SURVIVORS
Chapters 214. Doctor Chandra's Story
Dean came back home early. While Yabie is still helping Mattew and Kenny set up land to grow yams. Yabie promised to bring other plants from the city.
Mattew and Kenny are very happy. The most important thing is the availability of the staple. If they can plant a variety of plants, can't they be independent in the future?
For dairy products, and livestock rearing, it was Liam and Laras' duty, assisted by two boys. Yabie would lend sheep and cow seedlings that were being conceived to be kept in the city. They can take milk after the baby is born, until it is strong enough to be released. Then the mother will be taken Yabie back. While their children can keep them.
And Dean had also promised to bring enough fish seeds from the freshwater sea. The fish will be released in the waterways that surround the city. The unceasing flowing water came from the small world behind the residence of Yabie.
Dean tries to guide Yabie to take responsibility for the progress of her small town. The city must be worth occupying first, then he can enjoy the results.
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"Ahh, you're back sooner. Looks like your experiment failed huh?" guess Nastiti.
"so. The sheep vanished, never to return" replied Dean honestly.
"Oh yes, has Sunil harvested the apples he said?" ask Dean.
"It has. Marianne is making apple fla for pie. Widuri had also finished making jam and blueberry juice." Nastiti explained their activities.
"Then you and Niken did what?" ask Dean as he passes.
Nastiti. Then immediately scream before Dean steps away.
"Hey, don't think I didn't do anything. I helped them prepare this!"
"I didn't say that" said Dean in self-defense.
"Huh..kira I just sit around, huh?" Nastiti is upset.
"Come here." call Niken. He's screening coconut milk for oil.
Elsewhere, Indra and Michael peeled the coir and gouged the shell. Dr. Chandra grinds the coconut meat to shreds.
Nastiti is back in the kitchen.
Everyone was very busy that day. Dean helps out in the garden with Sunil and Alan. Even the oil production continued until night.
"What are your plans for that place?" ask Alan.
"Eitherway. There is still one more gap that has not been checked. But Yabie refused to sacrifice her sheep again" Dean said.
"I've seen people selling chickens in the city" Sunil said.
Dean was weighing that choice.
"Tomorrow we'll ask how much it costs." Dean finally decided.
After getting everything done, the women took a break. But Dean is still on guard to finish manufacturing the immature oil completely. There's a Chandra doctor there who doesn't want to sleep.
Cloudy accompanied Dean and sat down close to the cooking stove.
"Dean, I want to tell you something. I don't know if this story is important to you or not. But I can't keep it anymore" said Dr Chandra.
Dean looked at Dr. Chandra in wonder.
"What's doc about?"
"You certainly remember I was in a fairy tale country with Robert and the others." Doctor Chandra reminded Dean.
"Hemm, yes. After that you boated to another world, then got stranded on the beach" replied Dean.
"And you certainly remember I told you that Angel married the prince of the Elves."
"Yes, I remember. That's why I want to marry Widuri here." Dean smiles. His hands could not escape from stirring the cauldron of earth that was cooking oil.
"Well, in addition to treating Angel's father-in-law, I also tried to treat his great-grandfather Glenn who was the elder of the Witch clan."
Doctor Chandra is down.
Dean's quiet. I still don't understand what this talk means. So he waited for Dr. Chandra to continue his story.
"But before he died, he told me something interesting." Doctor Chandra paused his sentence. I want to know Dean's reaction. But Dean just silently listened while stirring the oil.
'Do I need to tell you this? He doesn't seem interested. Or, am I the only one curious about them?' thought doctor Chandra.
"Oh... What is it?"
Finally there was also Dean's voice after a long moment of silence.
Doctor Chandra raised his face, watching Dean who was still diligent in front of the furnace.
Doctor Chandra sighed.
"The elder said he wasn't a witch. He comes from a faraway world. Where the stars are."
Dean was stunned to hear that. But back to work.
Doctor Chandra, who had been observing Dean since then, realized that Dean had begun to pay attention to his story. So he continued.
"He said he was studying when it happened."
Doctor Chandra recounted what the Witch Clan elder had said.
This time Dean completely turned his body to face Dr. Chandra.
"Our world is destroyed? Stars colliding with each other?" Dean's down. Mind raging.
'Is that why I lost communication with the main world? That place is gone! Millions of people in the main world are missing at one time. I can't imagine the horror of the tempest back then.' Dean's mind was raging because of that information.
Dean looked at the big cauldron. Stir it for a while, then get rid of all the coals. Let the oil cool and the dirt settle overnight.
Doctor Chandra watched Dean walk out of the courtyard carrying a stool.
Dean sat leaning back and looked at the stars in the sky. Which of those billions of stars is a fragment of his home world? His eyes glowed golden.
Doctor Chandra leaves Dean looking at the stars. He's sure Dean won't do anything stupid after hearing his story.
Dean dissolved into his thoughts at this moment. Unaware of doctor Chandra who has gone to rest into the house.
"Chandra's doctor's story fits with the town chief's story. That their world is destroyed. Then they were sent to another world to defend their race. But sadly their last pregnant woman was even kidnapped by another nation."
Dean tried to put together the pieces of the story he got.
"Geeh!" Dean gasps. He sat up straight and started to think hard.
"Could it be that the mysterious little world that we have not been able to examine is also another resident of the star? Another nation? The bright light that it emitted. Could it be that the caller signal was in his home world? A communication signal or some kind of beacon marking their location?"
Dean was excited by his guesses. He became increasingly curious about the mysterious world as well as its inhabitants.
"Have they been sending rescue requests? But because of the tempest of star chaos a thousand years ago, none of his people could save those trapped in that little world."
Dean felt his assumptions were starting to make sense. About the bright signals that occasionally appear in the middle of that forest.
Also so better understand why the small world of agriculture that he guarded could be split and thrown attached to the dead city.
"Then the city died? Did the city also come from another divided world?" dean muttered while shaking his head.
If indeed the stars up there clashed with each other and destroyed many other well-populated worlds. So no wonder if it can also destroy the world that is inhabited by evil like monsters that once attacked our world. It could be that one of those monsters also fell into another world.
An example is a zombie creature that came out of the fog on a rock mountain. Also the monsters trapped in the city died and fought with Bi for hundreds of years.
Dean began to understand what was happening on this island. Could it be that this island had a magnet to attract various alien worlds that were currently hovering helplessly?
"Are there any more powerful monsters in this forest? Who can scare all animals into entering other small worlds and being trapped there forever."
Dean was deep in thought. He fell asleep staring at the stars. That beautiful radiant place of origin had vanished, shattered into pieces. He suddenly felt missed him. All brother. I don't know where they are now.
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