Chapter Twenty: Suddenly

A death instantly came. Suddenly, and brutally.

The Taxonomist, who was the third victim at this time to be counted, did not know that such abrupt death was already knocking at his door, mainly because the voice in his head said it was safe for him to do so, and that the voice told him that it can speak into his mind using electromagnetic radiation or radio signals from a satellite above, and that it was a secret operation being done by the Scientific Council with him serving as the first person to be considered as a test subject.

But everything that the voice told him was all a lie. It was not even the Fellows of the Boondocks Scientific Trust who have done such barbaric act; it was not even radiation or signal, as the lie suggests. No, of course it wasn't. It was too sinister to be even considered for discussion.

It was an invisible creature that whispers. Inside his head and into the highway of dreams.

The question has always been about the means that these creatures were able to open the dimension of the mysterious back door leading to certain dreams, especially in the inquiry regarding their ability to specifically control the mobility of their victims, whether characters or actors alike, and lead them to do their bidding, and then to kill their hosts by blinding their soul to prevent it access to the body or flesh, or by inflicting so much pain as it can be directed by the intricate neural connections of their brain.

Tonight, a certain creature did just that to an unsuspecting victim; the unlucky Taxonomist was already dead even before he can call for help. Maybe his fatal mistake at this particular case was revealed by his vulnerable character; he trusted too much those consciousness that had access to his dreams and to his mind, ultimately gaining control by manipulating how he reacts to certain levels of environmental stimuli.

But the creature was not wandering on its own accord; it was searching for a way to return to its lucid state, a situation triggered by the instability of those minds that have contributed to the existing knowledge of natural inquiry. It became invasive because the creatures were prompted by an infarction through the presence of ghosts who discovered the entirety of the concepts of scientific inquiry, and all of its quantifiable substantive effects.

The relativity aspect have begun.

To where such ghosts reside was not at all clear, but the way it effects the remaining dimensions was so substantial that most people thought that it was, indeed, caused by a much powerful electromagnetic radiation in the first place.

Nobody has any idea of these attempted efforts for any good explanation at this point in the story. But the Taxonomist himself was dead, and a creature just did it for its own survival. The cadaver was very curious in its state, and the eyes of the victim was blankly staring at the sky above, as if unaware that he was already dead.

Then, as the operatives in the scene arrived, they discovered tiny serpents who have bitten both of the legs of the victim. There are so many little snakes that latched its fangs to his flesh, and its very appearance was so gruesome to behold.

It was actually the timing.

Suddenly, everything happened all at once.

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