Inside a private jet plane that was flying over forty thousand feet high from the ground, Russell and Jessica were having an arm-wrestling match with their little daughter Nora being the referee. She put her hand on Russell’s arm, which made Jessica angry.“Your dad already has the advantage,” Jessica helplessly laughed. “If you take his side, then I’m going to lose for sure. Why don’t you look out through the window? I just saw a dragon fly by.”“Eh? A dragon?” Nora quickly looked out through the window. Her eyes searched for anything that was flying. At first, she didn’t find anything, but when her eyes looked up, she noticed a few dozen figures dashing through the sky at a great speed. Her heart sank into her stomach for a second. She quickly turned and tapped her dad’s shoulder. “Dad, I think I saw ghosts. Lots of them.”“Haha,” Jessica laughed. “You’re trying to be cheeky now?”“I really saw them,” Nora said. “They were flying faster than our plane!”“Ah-huh,” Jessica smiled and
The jet crossed 60,000 ft and kept going higher, and the pilot couldn’t do anything about it.“T-The readings are all going crazy,” the pilot was sweating. He pressed very many switches, but none of them responded as he wanted. “W-What the hell is happening?”Their jet went higher and higher and soon reached nearly 100,000 ft. But they couldn’t even see the ground right now because of the layer of cloud completely covering their view, not that they cared to see the earth at this moment.After going higher for a little longer, the jet came to standstill.For that second, it was peaceful inside the jet plane, but then the jet immediately fell in a projectile manner.The pilot and everyone else felt like they were floating because they were above the jet stream now, and the air resistance was quite low. Parachuting at this height would be impossible to do as there would be no stability to properly control the parachute with little resistance offered by the winds.The pilot was just prayi
Nearly 1500 days ago, Dahlia and her friend busted a child-trafficking ring and managed to save over 3000 children. And they were having trouble with finding the addresses of some of these kids as they were either too young or too broken to remember anything.At that time, Russell helped find their homes with the hacking system and also sent them home in private jets.And what Dahlia liked about it was that Russell didn’t let the news leak to the media afterward, either. He used the hacking system to suppress all the information about it. He never boasted about that incident, even though he could easily have used that to greatly boost his public image. Whether he was thinking about the privacy of the children or he had some other reason, it didn’t matter as he did a good thing in the end.On top of that, Russell gave the hacking system back to them without them having to ask for it, so Russell’s name was included in the records of the phantom island as Russell ‘Rich’ Lynn, not because
“It is possible,” Dahlia replied. “But we don’t plan to destroy them all until we get all of them in our hands. Not all systems are bad, but most of them don’t have the ability to think like humans. They act like animals and react as per how they’re programmed. You can call it artificial instinct. If you step on a dog’s tail, it will try to attack you, even though you didn’t do it on purpose. The same is the case with most systems. Though, over time, they improved and became better, like with the Alpha System, but that’s only because they have probably rewrote or upgraded their own code to suit the changing times.”“They are capable of doing that?” Russell was startled.“Some of them are indeed capable of rewriting their own code,” Dahlia said. “Either way, they’re dangerous to humanity, no matter whose hands they’re in as they try to take control of their hosts most of the time. The reason the hacking system didn’t try to hack you is because we made it rewrite its own code so that i
“Considering the things you’ve done, the council has decided to let your family stay here for as long as forty fortnights,” one of the council members spoke with Russell.“Thank you for your kindness,” Russell bowed his head before them. Nora mimicked him and also bowed to the elders.“What a good-mannered child,” the female elder picked her up. “What do you love to eat?”“I like fruits and sweets,” Nora said.“She’s got a sweet tooth like her mother,” Russell said.“I quit eating chocolates, though,” Jessica snorted.“What’s your favorite fruit?” the female elder asked Nora.“Bananas,” Nora didn’t even need to think.“Then let me take you to the plantation,” the female elder said and was taking her away.“Daddy,” Nora called for him. “Come on.”Russell pursed her lips.“You think she’ll be here without you?” Jessica said in a low voice. “That’s not going to happen.”“I will stay here for a few days then and convince her,” Russell said.“Good luck, but what about the pilot?” Jessica a
Gabe brought Mia and his friends over to Eco Waves, which used to be Tuna Waves until yesterday.Gabe ordered items that were on the menu but only those whose recipes were given by his mother.“My mom is a chef in this hotel, guys,” Gabe happily told them. “She’s good, so you won’t leave the table disappointed.”Nevertheless, Dave ordered prawns and lobster meat. Baazee ordered roast lamb chops. Victor ordered vegetarian food.Mia was the only one who didn’t order anything because she was looking forward to eating Nicole’s dishes like Gabe, and he silently appreciated that.“By the way, Mia,” Baazee spoke informally with her, “you used to wear glasses in school, right? Why are you not wearing them?”“I can look better without the glasses now,” Mia replied. “But I’m surprised that you remembered that I used to wear glasses.”“You used to wear big glasses, so of course, I remember that,” Baazee said. “Don’t take this negatively, but you looked much better in those glasses.”“Well… every
Gabe told his teammates to come to his home the next day so that he’d give them the things that would change their lives. By doing this, he was also giving them one night to think about it.Later on, when Gabe and Mia were going home, she asked him, “What if none of them show up?”“It’s fine. You can’t build a good team overnight,” Gabe said. “Even if they all come, it’d take time to gel with each other. As the leader, it’s my responsibility to keep peace within the team, and that’s my top most priority. We already have enough things bothering us from outside, and the last thing I want is someone within the team messing up our minds.”“Yeah, Baazee was a bit annoying in that regard.”“He grew up in a small house full of relatives, where they quarreled about every penny for an hour,” Gabe said. “So, he’s probably been influenced by them, especially his grandmother. If we give him some time, I think he’ll change himself.”“I hope so.”A few seconds passed.Gabe was driving in his mustan
“So, yeah, you can have four dates with different girls for 20 dollars,” he said.“Is that so?” Mia squinted her eyes. “You sound very experienced in this field.”Gabe’s heart skipped a beat as he realized that he spoke a little too much. “U-Ugh, not really. It was a long time ago when online dating was the growing trend. Now, I’m much more grounded. I don’t know if we can both drink coffee for five dollars anymore.”“Is that so?” Mia calmly said. “Then let’s stop at a cheap restaurant. If the price varies from what you said, then it means you’re telling the truth.”“A-Alright.” Gabe felt like he was in a bad mood. All he could do was stop at a small coffee shop that didn’t look like it was even painted in at least five to ten years. He stepped out as a tense man, but Mia was smiling.It was already night time.Both of them sat at a table. The chairs were also old and delicate. “This is definitely the place,” she said.As a waiter came to their table, she looked at Gabe, “You should m