The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 18: the torture, part one.

"hey Sydni!" a muscular bald man in his late thirties stood a few steps away from Sydni, looking at her in deep sorrow, tears almost visible in his right eye, his left eye unaffected.

"Lan! You look so different!" a saddened surprise hit Sydni and made her almost look older, so many tears she held back for so long finally overwhelmed her, they escaped her eyes in flooding rush.

"it's Johnny now… are you okay?!" he said approaching her with a worried look, he didn't touch her, he just stood closer to her chair.

"I'm fine…" she didn't have Enough strength to stand and greet him. "actually I'm not." She stopped holding back.

Since she started this vacation to help Adam, she had too much time to think about the past, what little words Adam said during this time reignited her grief.

And now seeing the man who shared her grief looking like a totally different person, it made her feel that both of them were running away in different directions.

"what happened to you?!" she said among her sobbing, piling up used tissues on her side of the table.

"there was an accident..." he hesitantly pulled a chair opposite to her to set on, he came as fast as he could when she called him, he thought she had a clue about their lost son, there was nothing between them now other than this grief. He lost all hope about that when she started crying.

"I was injured so I modified my body…" he said nonchalantly, his attitude changed all of a sudden as his phone rang. "bae! Whats up?!" he answered the phone with a totally different personality than he was a moment ago, Sydni could swear it's not the same person, he even looked younger.

She looked at him with her eyes widened in stupefied expression, she forgot her tears amongst the shock, she cant find any thing in the man in front of her that represents the Lan she knew for years.

The phone call was about some party with someone very close to him, she couldn't comprehend that she is his wife, she couldn't even think about it.

She wiped her tears and stared at him blankly, the moment he ended his call he looked at her and his face instantly reverted to the previous expression like nothing happened. "I'm sorry you had to see that, it's a side effect from one of the brain surgeries I went through. I apparently have another character inside me." He said in an apologetic expression.

She would have slapped him and walked away if not for the weirdness of the scene she just witnessed.

…

Meanwhile, Adam woke up and looked at the clock the system displayed as soon as he opened his eyes, its 12 pm now, he felt very refreshed and focused and hungry.

After taking a shower and eating, he stood in the core area looking at the 3 boxes. 'tell me what I need to do to start this very expensive plan.' He didn't want to wait any longer, he already wasted too much time.

[100% energy will be needed for each of the following procedures.

absorb 60 robotic core, to build a superior biological core, And connect to the cluster fabric available.

Use the cluster fabric to dismantle the Astrogravitational engine, and consume the main gravity stones inside.

Fuse the consumed gravity stone and the biological core to gain astral synergy.

Expected benefits: electromagnetic manipulation. Space displacement.]

'What the f*ck!! You want me to eat the cores and the stones?' the symbiote previously showed Adam what he could do, not how he will gain the ability to do it. Even though the end result is tempting, how could a human willingly swallow a stone. He thought he would have to build a device or something.

[external fusion is not possible in the current stage, consuming the material is required for the fusion.]

The robotic cores he bought were of the latest model, a small white bead made of lite weight material, a core is made of a coagulation of quantum devices and processors, the 3 centimeters wide bead contains a computing power capable of billions of simulations simultaneously. And the range of its electromagnetic waves is higher than the house core itself.

Even though a house core is both more diverse and intelligent, a robotic core needed a wider connection range to control what ever is connected to.

Usually a robotic core is used in cars and vehicles and machines, this one in particular was made for drones, it's size and lite weight compared to its range is the reason the symbiote chose it.

Adam held one of the cores in his hand imagining the process of swallowing something this size, and then repeating this 59 more times. 'damn it! Do you actually enjoy torturing me?!' he asked sadly.

[negative. Maximizing efficiency and minimizing risk is the main priority, the current calculated plan will reduce the time needed to finalize the preparatory enhancement by 20%, while maximizing the end result by 30%.]

Seeing the symbiote all serious about the plan, Adam felt like a kid refusing to drink milk. If it's something that will benefit him he wouldn't mind going to such lengths, especially if it will prevent the resident management department from controlling his life.

He gathered some courage and put the core in his mouth, conjuring the thought to swallow it was hard, but he eventually did it, instantly regretting doing it.

Until it reached his stomach, he felt an agonizing choking sensation.

He laid down on the floor and requested water from the house system, which brought him a bottle and a cup held by a robot that was shaped like Adam but lacked any color or texture, Which is the default setting for the robots to be shaped like the one they interact with so they won't feel threatened.

Adam drunk the whole bottle, which disappeared soon after into the ground with the cup and the robot, indicating that they were made of cluster fabric.

Drinking so much water made him feel full but it gave him an idea, he instructed the system to bring him a jar of honey, the same seen with the robot coming from the kitchen repeated, with a jar of honey this time.

Adam dipped the next core in honey, and it was so much easier to swallow. He repeated this action 58 more times, taking a few breaks in the middle to allow his stomach to stretch.

Once he had 60 cores inside his stomach, he was fighting so hard to hold the urge to throw them back out, he was sweating bullets, he felt a severe headache, he was in agony.