Allen, having lost almost all of his memories, said to himself “….. I am a farmer. I don’t know when I started farming, neither what is the name of this area. But I know this is the domain from the real world and I, now the farmer Allen, am going to explore it.”
Allen went to his farm and watered the plants already buried in it. The weather was also turning quite bad, and then the rain started. He took refuge inside a home next to the barn.
“This is probably my home,” Allen said to himself.
There was nothing in his mind that he could remember about this world except what he was trying to analyze from the things. The farm was basically empty except that… there was a knocking on the door right now.
He got up to open the door, and there was a young woman. He assumed she was looking for a shelter.
“Lady, are you looking for a shelter?”
“I am indeed looking for a shelter, but… lady? Who are you saying this to?” The woman said to him.
Allen looked down at his feet for a second and then replied, ”I am indeed calling you a lady. If you want shelter, you can stay inside the room and I will go take shelter inside the barn. There is quite a lot of…. hay there….” He remembered some things about the farm while talking to her.
He left the room after saying that, however, he soon noticed that the woman was following him. Allen got quite alarmed and hurriedly came inside the farmhouse and locked its door. Soon, the steps of the woman stopped outside the locked door and shook it. And she said… ”How come you closed the door?”
“…. Lady, of course, I am going to close it. Why have you followed me here? If you need anything… you can just tell me or use the kitchen as you please?”
There was silence, and then the footsteps went away.
‘That was weird…. Also, there is indeed hay here as I remembered. Now that almost night has fallen, I also remember where the light buttons are.’
Allen shut the lights down and slept in the middle of the hay that was present there. The barn was covered securely…. he did not check but kind of got the feeling…
Only after a few hours that he slept, he heard a window opening loudly with a chee sound, probably not opened for a long time and hence had become a little stuck… more important than that… a window opening could only be done by a human and other than him, the only person who was present right now was that woman. He didn’t know what in the seven skies did she intend to do. If she wanted to, it should have not been difficult to harm him, when she first saw him.
Allen looked around the farm and some things that he did not remember before made sense to him now. He worked with the newly gathered information and he figured that the only place that could have been opened was around 15 meters away; it was a window on the second floor… it needed a key to be opened.
‘Only the owner of the house should have known where the keys are kept…’
Allen heard some footsteps approaching him and he didn’t know what should he do. Fight her? Because of what?
He tried to move here and there around some strange equipment that he could remember nothing about. He called out a few times, trying to figure out what the other person wanted, but there was not much of a response.
Finally, he could bear no more and said ”LADY, what do you want. I already sheltered you.”
This time there was a response, and she said, ”What do you… want? Didn’t you already ask for my hand in marriage from my family a few weeks ago? Now that they have died you are calling me a lady? What does that… mean.”
Allen remembered some things after she recounted the tale. He indeed could remember something. He remembered hearing about a good-mannered woman from other people and them going to a house that was less good in its appearance than his and asking for the hand of a woman in marriage. This was indeed the lady that appeared in his images. That….was something to remember. He remembered nothing except that some kind of tragedy, what tragedy it was, was unknown to him. It had struck the family of this woman. He could not remember if he had married her then or not.
Listening to her tone, it didn’t seem like she had married him. And more pressing than that, did the family of this woman even accept him as their son-in-law, or am I just dealing with things that have already been settled in the past. He wanted to ask whether they married, but could not get the words out.
In both cases, whether they were married or not, it was a little embarrassing either way. If they did not, it may appear as him being a sour person to a person whom tragedy had struck. If he had married, well… good luck to him forgetting about his spouse. Not to mention that she had to get home herself in the middle of the rain…
‘It would be better to deal with this matter later. There are things still missing from the overall picture. I need to settle them first. Else I won’t be able to deal with this situation at all.
He said to the lady, this time appearing from his hiding spot,” Shall we then go to the house then, I will serve some milk to you… it is nutritious with some almonds and honey added into it.” Weird things came to mind, but that seemed like the usual routine of this farmer. He could even remember where he had made bee farms to extract the honey out of them.
The woman looked at him for a bit and then agreed to him.
