The Hibernating Beast

Grey Network

The message was from Frank Webb, the son of a friend of Supervisor Miranda's had been kidnapped yesterday, the bandits' modus operandi was pretty much the same as what he had encountered the night before, also using a system suppressor, only with a uniformed level, as the droids around the boy were at least E class.

Kale Roman had a hunch that Frank Webb would send his this message and it would be that Supervisor Miranda was looking for him.

"In, but Supervisor Miranda is not in a good mood today." Kale Roman offered him a new glass of ice water, "That thing, how's it going?"

Frank Webb was worried that Kale Roman, driven by curiosity, would be frightened by reading too much, and he didn't know how to comfort people, so he had to warn them in advance. He remembered that when he was at school, there was an unknowing kid, also in his teens, who came across the Grey Network through some unknown channel at that time, and was quite excited at first, but half a month later, he was sent to a psychiatrist by his parents for treatment.

Kale Roman then put down the bartender in his hand and spoke to the colleague next to his before exiting the bar and heading in the direction of the office, Pitts still following his wordlessly.

Such a clean return made Xavier Miranda's first impression of this small employee a few more points better.

Back in 302, Kale Roman, not feeling sleepy for the moment, imported the contents of the card into his personal terminal.

"So now it's, like, a bad way back?"

It's just a practical exam, and candidates can only do intensive training before the exam and can't improvise.

Xavier Miranda's assistant was already waiting outside the office door and made a point of pausing his gaze on Pitts when he saw Kale Roman, who told Pitts to wait at the door before the assistant led Kale Roman inside.

In Kale Roman's eyes, he has a bright life source pattern and is a very good super gene carrier.

Since this suppressor was sent by the hired man, checking where the metal ball came from might turn up something.

The Grey Network is the dark world of the online world, very secluded and difficult for the average person to access and outside of the League's regulation, so there are all kinds of perverted video screens on there, and they're all in HD holographic versions, enough to be immersive. And unlike movies, everyone who watches them knows that everything in those videos is actually happening. Compared to that, buying a murder and kidnapping for ransom is considered the mildest of things.

"You're Kale Roman," Xavier Miranda said as he sized up Kale Roman, "I heard about your incident the night before last."

"Don't you know that Supervisor Miranda came down from above two years ago, and I heard then that he would still go back."

It's also important to note that Kale Roman is genetically ill, and he's about to become an adult. Right now he might barely make it to the passing line for his Sensory Broadness, but when he becomes an adult, it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for his Broadness to grow, while others, on the other hand, will keep improving. The gap between his and the others would become more and more pronounced due to the genetic disease, and it wouldn't be long before that gap would be so wide that he would despair.

It was just that the child was actually genetically ill, and if he hadn't read his profile, Xavier Miranda might have thought that he was a super gene carrier.

The only mood swing that came over his when he entered was a few moments of questioning in his eyes as he looked at Frank Webb.

"What does Supervisor Miranda have to do with it?"

Sure enough, ten minutes later, a message from the foreman came through: the supervisor wants you in the office.

Kale Roman said, "Go ahead."

Kale Roman listens as he polishes his glass nearby, when suddenly his personal terminal prompts for a new message, which he opens, then closes with a grimace and sets the glasses at his bar neatly.

"Is it because of the recent personnel changes?"

Frank Webb then passed, and Kale Roman watched Frank Webb's back; the bar was sparsely patronized at this hour, and the regular drinks were being ordered, with machine servers greeting them, and the two idle bartenders at the bar getting together to gossip.

Frank Webb asked his to make himself a Stardust, as usual, and finished it before saying, "I'm here to see Xavier Miranda, is he here?"

"Wow!"

This Kale Roman had seen in the bracelet left behind by Ethan's father to upgrade Pitts, and he had plans in mind to do so, but such things could only be done slowly. Advanced AI was very costly, and right now he was already struggling just to maintain Pitts' daily maintenance and recharge. And the cost required for the upgrade would be astronomical to his now, and the spending required for the daily maintenance and recharging after the upgrade would be even more geometrically increased.

Inside the cold hard metal style office, besides Frank Webb outside and Xavier Miranda, there were eight other sturdy men, looking at the clothing aura, should be bodyguards, and three of them were super gene carriers.

Kale Roman tossed the metal ball to Frank Webb, "Check it out first." With that he collected both the card and the dagger from the coffee table and stood up, "You keep catching up on your sleep, I'm going back to bed too."

The air pressure in the office was low, a conversation had just taken place here and now everyone was silent again, the silence was broken by the sound of Kale Roman's footsteps as he walked in, so everyone looked towards his.

After a full day and night of rest, Kale Roman was a little surprised to see Frank Webb on his day shift the next day, "How did you know I was changing shifts?"

Kale Roman's attitude made Xavier Miranda slightly surprised, all the employees who walked into his office and met him for the first time would be a bit nervous and formal, especially like now, facing so many eyes at once, some of them would even become stiff in their walking movements. But this girl in front of his, the calmness on his face is not pretend, when facing him that calm and relaxed, also really does not look like he can have at this age.

Kale Roman walked to the door before Frank Webb said, "You read less of that stuff on the Grey Internet."

So the material Frank Webb gave his was full of written questions, and the practical questions just gave his the practical rules, and left his a comment at the end that it was mostly luck of the draw as to whether you would get in.

