The DarkHole Laboratory

The Reality That Will Reveal

"Let's go out, dinner's ready" Ricky doesn't usually carry a tray filled with food for him. They invited him to dinner together.

Ethan walked around clumsy. Confusion. And somehow after failing to contact his friends for help on the first day he was held captive.

He no longer tried to contact them. Thoughts spinning around to Marky once destroyed this village. The settlement he saw.

The person he admired as the one who motivated him to study hard to become a researcher turned out to do the same thing with the person who destroyed his residence first.

Inside the wooden room Ethan pondered a lot. About Marky. He's a big boss, a Nocturnal owner there's no way his hands aren't dirty.

Think a lot and trust in Marky begins to erode. He thought he would be tortured and told to confess.

He's just locked up. He could only look out and peek at his captors as well as most normal people.

He followed Ricky. A loud noise was heard in the room that Ricky entered. He stood right at the door. An awkward feeling enveloped him.

"Come in and find your seat" The old man looked at himself and folded his newspaper, as if waiting for him, Ethan walked slowly, he saw an empty chair, he shifted his chair slowly and sat down.

Plaque!

"Ouch!" Ricky wants to pick up one Strawberry. His hands were held by Linka.

"Later"

"The spy" then he sat in his place. Ethan sat facing the woman with shoulder-length hair. Who just smiled at him.

To his left was a black woman, who had just dragged a chair. On his right is empty.

"You .. the one who got lost? What part of nocturnal are you?" Ethan looked at the woman, he wanted to answer her but was confused, was this the time he would be forced to confess?

"Jo asked, we have dinner first" hearing the old man's words, Ethan became more nervous.

"Well Simon, let's follow the old man's will" he whispered to Ethan, chuckling.

"Joanna! I hear you, young man!" Simon glanced at Jo from between his reading glasses. Glanced at the code, he locked his mouth, he pulled Ethan's hand and gave Ethan an invisible key in his palm.

Screeching and rattling sounded, the atmosphere instantly became warmer.

"Here, let's all eat"

After the old man called Simon. They filled their plates with food in the middle of the table.

"I wonder who made this turkey!" A cry sounded at the end of the table. The man with his tribal tattoo slammed his spoon on his plate.

"Me! Why?" The words of the old woman who challenged back the man.

"Roxane I'm with you! It's so delicious!" He took one turkey thigh and brutally bit it.

"Jordan you're exaggerating" said another man at the table.

"Basic!"

"Sorry too late, I didn't run out of Roxane roasted turkeys, did I?" the man with the big body shifts the chair next to Ethan.

"It's been targeted by Jordan"

"Manuel you have to compete with me!" They glared at each other, and threw peas at each other.

"Stop! Eat those peas, don't quibble at each other fighting over turkeys and wasting vegetables! Eat those vegetables with your turkeys now or I'll take your turkeys!" Threaten Linka.

And the two burly men complied and ate their meals, although they still occasionally threw each other vegetables they did not like.

"Sstt .. understand it, they are always noisy. Oh, I'm Joana, you've been in Nocturnal for a long time?" Jo tilted her head, staring at Ethan.

"Yes it's been 6 years," he scoops his mash potato. It's in Ethan's taste. Lebut, creamy and savory.

"Marky asked you to make that radar?" Not surprised them because he had found Rush who was in sleep extended. No need to be tired of lying.

"No, I'm just continuing on with what's already there" he said.

"It's a lot to eat" Manuel put down a piece of grilled antelope, then poured the gravy. 

Ethan just nodded and he admitted this antelope and gravy meat was delicious, he had tried it several times.

He sliced the meat and slipped it into the gravy. Enjoy the soft meat mixed with sweet savory sauce. It tastes delicious.

Not a native descendant of the village of Arctos but he was brought by the Nocturnal. He was raised in an orphanage in Nocturnal, he was also one of the children who had lived in Hide Dome, his memory disappeared but he got the doctrine that his family was killed and his village destroyed.

The food was left half on her plate, and Jo scooped the shrimp casserole on her plate. "Try this, you're gonna love it I guarantee this casserole ter the best" Jo was proud.

"You're praising your cooking again Jo, you narcissistic!" Almaz chirps he likes to tease Joana.

"God! I did praise my cooking and see that it actually tastes really delicious" she replied confidently,

"And everyone here agrees, right?" Those at the dining table nodded.

"No! I didn't! Even Ethan hasn't admitted it yet" Jo stared fiercely at Almaz who chuckled.

"Ethan try and say what you think!" Joana looks at Ethan who stares at Jo and Almaz alternately.

"Just eat Ethan, if you don't have a seafood allergy" Almaz said.

"Well! Are you allergic to seafood?" Joana pulls Ethan on the shoulder and he shakes her head, Joana is relieved.

"But I don't like it fishy" Almaz's laughter burst forth, making Joana pout.

"Ah I'll try" Ethan doesn't feel good about making Joana sparkle. Then back to pouting. 

"If you don't like it don't push"

Jo stared at Ethan eating his casserole,

"Enak, not fishy, the broccoli is still crunchy" Joana sumringah, said, 

"what I said, good"

"But he likes his broccoli" Almaz teases Jo again. 

"Almaz" roxane scolds. Ethan is wrong.

"What's important is that Ethan admits that my cooking is good" Jo scoops up the food. No matter what Almaz scorned.

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"You here?" Camy says, "Soda or beer?" he gave me a can of soda and a bottle of beer.

Ethan grabs the beer bottle, and upholds it. "You've been in nocturnal for a long time?" 

"6 years" 

Ethan knows it's time for this woman to question him. 

"I know you don't know what the radar's gonna do, I've seen it through Rush, and I'm sure you know, I turned it all off about you, even fucking the Rush extension"

Ethan just nodded. "Why aren't you trying to call for help anymore? There's no way you don't have any other way?"

This is what makes Camy and Simon, letting Ethan eat with them. He did not see any sense of threat to this man next to him.

"Well, I'm comfortable here, saying I'm crazy, logic, where people are held in wooden rooms every day, do I have Stockholm Syndrome?" A laugh could be heard from the man.

"If I told you you'd lived here, would you believe me?" Of course Ethan shakes.

It's big in Nocturnal area where maybe it—

"No way!"

He looked into Camy's eyes and there he could not find that she was joking with him.

"Maybe" answers that don't give Ethan a definitive answer.

"What do you want from me?" Is this another trick for him to side with this place? Negative thoughts.

Tbc.