LIFEBOOK

Episode 12's

The small room measuring no more than 5 meters was silent, leaving only white reflecting from all the rooms. In that white room was a 'hiding' place for life book users. Always in pursuit of terrible terror for him.

"It's a pity that you can't catch the sharman, the user of the destiny book" Someone's voice was heard echoing in the 4 x 4 m² room, but it wasn't a man's voice, the voice of a 15-year-old girl.

"I'm so sorry, sir. I did not expect the Life Book user to appear. Forgive me" The hoarse voice of a man who was very opposite to the other person sounded very contrasting.

It was Shannon, the two meter tall man was looking down regretfully.

"It's not your fault, I wonder why there are two books of life in the same timeline. It's totally absurd" The girl stood up from the chair that was her halfway place.

The girl looked very graceful, like a noble princess. Making anyone who saw her fall in love, not only her beauty, but her very kind nature.

The all-black dress she wore was scattered on the white marble floor, as if she was shining beating the white room, even though she was dressed as black.

"Lutfi, isn't that his name? It's really interesting, it's been a long time since I met the user of the book of life" The girl smiled thinly "my friend to meet him, Shannon" The girl looked at the man who had been hunchback in the corner of the room.

"Okay sir, with pleasure"

Instantly, the entire white room turned into another unfamiliar place. The girl teleported.

***

I'm getting ready to have a meeting with Shannon, rather I'm invited by the military council of this town. Lucia also walked me.

"Actually I want to give you something, Lutfi" Lucia looked at me doubtfully.

"What's? What's wrong with you Lucia, not as usual" I asked in wonder.

Not as usual Lucia is like this.

"Here, I give it to you" Lucia gave something.

It was a dress, very beautiful. The color is so soft, I can't describe it beautifully.

"You have to wear it, I don't want to see you leave in a tattered shirt" Lucia explained.

Lucia was right, all this time I never changed my clothes with anything other than the clothes I brought from home. Maybe at this time the clothes I was wearing were very old.

Lately, more precisely in the past month, I have often seen Lucia sewing. I didn't think she was sewing clothes for me.

Lucia seemed happy with that. He covered up the fun by telling me right away, before we were too late for that very important meeting.

I quickly got ready to go back, before long, Sharman picked me up and Lucia. We set off using a cube object that floated a meter above the ground. It's similar to a police car that once dragged me into trouble.

20 Minutes passed, there was not much to do in this vehicle. I only exchanged information with Sharman, occasionally also chatting with Lucia.

The meeting building is already visible from here, it means it's only a matter of minutes away we arrive. I spend time chatting with Lucia, sometimes joking with her.

Usually this thing called a flying capsule, does not have a driver, I mean is operate independently. However, this time it was different, Sharman was controlling this thing. The place we were going to visit was very secret, in anticipation of the collision, objects that were operating automatically were not allowed. All the systems are disabled, which is why Sharman is our driver.

Only Sharman knows the place, this place is very remote and far from urban. It takes 5 hours to get there, but what's different is that it's 'flying' on the road at an unreasonable speed of more than 750 kilometers per hour. Calculating our travel distance is 3,750 kilometers. It was the same as the trip from Jakarta to Bangkok plus the distance from Sydney to Melbourne.

"If it's a trip in my day, that distance can only be traveled after months of travel" Unknowingly a voice came out of my mouth, feeling the love of people in my day.

"Hahaha, I understand what you're thinking, Lutfi. Humans have developed rapidly, but their behavior remains the same, still littering, using energy full of pollution, damaging nature. When disaster strikes, they blame the government, complaining, as if they were the worst hit" Sharman, who was driving, answered my unrest. As if I knew what I was thinking.

Sharman is right, since ancient times humans have never learned with experience in the past. Although there has been almost no war between the regions, the problems of the world have not become better. It is only getting worse with the climate crisis. It is not felt in a short period of time, maybe tens, hundreds, even will have an impact thousands of years in the future.

Although some technologies in this era use electrical energy that tends to be cleaner from pollution, there are still many who use fossil energy that is almost extinct. After all using electrical energy also uses generators that require fossil fuels, that's thinking people. Well, even though I didn't really think about it much, it was a sad fact.

***

Since then, we have been presented with amazing natural scenery. Large trees that are still pure and untouched by humans. Not because of anything, this forest is protected by the government.

Various abundant flora and fauna we passed through. Every now and then we see orangutans hanging, elephants poking their trunks up, then spraying them on other elephants. Even if you can only see it, it's still amazing.

"We're almost there, Lutfi, Lucia. You can see the meeting house on the right" Sharman while showing his hands to a building, more precisely the building, like a palace covered with thickets of roots and trees.

We can see it from here, Lucia who saw it was stunned. The building is like a castle in a fairyland, I'm sure the person who designed the building has good taste.

"Very beautiful" That's not my voice, Lucia's hypnotized right now. Staring from behind the window of this capsule, while sticking his arm in the window.

"Yeah, of course it's beautiful. It was the best building on earth, made from the finest materials, worked by the best craftsmen, designed by the best designers. Of course it is very beautiful, I who have seen it several times still do not believe in its beauty" Sharman explained.

"You're right, but, you should know what kind of place we're going, and who's there" I asked curiously.

I actually knew that we were going to have a meeting to discuss about a very urgent matter at this time. Sharman had also previously told me that he would report it to the city's military council. But I don't know who I'm going to meet. My heart was pounding, impatient to know what would happen next. Really, it's really interesting as well as a little scary to me.