Armageddon 29

Wu Bing could only hold her hands as she was grabbed at each of her shoulder by a mid 40's woman. "Tell me! what did you do to the rock that it gave of that light?" The crazy woman asked as she still grabbed onto Wu Bing. Wu Ye had no choice but to step forward for her sister "Hey! kindly let go of my sister. And perhaps she will tell you." Wu Ye held tightly on at the crazy woman's wrist. "What's happening here? Are you guys being harassed?" Sgt Reyland peeked his head as he got to the scene first. what beheld him is Wu Bing being held and Wu Ye gripping a woman's wrist so tight that you can see veins showing in his arms. The woman didn't care at slightest at Wu Ye's grip and just asked once again. "Tell me what did you do!" Wu Bing now who became relaxed a little answered still flustered at the woman. "I.. didn't do anything I was just touching the rocks and that one pricked me and it just glowed." Wu Bing who was held by the woman suddenly was released and she also shrugged off Wu Ye's grip like nothing. This scene did not go unnoticed as they were all bewildred. "W-What?" Wu Ye said as he was surprised that the woman was suddenly out of his grasp.

"What's going on here?" Finally the Headmaster arrived and asked. Long Fei went to the Headmaster "This old woman suddenly grabbed Yellow! all because she just touched a rock that suddenly glowed." The Headmaster listened and walked in front he saw the woman turned her back to them and just went to the stone that Wu Bing held. "Ms. Kozuki what is happening here?" the Headmaster called out to the woman who is apparently named Kozuki. But the woman didn't care as she just continued to walk towards her stall. "Please pardon me for the action of Ms. Kozuki everyone. She is just a little special since all of her time up to now is devoted to those rock you just touched." The Headmaster acted as he was used to the crazy woman's action and just apologize to the group. " Its ok I'm the one at fault really here I touched that rock without her permission." Long Bing said as they watched the the woman Kozuki started to pull out from her stand a variety of equipment.

"Is she literally gonna ignore us after her crazy act?!" Long Fei Remarked as all they can do is watch as the Scientist Kozuki, the headmaster introduced started to immerse herself to the rock. "I'm sorry everyone you see this is just Ms. Kozuki's personality. And child are you ok? does it hurt?" The headmaster explained and turned to Long Bing to see if she is bruised. "No I'm ok I was just surprised when she gripped my shoulder" Long Bing explained and moved her shoulders to show that she was not hurt. "But Headmaster who is she? She just shrugged my grip like it was nothing earlier I don't think she is just your normal researcher here in the university." Wu Ye asked. The Headmaster looked uncomfortable that he clearly is hiding something. "You see everyone Ms. Kozuki is- BEEP! BEEP!" The headmaster was interrupted as they heard a series of continuous beeps. All of them turned and saw that the noise is originating from the stall where Kozuki is tinkering on her rocks. "What is this?! the only time I saw this rock produce this much energy and radiation when I got it from that planet. It was in the hands of a fossilized remain." Kozuki muttered to herself completely not aware of the people surrounding her. They all looked at each other with confused expression. But the Headmaster was the only was calm " Ms. Kozuki what is really happening. Care to explain?" Headmaster voiced out in an authoritative tune.

This made Kozuki snap out of her focus and looked at her surrounding. She just looked at the Headmaster nonchalantly "Well as you clearly know sir Kim, That my team was massacred just to get this set of rocks out when we expedition to the Redline. We discovered this rock at one of the planets half intact in the Redline as it was not hard to spot because this rock was emitting a high level of energy and radiation similar to the Zerdent Energy we develop on earth." She said to the headmaster. This made everyone except the headmaster eyes widen but also a visible confusion appeared on the trio's face clearly not knowing what is the Redline. "Wait! You have a Ravager as a researcher here?!" Sgt. Reyland looked surprise as he confronted the Headmaster. "Calm down Seargent. Why are you still surprised? I have Black here a Ravager is the least you need to worry" Headmaster Kim said as he placed his hands on Sgt. Reyland's shoulder casually as if it was no threat. "But what is the Redline all of you are talking about?" Long Fei said as the three of them got no clue what is the 'Redline'.

"Well you see. The Redline is a part of the galaxy where our federation has no control over. It is also called the Death zone where almost every thing you will see there is just left over planets, mutilated ships and a shit ton of radiation that even us humans infused with zerdent energy will die if exposed. The federation does not know how and why did the Redline formed but all they know right now is that the Redline was formed ages ago even before our earth was created." Kozuki spoke and while doing so showed pictures of the Redline they went to. "And a Ravager is what the federation called people who went to the Redline zones and managed to survive. Because most Redline zones casualty rates is 100% but long time ago a person from a expedition team managed to get out of the Redline." Sgt. Reyland explained this made the trio even more curious as to what is the Redline.

"So what happened to that person shouldn't that person be given an award? or be acknowledge or something?" Wu Bing asked but Kozuki, the Seargent and the Headmaster just looked at each other and sigh. "Well you see the person that survived the Redline became different. First the people from the military who rescued him thought he was just a normal man. Because there was no anomaly or change in his behavior they said. But all of that came downhill when the turned the ship into hyperspace designating into a space colony run by the federation." The Headmaster explained as the trio now was even more compelled to listen. "Why what happened when the ship was in hyperspace?" Wu ye asked as goosebumps climbs along their backs. "What happened was when the ship arrived at the space colony the personnel there was also bewildered because there was no communication or signal coming from the ship. So they decided to enter and what left them was a sight so horrible no any human being can stay calm. Because what was left on the ship is just a large number of dismembered body parts of the soldiers as if they were seemingly ripped out not cu through. And when they went to look for the man that was rescued all they was he was in his cell eating a soldiers arm and drinking from another soldiers skull."

The trio couldn't help but puke at the imagination of that scene. Kozuki looked at the three amusingly and wondered how can the Headmaster and the Sergeant just give out one of the top secret federation information to a bunch of university student. "So anyways what seems to be the problem here Kozuki and why did you just grabbed one of my guest?" The Headmaster redirected the attention to Kozuki. "Well you si sir this young lady here just grabbed the stone out of my stall while I usually just shrugged it off but I noticed that the second she grab the stone it changed as if there is something inside that girl triggered it." Kozuki explained as now all of them just looked at Wu Bing as to how dis she got the stone to react. "I don't know what happened all I can say is that there was this feeling that made me come closer to the stone. And the second I grabbed it I felt a prick in my hand." She explained embarrassingly as she started to fidget clearly not accustomed to the stares. "I see now you can have this rock and I will be observing you from now on. And let me see your hand for a moment." Kozuki said as she handed the rock to Wu Bing and hold her after that all of them peeked and clearly saw that there was clearly a small scar in Wu Bing's hand.