2022-06-23 08:32:06Outside the wall, in the parking lot, a blue car suddenly lit with an orange tint coming from beneath it, as it slowly started rising and floating 30 centimeters off the ground.
When Sydni Arevik approached the silently floating smooth capsule shaped car, the top half became transparent as the driver’s door opened.
Before entering the car she gestured with two fingers at the passenger door, which opened for Adam adjusting a seat to his size and age.
entering the car before miss Sydni, Adam didn’t like the childish treatment this car was giving him, It gave him a restricted access to children programs on the network. Even the symbiote didn’t bother scanning the data on this network. it already had a 30 years worth of knowledge and experience from Elina.
“city 17, 30-23 54th street. Green.” Sydni gave the car system their destination coordinates, code green meant they are not in a rush.
“that is not my home address!” Adam said raising his eyebrows.
The car started rising slowly, when it reached an altitude higher then the surrounding buildings, it started accelerating in the direction of city 17, which wasn’t visible at all from this area.
“we’re going to the resident management department, there is some paper work to be done first.” Said Sydni with her eyes on a monitor occasionally typing somethings.
‘what Is resident management department!’ asked Adam in his mind.
[resident management department. The national department responsible for citizens health and social care, education and child protection. More details available on the governmental law and code of conduct.]
The question miss Sydni was anticipating to be asked didn’t come her way. “do you know what resident management department is, Adam?!” she asked while pushing the monitor away and looking at Adam.
“the department of people who thinks they can control my life, just because I’m of a certain age.” Adam answered monotonously, turning his head to look out side the window.
Sydni sighed at his answer. “you should talk more Adam, children needs social interaction to learn and grow.” She said hoping the advice may spark a conversation for the long road, and make him open up to her.
The journey to city 17 should take 1 hour.
the car can reach a maximum speed of 100 kph on code Green, a maximum speed of 500 kph on code blue, and the emergency or continental travel code red, the car will travel at supersonic in the atmosphere, which is not allowed to be used within a certain distance of any residential area. Code red could also be used in space to travel at hypersonic speed reaching mach 30 with the older generations.
Adam gave her a glance and turned his head back to the window.
“it’s not every day that I get to go on a vacation!” she sighed turning her head to the window as well. “looks like it’s going to be a silent vacation.” She murmured to her self Watching the trees and occasional water streams and hills passing by beneath them.
“Shouldn’t we go faster!?” Adam said, in an attempt to avert the coming conversation, He pulled his seat away from her. As his hand kept touching the car’s interior, the symbiote scanned and stored the data on the material it’s made of. The information was not useful for their development at this stage so it didn’t bother him with it.
The car’s interior is made of G3-8 nanite cluster fabric, which can adjust its shape and mechanical properties freely. This allows it to take any shape and form, in cases of accidents or extreme acceleration or deceleration, the fabric would support any organic parts of the passenger to handle the stress.
Adam didn’t have any interest In chatting with miss Sydni, he blamed her for ending up in the orphanage, even though she wasn’t the one that caught him or brought him there.
“you know, Adam! I would help any child in the house to find their parents if they exist. Do you know Why?” Sydni paused to let him participate in the conversation, and he didn’t, so she continued. “I had a son, and I lost him.” Tears built up in her eyes. “so I do what ever in my power to help Those who are lost. In the hope that my son found someone to help him.”
“you got me lost so you can help me?! did you not have enough lost people!” Adam chuckled, he was not about to stay silent listening to her self righteousness.
Her blood pressure risen, she struggled to keep her cool. “you don’t see any other child in the house trying to escape, do you?! because they have no where else to go.” She wasn’t going to let him be a selfish, self centered, blind a*hole. ‘how dare he blame me for the irresponsible actions of his father!’ she thought.
Even though she wasn’t happy with his attitude, she did hope his father is alive and can take care of him.
Adam didn’t think about what she said, he wouldn’t concern him self with others when they are not of any use to him.
The rest of the trip was rather quiet, miss Sydni hoped he was thinking about her words.
The thick forest carpet started receding, and the distant ocean line became visible in the horizon.
City 17 is built on the ocean surface, like all the human cities. Land only had small institutions or military bases, rich people also liked living on land for luxury purposes.
On the shore line there was a small military city, this was the farthest place Adam reached in his escaping efforts, unfortunately they caught him rather fast. Military cities didn’t have children, it is made for the training cadets, to rest between drills.
As they passed above the city, Adam noticed it consisted of three areas. the living court, which is made of a chain of multiple cabins connected to each other, each of them had its own color and theme to it, floating harmoniously on the water around The market area, which had multiple platform shops floating in a grid, unlike the cabins, they were not connected to each other, Adam wondered how people were supposed to reach them. Finally, the training ground, on land, A huge base, with multiple buildings and training courses.
Sydni purposely slowed down the car with a hand signal when she noticed that Adam was focused on the city.
If she didn’t have the appropriate clearance, miss Sydni wouldn’t have been able to approach this area, let alone flying this low above it.
