281 A Connection
We retraced our steps throughout the entire house. But when we still found nothing, we headed outside to see Iena and her group sitting there chatting. “Anything?”
“Mmm…. Come take a look.” Iena replied. I nodded, and the group and I followed Iena to an area with tall grass and a fence that barely stuck out above it. “The fence seems to be the same as the wheatfield. It was the only spot that we could find that did not bring us back to the house. It’s strange, every time we reached a certain point, we did not reappear at the start of this area but right in the yard at the house. And…. The spots around the fence will also cause us to reappear at the house. Only this section of fence is the entrance to the next area, it seems.”
“That’s good to know. I found another clue, this time one left behind by my father.” I took out the shiny rock causing everyone there to begin giggling. I humphed and ignored them as I put it away without saying what was on it. “Anyway! Let’s go. We don’t want to waste any more time here.”
We gathered together once more and once again held hands as we passed through the barrier, and once again, we all felt sick to our stomachs. But when I lifted my head after almost losing my lunch, I froze. In front of me was not what I was expecting at all. Tall skyscrapers covered in nature that seemed to have reclaimed the land. Cars that should not exist in this world sat motionless in the streets. The entire place looked like some kind of post apocalyptic movie.
“This place looks like a city in one of the novels I read!” Amanda yelled out, causing me to hold my head. I wonder what she would think if I said that this place looked very much like the place I lived in, in my past life.
But seeing a city like this that did not belong to this world in the slightest with the technology that should never have appeared in anything but fantasy tales made me think even more that these dungeons had some connection to Earth or at least a world similar to Earth.
I looked around to see that there were two blocks in total here. Which meant we would be stuck here for a while with how tall these buildings were. “Iena, you take the bloc-street on the right, and I will take the left.”
“Yes, Master.” Iena replied before motioning for her team to follow her.
I made my way to the left block, where we stood on the street that nature was in full control over. “We shall start in this building. One floor at a time. But we will move in a group. No one is to be alone at any given time.”
“Sounds good to me. To be honest, This place gives me the creeps.” Sei said as she looked at the tall buildings in front of her. I could see why it might freak her out since it did look spooky, but to me, I have seen many pictures of such places, so it didn’t really affect me much.
We walked up the cracked cement steps and made our way into the first building. I once again made sure the door was broken before entering. And just to be safe, I even added a small barrier around the door frame to make sure nothing sealed us in.
The building we entered seemed to be an office building of some kind. The main entrance had vines and even some saplings growing out of the floor. There was a long reception desk on the back wall, which was where I walked over to first while the others inspected the other parts of the room.
When I arrived at the front desk, I saw many papers strewn about. There were computers and many other modern things from when I lived on Earth. I was not going to let these things just sit there and go to waste, so I quickly began to stick them into my inventory. If I could replicate some of this stuff, then I would be able to enhance the technology level of this world by leaps and bounds and maybe even make it better than what Earth originally had.
One thing that stuck out to me was the writing on the papers was something I could read, it was all written in english. Not the language of this world by any means. I stood there staring at the papers that were nothing more than information that one would give to people who came to ask questions. This place was probably some kind of newspaper company. At least, that was what I was getting from the stuff on the desk. It could also be a magazine company.
I shuffled around the desk to see if I could find anything interesting. One thing that did catch my eye while I was moving all the papers was a slim black rectangular device, a cell phone. I was unsure if it would turn on or not, but I still pressed the button on the side and attempted to turn it on. The screen flickered slightly before showing a company name that I was familiar with, which made my eyes widen in surprise.
My heart started racing just thinking of the fact that this world, or at least these dungeons, may be connected to the world I once lived in. As I watched the screen change, I couldn’t help but frown when I saw that the phone had no lock set up on it. “Is this person dumb? What if someone stole their phone!?”
As I grumbled, I began swiping the screens and checking the apps on the phone. The battery was basically fully charged, and if I was careful with the output, I could even charge it or find a device of some kind in this dungeon that would allow me to charge it normally. But it would need to be some kind of solar powered charger.
“If I could somehow find a few more of these and try to replicate them….” My mind was spinning on what cell phones would do to this world.
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