Ch. 18

"Hasn't he joked around that you were after her?" Bernd asked mockingly in which Hans responded with an evil stare. "Yes he did but I am not interested and i think he knows that." Bernd was surprised by this answer. "Are you mad?" He asked "Look at her most guys would fall for her looks alone but she is also smart and all." "And that is the reason she isn't with you over there but with Wagner." Hans said to Bernd. "You know i am a nice guy." Bernd said while he was truly caught of guard. Herbert couldn't hold back a grin even trough the cigarette made him feel a bit dizzy.

After five minutes Karsten and Marie came back. Herbert couldn't help but think that Karsten looked angry. "Hey are you alright?" He asked Karsten "You know the whole time that I know you I thought that I take care of you but here we stand and you worry about me." Herbert was now officially confused but he didn't dare to ask him what he meant by that.

Marie pulled a cigarette out of her bag "Does everyone in this group get's cigarettes for free right now besides me" Bernd was truly pissed "Here have one of my sweet boy." She said flirty. Now Bernd could be counted as officially confused too. Seeing that she smiled and said "You know . . . monogamy isn't something for everyone." Karsten went with a slightly red face to Herbert who still had a slightly green face and said. "What do you mean? Do we call it a day?" Herbert got the feeling that the day tomorrow would be a tough day "Yeah I think that would be a good idea." So they both went to bed.

When Herbert got to bed he had a lot on his mind because of this day. The biggest worry was, what he got himself into because he thought that he would get a easy job with no worries and with zero weapons nearby let alone fire them himself and for a long time he felt like he was part of a group. But in the end he fell fast asleep because the day for him was very exhausting. Today he dreamed again.

He found himself again in a forest. It was dark and cold. Herbert did go somewhere but he didn't knew where he was going. He felt strange like he was inside of his own body but he wasn't the one controlling it. The young man went further and further into the forest and again he heard something but this time it wasn't a whisper but a shout.

A man shouted from fare away "Get down on your knees! NOW!" Herbert again didn't know why but he instantly started running into the direction where he heard the shouting. When he came closer to the shouting Herbert had to walk up a small hill of dirt and leaves and what he saw were three men with rifles aiming who again shouted at a young black-haired woman who stood there who did not look like she understood what these men wanted. Herbert wanted to get closer because he couldn't recognize what was going on, but before he could, someone shook him and he woke up again. "Wake up"

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At the same time in a excavation point in the west of the dominion close to Rainsburg someone asked "Mister Grüttemeier look at this. Do you think that this is what I think it is?" The man who asked gave something to Grüttemeier. "That depends. Do you think that this looks like some kind of writing tablet but that it is empty." The man nodded "Then you are right. But something is not right. As far as we know they just made those for for special Affairs and even though we don't know how they made them, we assume that they carved or what ever they did to those plates right after they or even while they created those tablets."

Than man nodded and said "Exactly that is what I thought, but what is if we just can't see or notice what is written on it?" "What do you mean? Something like invisible inc?" Grüttemeier asked "Not exactly. I noticed that they write the messages in different sizes. Sometimes the letters are larger and sometimes they are very small." The man explained "You mean that they somehow made letters that small that we can't read it?" Grüttemeier asked "Yes exactly." Them man sounded very exited. "Just touch the front of it. It fells rough. We cleaned the tablet three times because we thought that there was some kind of dirt or metal deposition till I got the idea that there are just very small letters on it"

"If we would talk about normal writings of other cultures, then I would be scared that we might have destroyed some of the information written on this plate but those plates are next to indestructible. I would recommend that we get a modern 3D scanner for this plate and maybe another high resolution camera just to be sure. "Grüttemeier nodded "Of course you will get the best tech that the market has to offer. No you will get better tech then the market has to offer but maybe i know a trick. If that trick works we save a lot of time."

"Could you bring me some very fine white dust?" The man was confused "What do we need fine white dust for?" "Quite simple we cant see the letters because they are small and they have no color with them we could distinguish the letters from the background so we first give them some color and maybe that is enough for us to see what is written on this tablet but the powder has to be very fine and maybe even sticky." Grüttemeier answered

"Ah I understand. How about some powdered milk?" The man suggested. "That would work but where would we get some powdered milk?" Grüttemeier asked "Simple our workers are allowed to cook and other stuff so they can relax a bit and my best man just wanted to make some chocolate it did't went well but we have some milk powder left." The man explained

"This is perfect. Get it now!" Grüttemeier couldn't hide his big smile