After doing two sets of written questions and correcting the answers, and finally feeling sleepy, Kale Roman closed the question bank and went to sleep unburdened.

Schwartz Academy's entrance exam is divided into two sessions, a written exam and a practical exam, after passing the written exam, one can proceed to the practical exam. The purpose of the practical exercise is to test the candidate's ability to sense source energy, and the only thing the candidates need to prepare for is to bring their own piece of source stone.

Frank Webb shook his head, not answering Kale Roman's question, "I'll ask first, he's in his office?"

Kale Roman felt that Frank Webb should have found out something, but didn't seem to be going to tell his right away, so he shot him a look before saying, "Should be in."

"Why is Supervisor Miranda so angry today?"

The door to the office was pushed open, and when Xavier Miranda first saw Kale Roman, he thought it was a teenager, until Kale Roman approached and then he realized it was a girl.

"There's been a change in personnel at the top of     Hatfield, it's been on the hot news, you didn't see it."

Xavier Miranda is the head of Hatfield's first floor and has some connections with Frank Webb, who also got Kale Roman in as a bartender through Xavier Miranda's connections.

Kale Roman glanced at Frank Webb before withdrawing his gaze and looking to Xavier Miranda with a slight nod.

Kale Roman opened his mouth and then glanced over to Frank Webb.

After a short silence, Xavier Miranda spoke again, his tone flat and slightly gloomy between his eyebrows, "You do something for me."

Schwartz Academy's acceptance rate is low, competition is fierce, and fellow tutors, if they don't trip each other up a bit, the clientele will be snubbed by others. So this vicious competition and mudslinging makes it seem more and more like Frank Webb got his these things that are golden.

Kale Roman took out the source stone Frank Webb had given his and looked at it with him otherworldly eyes, and all of the source energy patterns the stone contained were clearly reflected in his eyes.

He didn't know how this broad value was calculated, so he wasn't sure exactly what his broad value was, but he figured it wouldn't be too low.

They only hide in dark corners and unleash their inner evil, killing those weaker than themselves, breaking ethics and morals to find pleasure. Or, for profiteering, grafting alien genes for live experiments and advocating war without a care in the world, there are perverts like that everywhere.

In Frank Webb's eyes, even though Kale Roman had that much talent, he hadn't received targeted training while growing up, so even if he wanted to improvise, it was completely too late, and now there was less than a month left before the entrance exam.

The darkness of human nature doesn't get cleaned up with technology. He had seen it in his world a long time ago.

There's really nothing to say right now without a clue, so we'll see when we get some clues, and he knows Frank Webb has his own doorway.

It looked like he had read it, and quite a bit of it.

So Kale Roman picked up the metal ball, tapped it on the coffee table, and told Frank Webb to collect his memetic mind for a moment, "Can you find out where this came from?"

Sense stress broad value?

Kale Roman turns back, "You mean the gory and perverted no-holds-barred video screens, or the experiments with various mutants?"

"What personnel changes?"

This is because the sensing of source energy is either a gift or an ability derived from enhanced genetics. Then there is also a long period of cultivation and honing to increase the broad value of the sensing power and make it stable, a time, which usually takes five to ten years.

Kale Roman hooked the corners of his mouth slightly and said with a wry smile, "Just a bunch of clowns." With that, he pulled the door open and went out.

"I don't know, but from the gossip, it seems that Supervisor Miranda is repenting his marriage, but his fiancée has a close relationship with the top brass."

These materials, part of which are entrance exam questions from previous years, and part of which are from this year's Schwartz Academy internal cram sessions, as well as detailed explanations from the Academy teachers, are very comprehensive and even give highlights.

Hatfield had a total of one hundred and one floors, Xavier Miranda was the supervisor of the first floor, this was only on the surface, in reality how much he actually managed Hatfield, Kale Roman was not sure, anyway, he had not seen any other supervisor in Hatfield. The man in front of his was heard to be in his seventies, but both his body and appearance remained at the peak of about thirty.

Frank Webb: ""

It was the first time that Xavier Miranda met Kale Roman, when Frank Webb greeted him before and introduced Kale Roman to work in Hatfield, he just instructed the bar foreman to go for the interview, and he didn't care about the rest, he didn't even know whether Kale Roman was a man or a woman. When Frank Webb suddenly came to him today and mentioned Kale Roman, he couldn't remember who it was for a while, but that didn't matter, what mattered was that someone had tried to kidnap Kale Roman in the same way, but Kale Roman had escaped. This was perhaps the only breakthrough in this matter for him at the moment, so after using his connections to find out, he had an idea in mind and sent someone over immediately.

Frank Webb does have a few things going for him, these materials aren't available to just anyone, and the cram schools out there, some if they are available, are mostly copycats. The information on hand is either incomplete or in confusing order, and most of the answers are scrappy. If you want to study according to those cottage materials, you can be sure to learn it wrong, and when you take the real exam, you can definitely brush off a large number of people.

Frank Webb then gave Kale Roman another look, "It's possible to check, but don't get your hopes up, since the other guy chose to get a job on the Grey Network, it means he doesn't want anyone to know his identity. It's highly likely that in the end it will turn out that this thing has no connection to the other guy."