Chapter 1518: Elevator Job
Ning arrived at the elevator where he was to be working for the day. He took over the job from some officer who had been working the entire night it seemed.
The elevator was a 3-meter-wide square metal box with a ceiling Ning could reach if he just raised his hand. The place was surprisingly warm, with a stool on the side for him to sit in.
Ning saw the man before him take out a crystal sphere from a small divot in the side of the metal compartment and realize that he had to place his sphere there before he could get the elevator to work.
Ning did that and the elevator became bright again, ready to function.
Funnily enough, there was nothing more for Ning to do anymore after that. He was to sit there doing nothing if no one came to the elevator.
Ning looked around the elevator, noticing the scuff marks, and the somewhat rusted chain-gate at the front that protected them.
“How long ago was this thing made?” Ning wondered.
He looked at the shining crystal ball in the ceiling. It seemed as though the crystal balls weren’t in fact connected to anything. They were different from the crystal ball that contained Ning’s information.
‘They must have made some sort of mixture and put it inside the ball that glows continuously for a long time, like those glowsticks from my childhood, only… brighter,’ Ning thought.
He wasn’t too curious about what sort of chemical mix they put into those spheres, but how they got it in the first place. These people lived in a hole in the ground, completely isolated from the outside world.
Where exactly did they find these weird things?
As Ning wondered, he saw people outside the gates walk up to him and press a button outside to open the doors. The gates opened up and 3 people walked in.
Ning recognized the badge of a Captain on one of the men and immediately saluted. Captain was the fourth highest ranking for an officer, and there were no more than 25 captains in the entire population.
“At ease, Cadet,” the older man said. “Take us to the 23rd floor.”
Ning pressed the button at once and the elevator door began going up.
“Sir, General Wraikh has signed off on another outing,” the girl next to the General said. “If you will sign off on these individuals, we can send them out today.”
The General took the piece of paper and looked at the names. He raised an eyebrow.
“Derria wants to go out again? Did she request it or was she commanded to?” the General asked.
“She made the request herself,” the woman said. “But she also requested that Derrik must go with her.”
“That’s alright. Let those wonder twins do their work,” the Captain said and signed on the piece of paper, handing it back to the woman.
The woman neatly put the piece of paper away and stood to the side of the Captain, saying nothing.
“Have you any knowledge of the haul yesterday?” the Captain went on. “I heard Captain Tess herself handled the mission.”
“The haul is said to have been quite fruitful as per the reports, but I have not been made away of just how much there was,” the woman answered.
The Elevator came to a stop and the two walked out.
“Find out how much they got. We need to make sure there is enough for the migration to be successful.”
“Right away, Captain.”
The gates closed and Ning heard nothing else.
“Migration, huh?” Ning thought. “When was that again? In 3 weeks? None of the people are acting like they are about to leave for a different world at all. Everything inside the city seems so… normal.”
Ning wondered what sort of fuel these people used for their migration. He wondered if they had rockets or not. They had to have rockets, but then how good was the rocket exactly? Were these advanced spaceships? Or primitive metal vessel with a simple propulsion system?
“Speaking of spaceships, where are they even?” Ning wondered. If there were any spaceships, he had to have seen it already, but he hadn’t.
“There has to be some rocket somewhere. I remember reading about how they traveled around in those.”
Speculations were all Ning could make at the moment regarding the entire thing. Without access to other information, he had no way of knowing just what they were doing.
“Can’t the Teleporters just teleport people directly over to the next moon?” Ning wondered. That was the simplest way as far as he could tell. Hell, he could take the entire group of people directly to the other moon if he was inclined to do so.
But in the end, he was simply here to spend some time experiencing a different sort of life, so he didn’t want to make too drastic an effect on the entire thing.
Not to mention, without the System to quickly help him, doing things on his own was far too tedious.
“Just 3 more weeks, and I’ll find the answer myself,” Ning thought.
The elevator moved on its own, being called to the lower floors again.
Ning spent the entire day taking people up and down the elevator. And the people that took these elevators weren’t the regular kind either.
Almost all of them were Chief officers or higher. Ning even got to see one of the Majors take the elevator, but the man didn’t speak when he was there so Ning learned no information from him.
One thing Ning did learn was that in preparation for their migration, they were sending more and more people outside to the surface.
From what he could gather, it seemed that they needed as much Spark as they could gather so that there wasn’t any problem when it was time for them to leave.
Ning had to work until 3 when he could finally leave, the elevator was taken over by someone else. Once he was out, he was finally free to go do some other things.
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