All Chapters of Back From the Apocalyptic Future: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50
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041 - The Price of A Hoax
Those monsters no longer approach the evacuation area due to the strong rays from the Floodlights. Yet they are still lurking around the empty buildings and the outdoor hallways waiting for the night comes. “So they don't only attack at night, huh?” asks Prof. Irwan. “It's not a matter of night or day. They just hate strong lights,” replies Tony. “Anyway, what about the situation at the dormitories?” “The floodlights around that area have been turned on. But we still evacuated everyone to the Auditorium.” “And Arifin?” “He is receiving treatment right now. They can’t be sure yet about his condition. At least, they didn’t find any wound in him?” “I believe he is just exhausted due to using his repulsive force too much.” “Repulsive force? What are you talking about?” Tony deliberately shows off his ability by releasing a small spark of electricity on the tip of his fingers. But he is doing it by hiding it from everyone else. He simply shocks Prof. Irwan a bit with it. “What was
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042 - An Old Man And His Ego
As soon as he enters the Auditorium building, Prof. Harun sees so many citizens are still alive. They look so fine like nothing happened in this university. Instead of feeling grateful, this old man’s face is only getting even more sour.“I heard those bizarre monsters only come out at night. But it doesn’t seem like it. Hundreds of people have died because of this hoax. You think whose fault is this?” asks that old man.“Who are you going to make a scapegoat for?” replies Prof. Irwan cold.Prof. Harun walks closer to the young professor. “I’ve learned that this is a hoax shared by that kid. Don’t ever think about protecting him anymore. So many people have died because of his antics.”The young professor immediately looks down. Not because he joins in blaming Arifin for the incident. But he can’t forget what he just got when he tried to call his friend earlier.He believes he has his own share to be blamed, for being too late in responding to Arifin’s warning.That old man ignores Pr
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043 - Ignorance
Arifin suddenly wakes up with a mad face, letting out his rage and releasing a strong killing intent to his surroundings. Silvy is immediately fainted by the pressure, while Grace is shaking in terror. The others are just silent with pale faces, not knowing what they are currently experiencing. And Arifin, he just stares around flatly, looking so pissed off by something. He notices Silvy laying on the other patient bed next to him. But he just thinks that the girl is sleeping, and then averts his attention to somewhere else. “The sword?” mumbles Arifin as he finds his katana next to him. “Where is the scabbard?” “Um, we’ve tried to look for it, but…” Tony replies in stammered, not even able to finish his words. Arifin then walks out by dragging his sword. He looks so weak with glazed eyes. But those adults are so terrified as he walks past them. He stops right beside Prof. Harun, and then turns his face toward that old man flatly. He is just silent there for a few moments. …. “
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044 - Andrew's Making His Move
The man isn’t conscious while sitting tied to a chair. They didn’t tie him that tight. It’s clear he won’t be able to stand up due to the deep wounds Arifin left on his both thighs.Even the wounds only received minimal care, and only were wrapped in bandages just to prevent infection. Nothing more.Ronald pats the man’s cheek so many times to wake him up, until the man wakes up in aghast with a terrified face.“Aaah! Please, don’t kill me!”Ronald scrunches up his face, thinking that this person might have been tortured for interrogation. However, there are absolutely no signs of torture on the person.“Where? Where am I?” asks the man looking around cluelessly.Hannah comes to Ronald and whispers. “Could it be that he was unconscious when they brought him here?”Ronald then unties the man. “Can you get up?”“No way! That kid punctured me on both of my thighs.”A moment later, two of their friends come to inform them that they have secured one of the trucks which belonged to those fa
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045 - My Back
That self-entitled soldier is just a mercenary. He has no burden to be loyal to the people who hired him. So, there is no reason for him to keep anything a secret at this point.“We are just mercenaries. Our client is the people from The Defiance Atlantis. They gave us those devices to identify people who were affected by the meteor’s radical radiation like you.”“And for what purpose?” asks Andrew.“It’s not our policy to ask the motive of our client. The order is simple, to take these people to a place they had facilitated, where these people will be treated. But before accepting this request, we had already learned about the emergence of awakened soldiers. I didn’t know what this awakened thing before, until I saw that kid with the white hair. And, you!”“And about The Defiance Atlantis?” Asks Andrew by taking his face closer full of intimidation.That man immediately shakes his head fast. “I’m just a lackey in my organization. One thing that I know, The Defiance Atlantis consists
