3. The Encounter in a city
Hmmmm encounter, I wonder what it means.
Ohh, Guten tag my friends. It's me your narrator, fourth wall breaker and mysterious person whose true identity will be revealed in the future, 3LX the legend
Last time we left our story with some progress. There is a travel journey for the heroine ahead of us and job search for our we don't know what he is hero. But what does the title for this chapter mean, hmmm? Well I guess it's time we find out.
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On the 3rd floor the elevator opens and Zex step out. He turns to the right and take a few steps before finding himself in front a huge door. he walks towards the door and the door slide opens itself and he enters the room.
Inside this big room there are countless modern touch screen computers in a straight face to face arranged form. At the end of the room there is a woman sitting behind a desk, working on her PC.
Zex walks to the end of the room towards the woman. He reaches the woman and then stop.
" Good morning Ms." Zex greets the woman.
The lady looks up and then greets back " Good morning sir, how may I help you today?" The lady then ask.
" Well I just registered today as worker and I was told to come to this floor to get a job assigned to me." He answers with a well pretex smile.
" Alright, I see. Since you are new let me give you a quick explanation. When you are a worker you will need to visit an official Workfinder office to get a job assigned to you. But there is an exception if the job you are looking for is a permanent one. In this cases you will only need to find one on the PJW( Permanent Job Workfinder) site and apply for it using the AAWA( All Access Workfinder Agency) app." The lady stop and ask " Do you follow me?"
Zex nods and say " Yes Ms."
" Now since most of the jobs are one time types we need the people to go offices or at headquarters, so that the job confirmation is done. Since there are many people who are workers, we use the screens to let choose the jobs they want from the ones that are available in their Fangs only and get a get to go. So sir you can use any of the screens to find yourself a job" The lady finishes before going back to her computer.
" Thank you Ms. and have a nice day." Zex utters as he leaves for a screen to look for a job.
He stands in front a screen and switch it on. He logs in using his name and enters in his class and then fang.
In the Courier fang there are 5 jobs indicated and one has a deadline of a day. He chooses the one with a day deadline and a woman's face appears.
" Good day to you worker. This job is a urgent type, so the rate for the usage of a teleportation gate is decreased by 5 percent. You are to go the City of Satio and collect an artifact that will presented tommorow at the Liberation ceremony at the Mutel hotel from Mr. Funshy. For your trip back you will need to use a plane to get back, since group 3 metals sometimes mess with the teleportation gate. The fee to be obtained is 150 00 desh after the agency takes out it's 25 percent collection, but before the teleportation gate fee is taken out." The woman's face on the creen say in a scripted manner.
" Do you accept or reject?" a notification pops up on the screen.
Zex accepts the job and leaves for the Star Gate station. He reaches the station after an hour and use his work license for passage, since he is did not get paid yet.
" Everyone one who is getting teleported to Satio, please step in the Protection box 1." A male voice instruct from several loudspeakers around the station.
Zex and some other people hear the voice and head for the destination and enter in careful manner into the box looking machine, when the door opens.
After a few seconds the box starts to move towards the teleportation gate. It reaches the gate and passes through and the next thing everyone see is that they are at a different station already.
The box moves further away from the gate and then stops. The door open once again and every one steps out.
Zex now at outside the Zordiac Gate station stop a taxi and heads for the Mutel hotel.
Upon his arrival at the hotel he enters the building and explain a little about his situation and show his license to the receptionist.
" So that means you are looking for Mr. Funshy, right?" the receptionist asks.
" Yes, you are right my lady." Zex utters trying to be a charmer.
The receptionist trying to be professional say " Well in that case you just need to go to the 7th floor and knock at room 7H and explain yourself."
" A very big thank you my lady." He says as he leaves.
He takes the elevator until the 7th floor and gets out. As he walks looking for room 7H he thinks "All those lessons I got seem to work well, especially on the women."
He reaches the room and knocks. A voice ask " Who is at the door?"
He explain himself and the door opens. A tall slim man invites in and offer him a sit.
" Since you already know all the necessary information I don't need to add anything more, but that you need to be careful and very protective of this case." Mr. Funshy utters as he hands him a black briefcase.
Zex know looking serious says " Do not worry sir, I shall give my all to the case, so that it arrives safely."
Zex stands up and say his goodbye to Mr. Funshy and leaves the room. He takes the elevator down to the 1st floor and gets out.
