隨筆13 (接上回)
Nevertheless, none of the team members were correct with their conjectures made through their matchless professional sensibility and experience accumulated in all the past days of serving the half-military organization---instead of a giant meteor as the computation system and the team had calculated, it was a half-corpse of a naked man who could be in his early twenties, but at the sight of who, all the team members surrounding the man lying prostrate on the ground so hard as marble, in the center of a dent, most probably caused by his falling to the ground, with a huge hole with a radius of ten yards, retired back involuntarily with a start with no order given to them by virtue of their realization that no regular human could fell onto the ground from such a high place in the sky, most probably from the space and remained seemingly intact and unscathed. Were the man a regular one, he would have certainly been transformed into grains of dust ere he touched the earth, let alone occasioned such a big dent in the ground as such a one could only be done by a true meteor or a monstrous alien invader. ‘He must be an alien, in disguise of a man. Everybody, be highly alert!’ Shouted the chief and the shouting at this very moment seemed not that necessary as usual. All the people kept a safe distance from this invader with their special guns powerful enough to deal with any intruders from other celestial bodies as they reckoned aimed at the potential enemy who still kept lying motionless, seemingly unharmful, hitherto without detriment to anyone on site whereas the team retained the positions encompassing this stranger. The deadlock did not conclude until after a long-time observation. All of a sudden, a slight stir of this half-dead body drew attention of the chief and others in great alarm.
‘I am of humanity. No enemy…Not…’ Murmured the stranger but in deathly silence, his faint voice could be amazingly detected in an effortless manner.
‘Identify yourself!’ Ordered the chief thunderously, his forehead moistened with cold drops of perspiration.