Chapter 15 FORGOTTEN PASSWORD
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"Alright! The zombies are still inside the room this is our chance to get the bottle," Adam uttered with hope.
"Andre, son, I want you to stay here and observe. For sure there will be changes with their moves when they heard the bottle breaks a while ago. Hannah and Adam will go there and find the bottle. I am going to walk here in the opposite path to observe if there are zombies that might attack us from there," he discussed.
After 3 minutes, the zombies came out. Hannah and Adam got the bottle and they hide. Andre observed their moves get faster than the usual time.
His dad gets back too and said, "I think we are safe here in this area," he gasped. "I really tried to get back here as fast as I can to inform you that," he added.
"Good news! Grandpa, Andre, we got the bottle," said Adam and Hannah putting their hands up.
"Here's the small rolled paper inside the bottle. There's something written in here. She read, "It goes up and never comes down"
"What? Elevator?" said Adam unsure of it
"Escalator?" asked Andre with doubt.
"Escalator can get us up and it can also get us down… as well as stairs and elevators. I don't think one of those is the answer," said the old man.
Adam and Andre looked up and they saw the capital letters of the experiment room's label glowing and blinking "Anderson's Gate Experiment"
The two looked at each other and asked one another, do you think that's the answer?
"We knew the answer! 'AGE'," they said.
"Yes, you're right. When we celebrated our birthday, our age goes up and there is no instance that it goes down," Hannah explained.
"If that is the password how can we enter that in here?" She pointed out the device where they will enter the password.
"Guys it's pin code. Only numbers are here to encode the password," Hannah uttered.
"Dad! Don't you remember the password with that of clues? Hayyysss." He took a deep breath.
They looked at the zombies doing the same moves faster than the usual. How can we get inside in the experiment room to find the cure if we can't open it using your clues?
"I'm sorry son! It's been years so I really don't remember it," said the old man sadly.
Adam can't help but tap his chin many times and Hannah keep her fingers move fast in her thigh. The mannerism of the two when they go deeper in details.
Until...
"Gotcha!" said Hannah. "Maybe the word 'AGE' is an acronym which is related to your family!"
"Wait! Andrei, Gertrude and Emerson… that's our first name," Andre whispered.
"Age is the answer right. I think it has something to do with your ages and we have to follow the arrangement of your names.
How old are you, bro?" Asked Adam.
"14 years old. My mom is...??? My dad is...???" (mental blocked)
"Grandpa, what's your age and your wife's age?" Asked Hannah.
"I don't remember my age," the old man answered.
"Ohhh! It's hard to get the pin code if you don't know your ages," Adam said. "When is your birthday grandpa?" he asked.
"It's September 2, 1958," he answered.
"How about your wife's birthday?" Hannah asked.
"I don't remember it. But all I know is that, we celebrated her birthday 3 days after Andre was born. She turned 32 that time. That's what I remembered.
Let's add my age with my mom's age when she gave birth to me," said Andre.
"She's 46 years old now. Right. It's 46. Wait, Am I right? Maybe, I'm just confused!" The old man scratched his head and laughed a bit.
"Oh gosh, dad! Come on! You have to remember it," Andre motivated his dad.
"I think, we need to try it whether he's sure of that or not. What important is, we try," Hannah suggested.
"Let's go and enter it to the device," Andre uttered.
They entered…
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"The password is incorrect"
"Let's hide again, the zombies are coming out the room," Hannah whispered.
"Yes, it incorrect we don't even realize that the lab was abandoned for many years. Maybe their ages back then are the pin code for that," Hannah realized.
"That was a decade ago," the old man said.
