The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 14: this age.

11 years ago, Sydni had a husband and a son, her son was 3 years old when they went to an old land city for sight seeing, she was having an argument with her husband when her son wondered off. They didn't follow him as he had his robot companion with him.

When the robot didn't bring him back, after 10 minutes they went to check on him.

The robot companion was then found with a blazing hole in it, and her son was no where to be seen.

They immediately requested help from the nearest tower, which sent a few hundred drones that flew with the speed of mach 5 and reached them in a matter of minutes, with the help of the drones and their car which had a scanning range of 5 kilometers, they found no traces of him.

They lost their son in an age where losing the head on their shoulders would be way easier. The news of this accident went viral, the company that made the robot companion went bankrupt, people stopped trusting their children to their companions.

Sydni cried for days, and her heart bled for years, she hated her husband, not for losing her son, she hated him for not finding her son.

After 3 years of grief she found the job in the orphanage which is away from any technology in a forest on land, she thought it would be the perfect escape for her. What she found instead was a constant reminder of her lost son, however, with the number of lost kids there she couldn't just abandon them.

"so… how about ice-cream?!" she said after a few long seconds of silence, while the car is suspended in the air above the city.

"I would rather get back 'home' to my 'life', thank you!" Adam said emphasizing on the two words that hurt the most for Sydni, he didn't mean to hurt her, he simply didn't care.

Sydni's smile disappeared once more, she had a challenging look on her face. "by the power of the grown-up I here by order thee, we will have ice-cream." She said in a theatrical performance that Adam didn't understand and thought she's high on something.

After having an ice-cream, Sydni finally took Adam home, she wanted to make him enjoy life or something, he just wasn't the kind to be easily influenced, So she gave up.

In the floor 61, of a 309 floor building, in 17th street, in section 16, of the 81st circle. Adam stood in front of the door that scanned him, the door didn't open until Adam pointed with two fingers at miss Sydni, which the door understood to be a guest.

Sydni was instantly shocked when she entered the apartment, the living room alone was bigger than her entire apartment. "how did you get a place this big in 81?" she said with her jaw almost dropping. "how rich is your family?!"

"please! Don't make yourself at home." Adam said as he walked into a wall that opened up for him and closed right after.

"cluster fabric!!" she held her head with both hands from exploding. "how much of this place is cluster fabric?!" she wondered while touching the walls and the chairs and tables, she looked weird doing that but her shock was sincere.

Other than using scanners, There is no way to tell that something is a cluster fabric until it starts changing its shape. Cluster fabric isn't cheap, a kilogram of cluster fabric costs more than a thousand coins, in its pure form. The amount in her car is only a little bit more than 5 kilograms.

Meanwhile, in his room for the first time in 3 months, the first thing Adam did was taking off his clothe, and threw them in the organic disposal, which immediately vaporized them. He then entered the bathroom, with a gesture of his hand he initiated the full disinfection protocol.

The disinfection protocol is used for extreme cases of pollution, it basically shoots a microscopic ray of laser vaporizing any thing on the body that does not match the genetic code of the patient. Then it encases the entire body with in a liquid made of microscopic robots that basically makes sure the laser did its job.

Now relaxed and clean, also for the first time in 3 months, Adam threw himself into the bed, which hugged him like a loving mother.

'alright, its time to work.' He thought as he headed to the system core area, the core area is used for system commands or modifications, it is also used for modifying the cluster fabric connected to it.

Adam gestured to the core to do a full scan on him, two pieces of the fabric split from the wall turned into metallic balls and circled Adam's body twice.

A display then appeared in front of him with the results, other than an abnormal rise in density and health, he found nothing else wrong with his body, his brain waves were normal, the disinfection protocol didn't consider the black circle on his right palm a foreign object as well.

"monitor brain activity." He ordered the system core, a chunk of the fabric then turned into a screen showing his brain waves in multiple ways.

'what is my current enhancement level?' Adam asked inwardly as he kept his eyes on the screen watching his brain waves spike.

[current enhancement subject: metabolism.

Progress: 160%.]

Adam watched both spikes instantly happening, in less then a second. "isolate and compare brain activity." He wanted to see if he can isolate the symbiote, the system registered the symbiote the same as his brain waves, which means it wasn't lying about being a part of his consciousness.

"full vital monitoring." He now wanted to know what happens when he scans the system core, this system gave Adam full access to the network, which is the only system that will ever do, when his father installed the system it registered Adam as another owner, not as a child.

As he approached the core slowly, he was hoping he won't regret this decision. His hand touched the core, and a tingling feeling stronger then any other time was felt in his hand.

[Data discovered…

Scanning…

Analyzing…]

It was taking longer than normal, a few seconds passed and Adam started to regret his decision. It scanned Elina's 30 years worth of data in a split second, and now more than 30 seconds have passed.

When he tried to take his hands off he found himself unable to move at all, not just his hand, his legs, his head, his eyelids, every thing in him was frozen.

Two minutes later, Adam went on full swear mode. He used every word he can think of, he thought about searching for more online and remembered that he can't move, he then used them all again.

[Data overload contained.

Sorting…

A higher efficiency enhancement information acquired.

A more compatible communication system acquired.

For new system implication, energy storage upgrade is required.

4 nutrient packages required for 200% storage capacity upgrade.]