43. The warning

The Script of Evil series books: "Meet the Devil", "The Mystery unfolds". This is book 3, "Invasion of Evil" Important role players migrate from the two book Entrapped series ; "The Phantoms" and "The Disturbing..."

Kadin smiles at Nico. “Professor Johan is not here yet, but he will be live on a giant monitor in the lecture hall. He can see us through two cameras at both sides of the monitor. He says there is an internet connection. Look there against the concrete roof. Do you see the security cameras? They only waited until you have arrived and informed him and he awaits us probably now in the lecture hall just as he waited and surprised us when we arrived.”

Rene frowns at Kadin. “Kadin, you are terrifying me! What do you mean by the civilization will be annihilated? Do you comprehend the implication of what you are saying? You say the most horrible things. How will all city dwellers change into man eating monsters? You are talking as if it is a fact and casually as if it is okay. You are looking so excited and cheerful to show us the place. I simply don’t understand. This is so unreal! I think it is the devil in your head.”

Kadin looks into her eyes. “Mother, you don’t know how difficult it was for Billy and me lately. We are so relieved that you found us here and we can share everything with you. It is a heavy weight that dropped from our shoulders. Every evening the prophet visited us in our dreams and showed us many things that we had to keep to ourselves because you wouldn’t understand. In the meantime, we had to let you get your way with us and carried the burden silently. We know it is terrible that the world is going to be destroyed. I don’t even know where to begin to enlighten you. I only know no one can stop it. It is too late and our group here is lucky because we have this hideout. We simply had to get you here for the professor to prepare us before it is too late. Billy and I everyday see people around us who are unaware of what is going to happen soon and we wish there were methods by which we could change things and could warn these people, but we don’t know how. We discussed this frequently and we have a rough idea to use the internet, but time is running out and we don’t know exactly how to do it.

“Mother, you don’t understand why I am so excited. It is because we are relieved that you all are here and that our dream once again became true. Now we can show you and take you to the lecture hall so that the professor can prepare you, just as he did with us, for what is going to happen soon. We were worried because we didn’t how we could convince you to listen to us. And it is surely a matter of life or death. In effect worse than death and then we dreamt and that gave us the solution and showed us the only way is to run away to this place and what then automatically would follow. And look: you are here! It is happening.”

Kadin looks at the group that gazes at her dumbfounded. “Come let us show you everything; then you can see for yourselves. It is too difficult to explain. Professor Johan will do it much better.”

Kadin pulls Rene’s by the hand and they all follow her. Billy opens the door at the end of the room and they walk down a long corridor while Kadin explains: “Here are five identical sleeping units.”

She opens the first door and leads them inside. “Look, here are built-in cupboards with a large clothing space at the back side where you can dress yourself with clothes on the open shelves and a full length mirror. Isn’t this cool? Then there is an adjacent bathroom with a shower, basin and a toilet. There is a mirrored cabinet and a desk and even a computer with a printer. Each bedroom has a double bed consisting of two single beds should the occupiers choose to separate them. I saw bedding for single beds as well. There are two inflatable matrasses in the cupboard. Maybe for a couple with small children. Also there is a folding cot should there be a baby. And look! Here is the remote for the air conditioner and the flat screen TV opposite the bed against the wall. The professor explained that the place was equipped so that ten people can survive a month without going outside.

“We are now going to take you to the dining hall, the kitchen and the store and also the workshop where the battery bank and a generator are stored. You will see we are well equipped. There is even a gym. The fridges and store looks like a supermarket. Ten people will easily survive here for a month before stores run out and we will have to challenge the outside world to replenish our stock. There are even special weapons and gas masks with special combat uniforms with hard surfaces to protect the skin in the store room ready for use for those that must go and get supplies. Let’s go and have a look at it before we go to the lecture hall.”

Kadin and Billy lead the group from one room to the other and they are amazed. Everything is as she has described it. In the end they enter a small lecture room with tables and chairs and a huge flat screen against the wall with cameras on both sides. The flat screen automatically comes on as they enter. They see the professor taking his chair behind a desk and they all watch the screen as if he is live and here with them.

Friendly he greets them: “Pleased to meet you, people. I am Johan. Please take your seats. I have so much to tell you and little time. Nico, your task team is going to arrive here shortly to try and open the wall as Michael did by knocking on the wall. The sliding door is going to open, but they won’t know that they will be descending a wrong set of steps. They are going to enter a tunnel and will come out in a neighboring smallholding’s homestead and they will never know about this fort and you and Francois are not going to tell them, because from now on I will open the correct sliding door and control who enter and who not. People, I only know Nico, Kadin and Billy; thus I request kindly that each of you introduce yourself to me.”

One by one they introduce themselves to the professor.

