"Welcome to your new headquarters!" President Shangguan introduced our new work area.
A spacious chamber for 9 employees – well 8. – The smooth partition was coated by Coconut white wallpapers. In the middle stood; a tidy work area that has separated space for each workers. The latest model of Apple computers – iMac with high-tech features – are settled on each wooden desk. Glossy whiteboard and a glass of markers, bookshelves with ancient books, soft swivel chairs, and a coffee machine!
The room excites me, but had deepened the sorrow of my heart at the same time. Xiaotang would definitely be happy about our brand new room... "Food!" Jiaqi exclaimed.
My stomach grumbles as the scent of vanilla muffin enveloped the whole area. Boxes of pastries were placed on the center table along with coca-cola cans. I followed my fellow members as they huddle around the feast.
"Who ordered this?" Yuxin asked.
"Me, it's actually my treat for y'all." Shangguan beamed a gorgeous smile. "Take a seat everyone. We'll discuss a few things."
I took the chair in between An Qi and Keran, facing the lovely Yuxin. I can't help but to steal glances of her luscious lips, it's luring me to commit something I really wanted for years. The emotional drive of being infatuated with Xin is the hardest challenge of my life.
The more I kept my feelings, the greater it grew to eagerness.
"So as you see, there's 1996 positive." the president stated.
A projection of bar graph reflected on the surface of the whiteboard. The increase of numbers are terrifying; 3 to 20, and 20 to 1996. "The symptoms are abdominal pain, fever, vomiting and weakness. Though some of the cases are asymptotic, the majority are suffering from defined prodomes." all of us were petrified when the numbers escalated continuously. President Shangguan had started to tap random buttons on the remote, but it was useless. The picture shrinks as the bars climb up.
It finally came to a pause when it'd reached 7,900,000,000. A buzzing static emerged from nowhere, and the projector shown a cluster of letters.
Q W E R T U O P
L K J H G F D S
B M V C Z
The letters from the digital board!
"What's that?" Yu Yan asked.
The alphabet song had coincidentally played in my mind.
A? – there's no A.
Yuxin brought out her phone. "It's the Latin-script alphabets, QWERTY keyboard." she murmured.
Liu Yuxin grab a marker, and started writing the letters.
Q W E R T Y U I O P
Everyone was wearing their anxious mask. The room fell in pure silence, and the only thing audible was the sound of the air-conditioner.
"It's not the QWERTY keyboard Yuxin." Esther said.
An Qi and I continue to snuggle our muffins while watching the commotion. "It is," Yuxin replied.
"If it's the keyboard then the next pile of letters should be: A, S, D, F and so on." Esther made sense; the second line was different.
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Project: Teotwawki
FanfictionIt was new year's eve when a contagious disease had escaped the mainland of China. Millions of death would blazed the newspapers and televisions, as the world hunts for the key of all conflicts. An illness of some sort - obviously unknown - would i...
