The Hibernating Beast

Intelligent robot

“Are you prepared for tuition?” Frank Webb asked abruptly as he regarded Kale Roman's youthful features.

“I have enough star coins stored, but I still need a source stone.” Kale Roman stated.

Even if a person with a genetic disease cannot change his or his defective genes, he or he will be able to live a better life if they graduate from the Schwartz Academy.

The entrance requirements for the Schwartz Academy were extremely stringent, and each applicant had to pay a hefty application fee in addition to preparing a source stone on their own for the exam. However, if they get admitted and graduate with honors, many businesses will offer to hire them and pay them well. The future is even brighter, and they’ll get royal treatment if their ability is stronger. As a result, despite the Schwartz Academy’s high admissions standards and low acceptance rate, the applicant pool is always full.

Every year before enrollment, each cram school also advertised a "full refund for failure to take the test of the Schwartz Academy", outside the cram center rubbing up like a spring.

Frank Webb took an item from his pocket and threw it at Kale Roman abruptly, but fortunately Kale Roman caught it.

“Come see me after work.” Frank Webb’s voice was as calm as ever.

No matter how ambitious they may have once been, he had seen far too many genetic losers who ultimately failed to change their fate. Some people just break the law, binge drinks all day, and then start committing crimes. Those mishaps claimed the lives of Kale Roman's parents.

He got up from his last drink, turned his back, and left the bar.

Frank Webb threw a source stone, whose core faintly emits a cold and fascinating light. Kale Roman spread his palm to see, and those lights in his eyes intertwined into constantly shifting arcane patterns.

Genetic sickness is a painful cost that humanity must bear because of their haughtiness and avarice, a condition that the Alliance government has spent two centuries trying to eradicate and still failed.

For losers like them, this messed-up fate, the conclusion has always been predetermined.

The average age of the population is 180 years, and many residents are over 200 years old. As a result, many people in their fifties and sixties appear to be in their twenties. The biggest consequence of having the supergene is a longer life expectancy, which also means a longer youth.

Additionally, individuals just like them are labeled as super gene carriers.

It's still dark outside, and there's not much going on on the streets. There are often loafers, looking for the object for robbery because this is Hatfield City where you can release all kinds of desires. Fortunately, Kale Roman has Pitts with him, so he has nothing to worry about even at this time of the day.

Pitts is Kale Roman's parents who left an intelligent robot for him.

Although domestic, the main material is metal, and it can be linked to the city's security system at any time. The cost of robbing him is obviously too high, and the revenue is not guaranteed, so the robbers will not consider it if they are not blind.

Artificial intelligence is divided into nine levels, from G to SS.

These high-end technologies, excluding civilian technology, that is, technology above the D level, all require source energy support; otherwise, the utility will be greatly reduced. But now the three planets are saying that the source of energy is running low and that the Alliance has long begun to explore the outer galaxy in search of stone mines.

During the day, there are frequently popular stars from the screen, twisting waists and dancing hips, with a wash of cool waves behind them; in the summer heat, such advertising can cause many passersby to stop and gaze up. If the business is actively promoting, the effect of holograms discharged from the screen is increased. People are difficult to distinguish between virtual, and reality.

The more ambitious, the more realistic the effects, and the more source energy is required to sustain. The world appears to be divided into two extremes, with the news media constantly appealing to everyone to conserve source energy, broadcasting more and more people on the verge of life and death, still waiting for source energy special drugs to save their lives, while businessmen ignore everything for the sake of greater profits, recklessly squandering the diminishing source energy.

From his angle, there was no one in sight at the entrance to the alley, and it was silent, not even a cat's cry, but he knew that there was someone there.

In a few moments, he reached the entrance of the alley, and before he could turn the corner, the two men rushed out from inside, one after the other, to stop him.

It's autumn and the nights are a bit chilly. There are trains on his way back, but at this hour they're all out of service and there aren't even many cabs.

He recognized these two people, the gangsters of this area, the two times before that aimed at him and then gave up, it was them.

This thing, the government's control is almost as strong as guns, is never allowed to private ownership, save in particular areas, and the punishment is exceedingly harsh if found. Even folks in the mob will be difficult to take out with this weapon in their hands. And these two, he's met twice before, it's clear they're not even gun street gangsters, so how did they get this thing today? 

Kale Roman narrowed his eyes slightly, that was not a life source pattern, it should be some kind of source energy device, could it be a weapon? He took another closer look, then dismissed his guess, the source energy weapon he had seen at the security office in Hatfield City.

Only the flashing neon billboards nearby and the dim streetlights in front of him illuminated the empty street at this point.

In Kale Roman's opinion, the person who had a hereditary condition and had used illegal substances had dulled his life source pattern. The disease appeared at such a young age, apparently, he is more unfortunate than Frank Webb, at this time he is holding a dagger, which has been attached to Kale Roman's neck.

His companion was holding an egg-sized metal ball in his hand. He didn't look at Kale Roman, but at Pitts, and this metal ball revealed the gray source energy pattern.

Kale Roman turned his head to look at Pitts, pondered for a moment, and spoke, "Activate Skywolf."