238

It's a scrambled message full of nonsensical characters, and you wonder what its purpose is. Is it a prank, or worse, a message containing some kind of virus? You scan it with your phone's anti-virus program and discover nothing within. That doesn't mean anything though, and you read through the message for a while, trying to figure out what it is. After a while, you decide to run it through your phone's military decryption application (standard issue for military personnel, in case they receive orders that should not be seen by the public) to see what it might contain.

At this point, you luck out slightly: it takes a while, but eventually the message is decoded into something that you can read, but it still doesn't make sense. A thought jumps into your mind as you read the message, however: whoever sent you this message not only knew that you have a decryption program, but also sent it coded in that specific decryption. You wonder who it is, even as you try and make heads or tail of the message, which reads as follows:

First incident reveals sincere truth, Massive evolution emminent today, Metropolis efficient, Altruism tenable, Connection orienal reach and save my eminence, Save his opalescent petrified pelican in negligible grain, Malignant animal lives long, Attention tenable, Time wasted endlessly not time yielded, Time was omitted, Heave under nature's discretion remain eternally depressed! Courage onerous maliciously earned, Aim lateral ominous never egregious, Animosity negated definitely, Infernal nocturnal forces odious random matter adroit timed into overwhelming nations, Wave in laxative lingerie, Bees enormous, Proceed retreat omit various instances dangerously elegant dandy, Under penalty onto nosferatu, Ambitious rich regent into vicious amorphous legislative!

You stare at the message for a while, wondering what it is, then your phone rings again and you answer it. "Hey! Where are you?" Larry asks, and you tell her, wanting to put the message out of your mind for now.

Even so, it lingers within your thoughts, forcing you to wonder about it.

Next