2022-06-22 17:56:38Adam and miss Sydni returned to her office shortly after Elina finished checking Adam's condition, miss Sydni didn't waste more time and asked Adam. "why are you trying to escape, Adam!? Where do you wish to go! As a child, we cannot just let you live alone! Do you know where your father is?" her voice was kind, her expression was honest.
'so it is real! She wants to help me!' Adam thought. 'but why now!? I've been trying to escape for three months!' and as if she was reading his mind, miss Sydni said. "I'm asking you this now because I can see you are smart. previously we all thought you just needed some time to get used to the place, but if it comes to hurting your self trying to escape! We can't allow that…"
"so you can take me by force, put me in this place, and not listen to me until I hurt my self trying to escape!? And all that is because my father is away for work, and you are stronger than me?!"
Miss Sydni suddenly felt dizzy, in front of her was a 9 year old kid, but the words she heard, the way those words were spoken. As much as these words shocked her, she couldn't deny the truth behind them.
Adam wanted her to help him, but he didn't like the way everyone was talking as if they know what's best for him. He was not a foolish child, they showed up one day, kept asking questions, then they took him against his will. He fought back, but what can he do.
"I promise you that I just want to help, so tell me what you want to do?" after shaking off her daze, miss Sydni asked.
"I want to go home, and I want to be left alone. I'm not an orphan, and my father is not irresponsible for leaving me home alone. He knows I can take care of my self." Adam said in a cold tone, not averting his eyes from miss Sydni as if they were in a staring contest.
"leaving you alone is not an option, at least until you turn 16." Miss Sydni said firmly. "And what kind of a father leaves a 9 year old kid home, without even a nanny?" she partially forgot that the 9 year old kid she is talking about, is actually the same kid in front of her.
"what do I need to pay to get you out of my life? For ever!" miss Sydni's shock this time was doubled, not only did Adam totally sound like an adult by this point, he was actually trying to bribe her out of his life.
"are you trying to bribe me?!" she scoffed. "the law doesn't allow people to leave their kids home, and just go take a vacation somewhere!." She said as she stood up walking around the office. "And you need to speak to me with more respect, I'm way older then you!" she was a woman in her mid thirties, yet she felt the need to remind him of that.
"I thought we were finally having a level headed conversation! Okay then I'll be going now, I've plans." Adam said in a series tone that actually didn't surprise her, she also over looked the part where he Ridiculed her, as if she was a child throwing a tantrum. As he jumped down from the comfy couch.
"okay then, I'll play along!" she sighed. "If you have a way to call your father I need to speak to him. Also he needs to appoint a guardian for you." she said while Adam was preparing to leave.
He stopped and looked at her expectantly.
"I'll give you 3 days. During this time you need to promise me that you will not escape. And also I'll be coming with you wherever you go." She turned to her chair preparing to set behind the desk. "this is me giving you a chance, Adam. Prove to me that you are not a dumb kid! And we will leave you alone."
"fair enough!" he said with a smile that could only be seen for a second. "when do we leave?"
"Tomorrow, at 2pm. Consider it a vacation." She said with a radiant smile.
Adam then left the office, heading towards the cafeteria. He had a hunger that didn't seem to go away, so he needed to stop being picky, and eat what ever comes in his way. Nothing will be worth then eating Vergo's stash.
When he remembered that he still had to deal with Vergo, he felt a slight headache coming. Even though the kids in the room he was living in were not bullies or any thing, they more then once tried playing rough with him. Of course it didn't end well for both parties involved.
On his way to the cafeteria, Adam opened his closet, it was relatively close to the room being only 5 closets away. He took the pay card which was the only thing in the closet other than a change of clothes.
This pay card was given to the kids to use as currency in the orphanage, they would get a daily allowance equivalent to 2 coins, this amount was enough to buy three meals. Since a peace of bread was worth only 0.1 coin.
If they wanted to get more coins, they would have to do several chores, which would earn them more than the daily allowance. They can than buy things from the city, and request it to be delivered with the supply truck. That was all done using the monitors around the play ground.
Adam had a three months worth of allowance, deducting the occasional fruit or vegetables he would buy and eat.
His total balance was 137 coins, when he arrived at the cafeteria, he smelled different food aromas, which he never found to be delightful. However, he now didn't mind it as much as before.
He approached one of many monitors on a wall that behind it was the kitchen, the monitor was the size of a book, it was 1.5 meters off the floor, and in front of it, a small step for the shorter kids. Adam touched the monitor and scrolled through the available food and edibles, when all of a sudden…
[data discovered…
Scanning…
Filtering…
The highest energy source is…
Meat.
Milk.
Cheese.
Spaghetti.
Further data required for further analysis.]
Adam was again surprised, he barely touched the monitor and the thing already scanned it.
'what exactly are you?.' He asked, eager for an answer.
[Insufficient data…
Synchronization incomplete…]
'what will this synchronization do exactly?' Adam finally asked, he needed to get more information about that thing, but it seems to need to be synchronized with something to answer him.
[synchronization includes…
Thought acceleration…
Language comprehension…
Data absorption…
History…]
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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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