0 With A Line Through It 소설 & 이야기

Minus “You wanna hear more?” I asked in disbelief. She raised an eyebrow. “I’m here, aren’t I?” “Flyin’ baby Jesus, Cricket. I can’t for the life of me figure out why?” “Would you make up your mind please, Minus,” Cricket ground out. “Do you want me to be a part of this, or not?” “Actually… I don’t know,” I admitted. “That’s not an answer!” she snapped.

Except for Rui, who fearlessly corrects her. She traced the compound structure with her fingers and noticed something weird with the drawing. It was drawn using a 0.77 mm pen since the lines were thick. She noticed that there was lead transferred over after tracing those broad lines with her fingers. She opened the flashlight on her phone and pointed it at the illustration. She noticed lines and dots drawn with a pencil on the black lines. 'Morse code?' Realizing that it was code from Karina, she quickly took a scratch paper and a pen from the side. She arranged the lines and dots and decoded them.

Tj1cUzgU2uxTf0m330JogZz4fcAMIRnrD_lx6Grzziy_hYcBHBPKYOqH3dhoS91OHLSV8Y_qgdCQy7ophdfcvj2XRMITj1ppvTOmW1Hl8t_Hko5o4qPebGUkHGJn9sUEizaLh9hhCpJ24sBK4A_6dzbOapVJfyI0Eh1QIXf-LW3YU0IzU1GB8tIlYLf9EMXpdV8b7bNTICfy41xDpuwbQaNZN0-m1T5BzcSqghJTsPu5_hxzu9FhFo2HdeXqnw8uMJ6xs1auQRx6WsmK9Je6_s-fgzos2VdqtTgWc_AvpAO99xTyFUZKoI8ROHswx97Nwo76vw9P-ayFbF8Ka42IAuEduU-Fz3b AAM1RvArhfD5Oevb0hlVfJD_iMufNNoywM3_j4FF_Q_AZ4lakzfpP")

It’s like a really faint tattoo without the ink. I shut the water off so I can look at it closely. It’s an infinity mark with a single vertical band running around the middle, and two dots on both ends of the band.

Consider it done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I opened it to see the contents. 'heLL0 p0 ^ 3^ c 3LTAN pu i2,, ^ω^ bka pu us2 mue ng maggud m0rnenG & nayT seny0 > < •_•;,,, p3deng ped3 pu aqu,, fREe pu i2 4la kau ba2yaRAN yezs phoe upoe, , nid nu lg is4ve the # qu in ba2 and bw4La ˊ▽ˋ mAY mag2Ti nhA sau ;)) xD mwa' And at the bottom of it there is indeed a number.

Two pink lines. Clear. Unmistakable. Two pink lines. I picked it up with shaking hands. Turned it toward the light. Looked at it from different angles like that would somehow change what it said. Two lines. I grabbed the box. Read the diagram showing what positive looked like. I had two lines. Positive.

No answer came. The line went dead.

A black background. A white circle divided into nine lines. The same symbol from the envelope. One sentence slowly appeared beneath it. WELCOME TO THE GAME.

And that was wrong, because first wolves don’t freeze for nothing. My phone buzzed again. Not Zevran. Unknown number. Not anyone from the network or Isara. Not anyone who'd ever contacted me before. One line. No words. Just a symbol. A circle. No line through it. Complete. I stared at the screen. Rhydian looked over my shoulder, went still, like he does when something doesn’t fit any category. "The network used a circle with a line," I said. "Erasure," Malek murmured.