He then stops forca while at the receptionist before saying goodbye to her.
He pulls over a taxi and heads for the nearby airport. Minutes later he arrives at the Word airport and exit the taxi.
He enters the airport and goes to get an early plane ticket, but he is only able to get an evening ticket.
He leaves the airport and starts to walk to the city for sightseeing and launch.
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Meanwhile in Ridlaq Nalia arrives at home and is about to start a greet before realizing she's alone. She goes to her room and take out her phone and look at her card's current balance.
She then takes a shower, water the plants and clean the house. After she finishes all this she realize it's already near afternoon.
Afternoon arrives and Nalia is already at the orphanage. She is sitting outside talking to Mother Marith about Teris's situation.
" So Teris will be leaving next month on his 17th birthday for the Army Academy and will sent to the frontlines just like the other orphans in no time." Mother Marith utters in a sadden voice.
She looks at the mother with teary eyes and feels her pain deep inside too, because she knows the cruelty the orphans in their world go through.
" Don't worry Mother. I know one this world will change for the better, we just." Utters Nalia before she's interrupted by the the oldest children.
Teris is flustered by how cute Nalia looks, so he finds it to say anything, but build a little courage and say " We are ready now Nalia."
" Alright then let's go. We are taking our leave now Mother and we may be back by evening or early tomorrow." She pronounce as they leave for the city.
On their way to the train station, they stop at Wholesaler food house and buy some cold beverages for the trip.
They arrive some time later at the station and board an afternoon train. The train departs for Satio at 13 p.m.
At a certain point on their journey Teris asks Nalia " Why don't we a teleportation gate in every town and city, but only 1 or 2 gates in a continent? I mean it could travelling easy."
" Well I heard that teleportation gates use to much energy and they interfere with the natural particles of the area, so if we use them too much the earth could be torn apart and teleported to unknown places." She answers the question.
" For me the real mystery is Ceria's blue hair. I mean how did it happen? No one on earth except her has blue hair." Liv says in a confused voice.
Ceria looks at Liv and utters " Well even I don't know, but we all know that I was not born this way. I was told it just turned when I was a 2 month baby. I mean you remember when we kids and all those news people came and interviewed me and all thise scientists too who took some of my hair and went to test it. And what did they find? Nothing."
" Yeah your hair is really a mystery." Nalia and Teris utters in parallel to one another.
They continue to converse and without realising it arrive at the city. They exit the train and head for the city's most busiest shopping centre.
They go shop to shop buying toiletries and clothes for the children and themselves as per Nalia's money on the clothes coverage.
After they are done shopping and have spent hours in shops, due to long lines they stop at the restaurant "Gutessen" for some food on Nalia's treat.
They sit down and call the waitress to ask for the menu. They look at the menu for 3 minutes and decide what they want.
Just as they are about to call for the waitress again to order an argument arise between the manager and a customer.
" Look this is all the money I have right now, but i work for the Workfinder agency and so if you give me your bank details I transfer the money to you early in the morning." The male customer tries to reason.
" Look sir, we can't let you leave like this. We can't truly trust that you work fo the Workfinder agency. What if you are lying. You still owe us 600 desh." The manager explains.
Just as they are about to go on a voice stop them. " Excuse me." Nalia utters.
" I heard what's going on and came here with an answer. Why don't I just pay the remaining tab together with our own?" She suggests to the customer and manager.
" If it's alright with you and the other customer, miss." The manager responds.
The customer looking gleefully, happily says " Ohhh I thank you my kind lady."
" Alright then manager you can add his tab know to ours." Nalia utters as she goes back to her sear.
The customer follows her to table and pronounces. " My name is Zex my kind lady and I truly thank you for this kindness very much. So may I please know your name and your acquaintances names as well."
" Ohh don't worry too much about it. As for my name is Nalia and this are Teris, Ceria and Liv." Nalia responds.
" It is a great pleasure to now know you all. Ms. Nalia if you ever in need of any help in which I a Courier of the Workfinder agency can help you please don't hesitate to call." Zex utters as he pulls out his new bought phone and ask them to exchange contacts.
After exchanging contacts, Zex thank Nalia once again before biding them farewell.
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Not what you were expecting when saw the title right? But you know sometimes it's good to have the true meaning be revealed at the end.
Well then mata ne my friends.