Chapter 2

Damon... He was my closest friend. He was the only person my age that I had been close to since I was born. He was four years older than me and had lived on earth for some time. He settled on Mars after his family died.

Our families were very close, I could even say we grew up together. His family was part of the same community as mine. The community that comes together to protect life on Earth.

Our families died the same year, in the same uprising. I wasn't even on the list because I didn't appear to exist when the children left behind were taken to the planets.

Damon used to come to me every time he came on duty. He would try to convince me, say the world was destroyed.

I wish he was with me instead of telling me these things.

As soon as I entered the forest path, I opened the window of the helmet. I had reason enough to smile as I inhaled the oxygen. I was very happy to be able to breathe enough.

My smile faded when the warning of low energy came from the engine. The last time I changed the energy capsule was three months ago, and the seller promised that six months would be enough.

When I got home, I got off the motorcycle, swearing at the seller. The lights came on as I climbed the wooden stairs in twos and entered the patio. When the door opened, I took off my helmet and went inside. I left my helmet on the table as the door closed. The windows went into night mode when I snapped my finger.

I took the stairs to go upstairs. As I was about to go upstairs and enter the bathroom, a light emanated from my room. The moment I frowned and headed there, I knew it was Damon's game. He would scare me into thinking this place is unreliable, but they don't eat it.

Knowing this, I gave up entering the room and went into the bathroom. When I extended my hand towards the water to wash my hands, it did not flow and the screen in the mirror turned on. When it showed that the water level was low enough for me to consume just by drinking it, I reached for the screen in anger.

I had to apply to raise the water level. Or I could have resorted to illegal means as usual.

I wiped my hands with a wet tissue and left the bathroom and headed to my room. I didn't know what kind of game Damon prepared, but all I wanted was to change my clothes and eat.

The moment I passed through the door, a strong wave came towards me and I was thrown backward and crashed into the wall. My eyes darkened the moment my head hit the wall, and my mind was shut as I collapsed to the ground.

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"Final warning! Unidentified human detected in. Last ten, nine to stop the call to reinforcements..."

I opened my eyes. The wave that hit my body was still hurting me.

I frowned. I looked around with my eyes slightly ajar. I thought I saw a silhouette. My vision wasn't clear yet.

I blinked a few times as I tried to stand up, dizzy, and as I was about to fall to my knees again, someone grabbed my arm.

My back hit the firewall at the door as I threw myself back with a scream that escaped from my lips.

Out of breath, I lifted my wrist. I could have swiped my ID and exited the firewall. So this unidentified person would be stuck inside and the cops would come and get him.

The cops... The cops shouldn't have come.

"...3." Said the digital voice. Three seconds to call reinforcements. Reinforcements were notorious for arriving on the scene within minutes.

If I was caught, I would be sent to another planet.

Before I could even see the face of the stranger in my house, I hurried to the warning wall.

"One." When he said that, I entered the password and read the digital ID on his wrist.

"Call to support forces has ended. To call support, you can leave your complaint on line 901. We wish for limited lives on planet Earth."

When I hit the screen with the last thing the voice said, a voice came from behind me. It was like a cough, the cough of a man's voice.

I just stayed with my hand on the screen, I couldn't turn around.

There was a stranger in my house.

There was an unidentified person.

If someone broke into someone's house on any planet, their ID would be scanned at the entrance, this would happen automatically. In the last two hundred years, the security of new home systems has increased by a thousand percent.

The person at my house was the unidentified one.

Everyone born in this world would have an innate identity, it would be registered in his body. Whether you die or not. Mine was a little illegal, but things in the world were not as clean as it seems.

"It's going to be a little difficult for him to understand." said the voice behind me. He was a young man, his voice uncertain and worried.

"I come from the past." He said, my eyes wide with fear. "I can't explain it any easier, it's best if you learn directly."

I wanted to turn around, look at his face, but I was stiff.

How could this be possible, even in the present world, when there was no travel to the future?

"I don't know why I came here, but I should have been ten years ahead of my lab. Only ten years…" His voice began to sound even more worried. "I want to take off the mask, I can't breathe. Is the virus still there?"

At that moment, I found myself returning to him. The virus was last seen on Earth a thousand years ago. It was called Coronavirus, it was mentioned in history books as a hundred years old. Because the virus was a lie, it was a mutated disease from viruses that were introduced once in a century. It was a lie that was made up and spread to reduce the population in the world, to control it. Coronavirus ruled the world for three years, they killed half the population, and the truth came out a hundred years later. A hundred years later, when the improved version of the same virus was released to the world, people woke up this time. Because the era was the beginning of the technology era at that time. Now it's the end.

Across from me was a man in his twenties, pulling at the strings of his useless masks he wore in layers. He had black hair, black eyes, and a pointed chin. His eyes were small and his nose was shaped.

In the present time, people's appearances have also changed. I learned all of them from the books that have the status of historical artifacts left in the world. There was not much left to do in the world but read books. Other planets were far ahead of their time. Papers, prints, and books were not for them. All the books were in the world. Digital copies are on all planets.

In ancient times, people's eyes, mouth, nose, and face... Everything was much smaller. The ones of today's people were a little bigger, of course, in proportion to our body structure. So was theirs, but it looked very different to me. Eyes that were so tiny next to mine…

He had already taken off these masks. That's how I could see the facial features. I think he was relieved to see that I wasn't wearing a mask.

"I can not breathe." He tried to take a deep breath. "I wonder if it's one of the side effects of traveling to the future? By my calculations, it should have been just minor symptoms like nausea, dizziness."

He brought my hand to his stomach and puffed up his cheeks. "I think I have to vomit."

I was still staring at him with my mouth half-open. He was talking to himself, but he was telling me.

"Where's the bathroom?" He asked, pressing his hand over his mouth. "I'm going to puke in your room."

I quickly swiped the firewall, and the unbreakable glass wall faded and disappeared. Inside the glass wall were laser beams.

"Go out into the hallway, the door is open." I could finally say, that was the first sentence I ever made to him.

Shaking his head, he approached, and I quickly moved away from him to the other end of the room. He ran out the door and made his way to the bathroom. I looked behind me.

There was someone from the past in my house.

He thought it was only ten years from the year he was, but he was wrong. Probably a thousand years later.

How did it come?

How could this be possible?