2025-08-30 03:06:40Mike swallowed hard before sliding his finger across the screen to accept the video call. He knew exactly what was about to happen once he answered.
Amanda’s face appeared, illuminated by the dim light of their living room. She was in her bedroom, wearing pajamas with a house robe thrown on top. Her hair was tied up, giving Mike the impression that she had spent the entire day resting in bed while he worked nonstop.
But then he saw her eyes—red, likely from crying. Her expression was a storm of fear and bottled-up fury that exploded the moment she saw her husband.
“Mike?!” she exclaimed as soon as she saw him. “Tell me it isn’t true! Tell me everything the president just said isn’t real!”
Apparently, the former model hadn’t noticed anything happening behind Mike’s screen, and he didn’t blame her. There were more important matters now than a damn accident that hadn’t left him with serious consequences.
Mike lowered his gaze, unable to hold her stare for long.
“Nothing serious?!” she interrupted, raising her voice. She was truly furious, and terrified. “I just heard the President of the United States say we’re on the brink of an alien invasion! And you—my own husband—never told me anything! You left me in the dark like some fool while you already knew what was happening!”
Mike shut his eyes tightly. Every word from Amanda cut into him like a knife.
Amanda shook her head, tears now falling freely.
Mike slammed his fist against the metal railing of the hospital bed, frustration boiling inside him as he lay back down, though he knew sleep would be impossible.
The silence between them lasted only a few seconds, broken by the steady beeping of the machine monitoring his vitals.
“I… I don’t know if I can trust you anymore.”
Mike’s heart sank.
Amanda’s hardened face was a mask of fear and betrayal.
The call ended abruptly. The screen went black.
Mike was left with the phone trembling in his hand, feeling the weight of the world crushing down on his shoulders.
The phone slipped onto the bed beside him as he lay down again. He had to rest, recover enough so the doctor wouldn’t force him to stay another night in the hospital—even though he already felt fine.
That night, Mike woke at 1:23 a.m.
The loud crash of something massive and metallic jolted him awake.
He hadn’t been dreaming, but it had been one of the best nights of sleep he’d had in ages—until that moment.
A blinding white glow, just like the one he had seen right before his car accident, flared through the window, waking him fully along with the noise.
There was movement outside the room.
Without hesitation, Mike tore the monitoring cables from his arms. Luckily, none of them had been inserted into his veins, so he wasn’t bleeding and it wasn’t painful.
His clothes were stored in the wardrobe—a simple black ADIDAS tracksuit, a light blue t-shirt, and black running shoes. In a rush, he got dressed, shoved his wallet into his hoodie pocket, grabbed his phone, and left the room.
His expectations of what he might find outside were far too low compared to the grim reality.
The president had been right about everything he revealed in his broadcast that night.
Unfortunately, armed with powerful laser weapons, humanoid figures like the one Mike had glimpsed before losing consciousness in his car accident had invaded the hospital. They were slaughtering people, leaving not a single trace of their victims. When they fired their alien guns at a human, an emerald-green beam burst forth, and upon impact, the body evaporated instantly—no blood, no remains, nothing left behind.
Horrified, Mike watched one of the aliens kill a nurse who was holding a newborn baby in her arms. Before she vanished, the nurse looked at Mike with sorrowful eyes, as if lamenting she couldn’t survive.
Mike’s heart broke. He regretted not being able to do anything to save them. That innocent baby had no fault in any of this—born at the very moment his world was collapsing into chaos.
Mike ran for his life. He had to descend four flights of stairs since the elevator was dead, but if he wanted to survive, there was no time to hesitate. Yet, even as he fled, the alien hurried to chase him.
They hadn’t come to Earth without purpose. The aliens had two goals: first, to prove their existence and erase humanity’s doubts once and for all. And second, to hunt down people like Mike, individuals with exceptional genetics, to breed a new race—a hybrid between aliens and humans.
Mike pushed himself with the little strength he had left. Even though he had rested, the accident still weighed on him. His body ached more than ever, perhaps the real consequences of the crash only now setting in.
Right now, the only thing that mattered to Mike was staying alive and strong enough to save his family.
