Cursed Souls - Chapter 27 27 New Life

Everyone woke up in the middle of a completely new place. This time everything was different. The walls were a dark purple brown color and the floor was concrete. The room was shaped like a huge dome, with a poorly lit interior. Towards the center of the dome was all the kids who were alive. And outside of the blood stained line on the floor were hundreds of dead kids. Or at least what felt like hundreds. Before them on the ceiling appeared a screen. This time there were new names and columns. Alive and diseased. This time there were a lot more details and rules then before. There was also an outline of the compound. It almost appeared that everyone was in a new building this time. Everyone read the instructions, command, or rules on the ceiling.

#1 All dead bodies are to be moved to the blue ring on the floor.

#2 All living people were to go back within the red ring.

#3 Wait for further instructions.

Just then a clock started to alarm around them with a countdown timer of seven minutes. Everyone started to follow the demands without question. By the time the clock reached two minutes everyone was back in the circle. Almost immediately after everyone was inside the red circle a ring of fire surrounded them. Within the red circle was a clear shield protecting them from the fire. Whatever was happening was burning the corpses. Above them was a teal fire colored numbers. It read 68.

78. That’s how many people were dead. The remaining alive counts was 22. Unknown 10.

#4 Grab a copy of your room key and go to your assigned area.

#5 Find shifting paper in room and study it.

#6 Find partner and wait for further commands.

The building had a large dome shape in the center. Around them the shield came down. On the perimeter of the room there was a key for every individual. Slowly everyone found their keys. The key was a small glass rectangle piece, as thin as the size of a pen. On the key there were four arrows showing each person the direction to there room. Everyone went up one floor. In the center of the dome shaped room was an elevator that went up one level. The twenty two remaining people went up to the floor above them. The hallway was once again in the shape of a circle if you were to look at a floor plan of it. This time there were no connecting rooms.

It was one room. One boy and one girl to a room. The building had a dark atmosphere around it this time. This time, it felt angry and ready to kill.

The lay out to each room was: one full sized bed with one small dresser with two drawers on the side of the bed. Two changes of “street clothes” or the things people would have worn before and two changes of “new clothes”. The room this time was smaller. The bathroom had one toilet, a small mirror, and a small bathtub and stand in shower area. It had a black sheet curtain type door. The room had one small sink, a table left or the door and a one burner type stove beside the sink. And one window in the corner of the room surrounded by a metal grate. There was one shelf above the sink, which was full of rice, noodles, and dry milk and vitamin energy mix. On top of the table laid the “shifting paper”. This building had one small dome main area. One floor for living quarters. The 2nd floor was a circle divided into four sections. A meta-u, library, laundry area and gym. The “ground level” below the living quarters was labeled “survival”. Inside of the dome was a large metal door labeled yard. The doors opened at 8 o’clock in the morning and closed at 8 o’clock at night.

All at once the doors clicked locked. This time the bedroom doors were metal. The building was no longer a safe-ish care-free home. But instead a small prison.

VIZZUTE: This is the new compound. These are your new living quarters.

The female voice started to cut out and a dry robotic voice started.

VIZZ>>>U>>>>TE: Twenty-two. Your job is to ensure survival and find the missing 10. SURVIVE OR END. Changes will be made as necessary.

The lights in the room started to dim. The shifting paper read “lights out”.