CHAPTER 2

The next morning, her friend was waiting for her in front of her house at six o'clock sharp, as they had agreed:

“Wow, Luna, you look terrible,” says Mike.

“ Last night I didn't sleep at all. - says Luna

- Why? He's been doing his experiments over the holidays\, who was the victim now a guinea pig or a rabbit. Mike says playfully.

“No, this time it was me.

- What?! You're crazy\, doing experiments on yourself\, you know that's against everything we study\, experiments on humans are only allowed after years of study with animals\, and the researcher can't do that on you\, even\, you know that's against scientific ethics.

— I wasn't going to tell you, but since we promised never to keep secrets from each other, and since we are practically brothers from different families, I gave myself the zeta virus during the holidays, and tested the vaccine, which altered something in my DNA, and it fought the virus, so as not to leave a trace, and I didn't have any sequelae, at least that's what I've been able to verify so far, with regard to human guinea pigs, the world's pharmaceutical companies have been using human beings as guinea pigs for a long time, but the population you are not always aware, as not all vaccines are completely safe, you well know, as you have seen everything that has happened over the last seven years.

— It has been seven years since medicine has been trying to develop a vaccine against this virus and has not found anything 100% efficient, and you in two years of study, do you find it in the basement of your house? says Mike in disbelief.

"Is the sermon over?" Are we going to check out that wormhole or not, or is it just the wormhole in your head again?

— Funny… Okay, I'll save the sermon for when we get back, and this time I'm sure, we'll travel through a portal.

— I just hope I have prepared my diving equipment for nothing, because going to another submerged cave is not in my plans.

"Fortunately, you won't have to wear scuba gear, and you know that not all of our excursions involve diving, the one a year ago you fell into the water, thank God it was nothing, great, and thank God you were rescued by a sailor." , despite the fact that you were unconscious for 2 months, but unfortunately, you know that it involves water as usual, I already explained it to you…

“Okay, you don't have to give me another one of your lectures on wormhole theory. I just want to know where we're going.

— It's on Aunt Preciosa's farm, where we spent the summer with our families, remember?

— I remember, but only now did you find it? asks Luna, mocking the story.

— It's just that the hole I found only opens from time to time, and with the right alignments.

— I just want to see... I hope this time I'm right, because I'm already tired of your excursions, although this time I need to go out for a bit.

"Did you have a good cup of coffee?"

“Yes as usual, and I brought treats, and coffee for us to eat and drink, something on the way. In addition to my wetsuits, and I already have a bathing suit underneath, as usual.

— Great, let's put your suits in the trunk, with my recording equipment, since you prepared them, if we need them, they'll be in the car.

They put Luna's things in the trunk, get in the car and leave:

"Damn, I miss those days." - says Luna remembering her childhood.

— It's been a long time since we've been there, remember the times we got together in the woods and left the employees of my farm looking like crazy looking for us?

—Of course I remember, but your aunt, when she saw us coming back covered in mud from head to toe, gave us a lecture, and then told us to take a bath, laughing at our adventures.

— Well, but let's stop talking, because I need to pay attention on the way and you need to take a nap, because you didn't rest the night from what I understand and the last two hours of the trip are yours to drive. Mike says.

— Alright — says Luna, laying down the car seat, to accommodate herself better. — Mike just tell me one thing, how do you plan to prove your theory, if instead of going to the past, we go to the future? And how do you intend to return? If you die in any of the times, you won't be able to come back and that will have been in vain, besides causing a paradigm, as you say, or if you change something that you shouldn't, it will cause a domino effect, which can change the whole present, and maybe even make things worse.

— I know and I will be careful not to change anything, and whether in the past or in the future, the alignment always takes place on the same date, in the Bermuda Triangle, each year ending in seven, on the seventh day of the seventh month, at seven o'clock and seven minutes. In the Amazon, every ten years, I just can't say the exact date yet, but I'll find out the place and the exact date, if we fail today, and at this point we're going to happen every 30 years every August 8th, in the part of late, I just don't know the exact time, because the alignment starts at 17:00, and I don't know how long the portal is open.

" Ah, then we have enough time, why the hurry?"

— Because it's inside, Cuca's cave, and we never went in there, because they said it was a labyrinth and that Cuca was going to get us, remember?

— I remember, and then we went back a few times to your aunt's place, but we didn't go to the cave for fear of the cuca, and when we were older, after the last mess we got up to by spending two days in the woods, we preferred to have fun at the lake, but like you know this?

— Because I read a researcher's book, which said about this portal, and that it opens every thirty years, it will only open again in 2057, I can't risk missing this opportunity.

—Sure, how do you know it's not an invention?

“Because he brought items from the past and showed pictures from that time with items he had taken from the future.

— He swears that you, will believe in montage, he could have edited the photos, and items from the past, any collector, can buy?

— Well, we’ll see if it was a montage or not…

She falls asleep, while her friend continues the explanations about how the hole was formed, about the points he had researched, when suddenly, the car stops and Luna wakes up:

"Hi, now it's my turn." she says a little sleepy.

— No, I didn't feel tired, I wasn't going to be able to sleep, my adrenaline was pumping, so I drove all the way, and you were sleeping so well that I didn't have the courage to wake you up.

— So let's go soon, so we can come back soon and I can finish my studies.

— Calm down, I have to get my equipment. Don't you think we'd better eat something, so we'll have energy for the long walk?

— Yeah, you're right, let's eat something first.

The two eat the cake, and some sandwiches that Luna brought, and have a cup of coffee, then divide the weight of the equipment, and what was left of the picnic. And walk along a trail.

Half an hour later:

- Here we are. We'll unravel the secret of Caverna da Cuca\,” says Luna in an amused tone.

“Not only the secrets of the Cave, but also the wormhole, you know? says Mike excitedly.

"Let's go before I give up."

— Wait, in case we got lost, I brought some of those pebbles we discovered on our last excursion, because they glow in the dark and will mark the way back, because remember that inside is a labyrinth.

- Right.

Mike takes a small bag from his backpack, which contained several blue pebbles, girls that had an extraordinary glow, takes two flashlights, handing one to Luna. They get lost at first, go back part of the way and take another path, until they find a beautiful lake after walking for another two and a half hours. When they find a beautiful lake:

— It's dark here, let me get my equipment ready to light everything, because with only our flashlights, the recording won't be good, I want the recording to come out very clear, so there's no doubt.

— Come here how are you going to light everything, if we don't have energy here.

— You forgot my solar energy batteries, I charged them all and installed them in my equipment, they last for 48 hours, and if necessary, I'll take a few more in the car, since we have the path marked.

— Okay, it's still a quarter o'clock, while you get things sorted, I'll go for a swim to cool off after all this walking. says Luna, remaining only in May.

She Jumps in the water and takes a dip, when suddenly the lake lights up and she feels something pulling her down, she had jumped into the lake, at the same moment it formed a whirlpool and hears her friend throwing her steel box , while she was trying to swim to reach the surface, her friend was looking at her without doing anything else, he just said:

— Sorry Luna, I've been thinking about what you said, if you manage to get to the past, leave a mark that I can understand, I can't risk not being able to prove my theory, nor die without fulfilling my dream, now if I can get this box to come from the past, for the future, I will be able to prove my theories, I have your key, in case I can't return to the present.

Luna sees the key to her capsule with him, gets tired and gives up fighting against that whirlpool of water, and ends up letting herself be carried away, fainting afterwards.

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