Last Man On Earth When There Is No Earth ?

orn from earth and to earth shall return .

seven days had passed since then . Lilia and I spent that time digging graves for the three hundred nameless children who were left there to die , along with the nine from the room I woke up in.

the reason behind the decision to bury each one separately is that I didn't want to think of them as failed experiments , but each as their own individual person .

some of them may even be my own offspring .

a graveyard was formed in just a few days .

"did I tell you ? the last thing I remember before meeting you was me getting shot " I said as watch the graves "I was sure that my life had ended that time .what kind of person services with a hole in the stomach?"

" you would be surprised how many species could mange that" Lilia , standing beside me , said in replay .

death huh...

was anyone sad enough to mourn for me ? or was I just another name on the long missing person list ?

" I ...will do my best to survive from here on "

the delight I felt watching that girl getting eaten came to mind . I watched someone die and only thought that much of it .

but in the end they are dead , I'm alive , and life goes on , time waits for no one .

.....

the day after we gave the corps a proper burial , we returned to the ruins to look for what could help us escape .

Lilia , at first , hoped to find some ship wreckage with some parts she could use , or ammunition for a device that could fix the damaged parts .

Lilia explained that there was no need to have the knowledge on how to fix the craft . every ship has at least one droid that could repair any damage .

but sadly her ship was way too damaged , and she was out of the material needed before all the repairs were done .

but in the end even if the ship is fixed , the magnetic field surrounding the planet which caused the accident and obstructs communications would surly get in the way, preventing us from leaving or even worse .

since the laboratory is established here on this uninhabited planet , it may contain the equipment needed to fully repair the space craft and most importantly , the right way to leave .

we went from one room to the other . the ones that followed the room with the shelves were what you would expect ; filled with strange machinery and dead computers .

some rooms had more pods , but they were empty , which is always a good thing .

I just assumed they are computers because they resembled your typical desktop.

we would run into a closed door that refuses to open from time to time , that is when Lilia showed me something astonishing .

she takes her knife spear thing , it's blade gone shining red , and slashes the thing from side to side like melting butter . her knife spear thing is actually quite the advanced piece of tech , despite looking like a strangely designed blade ,

two days later , we were done mapping three floors . we found what could be called a cafeteria –since it had a big cafeteria sign at the entrance - and some bedrooms -the living quarters - , also a storage room , but most of the stuff there was already rotten .

no , I wasn't able to find a break room where a TV and some gaming consoles were left intact. it seems those people were all about science and nothing else.

the entrance we used until now wasn't the front door . as we went down from one floor to the other I noticed that the interior got better with the walls clean and painted unlike the first room . according to the three dimensional map Lilia made using another one of her strange devices, the whole faculty is built near the edge of a cliff . if the main entrance is at its bottom then we were getting close .

and that's how It was , just a single giant elevator at the edge of the third floor that went down sixty meters . glad it's still functional, the creaking sounds says that rust had already gotten to it. When the elevator stopped we were met with two specious hallways going m opposite directions.

" hmm… there are no signs huh , which direction should we check out first?"

Lilia steps forward looking right , then left .she closes her eyes for a moment

" there is a light breeze coming from the left , it may be the entrance " she said

I look at her, then left , then right , then at her again.

"hm? is something wrong ?"

"...no , nothing... "

Rather than the usual white dress she wears, Lilia changed into another one .it's blue in color with a white skirt. It's too short, sleeveless, exposing her shoulders and back

'oh god, why….'

I tried my best to keep a poker face, but in my mind I was having a rough battle with myself. The outfit is certainly well made, and is a perfect match to her golden hair, it's elegant despite the high exposure, but…

it makes her c.h.e.s.t appear bigger , and the short skirt-long socks combo is … too dangerous .

this was a clear reminder for me . too much happened in the past few days so I didn't pay it much attention , but I had been sleeping in the same room with this otherworldly beautiful creature.

"we... should go right first" I said , trying my best to hide my embarrassing thoughts

"hm? but the main gate should be this way…"

" I think it's a habit of mine , checking out the sideways before going the main road " it's actually more of a gaming one , where people find the right way then go the opposite direction.

" hmm, you may be right . we don't want anything sneaking on us after all" she turns right and walks a few steps " okay then, let's go!"

