Chapter 43
Touchscreen
After learning some truths about my Brother's hidden agenda, some are clear but some still blur in questions. I couldn't still believe that my brother was still could pull this kind of strategy to take down the High Council. Though there's a lot of risks and consequences in return. Some sacrifices their lives, some lost their hopes and dreams and some just wanted to survive.
And I couldn't forget how my brother spoke how Barry's gone—dead, on the moment he arrived at us—to save me. I don't know how many people died in the building. Conrad even told me they abducted some participants but he doesn't know what they did to them after. He just knows something awful will happen.
"What the fuck?" I muttered when I saw a High Council staff sneak a confidential material into his touchscreen technology and walks off as nothing had happened. Good thing, he just looked at the camera and flashes his face. You're caught, dude. Whatever you did, you'll be busted.
And how did I know that?
Conrad handed me over a touchscreen technology which can be my companion in this four-walled contemplation of loneliness. By just being here for few hours, I was really bored and started to think what's happening out there but with the technology itself helps me to know what's happening outside with through this thin technology.
"When are you gonna get back, brother?" I mumbled as I bite my nail while watching the screen of the technology. I couldn't get my eyes off of it. All day I was just lying down on the bed and whenever my brother brings food or anything, that's when I get to rise up and do some things and after, lay back again on the bed.
Getting back to what I've seen earlier. There has been a lot of things that are happening inside the grounds of the High Council —mostly on the technical support team which confides and records all the information of the participant regarding this year of the rebirth process. And I can see why High Council remain intact into its dark agendas. Because they had people and those people are powerful to be against.
And that's why some group who wanted to defect against them didn't succeed because they couldn't make it into its first defenses, that ended up everybody's dead. Just like what happened these days. It is like a massacre where they killed everyone, every living person who wanted to survive the process. They are just so cruel that they don't mind if that person were hoping for a better future. If they are into you, then you're dead.
When there's nothing much to see in the screen, I felt my bladder to explode and so I rise up from the bed and headed to the corner of the room. The funny thing here is the room was just occupied by the bed and the shattered mirror on the wall and there's much nothing on it. So many spaces around and I could run around all over the place but when Conrad introduce me how some furniture works, they are intact on the walls. And that's a big mind blown to me when I notice how things work. Conrad taps his feet on the lower part and the next thing happened was a small vent opened and the toilet bowl comes out fresh and clean. My eyes widen as it happened, moving out of the vent and I didn't expect that a place like this has also hidden built structures.
There are still things I didn't know about this room but of course, the world outside of this room was big for me. If I don't know much of this room modified by my brother's intelligence and technology, and the world out there was like a question mark that even when I asked what's happening out there, I wouldn't understand. They are coated by many default systems of lies while it is hard to scrape off with a spoon of truths.
After releasing a lot of water on my bladder, I move it back inside the vent and I was still amazed how the mechanism of this technology works. I jumped back into bed and pick up the touchscreen and held my eyes back on it.
Not that long when I heard the secret door opened, my brother hastily came inside the room and secured that he wasn't followed or no one has seen him entering the room. I don't know how he made this room without the help of anybody but I'm also proud that my brother did all this. I knew he has a talent and skills way before he entered the process. He has potential to everything and when he came into the Noble Land, he used his capabilities and skills to work it out and create an intelligent systematic structure.
I'm still in awe that he is my brother.
"Watching porn, buddy?" he said, chuckling walking towards the bed.
My forehead creased as he mentioned that unfamiliar word to me, "what do you mean?" I asked him and pose myself sitting from lying down. "What are you talking about? And stop laughing, that's annoying."
"Whatever," he smirked. "But you would love when you watched one."
"Tss." I hissed, "whatever brother, what brings you here now? I was waiting for you earlier and where's my snack, anyway?"
"Oh, I forgot." Conrad shook his head, "but don't worry I'll bring some later when some staffs aren't going around. They are all in the hallways, I just got a chance to be here when the place is clear. So, I'm here to give you some information on what we need to do."
"What is it?" I asked, listening to his words.
"I have some information about your friends on the field," Conrad said.
I was immediately enlightened by the news he's delivering. I'm expecting it from him from the past hours because I couldn't just lay down on the bed, feeling secure and safe while my mind was traveling across to the field not knowing to the condition of my friends there. And now, it gives me some hope that finally, Conrad has some news for me.
