Lord Shadow

Chapter 1174: The lab (2)

He had killed many people but rarely he kills innocent people. His morality could not be said the kind of morality that is upright

But he has his own code of conduct. He punishes evil but it is not like he did not know mercy. However most of the time he is very merciless.

This time, he felt guilty and too many innocents had died because of his selfishness.

If this was in the past, he might not care that much. He would still do things, trying to rectify some wrong but he would never exert himself like this

But years had passed and he had changed a lot. He had seen and experience things. Experience all kinds of life, understanding people hearts and emotion, understanding his own heart and emotion and finding out the preciousness of life.

Life could be worthless and yet at the same time it could also be the most precious things. When you see someone life, understand it, you could see that there is beauty in it

But as there is beauty, there is also darkness. Azief saw the darkness first, and then he saw the light.

He loves the beauty but he also appreciates the ugliness. 

It is both human

And because of how precious certain lives are, the life of a loving father, the life of a doteful mother, the life of a son, of a daughter, brothers, siblings, grandfather, grandmothers, lovers, family, friends, all of these lives dead because of his selfishness

It is because of this guilt that he is moved to action. It is because of this he could not just leave Earth alone like in the past

Because once you know the preciousness of life, you began to appreciate it. 

And because he appreciates it, both life and death, he knows there is a cause and effect 

To be honest, Azief knows he is not wholly responsible for the entire thing. 

It is not like he doesn’t know that the other world power had also been travelling to other worlds, weakening the barrier between world 

But he doesn’t want to be that person. A powerful person who always have a self-justified excuse for every mistake

There are many mistakes in his life that he did not dare face. Things he did not own up to. Mistakes that he regrets. Mistakes that makes him ashamed. 

From the moment of the Fall, from the moment he accepts that he could die at any moment, he became free.

Not in a destructive I’ll do anything I want kind of way. 

It is the realization, that if he were to live, he wanted to make it the best life he could so that when it came for his turn to die, he would leave with only a few regrets and with a laugh

However, he did not die. He lives beating the odds.

He survives and in surviving he met people. People that changes him. People that become his friends, his family.

People that made him realize that he could be loved. And that he also could love. It takes years but he slowly changed.

He is not as jaded as he should be but he is not entirely an optimist either. 

There is this contradiction in him. He wanted to be hopeful but at the same time also realistic. 

Wanting to hope for the best possible ending yet also acknowledging the fact that it might not be that way and preparing for the worse possible scenario. 

He wanted to be brave yet at the same time there are certain things he just didn’t want to face. 

And he is slowly but surely changing, trying to face things. 

However, he wanted to spin the matter, he knows there is a lot of fault in him trying to open up a road toward the future in the way he did.

He knows now what the future holds. And the knowledge of the future did not bring him any ease instead it made him even more anxious. 

One simple act had caused so many pains. 

He just hopes that by going to this lab, he could glean something useful, something he could bring back to Earth to at least redeem him a bit. 

He could not bring back the dead. 

But he could make the living lived a bit happier and easier. Earth could not handle another calamity like this. Humans need to grow or before long, humanity would be on the path of extinction.

Seven billion people was approximately the population of humans before the Fall. Since then billions had died. 

The corpses of such proportions could fill up a mountain and more. Some were killed during the initial Fall, other are killed after.

Humans need to have time to rest. 

Azief is determine to seek ways of improving the life of humans and at the same time planning to maintain order among the Great Powers when he returns

He knows he could not maintain it for long but for a few years, he believes he could pacify all the Great Powers to listen to his words 

He looks around the forest. There is many of that container. There is Orvanian numbers on each container.

Qarliya did not explain anything but he has time to look around so he did not feel that bad. He walks to one of the container 

He though he needs to say something or bring something out but the moment he came near one of the container, the container door opens. 

There is a lab inside the container. 

But the lab is very large. 

There is even corridors and hallways. 

The space inside the container is different than the space outside of the container, showing the superiority of space technology of Orvanians. 

Most of the workers inside the lab is robotic workers. Most of them is working without stop and unlike Qarliya who possess intelligence, these mechanical robot is simply robots without thoughts or emotion, simply a programmed robot. 

It seems from the moment Azief enter this area, all of his moves is under the eyes of Qarliya. That would explain why the container door opens almost immediately when he is near and why the robots did not attack him and even ignore him continuing to do their job. 

He went to one of the terminal, push one of the button and then his mind immediately downloads the Orvanian language pack straight into his mind. 

This is an application of quantum mechanics mixed with mystical means. 

In just one second, Orvanians language fills his entire mind and he could understand the numbers and writing of Orvanians.

Basically it changes his understanding. 

It is like the mind would convert any Orvanian writing to a writing system that he would recognize and bring out the same meaning.

And that is not the only thing it downloaded. It also downloaded the nuance of certain words, the tones of how to speak it and many more 

It made Azief felt like he was speaking Orvanian all of his life. 

At the same time, a message flashed in one of the terminals. With the All Source system, he could understand every language but not its writing.

For example, like when he is with Katarina. Before the Fall, Azief could speak Malay, English and a little bit of Mandarin. 

But he certainly did not know to speak Russian. But when he talks with Katarina, it was like there is no barrier at all.

But if he were to be asked to write Russian, he would not be able to. 

He does learn Russian in Earth Two a bit but if he were to compare his writing with a real Russian, he would be pretty ashamed. It is the same thing for the Orvanians. 

While he could understand Orvanian language, he did not understand their writing.

Katarina did tell her that when he arrives at the lab go to the terminal first and just push the button. 

She had already set it up. Now he understood what she is talking about.

It took a few second before he got a hold of himself. 

When he was downloading the language pack, like always when so many information flooded his mind, he would feel a little bit overwhelmed.

It took him a few second before he got a hold of himself.  But once he did, Azief eyes turns bright. 

Now, that he understood the writing it is easier for him to use the terminal. 

The terminal is basically like a holographic projection only the projection is projected straight to one own mind, a lot like the system status window 

There is search window and basic directory of files of information of the lab stored in the terminal computer. 

It seems that the moment Azief access the terminal computer the access was approved by Qarliya.

Even though Qarliya look like a naïve child, she is after all the administrator of this structure and she had full control of what happens inside the Lab. 

Her mind is capable of doing many things at the same time. 

He began scouring the directory and found a few information about this lab. This lab is one of the lab that is responsible for terraforming this planet. 

It also held many other technologies

Qarliya did not withheld the method of how terraform the world and what thing is needed and the requirement of such technology.

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