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12 — Encounter with the Wise Man
The silence of the new world was so profound that even the crunch of leaves beneath their feet sounded unbearably loud. Mike and Hilary moved cautiously, their eyes scanning every corner of the landscape that seemed pulled straight from a dream—or from a memory long forgotten by time.Then, without warning, the same voice that had invited them in resounded once more, this time much clearer, as if descending from the very heights of the sky. Though they could not see him, he was there—for them.“Mike…” The name was spoken with such solemnity that it froze him in place.Hilary looked at him in alarm, for she heard nothing. Only Mike could hear the voice. Before she could speak, it continued:“Listen closely. This path has been laid out for you. Follow it without straying, and you will find the place where you truly belong… your home.”A shiver ran down Mike’s spine. His home? What in the world was this voice talking about? How could it speak of his home when he was stranded in another w
11— The Path That Will Lead Them to the Origin
Mike didn’t respond immediately to Hilary’s question. His thoughts were a whirlwind inside his head, but something compelled him to keep walking, as if a powerful magnet refused to let him stray from his path, no matter how much he tried. The forest carved its way through the night’s mist, and after a stretch of sepulchral silence, the two of them found themselves standing before a fissure in the mountain.It didn’t look natural. The rocks formed a sort of perfect arch, and a cold, dense air escaped from within, as if that entrance were breathing on its own, giving Mike and Hilary the unsettling impression that it was alive.“A cave…” Hilary murmured, rubbing her arms against the sudden drop in temperature. No matter how thick her long-sleeved uniform was, it wasn’t nearly enough to keep her warm the way an ordinary jacket would have.Mike stepped forward, holding the flashlight in one hand and the weapon still trembling with red energy in the other. The glow barely skimmed the surfac
10 — The Crimson Red Warrior
The contact burned her. Hilary pulled her hand away immediately, shaking her aching fingers as if she had touched red-hot iron. What Hilary didn’t know was that she had felt something more than just a burn, and that it would soon awaken.“Shit!” she exclaimed, her heart racing.Mike’s body began to arch on the ground. Red energy pulsed from his chest, surrounding the rest of his body, like an alternate heart pumping light that expanded in waves throughout the bunker. Each pulse made the metallic walls vibrate, as if responding to the same heartbeat.Hilary instinctively backed away, pressing her back against a rusted console. The darkness had vanished; now everything shone with that reddish glow, sickly and yet fascinating.Mike’s eyes snapped open. There were no pupils, no iris. Only a burning red, liquid, like living embers. His breathing was harsh, forced, but it didn’t seem like pain… it was something else: hunger for something she couldn’t comprehend.“Mike…” Hilary whispered, fe
9 — Living Energy: A New Revelation
Hilary leaned over the rusted metal of the ship, half-buried in the damp, dark sand of the island. The vines seemed to want to claim it as part of the island, as part of themselves, because they embraced it in an inexplicable way. Yet the dull hum emanating from within still vibrated in the air. Mike, frowning, ran his hand across the blackened surface.Never in his life had he thought he would see something like this in person, let alone touch it.“This isn’t as dead as it looks…” he muttered.Their intuition pushed them further beyond the wreckage. Hidden in the jungle’s thickness, barely visible behind a curtain of vines, they discovered what at first seemed like a moss-covered hill. But as they got closer, Hilary distinguished straight lines, too perfect to be natural. With effort, they cleared away branches and soil until the metallic outline was revealed.A sealed bunker.The hatch was covered in symbols that belonged to no human language—nothing resembling what they had ever st
8 — The Island They Never Believed Could Exist
The plane roared across a sky that grew stranger by the minute, a sky nothing like the one Hilary and Mike had been used to seeing all their lives. At first glance, the ocean below looked like an endless mirror, but as they flew deeper, Mike noticed the clouds swirling in unnatural patterns, as if the wind itself refused to obey the laws of physics. Hilary felt it too.In all her life as a pilot—though she still considered herself a novice compared to Mike, a seasoned veteran—Hilary had never imagined she would witness the unimaginable. What she once thought were just fantasy stories to explain the unexplainable was now unfolding right before her eyes.“This… doesn’t look normal,” she murmured nervously, staring at the altimeter as it flickered erratically.The dials on the panel began to fail, displaying impossible times. The compass spun wildly, the radar filled with static, and the aircraft’s needle jerked as though trapped inside an invisible magnetic field.Mike clenched his teet
7 — The Unforbidden Flight
Mike opened his mouth to respond, but the African raised his hand, silently asking him to wait—he wanted to speak before his superior returned.His voice dropped to a low, grave whisper, barely audible against the hum of the radars.“Hamilton… listen carefully. Reynolds isn’t as loyal as he pretends to be.” His eyes locked onto Mike’s, dark and tense. “Neither he nor the other high-ranking officers at this base. There’s something they don’t want us to know. Something tied to those objects you saw in the sky—and to the invasion itself.”Mike frowned, keeping quiet, attentive to every word that followed.“Are you saying… they’re working with them?” he asked under his breath, barely moving his lips.The African leaned closer.“I can’t say for certain. But I’m convinced they know far more than they admit. Every mission we’ve been given in recent months—it hasn’t been about defense. It’s been about covering something up.” He paused, swallowing hard, his body trembling with nerves as if eve
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