"C'mon, brother, spill it out," I said, couldn't wait to hear it from it. I was bothered, couldn't help to think the other way but I don't want that thought to remain as it is. I just wanted to learn what's happening to them now. And all of that would make me feel okay.
"They're safe," and when he said those words, I was relieved. The moment I learned that they're safe, it makes me feel better somehow. I still know that they aren't safe in the field but that makes me feel okay that they've got away with the ambushed massacre of the High Council army. "I know just the word safe wouldn't be enough for you but they were never found their body from the building. They must've gotten away and I think they're hiding now 'cause they couldn't be seen in the camera's and they don't have their trackers so we couldn't reach them." He patted my shoulder and seated beside me, "but now tell me, are you watching 'cause you know I've installed some apps for you on that tech... so you could have your alone time."
My brow raised as I try to understand him. For a minute, I'm thinking what he's trying to say but I've got to learn what it means, I punch him on his arms and he just laughed along with it. He doesn't bother that someone would hear him because the room was soundproof.
I couldn't still believe he would do that.
"I'm a good boy, brother."
"But good boys still do naughty things. I know that, buddy."
"I don't wanna hear any further, Conrad. Please, stop." I smirked, "and I wouldn't even bother to look for that app you installed. But maybe you could tell me, is there someone here you are with? I mean in a special way?"
He smirked, "we don't have time to talk about that matter, buddy."
"I don't care, brother. I just wanna know after all these years."
He chuckles and nodded, "okay, I'll tell you and Mom will know it too once she's here..." he said, "well, yeah, to answer your curiosity, I've got a fiancée here on the Noble Land, I've met her on my first year of working in the High Council."
"What does she works for?"
"She's on the medical field, she's good though and pretty."
"Would I ever meet her, brother?" I asked him but then, his reaction gone too fast. "Why the sudden change of mood?"
He stood up from the bed, taking a deep breath, "I don't know when will that happen, buddy. Up to this day, you were never safe in the Noble Land. 'Cause once they'll find out that I'm keeping you here. Both of us are gonna end up dead."
"They will do that to you?"
He nodded, "yes, even if you're part of the High Council Organization if you commit a mistake on the counter of their policy... you'll end up dead."
And when he said those words, there's someone story reminded me of. But I shake it out of my head when I'm more interested in hearing my big brother's love life.
"But I hope soon, I'll meet her right? On the right time?"
He nodded, "I'm sure of that... and what happens when everything is now all better."
"I'm hoping for that brother."
"As I am."
"Anyway, I also have news for you," I said and he put his ears on me, he crossed his arms as he was really into knowing what I'm gonna say to him. "Earlier before you came in, I'm watching live feeds from the tech you gave to me—I wasn't even watching porn or whatever you're talking about. I'm telling you I have seen one activity made a High Council staff."
"And what is it, buddy?"
"He entered the Control Room and it's like he knows that at that moment no one would be there because he comes after the staff inside get out of it. He just connected his tech into the server and after he collected the data he needed, he just leaves the room without traces." I explained to him, "I've got his face, look at it!" I open the screen of the tech and show it to my brother.
He gets the tech and sees the screenshot of the face of that stuff. "Oh, really, shit." He hissed.
"What?" I asked him.
"He was ordered to do that, buddy." Conrad said, "do you remember the rat I'm talking about? Well, he has some people who only some knew and I'm one of it and she's gonna freak out when she knows I'm the whose handling the defectors. But thank you for that news, brother. It is also news that they're still moving." He said, patted my shoulder.
"No problem, I'm here to help the movement, brother. It's all we care for, right?"
He nodded, "yes, the purpose of the movement still remains." He said, "but for now, I gotta leave and handle those rats. I'm gonna be back once everybody's gone to bed, okay?"
"Affirmative, but don't forget to bring some snacks okay... and also I'm having alone time." I sneaked out some laughs and also he did. "Be safe, brother," I said before he leaves the room.
When the secret passageway open and he let himself out, I was alone by myself again. I fall back onto the bed and face the white ceiling.
There still have many things to know about the High Council, about this place and how they run it. I must find it out... and also, I need to get out of this place without my brother knowing it.