Chapter 11

"Has Raven been found?" Seth asked.

Flavio helps Echo clean the dining table. Seth watched them from his chair while eating the dessert.

They forbid Seth to help them.

"Of course. Raven's been waiting for you. Are you satisfied with the food, Sir? You want something before we go to see Raven?"

Seth giggled and finished his drink. "Yes. It's delicious. Thank you in advance, Flavio. You guys are like professional chefs. Is there anyone else in the mansion? I mean - just the four of us?"

Flavio nodded stiffly. "Yes. The rest is just smart furniture. In this mansion, there are only four of us. All your needs and stuff automatically, Sir. Whatever you want. Everything is available. Just say the word, Sir."

Seth's eyes darted out the window. "Can I take a walk, Flavio? Where are we exactly?"

"Okay. I'll take you later. We're still on earth, Sir. Not far away from the capital of Oakenvale State, but this place is a remote territory. Not visible on a normal map. Not everyone can access it; this place is out of the radar. Code-name: Secret-Base, Sir."

"Woah. I can't believe all this, Flavio. I'm speechless."

"Good. Your satisfaction is my job. Come, Sir, come with me. I'll take you to Raven." Flavio put his dirty apron in the dump. Echo. Finish everything and clean up every kitchen corner.

"See you later, Echo," Seth said goodbye. Finish the dessert.

Echo nods. He waved his hand stiffly. "See you later, sir."

Flavio flies using jet energy thrust from his tiny wings. Seth followed him from behind. Seth's eyes wandered throughout the mansion's rooms connected to the south building.

He entered a hall with silver walls, and the lighting here looked dark. 

No windows or doors.

The hallway extends to the back, separated from the rest of the room.

Seth found an iron door at the other end without any buttons.

"Raven? I brought Mr. Seth to see you." Flavio said. His robotic voice echoed in front of the shiny chrome-colored iron door.

[ Hello, Seth. Are you comfortable? Flavio served you well? ]

"Yeah, thanks for everything, and this is so cool," Seth replied genuinely. His head turned backward with an exploring look.

The hallway is cold, quiet, and tightly closed.

[ Good. Whatever you want. You can call Flavio. ]

[ Puuusssssssssshhh!!!! ]

The iron door was wide open. A sharp smell of iron pierced Seth's pointed nose, and behind it was nothing but darkness.

Seth frowned – he hesitated to look inside. 

Flavio opens one hand to give way to Seth. He put on his graphic smile. "Please come in, Sir. I can only get you here. I'll wait until you get out."

"You're not joining me?"

"It's a restricted area. Raven wants to meet you – alone."

Seth took a deep breath. He felt his shoulders tighten. Seth did not understand why his heart was beating so fast and chaotic. Hard, he swallowed his saliva.

This chaotic feeling turns into anxiety. Seth still has doubts about all this.

Flavio looks respectful to Raven. That's evident from his behavior. 

"Come in, Sir. Don't hesitate. Raven just wanted to talk to you." Flavio waved his hand.

[ HUD intelligence system online_ ]

[ Zwuuuuunggg! ]

Something gigantic activated.

Seth was startled by the spectrum of blinding white light. He grinned to cover his eyes. The light dimming replaces by the presence of a giant flat screen whose top reaches the ceiling.

The super-large flat screen is active-it shows a series of fast-running matrix coding.

Seth was stunned for quite some time. "Oh, my god. What the hell is this?!"

[

IronLAN Func Terminal A5_ ]

He is standing in the middle of the largest and most sophisticated server room ever seen. Seth felt numb on his tongue while his eyes were perfectly rounded.

He's in respiratory arrest after collapsing from a heart attack.

Both legs were in shock and out of balance. Seth seemed to jump into another seemingly strange Network World.   

The place struck Seth's eyes − its beauty exceeded a sexy woman's body.

"Bloody hell."

