Adventure In The Dark
Tragedy 314 - I'm an evolver
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Derek confirmed the telecosys. He looked at Pricilla who had been sitting in front of him and listened to his conversation with Nils across the street.
"It's bad, you're in danger too."
"What's? That means, they'll also try to catch me?"
"Yes. And there seems to be no other choice. We have to go to Oslo to see my best friend's girlfriend so we can find a safe place to hide."
"Oslo, where is it?"
"Norway. We're going there and looking for my best friend's girlfriend so we can get the address of her cousin who lives in Finland."
"I don't want to! If I have to go abroad, what about my career in Jakarta? Besides, my career is in its heyday. I couldn't have gone so far, and again, I couldn't have left my parents."
"So you would choose to stay here and take care of your career without caring about your life, right? You didn't know? Your life is in danger. If you want to come with me, then I'll try to protect you and make sure you stay alive."
"But...What are you really doing and why are they after you? What have you done?"
"Look! I'll explain everything to you, but you have to promise not to tell anyone!"
"First of all, I'm not a superhuman. I am an evolver, or an evolutionary man who has gone through probation in a crazy project of a professor whose ambition is to rule the world. There were many evolvers living in this world, yet they hid their identities so that no one would know. They mingle with pure humans like you who have no advantages whatsoever." Derek took a short pause before going back to explain everything to Pricilla.
"Evolvers? Human evolution?"
"Yes. Every few years, they kidnap every single chosen person from all over the world and then they take them to the lab and they turn them into evolutionary humans with superpowers, like me. When they are ready, they will be released. I was like that too, but after they repeatedly tried to install chips in my brain, their chips always failed to control me. Not wanting to be in their control, then I plan to fight them by making a serum to fight the professor's evolution serum…"
"…I've managed to make a serum to fight their evolution serum, and I've only slightly refined it. But I got caught, and now they're trying to catch me."
"So.. That's why they're after you?"
"Yes. I'm just trying to make an evolver like me be able to return to being a normal human like you who doesn't have any power. From the beginning I knew it was dangerous, but I couldn't stay still while they kept moving."
Pricilla fell silent, understanding that what Derek was doing was a good thing. He was just trying to restore the evolver to return to being an ordinary human as he should be.
"If you don't want to come, I won't force you. For sure I just wish you hadn't told anyone about this. I'll get ready before I go to Oslo." Derek packed his things, tidied up all the files he had put together and put them in the bag he had been wearing yesterday.
Pricilla thought for a moment. He seemed to weigh in before deciding whether he would go with him.
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