‘Well, one thing done’
They started unlocking the farmhouse and soon, with Allen in the front and the woman in the back, Allen had reached his house. He could remember where he had put his key. He took it out of his pocket and soon they were inside the cozy house. All kinds of possibilities went through his mind about how she reached the second floor and got the key.
The rain had still not calmed down. Their clothes were only a little wet, but he asked the woman to go in any room and come when her hair was completely dry. He gave her a towel and got out of there Asap.
After this, Allen searched everything in the house, starting from his resting room, to see if he could remember anything extra about the situation right now. And after some rough searching, he found a diary that had loggings of a few weeks at least. It was a new diary, with only a few pages logged into it. It was small in its size too. Allen could feel some kind of unknown familiarity, even though he could remember nothing else. He remembered the woman’s name after reading the loggings. He also understood the situation more clearly… It was just that the accident with the family appeared to have occurred on the day that they were going to be married. That appeared to have occurred around 2 weeks ago. There was not much else after that last logged date. He still did not get crucial info. How was he supposed to deal with that woman? Allen heard a door opening sound, and he figured that the woman had finally come out. He wanted to just lock the door and have her think he slept… but it was not fine to delay the things. He could faintly feel that.
Now, just a table separated them both.
He did not know what to say. They sat for more than a few minutes. Allen had to get something out of this meeting. He was of the feeling that time was running out.“Is your family okay?”She wasn’t quite able to respond…were they alive or…Allen didn’t put that to wording.Allen tried to be more general and ask about her situation. He said, ”Are things fine now?”“Yes, they are”“So we didn’t marry….did we?”The woman looked at him and said, “No, you didn’t.”Kind of suppressed his sigh of relief, but he was sure that she could see that he was quite happy about it, it showed on her face.With that out of the picture, now he could calm down.He reminded himself, ’Calm down, calm down'His posture relaxed a lot. Now he could get some more information about the current sit
Allen had some time on hand, so he wrote his thoughts on a piece of paper in the diary. Due to it being too small, his thoughts ended up becoming disjointed in the paper. He tried to summarize it in neat points again and what he had was:1) ‘They are a type of virus detection system and are considering me a threat to the domain.’or2)…it could be the case that actually the forces wanted to find something that was with him or her, maybe even the both of them, and they did not know where they were. So they started by methods of elimination.3)It was also possible that they were trying to make all the residents leave from here, to get the resources of this land4)Could be that these outside forces neither wanted their land nor anything they possessed…but they actually wanted to capture them. That was a strange possibility.The first point could not be possible as they would not hav
Allen was of the mind to prove him wrong now. He had some ideas done what to do. He was not much of a fighting champion and the enemy had come armed with guns, but they were probably not trying to kill him. Else they could have already done so. He knew that they were going to injure him. With a point-blank range, they would not be much careful. When they had gotten extremely close to them before they had shot at them; he had gotten barely scot out of that before. That was the first time in his life that he was shot at. That was why he was terrified and just wanted to get out of there. The last thing on his mind would have been to confront them. But that was what he was tasked by himself to do now. He would not let some depressed man justify his depression because some situation in his life hit him. That problem was always going to come on him. The man said that he tried what he could, but he had taken the responsibility for her from her family.
