“ I was one of the early turns who did not know much and got his Pinyin stolen. I was one of those early idiots. There was a man clad in gold armor who was making moves and was stealing Pinyin in the Mesoptamian sector. I did not have a very strong Pinyin but he still took it from me. Things were alright till I got a Deprave mark and l was new to the collapsed world. I was probably from the thirteenth group or fourteenth maybe. I have forgotten from which time-space vortex l came from.” Amir started retelling his life events for me to understand how he came to know about the Deprave society.
“ After having my soul gadget stolen. I had no means of living in human sectors so I was pushed out into the no man's land.”
No man’s land was the strait that was everywhere outside the sectors where Depraves roam free and it was a place not habitable for normal people. Though it was a bountiful place for idiots and hunters who make a fortune hunting small level Depraves. In the collapsed world, the most normal means of earning was with the Depraves. There is farming and other things but without the byproducts and technology that came from studying Deprave, everything is like garbage to the other walks of life.
“ I was stupid enough to move past into the wilderness more and more till l lost my path. I and my group that were along with me had all lost their Pinyin except for a few and the overall situation was dire enough that we all became Depraves within a few weeks. After this, even though our survival instincts increased and we survived with our new found abilities, our route for humanity was cut short.”
I listened to the story attentively as it was pretty much easy for me to understand as l had heard to the talks of many turned Depraves and many of the deities followers so l was pretty much accustomed to the details of the story from my own experience as l also had a Deprave mark and knew about the transformation of humans into Depraves. The turned Depraves usually were taken as below average but I had heard about many forced to be turned by their competitiveness and other people. It was true after being turned, it made a person far more stronger than an average human but it made the immortality drug effects wear off from them and the Depraves to lose their minds. It made sense to hunt them down. I myself had eliminated many of the turned Depraves so l was not unfamiliar with the problems that the turned Depraves faced.
“ After wandering for a long time, we came to the center of the no man’s land and there we came with a community of advance Depraves. They were just like normal people so we mistook for people but they knew who we were from one look and hoisted us in. They gave us many things and they treated us like themselves. It was the first time we had felt at home so we were staying with them. One of them knew our language and told us specific instructions on how to live and hunt. They were the ones who taught me how to fight and whatnot. Many of the caravan members lived with them and some like me came back and joined the turned depaves faction before l met you and started working for you.” Amir stated the facts before and finished off his story with a bang.
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It was my first time hearing this about the advance Depraves helping about the turned Depraves and it made me contemplate for some time. What l did not know was that the half Depraves telling us that advance Depraves were on their side was true. It was just hearsay so I did not really believe them. They always talked about the kindness of Depraves and gave them the stature of deities. It was my personal rule that whenever deities were brought into the fold, the topic seemed to tip into one direction and that was the direction of stupidity and magic craft. Such topics were not true despite that many people still believed in such things as in spite of my looks, l was one of the leading researchers in Deprave technology and knew how to differentiate between reality and fiction.
“ Oh! Then what did you do?” l asked as l was getting more and more interested in the talk about these foreign advance Depraves about whom l knew so little and l was getting so close to unraveling one of the mysteries about this world. It was a primary question that many people were researching and thought of as Depraves were mainly the actual residents of this world while humans were more or less intruders even though we were getting more and more resilient like a rodent. Many people thought that Depraves must have an organization and culture that was probably more advanced in the ways of the collapsed world. A point that even l agreed on.
“ They took us to the forest of forgetness so they could train us more properly in their ways and living manners. The Depraves had a completely different mannerism as compared to humans and they also had something like Pinyin.”
“ What?”
l abruptly interrupted Amir as l was shocked to hear that they also had soul gadgets like humans. As a manufacturer of them, l knew that it was not easy to make them and Depraves were an integral part of the manufacturing process like once petroleum was the main product of the revolutionization of mankind before the collapsed world. It was impossible to even think that Depraves were using Pinyin because they did not need to, but I was thinking in terms of normal Depraves so it was possible that advance Depraves followed different rules and regulations than the average out of the mill Depraves.
