CHAPTER 56Jacquard stepped into the normal building as usual. He greeted everyone he crossed paths with as he was heading straight to his office. As he was going, he felt as if the whole world is watching him. Every single person he passed by both the seniors and the Junior officer was all looking back at him. Some greeted him with a smile while some, most especially the female returned his greeting as if they were forced to do so.He did not let their reactions to having any effect on him. He managed to get to his office and locked it. Before he entered his office he turned to check if the door opposite his office is open. The office was locked and no traces of anyone on the floor. It seems he was the only one on the floor. He asked himself where were the other staffs. Or where did they go? He tried to check the date and confirmed that the day wasn't a holiday. He ignored the feelings and entered his office. Upon getting to th
Jacquard dropped his resignation letter and stepped out of the conference room. Some of the people that were present were happy while it sadden some people. The chairman of the disciplinary committee was so unhappied about his decision. He felt he should reject the resignation letter, but he won't do that because of the other members of the committee. Among those people that were present at the meeting, the Chairman of the committee and the Chief Director were the only people that felt so unhappied and felt loosing someone like Jacquard was going to result to great lose which will undoubtedly have a bad effect on the effectiveness of work on he building.They had no choice than to accept his resignation letter. He can't he forced to do be doesn't love to done anymore. His decision must be respected. They both regretted within themselves that they made such to happen. They brought this upon the corporation. They had the chance to make thing right when it had not gotten to this level,
The following morning he left home as usual, he did not even inform her mother about what happened in the office and about his resignation. He was able to escape that just because his mother together with his uncle, Siyabong, both traveled to attend to some things in a nearby village. They were unable to return home that day. It was only Jack and Jacquard that were in the house. Both of them just ate whatever they met in the Kitchen and went straight to bed.Jacquard feelings were ambivalent. He felt happy and relieved because he believed he is free and out of bondage. He is no more surrounded by the set of people who always and will always pray for his downfall. He also felt bad about how he left the job. It was not in a good term. But above all, he was happy to be free. He thought about what is going to be his next move. He can't just sit down doing nothing. Even the law of the land won't allow him to stay indoors for too long except if he was sick or suffered from a terrible illn
Jacquard went home straight. By the time he got home, he met nobody inside. Everyone had gone out for their daily activities. He went to the kitchen to prepare himself a very good meal.He did that within twenty to thirty minutes and went inside to get prepared for the mission. He decided to rest till everywhere went dark. After everywhere was dark, he stepped out of the house, brought out a lamp, and drafted a map. He remembered he did that when he was studying then. After moving from one house to the other, he later found an opening that looked like an abandoned well. He tied a rope to the nearby three and use that to slide down into the hole. After getting to the hole, he then threw back the remains of the rope in the hole to the surface to prevent getting people's attention. He successfully get into the hole and turned on the lamp with him. With the light on which really gave him a brighter view of where he was, looking forward he definitely affirmed that he is on the right pat
But that man from unit 9? Jay oh, one of the kids that Jacquard teaches, was right. The guy was just plain stupid. And besides, General Lane probably did not understand what these books represented. This was the inherited knowledge of mankind! If this was not stopped here, where would it stop? Only a librarian and Knowledgeable people, the scholars, could understand just how important it was. Suddenly in the distance, Jacquard heard a sound. The soft whoosh of an automatic door opening. For a moment a shaft of pale light cut through the gloom. As quickly as it appeared, it was gone. Jacquard frowned. If the thief had entered the room, the light should be coming on. But they were not. Maybe it was not the thief after all. Maybe someone had walked by and the door had opened automatically. Or maybe the thief had started to enter, but somehow sensed Jacquard's presence. There was no way to know. Whoever it was, was gone. He paused for a while, " I was told there were
The vast majority of what was once Abasia Kingdom was now underground. There were remnants of the ancient world left. The lions outside the Abasia Kingdom Public Library, the Silver- cald Empire State Building, and other monuments, and buildings. But the city was mostly a maze of tunnels and underground chambers that extended hundreds of feet deep and contained thousands of miles of corridors. For the most part, the underground was as bright and cheerfully lit as the outdoors. Beautiful iridescent murals covered the walls, and the nearly unlimited power sources available to the society meant that being underground never meant feeling as if you were in a cave.Well. . . Rarely. For about an hour, Jacquard had been tracking the thief who narrowly escaped. The thief left with a book. He did not know the title but he felt it will definitely be one of the ancient books. He went straight to the shelf as if it was pointed to him. He felt unrest. After the whole thing, still, none of the
After he was done chasing a thief and felt his efforts are fruitless, he decided to try again tomorrow. He turned to take his leave. As he was moving backward, he suddenly stopped. Looking confusedly, he did not know where he was and how to return back to the surface. He was there looking around, trying his best to recollect the path he took while he was running after the theif. He was just running after the thief without taking note of those path he took. Now he is lost. He was not even sure if he was still within the walls of Abasia Kingdom but he was so sure that it is impossible for an underground like this to connect with any kingdom or vilages. He said to himself, if such could happened, then the security of the kingdom will easily get comprised. Abasia Kingdom dugged those underground to prevent and protect her people from the effect and radiation from those giant machines and also to protect his heritage and keep his power source out of people. People can have access to the
The class arrived at the wilderness preserves early the next morning and disembark from the bus. As soon as they had unload their packs full of gear, the bus sped away.Jacquard had realized that a field trip to the preserve was actually the perfect answer. First, by bringing his class in the guise of an "educational filed trip," he would be granted access to the park so that he could recover the stolen book. But even more important, he would have the entire class with him. He hoped that during the course of the field trip, he would be able to figure out who had been to the park before, and that would tell him who had been to the park before, and it would be a nice break for the rest of the students to have some time outside. Often people grew so accustomed to the pace of daily life underground that they stopped coming above the surface to enjoy the beauty to behold there. As far as Jacquard was concerned, reminding his students of life up here was a helpful lesson for them. Okay, e