Swiftly he was called back to that man, who now looked a little pleased seeing Allen unable to close his mouth from the excessive shock that he was going through. He thought ‘It is the first time i’m getting this much entertainment so easily’ Allen could see the man smirking looking at him, but he still did not calm down. He did not care that the man was taking joy out of this; he went near him and sat in a chair that had appeared sometime he was not paying attention. He said to the man, “What is…all of this?” “Well, I’m certainly not the creator of this thing, so I don’t know either. There is one thing I know for sure, however, that this may interest you a lot” Allen thought, ‘Well, I am interested more than a bit. Just tell me what to do’ Allen said, “So, what is the price to get….whatever this thing is called” The man looked here and there, then finally focused towards him and said, ”You asked who was I be
Soon, the small flow actually reached the dog and after circling the dog to Allen, Allen could feel that the minor bruises that were still present from his time in the domain were improving a little and he overall felt more energized.Allen said, “Good now I won’t have to explain anything”The assistant said, ”Don’t worry about that. You will clarify everything”He still was there?Anyway, the unique thing was that Allen felt was that this light was not leaving the both of them. It also avoided the others present there.’ Well, another aid I guess,’ Allen thought, looking at the dog that had come along with him.He had ideas what the man could be, but a dog….that was another level alright. Then his wife…..what was the farm?Allen was curious about these things for an unknown reason. He had a neve
The group members looked at each other and one of them went forward.“You might have already guessed such, but we have already identified over 2 people like this already. This is only going to take more time if you do not cooperate. Also, we are only going to start a talk for now and nothing else.”The president said, "How do I know you would be....doing only that?"The man said "I guess you will have to trust me....okay, you can have a written contract,"The president promptly had a contract written and within ten minutes sent the message to Allen to meet some guests that had come.Allen noticed in his place that the guards assigned to him were withdrawn already.Allen said, “Such a short VIP treatment. Well, it works better for me, good that it happened”There was another thing that soon bothered h
Meanwhile, there was a hot topic under debate in the government between the officials. What to do about the people who had such unknown injections origin divided them. They had tried some…interrogation techniques, and they knew that all of them were not lying. It happened to them that they don’t remember what was so different about their being injected.They had eliminated that the technique of injection is different or the injection amount itself. In any such case, they had tried everything. There was some hidden factor that all the people involved that was missing. Probably thinking of it as minor detail or something. One official in favor of the injected people said, “Maybe when the special changes occurred, they forgot everything about that time?”The addressed one looked at him and said, ”And what case in real life is so convenient that you forget the most important details, huh?”Ano
The man had the name of Sufyan, and he said, ”Actually, they are going to. Although I will focus more on both of you who are healthy, they are also going to be trained. The government instructed me to not think of them as a useless staff that was tagging along. I believe the reason is what you told them. That inside the domain, the physical vulnerabilities, at least related to the domain, are not effectively harmful. “Without actually going into the domain, Allen would also have thought that those two would be baggage. It was just that he was not sure if real-world training was even for them right now. There probably was more time when they were sleeping in the day than they were awake.Sufyan thoroughly answered every question, with clarity and in few words, Allen soon could see that he knew almost everything that he gave in the report and they had better plans in mind than what he could contribute.When Sufyan saw Allen beca
The monkey stared at the lion. It said “What do you mean? You want to drop out?”The lion said “Yes. The taller guy is like a professional hunter. We have come so close to him, but he hasn’t responded in any way till now. I suspect some trap.”“You are right in saying that there is a trap. But I am not settling down without giving them troubles now and then.”
Allen asked Jack the new video guy to come and meet him somewhere close by. Sitting in a café, Allen saw many people entering and exiting. Among them was a man who was on the phone as he entered. Allen signaled to him and the guy came to him.Allen said “Jack I assume? It’s a pleasure to meet you. I hope you had a nice journey till here”The other man said “Yes. I am Jack, Sir Allen. And yes, glad to meet you and hope you are doing well also.”Allen said, “Then I assume that we can talk about the project a little bit?”Jack said, “Yes, I understand some aspects but some questions are still there.”Allen said “Can you kindly repeat the things that I said about the project. It will help me know where we stand right now.”“The project has a specific audience that is students of science and the project is supposed to be a call to acti
