Reawakening: SSS-Rank Villain's POV-Chapter 145: Meeting An Old Fogey!

The words which it was trying to portray was all jumbled up, making them almost impossible to make out.

On the Black desk, light shone from every corner of the desk.

There was a vase with nothing in it, but there was an holographic image, projecting a very beautiful floor from the vase. It was as though the vase had flowers in it which wasn't so.

Blinking his eyes, even Lucian was doubting if the flower was real or not.

To confirm his thoughts he used his hands to roughly brushed the flower but his hands just passed through it, confirming that it was only an holographic image.

There was a very small book shelf on a wall that looked just like a decoration rather than the real deal.

There was also a few paintings and pictures hanging around on the walls of the office.

Observing the small office, Lucian's leg mistakenly hit a spot at one leg of the desk and in that instant, a very dim holographic image emerged from the very edge of the desk

Lucian checked and suddenly saw a number written at the very edge of the desk.

As he was about to tilt his head away, he suddenly frowned. He the numbers was a bit familiar to him, as if he had seen them before.

But it wasn't the number persay, it was the order at which the number hsd been written. His eyebrows furrowed as he tried to remember what exactly made the numbers so familiar.

Lucian gazed intently at the numbers at the edge of the table. He then cringed. The headache was coming again.

But as he was about to give up, he suddenly remembered. The numbers had been written in the same order as the numbers he was always given when he entered the Archives.

To view the books in the Archives, one needed a specific code to log into the Virtual space where the books would then be seen and available to be read.

Lucian's eyes shone. The numbers on the desk was exactly in the same order.

If he wasn't mistaken, the code was used to veiw the books in the bookshelf that looked like a decoration.

Opening up his interface, he clicked in the codes.

"Do you wish to log in to this unknown Virtual Space?" Hazel asked.

"Yes." Lucian replied positively.

Suddenly, reality flashed for a split second before it stabilized. Frowning he checked his status, and he saw that he was logged in already.

As he looked towards the bookshelf on the other side of the wall.

He almost laughed out loud. The person had used the same method as the institute.

If it were another person, that hadn't experienced the ways of the institute, they may not even know what or where the stuffs were hidden.

As the codes may not necessarily be hiding only books in the virtual space.

But there was only a few books there. Only three books had been stored in the shelves.

He walked towards the books in the shelf without hesitation in his steps.

Stretching his hands, as soon as he touched one of the books, there was only a 'Catcha' sound behinds his back.

Startled, Lucian's heart almost jumped to his throat.

But his hands wasn't slow, neither was it startled. As if his hands had a life of its own, it swept the three books into his interface which automatically turned into pure data as soon as it touched his holographic image.

Afterwards, his hands closed the holographic image and Lucian was forcefully removed from the virtual reality.

But Lucian wasn't bothered by it at all. What bothered him the most was the stuff that was currently going on in front of him.

One part of the office wall suddenly split apart with a 'Swish', as a different model of a Cryogenic pod emerged from the depths of what ever hole it came from.

The Cryogenic pod seem very old and different from the one he had seen and used at the institute.

And with another cactha sound, and a puff, the lid of the old pod suddenly opened up.

Puffing out steam and frost air, revealing a very thin and skinny figure within.

The figure was lying down with his hands crossed around his chest in the pod, just like a corpse. And with how skinny the figure was, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say the figure was dead but it was still to early to make such decision.

Lucian frowned deeply, he might be lazy, but he wasn't stupid. His eyes flashed with a glow.

Without hesitation, his figure dashed towards the pod and as soon as he touched the lid of the old Cryogenic Pod, the figure who was lying dead in the pod suddenly opened its eyes. It pupils were completely blood red. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

Their gazes met, and as their eyes locked, it felt like years but, it was intact in just a split second.

Lucian felt as though he had been pulled into an illusion. Which was immediately broken as his heart-rate sped further and his blood circulated fiercely in his body.

Lucian's heart jumped and without hesitation, he immediately closed back the lid of the pod.

Afterwards he hurriedly pressed the button to start up the Cryogenic pod.

Breathing roughly, Lucian sigh in relief. He didn't know which old monster was in there and he also didn't wish to know but he was certain the person wasn't someone he could handle.

In a blink of an eye, Lucian's eyes darkened visibly.

And his body retreated a few meters back.

Puff!

The lid opened back once again which was supposed to be impossible as he had closed it tightly from outside.

But soon, he thought it was plausible if the person was the owner of the Cryogenic pod and his imprint was still active.

A hand which was almost similar to a skeletons' emerged and held onto the sides of the pod.

Lifting its body up, Lucian saw who it was.

It was an oldman and from what Lucian was seeing the old man was likely supposed to be on the verge of death.

But the old man slowly stood up and in a few seconds, his back was straight, as straight as a javelin. Unlike one who was supposed to be almost dead.

The man had a white but dirty hair on his head which seem almost as dead the old man.

His blood red eyes was the most prominent feature of his body.

It was as red as blood and was extremely piercing if it locked onto someone.

The eyes was first in a daze, after which, it moved and within a blink of an eye, the eyes locked onto Lucian who was standing In front of the office entrance with a lazy and casual expression on his face.

He looked like an idiot who couldn't read the situation in front of him.

His muscles and body was relaxed and his heartbeat was very slow but extremely forceful as it beat in his heart.

Yawning softly, Lucian broke the silent and tense atmosphere. "Who are you old man?"

The old man's gaze moved slightly but he directly ignored Lucian. He looked at his own body, after which, his expression was filled with awe, fear and respect and also with a massive amount of expectation in his gaze.

All of a sudden, he stretched his hands outwards, his fingernails instantly turned black, growing a notch thicker and a few inches longer. From the dehydrated and chipped nails, his nails suddenly turned into claws.

It was no longer the hands of a human, but that of a beasts.

The old man's mouth cracked open in a smile when he saw this, which couldn't get anymore repulsive.

The instant his mouth opened, two canines could be seen protruding out of his mouth.

Taken aback, a black red twig of flesh which was supposedly the tongue swept through the tooth, as though to inspect them.

The old man suddenly burst into peal of wizened laughter which almost sounded like two metals grating into each other.

It was almost unbearable to hear.

With a raised eyebrows, Lucian was slightly astonished. Blood red eyes that seem to want to suck one into an illusion, fanged teeth, silent heartbeat and retractable claws.

A speculation formed in his mind but he wasn't in a hurry to confirm it.

The old man's red eyes then narrowed as he locked onto Lucian's figure

And a very dry, old and raspy voice then sounded out in the room.

"What year is this?" he ignored Lucian's previous question as he asked.

Blinking his eyes, Lucian replied half heartedly " Year 2019."

The old man's wrinkled and dried face suddenly wrinkled more as he pondered. After a few seconds his blood red eyes moved and suddenly he said in his dried voice.

"That's impossible." Then he frowned as he knew Lucian wasn't seriously answering him.

Lucian wasn't stupid enough to correctly answer the old man's question.