The room was huge, airtight, and icy. This cooling system is specialized for specific servers. Seth knows how it works. One glass room on the left contains dozens of rows of server shelves emitting constant blue light.

Those lights look admirable.

Every wall is full of coded status boards and detailed live data.

Abstract codes of various colors.  

Seth saw a tremendous table stretching before his eyes with hundreds of sophisticated control key knobs that emitted different light of colors. On the table, mounted a dozen flat-screen reintegrate monitors.

"Damn me!" Seth swears involuntarily. He took a few steps forward to approach the tremendous lighted table.

All these computing servers full of controlled with an electrical touchscreen system.

Seth took a deep breath. He couldn't believe what he saw until he reached the table with his fingers.

"Jeez, this is real," Seth muttered. Felt his fingertips as cold as ice.

All those sophisticated flat screens show a series of Matrix codes that scroll fast. The Matrix code disappeared - an elegantly swirling network replaced intelligence technology circle charts.

[ Welcome home, Seth. ] 

Raven's voice echoing in the room made Seth jolt up and surprised nervously.

Seth puckered at his own wrenching heart. "Raven? Is that you? You scared me! Where are you? What is this place?"

[It's High-Performance Montefalco Computing Server. ]

"I don't get it. Why don't you go outside and keep talking through the server?"

Wait a minute – 

Seth froze for a long enough time while gazing at the giant flat screen in front of his eyes in eerie silence.

Seth's eyes wander with horror to every corner of the room inhabited by elegantly scrolling databases of sophisticated systems. All network lines move fast in the form of numbers, charts, graphs, and linear lines.

[ Digital Cyberspace Parallax Connection_ ]

[ Raw Database Coding_ ]

Seth gasped and just realized something. Suddenly he had difficulty breathing.

Shit! It's like a piece of rock squeezing the chest cavity. 

"Wait for a minute-Raven-you are the system? So you've been − I mean, I thought you were - a human being, but –"Seth paused arduously to continue. He shocks with enormous eyes. "No way, this is impossible. So, you're not human?! You're the system?! You controlled the whole system?!!"           

[ Yes. I already told you. I'm an integrated system, and I'm everywhere, Seth. ]

"Oh, my god - this can't be happening. I mean, how can you do all that crazy stuff? You're just a system, Raven! Not human beings? You − but your abilities are so terrible!"

Seth couldn't move. He confuses himself and swears uncertainly. Seeing all the sophisticated running systems around it moved elegantly.

Seth remembers the Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Jet fighters that run themselves through autopilot control.

Raven - the genius intelligence system and controlling all?

It's horrible - more terrifying than being trapped inside a haunted house.

Its moving screen shows all the activities of the human world. With all statistics, figures, charts, graphs, and so on.

[ Cyberspace_ ]

[ Artificial Intelligence Smart Oakenvale State Control HUD Interface_ ] 

[ Oakenvale State 4D Model_ ]

[ Big Data Analyzing Digital Raw_ ]

[ Coding Monitor Screen_ ]

[ BX Section. Processing. Transporting G8_ ]

Seth watched as the giant bright data screen in front of him worked. 4D coded Data with the image of Supervisors who oversee the course of all life in the human world. Raven even gave a live broadcast of the activities of Castor Black, Diego Anderson, Draco Cyrus, Cadon Laken, and Millie Graham.

Seth's mind was burning with rage as the live image zoomed in and out of the screen quickly, in detail, and accurately.

This time the live image shows Castor Black and Millie Graham on the road together - going for expensive fashion items, and Millie seems to be enjoying it. She took all the cool brand stuff. Castor pulled out a debit card-he could buy everything Millie wanted.

They're fuckin jerk traitors!

Seth was never capably satisfied with his -ex's wish until the woman had the heart to turn to betray him.

"Oh, my god. What are you doing, Raven? Why do you have all this? That's why you know all about me. Because you have a whole database-"

Seth looked at the intelligence screen with an obsessive look and a crooked smile as evil as the devil.

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