Allen turned around a corner and started to walk fast. There were people following him now and then. The last time he saw them, they were wearing formal black suits. The times they followed him most were when there were a lot fewer people around the area. That’s why Allen tried to keep himself in crowded areas throughout the day and for the night, he had taken a room in a crowded place also.As he came near the entrance, Allen took off the extra overcoat, the glasses, the hat, and the mustache and threw them away in a bag. He entered the building and went to his room hiding among a few other people. Looking from the window of his room, he saw a man wearing a black formal suit coming inside. Allen went downstairs and sat on a seat somewhere from where he could observe the man. The suited man asked the man at the counter something, the man at the counter replied in negative to whatever the man in a suit asked. And then the man went away without look
He needed to launch “Video Streaming”, the domain’s version of Nettflix here to accomplish his task. The content was already quite a lot of content in the market. He hence had to provide them with new and better stuff, and he took this challenge.He looked at the prices of some directors, and they were way above his reach. Some other less known directors found his ideas not in the trend and hence they would not sponsor the project. What he did was he searched for the closet film production university that was accepting admissions and made his camp there. Allen waited for the exam to finish and, by looking at the faces of the people who came outside, he already guessed who was thinking what. He picked some of them, taking advantage of the fact that they were in an excited emotional state. He talked to multiple of them and got their numbers. After that wa
Casually skimming through one, it took him a few hours to get to its last. Looking at the other two, he took a quick break by noting down some terms in his electric notepad. After a quick summary, he then read the second book, reading to its half, he left it there.He got a general idea for the day. This country had quite bad ties with another neighboring country of its. Both of the countries were split from a single country a few centuries ago, and they had feuds in between them based on their respective ideologies. The other country had, over the centuries, progressed more than them, because of their flexible ideology. The people of this country, although disliked it, could not or did not make a strong attempt enough to break this trend.Most of the things here were copies of the other country. &
After what seemed like a few mins, he opened his eyes as a student, as a university student this time.Allen now thankfully had enough clues to figure out what game this domain wanted him to play. It was making him go from one education age to another, primary to secondary, making him face the wall of tests again and again. Then, it gave him some buffer time by sending him to a free time of the high school year. He admitted. He was getting side-tracked as time went by because the vision and goal that he wanted to accomplish had become blurry after several months. The drive behind everything that he did before was almost gone. The major problem was that the memories of his were not fully available and hence he could not get himself to do a lot, as he was losing his steam, his motivation.Now, with the clearest idea since the time he came into the domain, his purpose became a lot clear again. It boosted his drive. He wrote down the things that he n
The other man among them heard the words of his mate. His mood worsened. He shouted, “Brother, your words are enough to scare someone. Calm the heck down!!...anyway, Allen Smith, you remember how you got here?” Allen just wanted to get out of this cell. He didn’t fuss about the extra Smith that the man added in his name.Allen said, “The thing is that I surrendered. There was a gun in my mind and a person on the ground, and-and police were surrounding me from every side? No, from three sides, one side was left open”The man said, “I knew that surrendering was the most likely. It was unlikely that the government could catch you so easily else-wise. If that was the case, they would have done this months ago. Their torture and other threats would not have worked, I know. But now, I would like to ask you why did you surrender, but you say you forgot most of the things. Anything that you remember right now?”The second man sa
The monkey was hiding in the trees with a bird. The bird was not liking the rain, but there was not much it could do now. It had already tried to warn the monkey of the season change a couple of hours ago. The monkey, however, did not want to retreat so fast, because of reasons that the both of them were aware of, but the bird had to listen to the monkey because of the same reasons.The money knew it was not good to force the bird because of its legit concern, so it tried to follow the direction of the cage trail. When it reached there, it found only a broken cage. In anger, it ran circles around but found nothing else. Hence, the only option was to go with the bird. Therefore, both of them were stuck together. The dog also could not pursue the enemy because of the rain having washed many traces.The rain went on for more than half a day. Sometimes, it would become a little less and sometimes it was quick. But it was a good thing that there was n
Directions of the ants were different when they detected this emergency. They were returning to their nest from here, as was clear from the number of increased ants with time. But, they were also going somewhere else, somewhere the trio probably didn’t want them to go. It was probably better for the trio to get out as fast as possible.After the 10th hour, Yushin left his place and told the trainer about his worries. The trainer didn’t want to let this piece of fat meat go by so easily. So he asked Yushin and Mule to go ahead and make some cave in the mountain place that they were on before and leave some markings on the way for him to follow.The trainer arrived, looking very thrilled.Yushin looked at Mule, who went running and stopped the trainer in his tracks asking about the meat.The trainer in his smile said that hopefully the situation will not develop to that stage, but that he brought some meat with him. The li