Expelled From Paradise

Chapter 4 Part 1

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The Rocket

Chapter 4 Part 1

They arrived at Grabika. At the center of the city, there was a huge reservoir with a large number of farms in the surroundings. Though there was only sand and rock everywhere else, this place was full of vegetation. Dingo took Angela with him. They stopped at a restaurant with hieroglyphs on the signboard. Angela looked confused at a certain udon placed on a table. She knew that this was a type of pasta. But the tastes of national food dishes were not recorded in Deva`s memory. Just like old rock, they decided to remove them from the archives.

"You have to eat like this."

Dingo demonstrated how to use chopsticks.

"Ok, I get it."

She took the chopsticks like she was shown and began to suck out the udon. She never tried anything like this in Deva. She continued eating with enthusiasm. Slightly surprised, Dingo smiled. Then he said, "Do you think Pioneer has something in mind?…"

"Huh?" Angela answered with a full mouth.

"It"s just that if we didn"t understand everything correctly, then maybe we were doing the wrong thing all along."

Eating the udon, Angela answered.

"He violated the security in Deva, he disturbed the residents…"

"So he disturbed the residents, and then what?"

"Perhaps he is deliberately causing panic to prepare for a full-scale sabotage."

"Well yes, you have predicted the worst scenario, but there is no proof. It"s not the residents who are worried here, but the big shots from the security service."

Reflecting on this, Angela drank from the udon cup. She felt that something was missing. Noticing this, Dingo sprinkled some red pepper. Having done this, he kept talking.

"He broke through the security system, which was supposedly impossible to do. This fact alarmed you so much that you missed the main point of the question. It is more important to understand, not how he had done it, but why."

"If only we knew that."

After trying the udon with the seasoning, Angela just exclaimed, "Ah", and continued drinking.

"What a villain. Didn"t he tell you himself? He is looking for comrades to explore the distant s.p.a.ce."

Satisfied, Angela placed the empty bowl on the table and answered.

"Are you saying that we should believe in this nonsense?"

"Why not?"

"Well, first of all, there is no point in this. Thanks to Deva"s system, the problem with overpopulation is solved. There is no reason to take such a risk and go to outer s.p.a.ce."

"But this is just the point of view of Deva itself. The rest of the world might have different thoughts. You yourself should have already understood this."

Angela looked at Dingo suspiciously.

"So you"re saying, we should believe him?"

"We shouldn"t neglect it either."

"He said that he has a ship ready, to explore outer s.p.a.ce, such nonsense… How could he have implemented such a large-scale project, without being noticed by Deva. All projects for s.p.a.ce exploration were stopped even before the nano-catastrophe. And this is a fact."

"Deva doesn"t have all the records. After all, the things that aren"t considered important have already been removed. Right?"

Angela had nothing to say. Old rock was removed.

"Someone is collecting a crew for a s.p.a.cecraft, and of course this someone needs a way to leave Earth"s atmosphere and escape into outer s.p.a.ce. He needs a rocket."

"A rocket…"

She knew what a rocket was. An arhat also had an engine as powerful as it. Unlike the udon, she was aware of such matters. Here Dingo was right, in order to overcome Earth"s gravity, a rocket that would be able to bring cargo into the near earth orbit was needed. To return to Deva, Angela herself wouldn"t need to use such a rocket. A virtual mind was able to send itself using a digital signal. So, she almost knew nothing about the delivery of cargo into the orbit.

"But."

She was about to argue.

"Forgive me for being late. Isaak sent me to you."

She lifted her head and saw a rather soft man with a stubble chewing tobacco.

"Are you Lazlo?" Dingo asked.

"That"s right. Follow me."

He was their target in Grabika. The information they got in Jed pointed to him. The two rose from their chairs.

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