Reboot

Day 4

There is the next time. I'm glad to be here. I did go out. Nothing happened; yet. But what did happen was crazier than crazy. While I was scouting for food stock, two names came up on several billboards, Timeline Observatory and Research Center and Central Archive for Abnormal Cases. CAAC was five hours from the house, and it was an easy choice, I came here.

Yes, I am at the CAAC building.

So, about my day; when I got here everything was out of order. None of the equipment was working, the building had no power. The neighboring buildings did have the power though, only this building didn't. Initially, I was like I should repair the power supply, then thought there is no point in wasting time and energy, all I need is information, and I can get that on hard copy.

While I was going through the hard copies I came across the case file. It was labeled, Eraser Virus. The file says some of the scientists said the virus was a bio-tech weapon but they couldn't prove it in time. What they did prove was that the virus attacks any and every living thing that runs on blood. It decays the host much like micro organism does; only this virus does it at an exponential rate. It disintegrates the whole body in the matter of days sometimes hours and it doesn't leave anything behind not even the smell.

I was shaken by the truth. Then again truth does that to people, I am no different. But knowing every truth is much more dangerous, and today I first hand experienced its full fury.

At the end of the file, I noticed the date of record, it was July 13th, 17. I was like, what, how can it be, scientists knew about the virus in 2017 and it spared in 2021 that's basically almost 5 years.

Now I wish why didn't I left it alone and minded my own matters like I always did, why I had to poke my nose.

To get answers to newly raised questions, I repaired the power supply to the building – I shouldn't have done that but... it doesn't matter now – and the first thing I saw on the computers was today's date. It's February 6th, and when I saw the year, my legs went jelly and I dropped straight to the ground. The current year is not 2023 it's 22023, and this Eraser Virus pandemic didn't start in 2021, it started in the year 21021.

I'm sorry, I can't continue right now. I'm sorry. I can't even imagine what the people and animals of this planet had been through. Watching your loved ones die is hard in itself, and here, they had to see their loved ones disintegrate into nothingness. I just can't continue today, I'm sorry. I wish there's no next time.

Day-Feb 6th