The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 13: City 17.

In the horizon, there was land, or so it seemed. City 17, one of the biggest cities in the world. floating serenely on the oceans surface, a place where humans can build and destroy to their hearts content, away from nature.

Adam lived in city 17 his entire life, which amounts to 9 years, he never saw the city from outside with his own eyes. He wasn't excited, he wasn't happy to go home, he was disappointed. According to the knowledge in the symbiote's data, this city is all controlled and monitored by the central tower. Why did his father leave him in such a place, where he could be under the control of these people.

Seeing the look on his face, Sydni gestured to the car system to take them higher, they were still quite far from the city.

Adam could see the massive size of the city, its perfect design, the gigantic tower in the middle surrounded by buildings that gets smaller the further it gets from the tower. The circular arrangement of buildings and streets with the tower as its center is hypnotizing with the Flickering lights on each building synchronized with the tower's lights in an ever lasting dance.

If one did not know for a fact that this is an artificial land, no mind would believe it is. The size of it, the multiple gardens and green area orderly spreading on the circles of the city. It is bigger than any natural island in the world.

As the distance between Adam and the city shrunk, he started seeing the life pulse of the city, the bustling streets, markets, restaurants, parks, the limitless cloud of people, cars flying around, people flying around, surveillance drones. A never ending harmonized mess.

The tower scanned and approved of their identity and destination silently.

the distance between them and the city disappeared, even though the tower didn't seem to be any closer. Adam felt the familiarity of the sky and the smell of the air, he never thought he would miss this feeling, the feeling of freedom.

The tower did always watch every thing, monitor every thing, but it never interfered unless a law is broken, and it had many laws.

The car didn't slow down, it kept going closer and closer to the tower, different models and designs of cars flying around at a faster speed.

Reaching an area closer to the tower then Adam have ever been, the car stopped in front of a building that was seemingly made of glass, except for some private areas and the floor, the entire building was see-through.

"we are here Adam, it won't take long, we just need to meet some people." Sydni said as she opened the car door, she stood by the car waiting for Adam, she saw him hesitant to leave the car, so she just waited.

'do you know what she will be doing inside?' Adam asked inwardly. He didn't trust miss Sydni, he still couldn't believe she would just give him a free hand, he had his guard up the entire trip, creating scenarios in his mind and making plans to how he will react if she sold him to some gang, or some illegal research lab.

[possible outcomes including the host: requesting detail, transfer application, military academy recommendation, adoption…]

the symbiote kept giving possible outcomes based on Elina's data, Adam not liking any of the out comes, he readied himself for running away if a chance present itself.

He stepped out of the car looking around, checking for possible escaping routes, some people were floating and some were walking normally, occasionally robots accompanying them.

To gain his trust, Sydni walked first and asked Adam to follow her, which surprised Adam, he wasn't so senseless as to think it is this easy to escape, he thought she probably has something that prevents his escape, and she wants to see if he would make an attempt, so he followed her.

As they entered the building, the car flew up and aligned itself into a long vertical line that freed a space closer to the door for it, and it disappeared into the line's shape and color.

It didn't take long as she promised, a man gave Adam a handshake, and Sydni followed the man and disappeared for a few minutes into a private office, then when she came back she had a slight smile on her face.

Adam knew that the handshake was to scan his genetic code, although his genetic code is online already, maybe they wanted to make sure it's him, it is hard to replicate a genetic code, but not impossible.

However, they were not the only ones scanning. The symbiote scanned the man and obtained an update to it's existing data on the facility and laws.

[a system loophole aligned with the host's benefits have been found, further data required, connection to the global network is of the utmost priority.]

Adam couldn't wait to go home to know what this loophole is.

As soon as they set foot outside the building, Sydni's car left the line and flew down to where it was before, the door opened and they entered the car.

"okay Adam, I made a deal for you, you officially have 3 days to contact your father, during these three days we are going to be together at all times." Sydni said while instructing the car to go up, which the car did. "let me make something clear before we start this, I'm not here to keep an eye on you, there is no need for that, I'm just worried about you, and I don't have any one to spend my holiday with, so, you're stuck with me." She smiled in a heart warming manner, Adam almost felt the sincerity of it.

"lucky me!" Adam said, his face unchanged. "if you had a life I wouldn't have found a way out of that orphanage." He said in monotonous tone, gazing at her. 

"you son of…" she finally snapped, "it's called a house, and I do have a life, my friends are just busy with their jobs." She stopped her self from cursing him to death, her head hurting just thinking about his attitude, she imagined her son in his place, which calmed her down, she hoped her son had some more manners though.