Meteorite

Last week a meteorite fall in the bottom of the Indian Ocean. It was emitting strange waves, and a team from India was sent out to check.

But they all went missing, and their last contact was broken 10 km far away from the meteorite.

Afterwards, this matter gained so much popularity that many search expedition teams were sent to government and private alike.

My name is Rudra and I was also selected by a private company. Most speculate that this is a suicide mission, but I had already given up on life and was just living for the sake of living.

The payment was excellent and not many qualifications were required.

All other submarines stopped at 10 km far away but very few similar to us were moving forward.

Well, it's natural we were like mercenaries and the company has no regard for our lives.

A screen was showing our distance from the meteorite and it was mutually agreed between us that if it gets dangerous we will fall back.

Slowly the distance was reducing and many submarines stopped on their way but we continued to move forward because we were promised that the closer we go the higher the bonus.

We entered the 1 km radius and the speed was reduced to a minimum as no one wants to take risks. We couldn't see outside the submarine but all of the crew members started feeling strange our connection was already cut off in a 10 km radius.

A strange feeling was rising in me, it felt like my adrenaline was rushing. It feels so great, I don't know what it feels like to do drugs or be drunken as inhale never done it. But this experience was heavenly, hair all over my body was standing.

Swish!

Light went off, darkness took hold. Even the emergency light didn't work. A strange and primal fear gripped my heart, and automatically I tried to hide my head between my legs like a scared cat. I seek refuge under the table, I can hear my mate crying and sobbing. We all four were hiding under the table and waiting for our demise.

My life was flashing before my eyes and I regretted it seriously. I had wasted so much time that I seriously regretted it. In my heart, I apologised parents by banging my head on the ground. The only warmth I had in my last moment was that I had sent all my money to Mom before coming here, it was not a large sum. But it was considerable taking the advance I got from coming here.

A smile full of regret and sorry appeared on my face. That I betrayed my talent, my parent's hard work and most importantly their beliefs.

Slowly I felt that the domineering presence had left, and my condition was returning to normal. Carefully I lifted my head so as not to show this embarrassing sight of me to anyone. But there were none. A dimly lit room, a very minuscule sound of water droplets falling. My senses were returning slowly to me, strong stench of blood assaulted my nostrils.

Terrified I looked around to find that I was truly alone in this old plain room.

Two broken doors hunger in front of me.

My head registered all these things, Confusion, and fear gripped my heart. Where am I, this is neither a submarine nor a hospital.

Startled I rushed to the door but my hand refused to open it, my heart was beating loudly.

What lies behind this door? But the only answer that came to me was that no way to know unless I opened it.

With great reluctance I slowly open the door, its creaking sound terrifying me to the core. But alas I opened it and there was nothing except a long dark tunnel, hurriedly closing it I opened another one but it was also a dark tunnel with a low sound of water droplets dropping in water.

My brain was overheating, and all types of calculations and scenarios started playing but the result was so diverging that all I could confirm was I had to choose one and that I seriously lacked info. I choose to believe the worst scenario that, some "psycho God-level entity had kidnapped me and this is the first trial or tutorial of sorts."

It was a hard pill to swallow but I guess I will go with this possibility.

The room was empty but there should be some weapon of sorts if my speculation is correct.

Hurriedly I tried to pull every time, do some sort of puzzle solving and even break them but no use this made me very tired and hungry.

Huffing and puffing I tried to inspect the room one last time, a plain room with plain walls and a tiled floor. The wall was falling from some places but strangely there was no insect not even spider webs. This was the most confusing part, but an idea clicked in my mind.

Putting my ear on the floor I started hitting them, four tiles. Four tiles forming a square were making a hollow sound, and my speculation was getting stronger. But there were no handles, so I picked up some fallen debris and with its help, I broke a bigger one. Using this debris I started hitting, a small scratch. But after a long and arduous work, the tile broke. Using a big piece of tile made the work easier and soon four of them lay broken, under them was a thin layer of cement. A small underground room half the size of the above room 4 feet in height was found.

It was dark and suffocating but with the help of a little light from above. I started searching with my hand like a blind in the corner. In the underground room that was carved out of mud, I found a solid box hidden in the wall, after a small excavation I took it out.

Going above I opened the box, a very old syringe with a red liquid most probably blood was there.

I was disappointed, and I was also regretting it.

But one part of my mind was screaming like a child, believing this to be a hidden item or at least a health potion.