Living in a Shield World
Table 21
TABLE 21
After I finished all the orders, I waited near table 21, said Ms. Mimmi, just in case they might need something.The middle-aged master who helped me earlier was waiting for his guests. Although it looked calm, but I saw a slight anxious scratch on his face.
At exactly 13:00 came the pure green-haired old lady with a wheelchair and 2 bodyguards. The middle-aged man immediately stood up and let the grandmother sit on the side of the serving plate which was all green food.
He wasn't really paralyzed, it was just that the path was already very slow. Then every 15 minutes, the guests at table 21 take turns coming. On time they. Indeed it seems, they are set to come one by one.
After everything came, the middle-aged father approached me and asked to install a black dome around table 21. I walked over to the dome button, then turned it over to table 21.
I asked Mimmi, why not in the ball room on the 3rd floor, more private. Turns out they advance orders to 3 days faster. The ball room space was still not cleaned, and they advanced the order this morning, finally the dome table 21 only became an option.
Table 21 at the end of the cafe, and there is only one main entrance, so when guests arrive noisy cafe visitors suddenly silence and bow their heads, as a courtesy.
Right I guess, they're a buffer tribe. Their hair was so pure and their skin was so clean, all of them were middle-aged, except for one person from the black buffer tribe. They call him King of Spain. A handsome young man with very neat black straight hair. The way he walked was very charming, upright and graceful. I guess he must be from the military.
When King Of Spain passed me, he looked at me sharply, and noticed my hair.Of course my hair was strange to him, I might have thought of a parasite that would hurt the citizens, because he must have fought many times against parasites pretending to be humans on the dome's border.
Not long ago he sat down, he whispered something to his bodyguard, then the bodyguard gave a kind of beam-highlighting device, which I thought was some kind of parasite-detection device. He stood back up then quickly stood in front of me, and shined my hair. I, shocked and frightened, remained motionless, as the detector highlighted my hair. The device was silent, not sounding any sound. After 10 seconds of standing highlighting my hair, he sat back down, at table 21 without saying anything to me.
I was left alone, still having trouble breathing.
After the dome closed I waited outside the dome.
The visitors of the cafe who had been silent instantly became very noisy.
The crek crek, the small dome door opened and the middle-aged father who helped me out, asked for ice cubes.
"Miss can I ask you to get me some ice cubes ?".
"Oh yes sir, hmmm on the edge of the table on the right there is a small refrigerator pack, just press code 33 will come out ice cubes".
"Oh thank you, miss". Nein city residents have memorized the code to remove items from the refrigerator, so we never paste the code number instructions to remove items in the refrigerator, only the new refrigerator that still has a code number instructions.
Cafe visitor Bu Mimmi, rarely newcomers, so there was no clue on top of his refrigerator. 5 minutes later the middle-aged father, out again asking for sugar, sugar,
"What's the fridge code for sugar?".
"Code's 717 sir".
This middle-aged father was already annoyed as it seemed, he was also among the very slow walking. To go back and forth to open the dome door and then to the refrigerator must be very tiring.
For the third time he opened the dome
"Sorry miss what is your formal education?".
"I'm just an elementary sir". Evening schools are not considered formal by the state, only a minimum requirement of knowledge in order to take the university exam for those who cannot take formal education.
" Can you come inside, so you can help me prepare the needs of the guests?".
"Oh yes of course Mr...." .
"Milard, just call me Millard".
" Good, Mr. Millard, I'll be happy to help you".
" Thank you Miss".
"Call Hannah sir".
"OK, Hannah come with me inside".
Inside the dome, everyone looked at me, immediately I bowed my head, and slightly bent my legs, saluting them. Then they continued their conversation.
I was standing right in front of the fridge and Mr. Millard was standing by me. Just a moment they spoke, the pure brunette guest, waving to Mr. Millard.
"Millard get me some salt, it's less salty in my opinion".
" Good Mr. Jenkins", then Millard translated what Mr. Jenkins asked of me.
"Hannah, the guest asked for salt", I rocked my head and pressed the same code for 717 sugar. Millard thinks I don't know what the guests are asking for, understandably, in elementary there are no language lessons of any kind just math, history and basic philosophy.
From the childhood that my father and mother spoke different languages, they realized my potential for language. There are 5 languages of buffer tribes that I mastered active and passive and 13 languages of filler tribes that I easily mastered. Out of the 9 buffer tribes, only 5 languages I actively speak. 4 Others are passive, because their language is very difficult to pronounce.
In the discussion at table 21, the language used is the language of the Blue and Yellow tribes. I'm very good at that language. But Millard thinks I don't understand.so don't let Millard down.
To be honest I really enjoyed their conversation, it was interesting, sometimes there was a joke that made me not hold a smile and felt very familiar in my ears like back home talking to my father and mother.
I had to put on a stupid face all day, because despite wearing a half shield, the tips of the eyes of a laughing face remained visible.
Their talk was just about asking the news, and the latest information in the Kingdom.
"Sheila, how's your health?" jenkins asked the orange-haired lady.
"Unbelievable Jenkins, I got super intensive care at Kingdom Hospital, you know the amazing service there, Sam's grandson who became my doctor".
"Thank you Sheila for her praise of my granddaughter" replied the pure blue-haired woman.
