2022-06-22 17:56:47Adam requested the spaghetti & meatball dish, a bottle of milk, and a piece of every fruit available. He waited for 2 minutes in front of a small window, his food then came out on a metal tray. It cost him 2.3 coins, although he could buy more, he didn't want to raise any suspicions.
While heading to an empty table to start eating, Adam was trying to dig for more information. 'so you need me to have more energy so you can synchronize! How long will that take? And how much energy do I need for that?!'
[100% synchronization requires 2000% current capacity…
Preparatory enhancement time estimated, 10-15 years…
Partial synchronization is not Advised…]
A few images and concepts were injected to his mind, his pupils contracted, he felt so weak. He realized that there was so many things he didn't understand previously. Like the fact that this thing was learning from his memory and experiences, it didn't know any thing about earth or human language that Adam didn't know. He needed at least 10 years to be able to get his answers.
He now understood what synchronization will do, it is meant to fully merge the thing with him. 'if we are not synchronized now! How can you be inside my head?' Adam had one last question that he needed to ask. He actually felt so dumb to have not understood what he was just shown earlier.
[current connection state, symbiotic…
Symbiotic state includes…
Preparatory enhancements…
Active energy absorption…
Thought projection…
Data analysis…]
This time, the images and thoughts projected into his mind left no question unanswered about his current state.
From what he now know, he will need to keep enhancing various aspects of his body, until he reaches the state where he can safely upgrade his energy capacity. This energy capacity is the amount of pure energy his body can store. He needs to do this cycle over and over, between each upgrade.
As he was thinking, trying to prevent his mind from focusing on the food he is eating, two things happened at the same time, one of them was bothering Adam.
[enhancing digestive system…]
"Adam! Vergo is looking for you, he knows that you stole from his stash." Birdy said in a hurry, while trying to not look at Adam to not be associated with him. Meanwhile, Adam was in pain. He opened the milk bottle casually, and started drinking from it slowly as if he didn't hear any thing.
The reason it hurts when enhancing digestion, is because its not an innate function of his body, the symbiote would forcibly stimulate the enzymes producing organs to up normally decrease the time required, and the potency of the absorption would reach almost 100% with light and healthy food, and at least 90% with unhealthy or heavy food.
After finishing every thing on the tray, Adam casually stood up holding the tray, he went to the kitchen's side of the cafeteria, there was an opening in the wall dedicated for the empty trays.
Adam was punished by working in the kitchen for a week before. They would make him clean the empty trays, even though they had machines for that, however it would be beneficial for them to save the energy required for the machine by making someone do it.
He inserted the tray in to the opening, then he stood beside it with his back leaning on the wall. "Adam! you little devil, why did you do that" a few seconds later, a woman in her twenties, with a red hair, pale skin, and oceanic blue eyes, said in anger as she opened the kitchen door opened.
Adam looked at her blankly, "shouldn't you be covering your hair while working in the kitchen?! Did you by any chance go near the spaghetti & meatball?!" his face not showing any emotion, he started to regret eating that dish.
"that's none of your freaking business!!" Wendy screamed to the top of her lungs, as she typed things on her phone.
She requested Adam to be punished, for inserting a bottle of milk with the food tray, which made the machine stop working. Even though it was relatively easy to get the bottle out and restart the machine, there was rule in the cafeteria, any one that doesn't empty the remaining of the food into the trash before inserting the tray to the machine, will have to take the machine's place for the rest of the day.
Immediately after Wendy finished typing on her phone, the sound of August, the head of security, sounded from all of the monitors on the cafeteria walls. "Adam! You are officially the record holder of the number of punishments in one month… head to the kitchen now." August said nonchalantly. "we will not consider it as a punishment any more, we need to invent new punishments for you." He sighed.
Adam did this to escape both, Vergo and the afternoon classes. He wasn't afraid of Vergo, he just didn't want to deal with him now, he preferred to let him cool down first so he wouldn't have to touch him. and the summer afternoon classes were boring, but if he had nothing else to do he would have to attend them.
So he preferred to do dishes and refrain from all that hassle.
At 5pm, Adam had some free time, the cafeteria would close at 9pm after serving dinner. He would have to go back to the kitchen at 7 or 8pm, if he tries to escape punishment, the security would locate him, and hunt him down.
Meanwhile, he was thinking about developing himself. He didn't like the idea of being too weak for the symbiote to synchronize with him, it made him feel bitter. Also he didn't understand most of what he saw happening inside his body.
Adam went to the play grounds, and stood in front of one of the monitors there, these monitors were different from the ones in the kitchen. It had a limited connection to the city network, he wanted to see how much the data analysis function can take him. He touched the monitor, and then…
[data discovered…
Scanning…
Filtering…
Irrelevant data…
Text and language extracted…]
It seemed to Adam that the symbiote is not interested in any thing that he can buy from the city, he wouldn't need to buy any thing though, he was leaving tomorrow in the hope he will never need to come back.
Though it interested him that the symbiote extracted the text and language from the network. 'if you need data, isn't there books for sell on the network! Why are you not interested in them' Adam wondered.
[available data analysis target in current state include…
Digital data…
Quantum data…
Biological data…
Direct data projection available for irrelevant data…
Direct data projection is not Advised…]
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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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