Chapter 255: A leveled up space.
They found themselves in a dark room. Sunshine’s eyes adjusted to the weak light quickly. Tank was quicker, a bright light shone from his chest, filling the room.
It was plain, with cream walls, not what Sunshine expected to see at all. She had come thinking the egg would be surrounded by a thousand worried people and a whimpering mother.
Thinking of the egg made her look at what seemed to be an altar in the center of the room. A wide basket was sitting atop, it was made from shimmering red grass material. The egg was sitting in the middle.
It was big, the size of three footballs together. She thought to herself that Nimo would have made an omelet joke of she set her eyes on the egg.
She walked closer to the altar to look at the egg. It was transparent, she could see the embryo. The shape surprised her because it seemed more human than bird. "Why did I think bird?" She asked herself.
It looked like a fetus of 28 weeks or so. "Amazing." Sunshine whispered.
While she examined the egg with her eyes, a camera transferred feed to the population outside the chamber. The whimpering mother Sunshine had been expecting to see was out there with the others, clutching the hands of her husband.
They wished to rush inside but something was blocking them all. They knew that it was the repairman system protecting its expert. The condition for helping was no interference and no laying blame at their feet if something went wrong.
Desperation had made them say yes as they failed to find help elsewhere and nobody dared to help their planet.
They were lucky that repairmen were neutral.
Sunshine touched the egg and many of them held their breath.
"Hello there?" She whispered, leaning close. "I am an repairman and I am here to fix you dear. Don’t worry, I will make you feel better soon. When you are born, maybe your name can be Peace or Hope or...."
Tank cleared his throat.
Sunshine whispered rapidly, "Or Dawn. Your name can be Dawn to mean new beginning after darkness."
The egg pulsed faintly as if it understood what she was saying.
She leaned back and said, "Let us begin T1, weave the threads."
Tank got to work, he measured the cracks first then after began to weave the threads. Each thread he finished, he gave the end to Sunshine. She carefully traced each crack with her frost, attaching the threads gently along the surface.
She hummed one of the songs she usually sang for Castiel to calm him down or get him to sleep. It was a lullaby that someone had composed in the apocalypse and even though she never had children of her own, she had learned it from beginning to end.
"Hush, hush, the meteors are yawning,
The leaves on the spiny trees have curled to sleep.
The oceans are folding their blankets.
And the fireflies hum in the caves."
Tank surprised her by joining in.
"Hush, hush, the sun is in hiding,
The cities are empty,
The thunder has whispered goodnight,
Even the dragons are dozing,
The watchers have turned off the lights."
The egg pulsed with more force and Sunshine laughed. If it was gaining strength, that was a good sign.
"Almost done, little one, be patient dear Dawn." She said.
Tank continued on with the lullaby, his beautiful voice outdoing Sunshine’s frog like croaking.
"Hush, hush, close your eyes little soldier.
Mama has made a nest in the cracks,
The world may be ending tomorrow,
But tonight, we still dream and we fly."
They both backed away as the pulsing became louder and lines like veins started to connect. Slowly, the fissure closed.
It was not perfect but it was done. She had stabilized it without crushing it’s life force. And for once, she had not used cheap materials.
"It is done." Tank declared.
The wormhole appeared and Sunshine sighed. Her confidence had paid off.
"Bye Dawn." She waved at the egg as the they were pulled into the hole.
She immediately started to check her statistics as the system updated her on the results of the job.
[Congratulations Host; you receive 1,000,000 gold coins,150,000 merit coins and 30,000 points.
For your courage, the system rewards you with two passes to enter any world that you have been to previously.
The space has enlarged in size and you can now store living things in the living section.]
She squealed and jumped up and down.
Repairman: Sunshine Raine
Points: [320,000]
Gender: [Female]
Planet: [private]
Level: 3[250/300]
Class: [Intermediate]
Repair success rate: [59%]
Expertise: [Ice stitching, light moon, robot
legs, all appliances]
Favored tool: [Hammer]
Weakness: [Cost conscious]
Speed: [Fast]
Intelligence: [61/100]
Worlds visited:[1]
All the changes and rewards excited her so much. Joy fluttered through her chest like a hundred beating wings. She paced around, fingers brushing through her hair as thoughts raced through her head.
What else don’t I know about this space? How did I not know that it has sections? she asked herself. She thought leveling the space up was just for enlarging it.
"System what other sections does the space have?"
[You will have to work hard to find out.]
She would have mumbled a complaint if she was not excited about the rewards. No more would she be afraid to gamble on risky jobs. The riskier the job, the more rewarding it was.
"Alright system, take me to the living space."
The air folded, a gentle hum filled her ears as the space shifted, stretching like silk. When her vision steadied, she gasped.
Before her stood a massive temple-like structure, glowing faintly in pale gold. At the heart of the compound was a tree, tall and serene. Around it flowed a river of crystal clear water, softly rippling as if it breathed.
"Hey there." Sunshine greeted the small silver fish inside.
Sunshine took a step forward, a thin layer of fog brushed against her boots. She crouched near the river and placed her hand into it, swaying the water from side to side.
The exhaustion in her body seemed to have vanished.
"Huh!?" Sunshine pulled her hand out, on close inspection, she noticed that the cut that had been there was gone.
"System, what is in this water?"
[Fish]
"I can see that too." Sunshine answered. "But why is my cut gone?"
[The water has nanites that repair tissues and cells, healing your wounds quicker. It’s effectiveness is reserved for repairmen mostly. The effect is not like this for other people."
"That is a bummer." Sunshine pouted. She had thought about digging a pond in the real world and fill it with this water.
Her eyes moved around. No buildings, no furniture, no walls beyond the temple and no living creatures. Just the fog.
"What a waste." She mumbled.
[Host, this is a repairman space, keep that in mind before you decide to turn it into a mega farm or something like that. The system allows you certain privileges to a limit.]
"Okay, I am ready to leave the space now." Sunshine said. A second later she was back in the house.
Tank had left the space before her and he was busy in the kitchen. He had finished food on the counter and more going into the oven. All of it was cooked food that the robot had taken from her space.
"Tank this is a lot of food." Sunshine said, inserting a cherry tomato in her mouth.
"Foreman Rori ordered for it, in preparation of welcoming Foreman Castiel and White home."
Sunshine nodded. "Just call them by their names, remove the foreman." She waved her hand and a chocolate fudge cake with strawberries appeared on the counter. "Castiel loves this, it should be the dessert."
"Yes Foreman Sunshine, I will slice it equally." Tank replied.
She glanced at the clock, in a few minutes, her son was going to be discharged from the hospital and she wanted to be there.
She rushed out of the door, waving Cathy inside. The woman and the robot and were going to have another argument about who run the kitchen.