"Yesterday we had a sudden parasitic attack on the sky border, our electrical code leaked and they had a chance to hole our magnetic dome in the sky. But fortunately the Laboratory Kingdom managed to close it" .
"It seems that the parasites are getting smarter" said the handsome middle-aged man with pure white hair.
"They stick to the My King's filler tribe's human hair" Didn't I mishear, Spain called My King..!!
Oh God if I hadn't pretended not to know their language, I would have passed out.
Until the end, I kept trying to appear to not understand a single word they said.
"Mixed and impure hair is indeed very easy to get a mind control parasite and mess with rock collapse" continued the green-haired woman.
" How was your research Brams?" My King asked the green-haired lady.
"I haven't been able to purify the genes of the filler tribe, I still don't understand how they'll survive all the weather in Rock".
"But they have a short enough time span to reproduce at most only 50 years, just like the people of the earth era, whereas we the Buffer tribe even some who after 300 new years have offspring. This is also with a long pregnancy period of up to 3 years".
Jenkins interjected, "In my opinion, there should be no way that we have such a big difference with the fillers, we are just as evolved humans on the same planet".
Then My King said, "We must immediately find a liaison between the buffer tribe and the filler tribe, if our descendants are not exhausted. The rock population may go extinct, from year to year the number of marriages increases, but the population continues to decline. As we get older, can we still create electric domes? It's very heavy if we don't reproduce immediately. We continue our work in the next generation. Jenkins how the university, is there a reliable electrical creator".
"Sorry, My King the creator of reliable electricity is still your son alone.The others can create lightning when in groups."
"Come on Jenkins, more vigorously you're looking for..For more than 500 years, we're looking for this human liaison", said the purple-haired father.
"Please Huda, you know, how difficult it is to find a special human with special abilities in secret" said Jenkins who was upset with Huda's comments.
"Oh Jenkins, I miss your craggy face" Huda melted the mood.
Then they laughed together. Amidst that laughter, I saw My King fall silent and bow his head directing his gaze to the ring that was coiled on his ring finger.
Ting ting ting, the sound of a glass being hit by a spoon,
"Honored Master and Miss".
The red-haired man stood up holding a glass.
"It's been a long time since we've seen each other, it's been great to see you all"
Then everyone stood up, raising their own glasses.
"It's nice to meet you all", reply them all at the same time, like a choir, then they drink.
I even saw Sheila and Brams shed tears, like they missed each other so much.
"Ouh Red, how are you, are you okay? Sheila asked Red, the red-haired man.
"I'm fine Sheila, don't worry too much".
"I heard you set up a new art center in the city of Dams" Jenkins asked Red.
"The news arrived very quickly, but I have not put the first stone in the city of Dam". They glanced at each other, then laughed again together.
Red curly-haired, very different from the others, his red hair was chapped like it was broken.
"Brams, my memory and telepathy are so bad, can you mention those connective human traits again?".
"Donna!", cried Brams at the red-haired guard behind Red. Record what I said". Donna nodded then blinked her eyes a few times, Brams started talking.
"The man must have the advantages of the entire tribe of Buffers and Fillers, he is resistant to all food restrictions of the Buffer tribe and has the smell of the body of the Filler tribe".
I gulped, where there was a Filler tribe that held the buffer tribe's food. Although as normal food and drinks of the Buffer tribe are always mixed with flavorings powder that is the same color as their hair. These flavorings powders are powerful neutralizers of toxins(for them). Food mixed with powdered flavorings is safe for them. Abstinence foods are foods that they should not eat, the flavorings powder can not neutralize it. Buffer's food should be exactly the color of their hair, tinged with those flavorings powders. The fillers don't need powder, we can eat anything. But we can't touch the powders. Having to wear protective gear, it's a very excruciating poison.
The flavoring powders came from flowers in the dried forest, my father and I used to pick them up and sell them to the forest market. The flowers become very poisonous when dried, the flowers for the flavoring powder are very difficult to find, and can only be sold and bought by people who are given access by the kingdom. Selling without permission, is a criminal act, because the flowers are a powerful poison that is dangerous for the filler tribe.
Although I have permission but still can not sell casually to Kingdom I prefer to sell ordinary vegetable flowers to traders in the forest market
Says dad sells seasoned flowers to Kingdom, takes a very long time at the Food and Beverage Affairs Office. They have to scan one by one the flowers, to see the quality. And I always want to go home quickly can't leave mom for long.
The talk at table 21, continued until 18:00. Then one by one they stopped, they went home in the order they came.
The food and drinks were gone, clean, so I had no trouble cleaning up the remaining flavorings powder on his plates. The dishes should be soaked in water containing the juice of the forest oranges, so that the poison is neutral.
While soaking one by one large plate in the kitchen, I remembered the words of My King at the end of the meeting
"Take your food, don't poison the Filler tribe". Maybe that's why they don't eat. Fortunately, Mr. Ben and Ms. Nina's cooking is delicious, they don't mind devouring all the food.
Saying goodbye, Millard said to me
"Tell me the chef, the cooking is delicious. My guests love it so much, I would recommend this cafe to my friends, thank you Miss Hannah".
"I...I...Iyyya Mr. Millard", I replied awkwardly, because never spoken to as formal as that.
"I'll give you your message, thank you for coming to our cafe".