Neo and the others couldn’t see anything inside the darkness caused by the black smoke. As the training section has been officially started, Neo, who already set the hearing system back to the highest level of sensitivity, began to hear the short breathing system of the HumanBot hidden inside the darkness.
“Transformer, do you think the infrared gonna work?”
“I have activated the Infrared’s eyes.”
Immediately, Neo’s eyes color changed to red as the infrared function had been activated by Transformer. And now, he could see everyone in the darkness, including their facial expression right now when they were lost in the dark and didn’t know what to do next.
Neo knew that not all the HumanBot have the infrared system planted in their eyes. Any kind of superior system that normal humans could not have was planted in HumanBot. Still, not all of their body could accept it. Some rejected it, and thus, the system could not work correctly or could not even work.
In front of Neo was Hope. She looked as calm as before. Even calmer because the alarm’s sound was gone. And the hall was really quiet.
“Why no one used their infrared system?” Neo’s wondering.
“Maybe they didn’t know that it could work.”
Neo took a deep breath. He didn’t want to be the only one that could see inside the darkness. Besides, he didn’t know what was coming next.
“Infrared system, turn it on if you have one.” Said Neo, he didn’t hold his voice and let it out loud so everyone inside the hall could hear.
Everyone turned their head to him in an instant. But later on, some of them gave him a smile as if they started to find out that the infrared was working.
“It worked!”
“Try it!”
Within seconds, most of the HumanBot could see each other inside the darkness. And they didn’t realize that the smoke was started to decrease.
Beep.
[The INFINITY armors are ready]
[Would you like to activate the armor system?]
Another notification surprised Neo. But this time, he nodded really quick.
[INFINITY armors have been activated]
Clank!
Clank!
Clank!
Suddenly, Neo felt slightly warm when a strong-thick black metal appeared out of nowhere, covering his body and face. Made him look like a real human robot. But surprisingly, it was not only happened to him.
All the HumanBot inside the hall was suddenly covered by armor in silver color, different from Neo’s. And they were also confused by the sudden appearance of the armor.
“What the hell is this?”
“Damn, you looked cool!”
“Who are you, Pal?”
The situation inside the hall has changed again. Everyone felt excited about the armor they just got as if it was the coolest thing ever happening to them.
It was all because Neo decided to activate the armor system. But unlike the others, the armor’s appearance made Neo hold his breath. He knew that the Creators must be prepared for the armor for the dangerous thing, and it started to make him nervous.
“Neo, what’s happening here?” Tony patted Neo’s shoulder and made him startled a bit.
Neo didn’t respond when suddenly he could read information from the helmet that also appeared with the armor as a pack.
[Subject 123’s identity]
[Name: Tony]
[Gender: Male]
[Age: 17]
[Height: 193 cm]
[Weight: 87.8 kg]
[Breed: 1st Gen HumanBot]
[Strength: Stamina and Physical Ability]
[Weakness: Water]
[Title: None]
“W-water?” Neo read the information that he just got from staring at Tony.
Tony confused. But he didn’t say anything.
The new feature that Neo got made him excited. He wanted to try it again with another person to ensure it was still working. Thus at the same time, another person patted his shoulder.
“Neo, did you just activate this armor system?” Hope asked. But her voice sounds excited. She probably loved the armor she got.
[Subject 8’s identity]
[Name: Hope]
[Gender: Female]
[Age: 17]
[Height: 170 cm]
[Weight: 48.5 kg]
[Breed: 1st Gen HumanBot]
[Strength: Highest IQ and Body’s Flexibility]
[Weakness: Radioactive]
[Title: None]
“It wasn’t a lie, but I prefer you to be our leader than Aaron.”
Out of nowhere, a short girl as tall as Neo’s chest approached him. Although Neo couldn’t see her face right now, he could see clearly who’s coming from the data he could read.
[Subject 256’s identity]
[Name: Trish]
[Gender: Female]
[Age: 17]
[Height: 155 cm]
[Weight: 44.5 kg]
[Breed: 1st Gen HumanBot]
[Strength: Poison Manipulation]
[Weakness: Overheat]
[Title: None]
Neo didn’t remember ever talking to the girl named Trish during his lifetime as the HumanBot. But still, her words made him gain more confidence. Before he could respond to her with any word, the alarm sounds suddenly came back.
Zink!
Zink!
The sounds were less annoying because the volume was different. And then, another notification appeared.
[The Greenish Class E has been released]
[Breed: Tarantula]
Zink!
Whoosh!
A strong gas blew from the top of the hall when suddenly it opened as if there was a giant sliding door up there.
In the hall's center, a giant box as big as a container from the harbor was slowly dropped to the ground. The HumanBot around that place was moved away to give the mysterious box space.
Wondering what was inside that silver box, Neo moved close to the box while the others looked aware of it.
Aaron, who saw what Neo’s doing, decided to compete with him and walk closer to the box. He didn’t want to get lost.
“Tarantula, what does that mean?” murmured Neo. He has no clue.
“You don’t know?” Hope was suddenly there beside him. That girl gave Neo’s a strange look.
“Do you know something about that?” he asked. He knew Hope read all the books and encyclopedias that the humans have in the library.
“They have four pairs of legs. Some species have more than four pairs of eyes too.” She explained the detail that she could remember.
“Are they Greenish?” Aaron joined the conversation.
“Nope. They belonged to a group named animal.”
Neo suddenly remembered something about animals. Somebody might have told him before, and accidentally recalling that memory made his brain receive an electric shock. The high voltage of electricity.
“Argh,” he smacked his helmet because of the pain.
[Warning!]
[Mutant body received damage from unknown object]
“Are you okay?” Hope asked. Sounds a bit worried.
“I am fine.” Neo didn’t understand where that electric shock came from. It was the same feeling when he tried to remember something he shouldn’t. The pain he got from the electric shock might kill him someday.
Neo tried to maintain his balance, but the pain was trying to bring him down. He immediately remembered what did Corine said before. About the locked memories.
[The host is not safe]
[Warning!]
The notifications made Neo’s condition even worse. He tried to keep his mouth shut, but he couldn’t. He started to scream.
“Arrrghhhh!”
“Neo!” Tony held Neo’s body before he fell to the ground.
[Warning!]
[The host is in danger!]
[Scanning for the unwanted objects in progress]
“What?” Neo didn’t understand.
[1 threat found]
[Source: System]
[Unwanted object’s name: Transformer]
[Cleaning the host from the unwanted object!]
“No no no, wait─, What are you doing?”
[System reboot is required]
[Auto rebooting system (15 seconds left to reboot)]
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