They still had a long way to go to reach city 17, so she gestured to the car to speed up again.
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The dense smooth ball fell to the ground, bypassing the gravity field that previously contained it. It plunged a few centimeters deep into the hard metal floor, a ton of force was concentrated in a small area, making it hard to contain it by regular matter. It was still sinking through the metal floor slowly, as it was being mercilessly pulled by the planet’s gravity.[Connection established. recalculating blueprints to adapt to the signal of the new nanite cluster fabric. More physical contact with the material is required for a faster result.]“Was it successful?!” Keet’s eyes were asking the question before he even moved his lips. He was startled by the sudden disengagement of the sphere from the gravity field. He kept his eyes and scanners on Adam to detect if he is in danger before any thing, and he was relieved for once to see Adam’s expressionless face unchanging. “Can you control it?.”“Yes! The signal is different from any other cluster fabric, my blueprints needs to be modif
A dense liquid.
“she just disappeared a year after you were born, and in her place there was a message, telling your father to provide them with a certain type of technology if he ever wants to see her again.” Keet said desperately, his voice struggling in a way.“People don’t just disappear!” Adam chuckled, he was hearing about his mother for the first time, and the first thing he hears about her is that she just disappeared. The first thing that came to his mind was that she might have abandoned him and his father. Or that she could be working with the Rinvar clan.“They don’t, but when you see this you may believe the opposite.” Keet created a screen and played a video of a woman singing a sweet lullaby for an infant wrapped in a sky blue blanket with twinkling stars all over it that seems to be moving about. The woman was sitting on a flowery wooden chair rocking back and forth. She appeared to be on some kind of a ship traveling in space, a foreign star constellations were visible from a window
Supernova.
“please continue!.” Adam said. Seeing the shocked expression on Keet’s face, Adam thought that the symbiote created something amazing, so he inwardly requested the details of those spiders. However they were just normal spider scouts, like the one Adam used to kill the man who attempted to kidnap Mela.Keet’s surprise wasn’t triggered by the blueprint itself, he counted 8 spiders rushing in all directions at the same time, and the 8 if them seemed semi-intelligent while moving all over the base exploring about. Even Keet wouldn’t be able to accomplish such a level of control without automating the constructs.Which means either the spiders were all automated and the young kid already knows how to automate drone actions, which would be scary at his age. Or he was directly controlling 8 individual actions while still focusing on their talking, which would be horrifying.The reason Keet didn’t consider the probability of an artificial intelligence, is that the spiders were mostly just to
Hearing about Zenith.
Adam plunged into the ground raising a cloud of dust and creating a small crater around him as he landed like a super hero on one knee and a closed fist.[The modified armor blueprint features ionic thrusters with up to 8 tons of pushing force.]‘you telling me this now?!’ Adam shouted inwardly at himself, he had no idea that the symbiote modified the armor already. his cognitive abilities and thinking speed were on another level compared to yesterday, but still he was a human that easily got distracted by the feeling of freedom and liberation, and forgot all about the need to stop and land at some point. He also wanted to show off a little in front of Keet to pretend that he wasn’t in need of help or assistance, which resulted in a minor knee bruise and a sore knuckles.“That was a cool Landing. Was it painful?!.” Keet chuckled, commenting on his landing and making sure to save the footage of it in his memory for later use.“You noticed! Well! It just needs some practice.” Adam smile
Not again.
“You should come with me to the main base first.” Keet said to Adam, pointing at the middle of the island. The main base wasn’t far from where they were, the whole island was 20 km across, it would take them less then a minute to reach there flying.“Okay you go first and set a beacon, I’ll test some old tech with this new unlimited energy.” Adam didn’t argue with him, but he was still going to do his tests. He turned his clothe into a skin tight jump suit with a helmet covering his face. Two long thin wings grew from his back, ending with a jet engine each.“Do you know how loud these things are?! If you break the sound barrier with them you could damage many equipment on the island. You should try something else.” Keet stopped Adam from firing up the engines. he hated this era of technology for its too little care for the planet’s well-being. Unlike the mock engines that Adam was planning to use, the real ancient jet engine used a dangerous fossil fuel, which didn’t just endanger th
A small conversation.
Adam was sitting on a wooden table behind the house, eating his big breakfast while surrounded by trees, flowers, and whistling birds. The rich sunlight bathed him in its warmth and its wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiations. “Birdy didn’t wake up yet?! He sure doesn’t miss Gem.” He said stuffing his face with more food, He stopped focusing on chewing much, the food would disappear in a few seconds anyway. He was worried about Birdy, it was unnatural for the kid to sleep in.Birdy used to wake up earlier then every one, Adam would sometime Hear him laughing on the top bed, he thought at first that he was having some weird dream. When he asked him about it, Birdy Said that it was the only time of the day he would quietly enjoy reading his comics.“That boy is actually quite something! He trained for four hours straight after you went to sleep, not taking any rest until he passed out on the living room’s floor.” Keet informed Adam while aiming a barrage of scanners and detectors at
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