The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 12: the trip.

Outside the wall, in the parking lot, a blue car suddenly lit with an orange tint coming from beneath it, as it slowly started rising and floating 30 centimeters off the ground.

When Sydni Arevik approached the silently floating smooth capsule shaped car, the top half became transparent as the driver’s door opened.

Before entering the car she gestured with two fingers at the passenger door, which opened for Adam adjusting a seat to his size and age.

entering the car before miss Sydni, Adam didn’t like the childish treatment this car was giving him, It gave him a restricted access to children programs on the network. Even the symbiote didn’t bother scanning the data on this network. it already had a 30 years worth of knowledge and experience from Elina.

“city 17, 30-23 54th street. Green.” Sydni gave the car system their destination coordinates, code green meant they are not in a rush.

“that is not my home address!” Adam said raising his eyebrows.

The car started rising slowly, when it reached an altitude higher then the surrounding buildings, it started accelerating in the direction of city 17, which wasn’t visible at all from this area.

“we’re going to the resident management department, there is some paper work to be done first.” Said Sydni with her eyes on a monitor occasionally typing somethings.

‘what Is resident management department!’ asked Adam in his mind.

[resident management department. The national department responsible for citizens health and social care, education and child protection. More details available on the governmental law and code of conduct.]

The question miss Sydni was anticipating to be asked didn’t come her way. “do you know what resident management department is, Adam?!” she asked while pushing the monitor away and looking at Adam.

“the department of people who thinks they can control my life, just because I’m of a certain age.” Adam answered monotonously, turning his head to look out side the window.

Sydni sighed at his answer. “you should talk more Adam, children needs social interaction to learn and grow.” She said hoping the advice may spark a conversation for the long road, and make him open up to her.

The journey to city 17 should take 1 hour.

the car can reach a maximum speed of 100 kph on code Green, a maximum speed of 500 kph on code blue, and the emergency or continental travel code red, the car will travel at supersonic in the atmosphere, which is not allowed to be used within a certain distance of any residential area. Code red could also be used in space to travel at hypersonic speed reaching mach 30 with the older generations.

Adam gave her a glance and turned his head back to the window.

“it’s not every day that I get to go on a vacation!” she sighed turning her head to the window as well. “looks like it’s going to be a silent vacation.” She murmured to her self Watching the trees and occasional water streams and hills passing by beneath them.

“Shouldn’t we go faster!?” Adam said, in an attempt to avert the coming conversation, He pulled his seat away from her. As his hand kept touching the car’s interior, the symbiote scanned and stored the data on the material it’s made of. The information was not useful for their development at this stage so it didn’t bother him with it.

The car’s interior is made of G3-8 nanite cluster fabric, which can adjust its shape and mechanical properties freely. This allows it to take any shape and form, in cases of accidents or extreme acceleration or deceleration, the fabric would support any organic parts of the passenger to handle the stress.

Adam didn’t have any interest In chatting with miss Sydni, he blamed her for ending up in the orphanage, even though she wasn’t the one that caught him or brought him there.

“you know, Adam! I would help any child in the house to find their parents if they exist. Do you know Why?” Sydni paused to let him participate in the conversation, and he didn’t, so she continued. “I had a son, and I lost him.” Tears built up in her eyes. “so I do what ever in my power to help Those who are lost. In the hope that my son found someone to help him.”

“you got me lost so you can help me?! did you not have enough lost people!” Adam chuckled, he was not about to stay silent listening to her self righteousness.

Her blood pressure risen, she struggled to keep her cool. “you don’t see any other child in the house trying to escape, do you?! because they have no where else to go.” She wasn’t going to let him be a selfish, self centered, blind a*hole. ‘how dare he blame me for the irresponsible actions of his father!’ she thought.

Even though she wasn’t happy with his attitude, she did hope his father is alive and can take care of him.

Adam didn’t think about what she said, he wouldn’t concern him self with others when they are not of any use to him.

The rest of the trip was rather quiet, miss Sydni hoped he was thinking about her words.

The thick forest carpet started receding, and the distant ocean line became visible in the horizon.

City 17 is built on the ocean surface, like all the human cities. Land only had small institutions or military bases, rich people also liked living on land for luxury purposes.

On the shore line there was a small military city, this was the farthest place Adam reached in his escaping efforts, unfortunately they caught him rather fast. Military cities didn’t have children, it is made for the training cadets, to rest between drills.

As they passed above the city, Adam noticed it consisted of three areas. the living court, which is made of a chain of multiple cabins connected to each other, each of them had its own color and theme to it, floating harmoniously on the water around The market area, which had multiple platform shops floating in a grid, unlike the cabins, they were not connected to each other, Adam wondered how people were supposed to reach them. Finally, the training ground, on land, A huge base, with multiple buildings and training courses.

Sydni purposely slowed down the car with a hand signal when she noticed that Adam was focused on the city.

If she didn’t have the appropriate clearance, miss Sydni wouldn’t have been able to approach this area, let alone flying this low above it.

They still had a long way to go to reach city 17, so she gestured to the car to speed up again.