After that Nico asks: “Professor, what is going on? Is the weapon ready? Did you help them, Professor?”

Johan nods. “The weapon is tested and ready but I am not allowed not tell you when, but it is going to happen suddenly and soon. Put it this way: it is going to happen sooner than you expect, and when you see the sign, you must come to the fort within six days or else we will not open the fort for you and then your chance of survival is about zero. We can only accommodate ten people and you must here and now reserve your places because if we take in more people we are going to run short of provisions and if we move outside too early, the plague will overwhelm us and everything will be in vain. If one of you doesn’t believe my warning, he or she is welcome to vacate his/her place and the rest will have the choice to bring in someone else.”

Jack asks: “Of which plague are you talking?”

“When you wake up one morning and the media abounds with rumors about strange swarms that fell out of the air and vanished the previous evening all over the world, you will know you have six days to report to the 666 wall before disaster strikes. That will be the sign that the plague has arrived. The sooner you report here, the safer it would be for you. Martie and I will await you from the day the plague has come and for everyone’s safety I will only open for those who abide by the rules. Only you can stand in front of the 666 and no one else.”

Jack hits his fist on the table impatiently: “What fucking plague, Professor!”

“I may not tell you more about the plague, my friend, I’m treading on thin ice. If I tell you too much, I may not allow you to leave; if I tell too little, you are not going to survive. All you have to know is that this fort’s air conditioning and sewerage system are plague resistant. If you hide above ground level or below elsewhere, the plague will get to you. The initial plague will burn itself out within a month and die. After that, the world will be lost in total chaos and anarchy and you will need my knowledge to survive when your stocks run out after one month. I am going to be your leader and we were not chosen randomly and given the opportunity to survive, but we have a very important mission to fulfill. The world is going to convert into a hell and our task will be to bring the hell to an end.”

Emilie enquires: “What mission are you talking about, Professor?”

“Always there is one person out of hundred thousands who have one or other condition that gives him or her natural immunity against a specific virus. These people are carriers and will infect other people but aren’t affected by the virus and don’t fall ill. Our mission will be to learn to survive in this chaotic world and amongst those groups that survived, I will identify these rare carriers and our mission will be to get such carriers to the same scientific team that had developed the biological weapon in the first place. I will then work with this team and with blood samples of these people, develop an antidote with which we are going to end the hell and initiate a new civilization”

Emilie is curious: “Where is this scientific team now?”

“At the moment I am with them in a shelter here in Port Elizabeth. There are at this stage 144 000 chosen ones who will, like them, not be affected by the plague. They have their own shelters in every country across the world. It is small secluded towns in the centre of big cities surrounded by walls. I will have the coordinates for these places. When the initial plague dies out, they will come out of their underground shelters and live in these towns until the world is freed from the virus. They are not our enemies and will help us to survive and achieve success so that they could leave the seclusion and start a new world as they are busy planning right now.”

Emilie looks at Michael sitting next to her. “Is that what you meant by saying: chasing the wind? Are all financials and all institutions going to be wiped out?”

Michael nods. “Precisely! Soon money will be worthless and there will be no law and order.”

Francois now asks: “Professor, you say nobody is going to survive, but also you are talking about survivors we must search for?”

“Correct. And this is how you must warn people and give advice to survive when you get the sign of the plague. You must tell them: Suppose you must survive outside, then your best chance of survival is to within the first six days after you’ve seen the sign, to flee far away from every city and town and to live for at least a month in the secluded wilderness. Further, you must avoid all contact with people for that month because they could be carriers of the virus. After that, you must keep all the people you meet at a distance and place each under 24 hour quarantine before you allow them to join you. When someone is infected by the virus, that person will change into an insane monster and attack you to infect you; that is the reason for the quarantine.

“Even then you must be extremely careful because it will be difficult to survive. Everything you gathered will be precious. The surviving groups will have different agendas. You will never be sure when you encounter living groups whether they are going to attack you and kill you just to get to your provisions. People will trick each other or trap one another to take hold of their provisions and you will learn quickly not to trust anybody.

“In the meantime, you will have to search for provisions and one time or another, you will come across man eating monsters that are going to hunt you and try to infect you so that you also can become monsters and join their group. Francois, thus the survivors will be very scarce and our task will be to find them and identify a carrier amongst them.”

Nico wants to know: “Professor, what about our task team? Why are they not here?”

Johan shakes his head. “We won’t be safe with your leader in command. He would insist to take over and dominate me. There are so many things I’ll have to explain to you before you will understand it, but all I can say now, is that you are part of our team here. We are going to need your talents when it is time to leave the fort. You are going to help us and train us to overcome all the onslaughts.”

Johan suddenly stops talking and holds his hand in the air: “Okay people, hands up as token that you reserve your place here. It is now or never!”