Beyond Earth

"Fear is a feeling, but it tends to run deeper than that. It's like a virus. Resilient and highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of it can grow to destroy you." °°°°°° It's the year 2280. Airborne particles were invented with the intent to eradicate diseases but instead they become radioactive, toxic and severely deadly to anyone who breathes in even a tiny amount. The world becomes a dystopia and is uninhabitable. With time running out for humans on earth, Hiro Tachibana is one of the scientists that has to find out if a new planet is fit for habitation. But when people start turning up dead on the spaceship and there are more questions than answers, Hiro realizes that he may not be able to trust anyone. Not even himself. DISCLAIMER: The picture in the book cover does not belong to me. AN: This book is undergoing a MAJOR rewrite. The previous chapters are not available for now so don't start reading it. I'll post an announcement when I'm done editing. Thank you!

mary_olajire · Sci-fi

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137 Chs

Chapter 15

HIRO

Hiro was angry.

He and nine other people had dedicated two years to Project Earth. And now it was gone.

He pulled his full face gas mask from his bag and quickly wore it when the elevator got to the fifth floor before checking if it fit properly. He slung his bag over his shoulders after the elevator dinged open and left the institute.

He always left the institute at ten PM but now that Project Earth had been scrapped, he had nothing to do there. He got to the bus stop after a couple of minutes and sat on the bench there to wait for the next bus.

All the shops were opened and there were a lot of people on the street. There were more patrollers present now than there was when he had been going to the institute and they were all stopping people to check their identity cards. There were security guards in front of some shops to control the people in queues waiting to enter the decontamination chamber.

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