The Man of the Future

Chapter 7 (Temple of Jade Buddha Statue)

As predicted by Nack before. If they will arrive at their destination, in just an hour. Such a short time for those who very rarely came out from within the Pacific Water City. If there were no such mission. Mission to get Jade Buddha statue. Which supposedly can grant any request of its ruler.

And it turns out that Nack's prediction was true. The five of them had arrived at their destination, the plane they were on had landed around the temple area. Its appearance occurred mysteriously, in the western region of the Sundaland Peninsula.

Peninsula that appears in the southeastern Asian continent. Due to the sea level. The consequences of a great ice age hit the Earth hundreds of years ago.

The five of them got out of the hyper jet. With great excitement.

Nack is the first to emerge from the hyper jet, followed by Tella and the others. With the confidence they have.

"As per my prediction right, Tell?. We will arrive at this temple in just one hour" said Nack, looking at the mysterious temple before him. With a sharp look filled with searching. It was as if he wanted to investigate the entire territory of the mysterious temple, from a distance.

Or maybe he was getting a hunch that he was not aware of at all.

"Yes, you are always right in predicting things. Including this time," replied Tella, to be honest. Not as a consolation for his young lover.

The five of them then stepped foot into the mysterious temple with steady steps, without any burden at all. Until the five of them arrived at a distance of 50 meters in front of the gate of the mysterious temple. A temple that belongs to who it is.

They stopped his footsteps. When their noses smell something strange, which is in front of them. Something that makes their stomach suddenly nauseous.

"It's not very pleasant this stench. This stench, like the stench of a human corpse," Nack said, closing both nostrils with his left hand.

"Nack, don't you see. If in front of us many corpses have rotted away?" fabian responded to Nack's words. While the index finger of his right hand pointed towards their front.

"I saw it Fabian. But I was less sure. Did this stench come from those corpses. But I'm now convinced of that" Nack replied to Fabian. Then smiled faintly at the senior.

"Nack why are so many bodies lying here?. Were they slaughtered by the New Gura-Gura group?" tella asked, covering her nose with her left hand. With a gaze toward the corpses that had been partially eaten by maggots.

"I don't know Tell, but it's possible that they were slaughtered by that group of New Gura-Gura, who were bloodthirsty. But for us to be more sure, we better get there. And we'd better put on a mask to reduce that stench to our smell" replied Nack, then put on a black mask taken from his pants pocket, which was followed by his colleagues.

The five of them then set their feet back toward the mysterious temple. He wears a black mask. To reduce the foul odor that spreads in that place. In order not to be so concentrated into their respiratory system. As a human being who mastered shen to protect themselves.

Getting closer to the mysterious temple. More and more stinging smell of foul smell coming from hundreds of human corpses that have rotted. Maybe without a mask covering their nose. The five of them would definitely become nauseous in their stomachs and vomit, from smelling that foul smell. The stench of human corpses so pungent was smelled by their noses.

"It seems, they didn't die from being slaughtered by the New Gura-Gura group. But they died for other reasons" said Holman, who is the most senior member among the five.

"I guess they died by the maya protector, who shrouded this mysterious temple. And I think the people who died outside this temple, are not people like us. Who has a special ability, to do something like this" Holman replied. With a gaze towards the corpses, which were scattered around the place.

"You mean they're ordinary people?" ask Nack back, with a serious mimic.

"Yes like that. Maybe they accidentally opened a forbidden site, which was filled with strange things like this," Holman told Nack.

"So it's like that. We will soon enter this temple. I guess if there's even a virtual protector covering this temple. It can't hinder, let alone hurt us. Even a third-rate assassin would easily pierce through and enter it. If the virtual protector really exists," said Nack, with full confidence.

The five of them continued walking forward towards the inside of the mysterious temple. Step by step they tread with great vigilance, against the terrible possibility that may be lurking them, from a hidden place. Because they are sure. There must have been very many people who know the existence of Jade Buddha statue.

The five of them continue like that. Until the five of them arrived in front of the gate of the mysterious temple. And then stopped their steps back, exactly 10 meters in front of the mysterious temple.

"It turns out this temple is very spacious, and has many doors. All right, we'll break our group into 4 groups" Nack said, pointing and dividing the group into 4 groups.

"Falton, you go in through the back door."

"Holman, you go in through the left door."

"Fabian, you go in through the right door" pointed Nack, pointing his right index finger at his comrades. To give them a definite instruction.

"While Tella and I are going through the front door" Nack explained, pointing to the temple's main door.

"All right!!!" answer the three of them simultaneously.

The three of them then passed from before Nack and Tella, heading to their respective destinations. To the goals that Nack had set. Perhaps, that goal was death for them.

"All right!, we're in now, Nack." replied Tella, who followed Nack's steps back from behind. Without realizing their movements are being watched by something.

Destiny will lead them to their own way of life. Without them being able to live at all.