rune Joshua had so much trouble to dismantle seemed to be a mere subpart of this monstrous rune.
'Luna, copy this in my library, I need to fully analyze it!'
[Copying rune…]
[Process completed.]
[Attempting to match with existing patterns...]
[22% of patterns recognized. Unable to determine the use of the rest without more data. ]
'Ha, looks like this guy had a use after all. I wonder if the two corpses had the same pattern. Stuff happened so fast, I didn't even have time to analyze them properly.'
Persuaded he obtained all he needed from Lucien, he left the conversation up to Eric and turned toward the two bodies.
He quickly spotted the drape they had put them under. The problem was that the two dead fellows, who were still there a minute ago were nowhere to be seen.
”Wha…?” he mumbled while pulling on Eric's sleeve.
Eric, who was trying to change the subject from Lucien's favorite cheese to something more relevant slowly turned his head. He saw Joshua's finger-pointing toward the corner of the room. Upon seeing the empty corner, he looked at Joshua and they both stared at each other with a similarly confused expression.
”Is there anything normal in this place?” Eric said.
Before Joshua could answer, however, Luna's radar beeped. Something was approaching the house at great speed, probably a similar vehicle that Lucien had used. Ignoring Lucien, they both ran upstairs.
'I'll go take a look! You guys stay hidden!' Joshua transmitted to everyone while running outside. Closing the door behind him, he quickly dismissed his body and flew toward the vehicle.
He quickly arrived near it, the vehicle parked itself near the house. Two people were inside, a man and a woman. Of course, Joshua recognized them. They were the recently deceased Clarisse and Henry Bloom, who were happily coming home as if nothing had happened after their bodies had just vanished from their basement.