SURVIVORS
Chaptre 315. Ruler's Sacrifice
Dean, Robert and Sunil are gone. Alan sat down next to Dr. Chandra who was still lying in the sand.
"Look!" point Sunil towards the beach.
They fly around the coast. There are no more fish in there. Even the shipwrecks are gone.
"You forgot to close your mouth" Robert told Dean.
"Let's check inland!" invite Sunil enthusiastically.
And ... back they were made speechless. That place is clean now. Totally clean! In a sense, even the entire rubble of the building, had vanished swept away. The island is completely empty. Moult without debris especially plants. But, in some places, visible lines of stone tomb markers.
"How did the Lord do it?" muttered Sunil in amazement.
They did since morning, only a third of the island could be cleared. But the Ruler can clean up in no more than a minute.
"So you said, The Lord sacrificed himself to do this? Whatchu mean? What's gonna happen to her?
"If it were in our world, it would be 10 years less. But he's gone. So, I thought ...."
Robert hesitated to continue.
"Will his soul power weaken?" ask Sunil.
"Are you going to be asleep long enough for her strength to recover?" guess Dean.
"I don't know the effect now. So we have to find out. If things get tough, then let Marianne take care of him in the storage room. What do you think?" Robert waited for his friends to answer.
"Yes. We'll just do it like that" Dean broke up. Sunil nodded in agreement.
"Then let's go back. We better get some shelter soon."
Robert flew ahead of his two friends. Sunil and Dean soon followed.
Alan was still sitting in his place, shadowing the weakly lying doctor Chandra, with his light dome.
Dean picked a place higher than the beach. He made a pedestal lie down from the mountain rock. Then remove the body of doctor Chandra carefully from the sand of the beach. Move it to the place prepared. The weak body was carefully laid back.
Alan got up from his seat and flew over. Then sit back and put up the protective light, because the sun is blazing.
Robert helped to drink a cup of water, then water the body until it was soaked, hoping that his physique would recover soon.
Sunil and Dean help each other build a shelter for Chandra's doctor. The piece of rock Dean always carries, it helps a lot in times of emergency like this. Now that place can protect Dr. Chandra from the heat of the sun.
Widuri, Marianne, Niken, Indra and Cloudy are out. They started preparing the dish, after Dean decided to rest in that place, tonight.
"This island is completely bald!" Chirps Niken.
"That's because it's been cleaned by them" said Widuri.
"It's definitely also why Dr. Chandra is running out of steam" Marianne added.
"Infant, an island of this size is engined in a day. If ordinary people do it, it might take a month to be this clean" said Widuri again.
"So let's cook. This is all we can do to recover their drained energy" Marianne said.
The three women began to prepare food. But, Indra was confused looking for firewood to cook. He had gone up the hill, but found no trace of any living creatures there. The place was very ... very clean as a new page was swept away. He listens and reports to Niken.
"There's nothing here. Not a piece of twig left. There are only stones" Indra reported.
"Yes ... Just burn the stone!" robert Sambar.
"Then that's your job!" sambar Indra fast.
"OKAY. Just tell me when you want to start cooking." Robert.
The sky just cleared. Its brilliant blue color is now starting to cloud small white everywhere. And the change was much more fun for the team members. The intense intensity of the light during the day was unable to burn their skin. Because Alan protects with a red light dome. But the level of light is still very dazzling. Especially because the ripples of sea water also reflect the light to all places.
Robert had burned several large stones to the ground. A pot was placed on it. Niken was busy stirring the vegetable pot. They were almost done preparing the dish.
"How long have I been asleep?"
"What do you feel now?" ask Dean.
"none. I'm just thirsty and hungry" replied Dr. Chandra.
"Food's gonna be over soon Doc!" niken shouted from the front of the furnace.
"Ah, that's great. I want to drink du—"
"It's a drink." Sunil immediately thrust out a cup of immortal water.
"Thank you, Sunil."
Dr. Chandra received a cup of water and drank it.
"Did I worry you guys?" ask doctor Chandra.
"Can you now put out the light in your eyes?" alan asked to be sure.
Doctor Chandra remained silent for a moment. But nothing has changed for Dr. Chandra.
The three men were sitting down.
"What's wrong? Will the soul of the Sovereign not appear again?" Dr Chandra was also confused.
"don't know. Maybe too much energy. So his soul is weakened. It likely won't appear for some time to come." Dean said his assumption.
"Well .. we can only wait for the next development." Sunil agreed with Dean's assumption.
"The trial is ready."
Widuri called the team members to enjoy dinner, in the afternoon.
The afternoon air was calm. The blowing wind drives away the hot temperatures that have already settled in the earth. Luckily they had a sitting pedestal of naturally cold mountain rock pieces. It makes it easy to rest and gather while eating
"What's your next plan?" ask doctor Chandra.
"Tomorrow we go to that big island over there!" point Dean to a point on the horizon.
"We didn't see anything there" complained Indra.
"Tomorrow you'll see it. So rest tonight. And ... Doc, we'd better get some rest tomorrow and get some rest, too" Dean said.
"All right," said Dr. Chandra.
"How do you think we're doing tomorrow?" ask Robert.
"Indeed, how do we work?" Alan asked in surprise.
"If it's like that, how?" ask Sunil.?
"It was effective for a small island. Here alone, the Ruler must sacrifice himself to clean up the mess. What if we see a big island? How long are we gonna be stuck in there? Don't you want to get to Jakarta soon? You don't want to go looking for your family soon?"
Robert's words made them silent. Actually they're very worried. But, as time passed, that hope was thinning. So they act resignedly.
"If the island ahead is a big island like Borneo, I think they have enough personnel to clean up the mess there. So we can focus on going to Jakarta" Robert added.
"The other one, how?" Dean gave his team a chance to express an opinion.
They discussed until the night curtain came down.
"good. We agreed to continue the journey to Jakarta, if the island in front is a large island. Right so?" ask Dean again.
"Yes!"
Answer the other team members.
Dean nodded. If so, it's good to just take a break.
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