I know it's something to be ashamed of, but as I Followed from behind I would sometimes sneak a peek at her legs. It can't be helped right? Even if I'm more than a hundred years old right now I'm still physically a young healthy man , it's completely fine for me to want to get sandwiched between those thick t.h.i.g.hs .

Ah ,by that I mean my face by the way. I won't survive for long thinking past that area.

At the end of the hallway was a large gate that was left half open, after walking beyond it we arrived at another room . this one has boxes, many of them stacked on top of each other ,and on each of the four walls

" …are those …weapons?" I say, standing in front of what I think is a sword .

is this the armory or something?

Lilia went and opened one of the boxes

" there are more inside …"

Double edged swords , spears , lances , katanas , great swords, knives , hammers , scythes , axes , shields . they all had a little science fiction touch to them but still are the same thing .

The boxes had guns. big guns , small guns , normal guns , energy based guns , lots and lots of guns .as I went through every box seeing what kind of expensive toys are stored inside I found something that every man woman and child knows of as a symbol of the sci-fi genre

a light saber

"um…what are you doing?" asks Lilia as I stare with an open mouth at the dream of very child inside every grownup

"I feel the force awakening "

"...what?... is this the first time you see a photon sword?"

" ....yes …."I say , still staring at the thing

" well I have to agree it's a strong weapon. but those things are too hard to use and consume a lot of energy "

" I will take it "

" are you sure you could handle it ?"

" doesn't matter , I will keep it "

A magic sword or a legendary cursed artifact would have been preferable, but those like me have a weak resistance to cool shiny objects even from other factions.

Speaking of cool shiny objects there is this small box with a pair of bracers that doesn't seem to fit alongside the high tech weaponry. it has a more fantasy like design and vibe to it.

Maybe it's just my affection for the worlds of swords and magic, but I felt a kind of connection with it, so I ended up equipping them without thinking much about it.

" an armory huh…"said Lilia " it's strange , there are enough weapons to equip a small army , but it doesn't seem like there is more than one of the same weapon "

" hmm…you are right " each weapon was different in some way, sometimes the difference is too small to notice . this degree of variety shouldn't be easy on the budget, nor is it a practical choice , it's almost as if

" they were testing them" oh shit , not again "it makes sense now" okey , it may be too quick of a conclusion to popup right now but trust me , I have all the experience from the games , manga , anime ,movies and also novels to backup this assumption

" they weren't just trying to return humanity to its original state, they were creating soldiers"

And not any kind of mass produced run of the mile star wars troopers, but elites with personalized skills. that would explain all the weaponry.

it may be just another rushed assumption like before , but humans aren't strangers to this kind of things .

"maybe it's just that the staff aren't allowed to bring weapons to the upper floors? "

" I doubt that . what are the chances that a group of a hundred and thirty odd person owning a completely unique weapon each?" and I find it hard to imagine a scientist swinging around that war hammer.

and if I'm correct, this kind of room is usually followed by

"Like I thought ..."

your classic , generic arena .

.....

behind the next door was a clearly overused arena of some sort . the debris scattered everywhere and the threatening to collapse ceiling , the burning marks , the craters in the ground and the hole in the wall that reached all the way outside. this looks more of a war zone than a training room .

ah , and let's not forget about the giant robot at the corner , that's an important detail you know .

as we went around Lilia was the first to notice a number of burnt down humanoid figures . surprisingly none of them were actually human , they are all just really damaged androids

" looks like something went wrong here "said Lilia while looking at the hole that reached outside .

" looks like it was made from the inside . was there a weapon that could do this in the previous room?"

" I don't know . a hand held weapon would probably need more than one shot to do it " Lilia seems to be disturbed .

someone was here , dealt with all the training dummies then escaped by making a new exit .

I take another look around the place

"there it is "I say pointing at the upper part of the wall facing the hole , where the generic monitoring room should be .

I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that place when it happened .

the gate facing the one we came from was destroyed , near it we found stares leading up .

" it reached this far ...what in the world could cause this "

" probably an experiment went wrong , I heard stories of it happening " at least in fictional works

we arrive at the spectator seats . the room was burnt so much that the walls were covered in black . the scorching marks went all the way to the bottom of the stairs and ash covered the floor .

whatever that made this mess , it made sure everyone watching was turned into dust .

"it seems it was furious about what they did to it " said Lilia

" and it's somewhere out there , let's hope we won't ever run into whatever would do this "