Chapter 143 - Damn Laptop

Until now, after tasting your tap water I don't think I can go back to drinking Zenzo River's water, not anymore."

"Hehe," laughed Ryan with difficulty and remembered the source of his tap's water. But all he could remember was his gramps saying it had an underground supply and nothing else.

Nagisa and Rajesh were about to ask something else when the bell rang and the lunch break came to an end.

Ryan stood up at once and asked Rajesh to wrap his multi-layered lunch box in his interspatial ring. Rajesh nodded and waved his hand to wrap up the entire set in one go.

The three of them were getting late, so they rushed towards the class in a hurry. When they were just before the classroom door Nagisa stopped abruptly and turned around in a hurry.

Ryan and Rajesh stopped running and asked him why she stopped. Nagisa facepalmed and said she left her lunch box there, under that giant tree.

Ryan sighed and told her that he will fetch it up for her and they should head towards the class. But before he went a sound called her from behind and asked him to stop.

Ryan, Rajesh and Nagisa turned around and found it was Dr. Fin. Since Miss Lisa was still in hospital, he had two arrangement class with them.

"You left you lunch box right?!" asked Dr. Fin.

"Yes," replied Nagisa in a timid voice. It was her first time to act like that. Usually she used to be a domineering type character, but today something was wrong with her. She kept on looking towards Ryan then towards Dr Fin. 

"What a coincidence?!" exclaimed Dr. Fin, "I am on my way there, I will fetch it up for you," said Dr. Fin and was leaving the hallway. When Ryan stopped him and asked what business does, he have there.

Dr. Fin sighed and told them about the new task that the principal had given him to complete. It includes went near the big empty mansion behind that dense forest and fit a CCTV camera near it.

"Big empty mansion?"

"Yes, the mansion behind that dense forest."

"Weird, we have been there twice but never have seen that mansion….!!"

Dr. Fin laughed and said it was common since Principal Li had erected a barrier around that place, so no one will be able to pass through it or see it.

"I see."

"Yes, and you need a set of characters to unlock that barrier."

"Set of characters? Like those used in high class lockers?!" intervened Nagisa.

"Yes, the same type. Here are the characters," said Dr. Fin and started to wave and draw some characters in the air. Those were some weird characters that had no meaning of their own.

But when all of them joined together, they give out a different meaning. "The Informal Characters of World Origin," was the only thing that came into Aryan's mind.

Those characters were something that were used an era before his birth, but later due to some reasons they were replaced with another standard set of characters.

After showing them the characters and clarifying some of their doubts Dr. Fin headed towards the mansion and to fit the cameras and to fetch Nagisa's lunch box from there.

The trio entered the classroom while Dr. Fin went on his way. The fifth period started, and no teacher was in the class.

Like a typical class scenario everyone was gossiping and chatting with each other, a noisy classroom as usual.

Suddenly, the monitor above the virtual board turned on and a figure appeared on it. 

Everyone became silent and looked towards it in fear. The figure was none other than Principal Li, and the heading on it was that of an announcement.

"Students, may I have your attention please," asked the principal. But even before he asked everyone was paying attention towards him.

"Good, students all of your teachers are either busy or absent today for some reasons. So there will be no classes in the second half of the school. You all are allowed to go outside and play to your heart's content."

Students "…"

"That's it for today, thank you, have a nice day." Greeted the principal and ended the broadcast.

Silence~~~~

Complete Silence~~~~

They were having a hard time to believe that the principal literally asked them to go outside and play. 

One of the student got up from his seat and tried to open the classroom door.

To his surprise it opened at once, without any hassle. Usually when the class starts the classroom doors locks itself and opens only on the teachers command.

This system was made to prevent students wondering around the corridors and also to protect them from any type of terrorists' threats. 

All of them yelled and shouted in joy and started leaving the class with their bags in their interspatial rings. None of them wanted to return back to class just to get their bag again.

Ryan, Rajesh and Nagisa followed the same trend and were the last of the students who left the class.

Meanwhile in the principal's chamber, Miss Ynna was trying her hard to reconnect with the micro-camera fitted on Dr. Fin's lab coat, but to her dismay it wasn't getting signal to connect.

Sometimes ago it was getting enough signal to connect, but suddenly something happened and the screen went blank. She tried to call him through her virtual pad but got disappointed again to found no signal signs, from his side.

Principal Li was asking the chairwoman to use their foundation's personal satellite, but she was busy enough to start that system and search for Dr. Fin.

Principal Li sighed and looked towards his laptop monitor again. A video was paused on it with mute mode.

He unmuted it again and watched it from the beginning.

It was a video of Dr. Fin talking with the trio first, then heading toward the mansion behind that forest. On the way there, Dr. Fin picked up Nagisa's lunch box as promised and headed inside the forest.

He drew the same pattern again in the air and pasted it on the invisible barrier.

Thud!! 

Came a sound, and a small hole appeared on the barrier. Dr. Fin entered through it and entered the other side of the forest. And that's the time when the barrier closed up and the connection lost.

It was not like the connection was lost because of the barrier; the reason was something different. Something was interrupting their signals, reason they didn't know. They were trying their best to found out the reason but ended up failing each time.

Principal Li was having a headache while thinking about the reason, and the network problem was giving him a bonus headache.

He had asked the chairwoman for help, but she was in a meeting with the school investors and asked him to tell about the matter once she returns.

"Miss Ynna any success?" asked the principal.

"Not yet, sir" she replied while typing some values on the keyboard. Since she couldn't access the school's private satellite she was asking the Aizawas for help.

She was filling an information form to use their satellite. Upon submitting the form, she got complete access on one of their satellite hovering above their city.

She took a breath of sigh told the same to her father and opened the application. But her stress came back like a bitch after starting the program. 

Her laptop crashed down, and the screen became blank. Ynna face palmed and remembered something that she had read sometimes ago.

Since her laptop was not a computer built for using satellite communication programs on it she had to install some special utility softwares and some advance graphic software to use it.

But she forgot all those in her joy and started the program on her laptop, built for office work.

"Gahhh, damn it," she shouted in anger.

Now she has to start her laptop again and fill out that form again to get access to one of the satellites.

She quickly started her laptop and waited for it to recover its windows. Since the load on the system was too high, the OS of her laptop crashed and now it was taking its time to find a solution for it.

Suddenly an option came before her stating, "Windows OS recovery found. Click on the yes button to initialise the recovery."

Without thinking anything, she clicked on it, and the next screen after that made her face palmed again.

It showed it will take two hours to complete the process. The download speed was 70Gbps and the file got downloaded at once. The time-consuming part was the installation of the recovery software.

Seeing her laptop was almost useless now, she stood up abruptly and turned behind.

"What happened, Ynna?" asked the principal.

"Dad, this god damn laptop….. Give me yours I need it." She ordered the principal.

Principal Li gave his laptop and password to Miss Ynna and asked her to do whatever she wants.