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046 - The Bounty
In the meantime, the cops are now conducting a brief investigation over the death of the two guards that Andrew killed. Their first suspect is the fake soldier that these people held captive, which no longer be there at the moment.Yet they had also learned from Prof. Irwan that the man was badly injured, and there’s no way that man would be able to harm anyone.Henry examines the destroyed chin of one of those dead guards. “I couldn’t think of any ways to inflict this kind of damage to someone.”“The best I could think of, you heat a metal baseball bat so hot, and then use it to hit him,” Nathan speculates. “But why would anyone go that far just to kill while one can simply use the normal way.”Henry shakes his head weakly. “It’s like he was cremated. But how are you going to cremate someone locally like this. Only his mouth and jaws are gone, while the rest of his face still looks normal?”“It must be the work of that freak!” Prof. Harun accuses.“Hey, hey! Don’t start it again,” Pr
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047 - Discordance
It seems like the leader of this troop is quite able to identify the weapons and also the trucks that Henry and co. currently taken. “Who are they?” mumbles the driver. “Just stop the car! Let me go there!” says the troop leader. That one troop leader, with two lines scar on his chin, leaves his truck and takes only four of his men to approach Henry and the others. Nathan approaches them and greets flatly. “Excuse me! Are you soldiers from the national army?” “Yeah, my name is Parjo, the captain. I heard there are evacuation centers around this area. Am I lost?” “No. This is one of the evacuation centers in this city. Sadly, there were monsters’ raid yesterday. We could only save a few people. Now we are back here just to make sure if there are still any survivors.” “So?” Nathan shakes his head. “We haven’t found anyone so far.” That man named Parjo turns his attention back toward his friends for a while. After being silent for a moment, he asks Nathan to lead them to see the
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048 - The Real Monster
Parjo issues a few of his men to look for those people. They drag one of the citizens to lead the way, the one citizen who has been so vocal so far.The discordance becomes chill, since there’s no longer the need to continue the debate. Those self-entitled soldiers already get the people who have been exposed to the meteor radiation.The few citizens who tried to protect them can only show their discontent looks to the traitors. Well, it’s hard to judge them as traitors, since they are the majority by a huge margin.“Hey, you forgot about someone here!”That voice attracts people’s attention. One of them points out about Grace, who has been confirmed to have experienced awakening.Grace looks in panic, glancing around like she is being surrounded by predators. She feels like she has been trapped in the wrong ecosystem. In fact, those people have been trying to distance themselves from Grace since the beginning, thinking that she will bring harm to them.One of those soldiers comes to
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049 - The Man With Nocturnal Eyes
Awakened or not, Arifin still has his limit. He tore a few of his muscle fibers in his right hand and his left calf muscle. It’s not an injury because of the monster’s attack. It’s simply because of him forcing to use his body beyond its limit.He will only be able to eat another blood crystal without side effects later in the late afternoon. So he just lets that injury untreated for the time being, while laying down on the bed without doing anything.“Have you tried to call her?” asks Arifin to Tony, who is currently sitting on the window frame.“It's not like you, suddenly ask about my girlfriend,” replies Tony trying to avoid that question.“I’m just bored,” says Arifin.Suddenly, Arifin’s facial expression changes like he feels something different. He hears his mom accepting a guest. And he clearly hears that the guest is asking for a chance to meet him.Somehow, that weird feeling is getting stronger, until he finds that one guest stands right at the door which is wide open. The
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050 - Ignorant Soldiers
Again, Arifin is puzzled by that man’s words. But he admits that his sword is not a normal one.At least, he once witnessed that the sword turned so black and thick when he was trapped in that ancient ruin, before he was dragged back to the past.“You seem to know something about this sword?” asks Arifin.For this one, Mike turns silent for a moment. He then tells Tony to leave them, and threatens him not to try to eavesdrop.After making sure that Tony is away from the room, only then does Mike respond to the issues raised by Arifin.“I was always by your grandpa’s side during the great war,” says Mike nonchalantly.“Bullshit! The great war had ended even long before I was born. Are you saying you joined war while you are still in your mom’s uterus?”“How old do you think I am? Just saying, I was born six years earlier than your grandpa.”Arifin scrunches his face. But Mike immediately ceases his curiosity, because there’s something more important that he needs to confirm first.“So
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