Leslie's World

Neth went on an expedition with Pafi to another country. Hi told Manu to take care of the laboratory in the meantime.

They packed their suitcases and departed with the helicopter.
The route from their headquarters to Hong Kong was quite short. Or at least it felt like such. Since it was early summer, the views on Earth were breathtaking. Even the posthuman species appreciates the values of a sunny day.

Upon arrival, Pafi felt quite anxious about the place. However, hi ignored the feeling initially. It was a brand new place, after all. Like nowhere else.

"This seems like an unique place. Human architecture styles are blending with each other, giving a new life to places", Manu said, "However, this is not what we're here for."
Pafi glanced at Manu for a moment, wondering what did hi mean by that.

"You see, a befriended expedition team that usually does research here disappeared for some reason."

When both of them took a walk around some of the districts, they noticed various writings on walls, some of them were repeated. To their disappointment, they weren't capable of reading them.
"I think these might be related to the disappearance", Pafi uttered.
"You see, when I contacted my friend from the local team, hi told me about the strange case of this country-city.
When humans reigned this planet, at one point in the human history there was a cruel specimen who was considered the ruler of this place.
This might sound weird, but..."
"A ruler? Sounds like a human thing. You mean, they let one person decide about everyone else's fate?" Manu interrupted hir.
"Let's say so. I have read up on human hierarchy, and in their history there were things called 'countries'. Every country had their own 'leader'. Despite that, almost all countries were united under one structure. You should read about it too.", Pafi continued.
"Anyways - During this reign, there would be clashes between humans and the power-holders. While this phenomenon is not new in the history, this place is one of the stranger ones... as the ones fighting against the power would disappear", hi says.
"It's called 'jail'. In human culture, it is a place for everyone who breaks the rules. It was a form of punishment.", Manu adds.

"Not really... you see, even if someone gets into the jail, kin humans would still be in touch with the wrongdoer, right? In this case... they literally disappeared. Nowhere to be found.", Pafi uttered, realizing how unreal this is of a behavior.


The further the team has went into the city, the worse the atmosphere was getting. Both of them could feel a strange aura in this place. One could tell this was a life-blooming place, but the sprinkle of uncertainty of one's life sparked by its past always crawled behind the two.

"Undocumented whereabouts are always much worse and cruel than a documented murder.", Manu said.

Both have wandered further into the darkest corners of the city.