_{H^{ello Steemian friends, I hope you are all doing well, I am also doing well with your prayers and the grace of creation, in the fifth week of the 24th season of the Steemit Challenge, I will share with you a strange story titled "Wordsmiths Fiction Week 5: The Mysterious Passenger | Steemit Challenge Season 24", a challenge created by @dove11, this competition is very interesting because we can know strange stories through it, in our world we hear different kinds of strange stories.}}

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The day was Sunday, and Sunday is the first working day of the week in Bangladesh, every office is a little busy on Sunday, Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka is busy every day, but it was a little busier on Sunday, that morning was completely normal, all the people arriving at the airport were busy checking out, some were busy with themselves and some were talking on the phone, Sharmin Akhter was performing her duties as an immigration officer, she was performing her duties very nicely, she did not think that she would face a mystery during her duty today.

Sharmin Akhter was checking the passports of various passengers at immigration, a polite-looking male passenger already approached her, she handed her passport to Sharmin Akhter, Sharmin Akhter welcomed the man with the passport in her hand, Shakti's face seemed polite, her hair was light brown, her eyes were calm, Sharmin took the passport in her hand and started looking at everything, when she saw the name of the country, she was surprised, because it was a strange country name, the name of the country was "Steemanya",

After seeing the name of the country, Sharmin looked at Lakshmi and asked, which country is this again? The man said confidently, this is my homeland, Sharmin entered the world map but could not find this country anywhere, then she entered the system, then she saw that nothing came, but all the stamps, security seals, codes were all correct, immediately checked through the smart scanner and it was found that the man had all the travel history in the immigration log.

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The man traveled to Germany in 2021, traveled to Turkey in 2022, traveled to Japan in 2023, and came to visit Bangladesh this year, but his country is not on the world map, Sharmin was even more surprised, she looked at the passport once and looked at the man's face once, she was thinking about what to do now, in the meantime she came and called her colleague Shakil.

Shakil came and took the passport from Sharmin and seeing the name of the country said that this name sounds familiar, but he could not remember where he had heard it, Shakil also kept thinking about this country for a while but he could not find the country on the world map either, then the man very calmly told them, I know that you do not know anything about us and do not know my country, but once you knew who we are, but now you do not remember.

Shakeel suddenly remembered that he had seen an old map a long time ago, he had forgotten this map after seeing it once in his childhood, now suddenly a flash of that map flashed in his memory, a green country was visible in one corner of that size, the country's name was "Steemanya", then Shakeel asked him with a trembling voice, are you a time traveler? The man replied that I am not a time traveler but a memory traveler.

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The strange man continued to say that my country is lost in your memories, I have come to remind you of my country, we are still here but you are not allowed to see our country and do not know anything about our country, just then a lightning flashed at the airport, everything stopped immediately, the man looked into Shakeel's eyes and said, I came to this country to find you, if you believe and want to know the truth, then come with me.

Without thinking, Shakil closed his passport and stood next to the strange man. The two of them left through the front door of the airport. No one saw them again. After they left, many people tried to find Shakil but he was nowhere to be found. After they left the airport, they searched Shakil's house and found that there was a map in the bottom drawer of his old cupboard. On the map, the name of a country in the southeast corner of the world was written, but the name of the country was written like this: "Steemanya -- The Lost Nation."