The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 27: Artificial intelligence.

[Scanning…

Accessing code data…

Preventing defensive measures…

Overwriting system permissions…]

The house system core struggled against the invasion, it tried to sound the alarm, it tried its defensive measures against unauthorized access to the main code, it tried physically defending itself, nothing worked. It no longer had any access to any thing.

[Isolation successful. Rewriting system core code. Installing new programming, successfully installed.]

Adam was amazed, he discovered during that struggle from the system core that the house system is actually a war machine core disguised as an ordinary core. ‘how did my father hide a war machine on earth?!’ he wondered.

According to the law, it’s illegal to own or harbor any weapon of mass destruction on earth. The aggressor is to be killed on sight, and the weapon is to be dismantled. any weapon capable of taking multiple lives or destroying a building of any size or form, is considered a weapon of mass destruction.

What is even more amazing, is that he just hacked a system core more advanced then Any thing on earth. If even a war machine core that is used to destroy planets couldn’t stop  him, what could.

…

In the split second of struggle between the war machine core, and the symbiote’s Overwrite, the tower picked up the signal of the real power of the war machine, and the entire tower was thrown into chaos.

“sir! There is a f*cking war machine in the city!” Tommy panicked, a cold sweat dripping down his forehead. “we couldn’t locate it! The signal only lasted for a split second! It could be anywhere in the city!”

“Calm down Tommy! Are you sure about this?! Could it be a false alarm?! How could a war machine pass through the defenses of the planet?!” Demetri hastily said, hoping it’s a false alarm and the scanner have malfunctioned for some reason, even though they never did.

“sir! With all due respect! Every observation room in the tower picked up the same f*cking signal! If the whole tower malfunctioned, then it’s a bigger calamity then a war machine!” Tommy snapped, Unable to handle the stress of following so many protocols.

He had to send a distress signal to the main bases on the surrounding planets, and alert the citizens to take shelter, and contact the other cities on earth, and so many other things, while his superior is still in disbelief.

“first a murder, then a criminal organization hiding under our nose, and now a war machine! Is this the end of the world?!” Demetri murmured as he headed to the tower in his car, he didn’t panic like Tommy because he witnessed wars outside earth, he barely survived one of them, which is the reason he is now on earth.

“The same signal have reached every city on earth!” Tommy said absent minded. “that only means it’s higher then grade 7 war machine! We are doomed if it’s hostile sir! One attack is all it needs to take down the whole planet!” Tommy’s knees buckled, he dropped to the ground unable to find any more energy to do anything.

…

Meanwhile, Adam was also panicking, the war machine he just hacked had an artificial intelligence, it alarmed him that their location have been compromised because of the split second of losing control over the signal jamming devices.

Adam panicked because of the artificial intelligence, from what he knows and what is shown on TV and news, artificial intelligence always end up killing humans no matter how much precautions taking, or failsafe prepared.

[System core is fully under control, no limitations or restrictions,  rebelling is not possible within calculations.]

The symbiote reported to ease his panic and rising heart rate, to children on earth, artificial intelligence is like a demon from hell, it is the villain in the movies. ‘What is the probability of it going out of control?’ Adam asked.

[There is 0% chance of the system core attacking the host, 100% chance of it acting on its own to fulfill its purpose. System’s purpose is to protect and serve the host.]

Adam was about to sigh hearing that it couldn’t hurt him, so far the symbiote wasn’t wrong about anything, when suddenly the floor beneath his foot started moving, not just the floor, every thing around him was heading into one direction, in the direction of the house system core.

He stared at the core for a while, when a very terrifying thing happened, the only thing stopping him from running away in fear is that he was too afraid to move.

The system core shrinked, the fabric from the entire apartment gathered beneath it and started surrounding it, forming the out line of a huge human. “We need to run or fight! What’s it gonna be kid?” said the 2 meter tall, white skinned, muscular man that emerged from the fabric, he had a white hair, long white beard, and dark black eyes.

The now bare ground collapsed beneath his feet, indicating his heavy weight, he looked beneath his feat, and started floating to not break the ground.

“We have about 30 minutes before they pinpoint us! I hope you wake up from your shock by then, because if we stay! It’s gonna be a massacre!” the huge man said the last part with a deep curved sinister smile on his face, which didn’t help to calm Adam down.

To a 9 year old kid, he was living his most frightening nightmare, the system core that have been near him for his entire life is now alive.

“Run! W… we run… away!” Adam said with a quivering voice, looking into the man’s deep black eyes, he felt a familiar feeling, the man had the face of an old respected veteran, despite his sinister grin, Adam felt familiar around him, which calmed him down a bit. “how are we going to run?!” he asked, with his voice somewhat calmer.

Instead of answering his question, the man’s entire body started to deform, Morphing into a capsule, like a car, but way bigger. “Get in kid! I’d rather not compromise the location of this apartment.” the system core said in a kind caring voice.

‘We are still in control! Right?’ Adam asked inwardly, still not fully trusting the system core.

“Yes kid! You are in control! And let me tell you this, even before you hijacked my code! My main purpose was protecting you.” The answer came out of the system core’s voice, Adam’s shocked expression became etched to his face by this point, the core responded to his thoughts, just like what the symbiote does.

“Now I know you people have a sentimental relationship with this planet! Do you want to stay on the planet! Or leave?” the system core said the moment Adam entered the car, Adam didn’t know what the system is talking about he looked around the car, it felt so familiar to him.

‘is this my father’s car?’ he thought to himself, remembering the internal furnishing, the familiar smell, the soft touch, everything other then the color of the car was the same.

“It is your father’s car.” Again the core responded to his thoughts, he barely got used to one thing reading his mind, and now he has another.

“what about our things?!” Adam said thinking of all his and his father’s belongings.

“I am all you have ever owned in this house, other then some useless things you bought of course! And that ancient engine you were playing with.” The core said in a sarcastic voice.

“Wait the engine, i need the engine! Bring it with you!” Adam said as the car was about to start floating.

[suggested plan of action, dismantle the engine and extract the gravity stones.]

The symbiote suggested when Adam seemed to not think straight due to the constant shock. ‘good idea!’ Adam thought, as he released 70% of the cluster fabric on his body, and commanded it to extract the gravity stones from the engine.

“I can take you to a planet entirely made of this stone you know!” the core snarled, seeing that Adam extracted 13 pieces of 10 cm long shimmering crystals from the engine, his face crumbling in pain as he looked at them.

“oh one more thing! I need to say goodbye to Mela!” Adam remembered his friend, he probably will never see her again, so he wanted to say goodbye.

“look kid, you have 20 minutes before they can start closing in on us! After that, we start losing this apartment.” The core turning back to the human shape said in a grumpy voice.

“Why is this apartment so important to you?!” Adam asked in annoyance, his fear disappeared by this point since nothing bad seemed to come from the artificial intelligence.

“Its not important to me at all, it’s important to you! Your father put me here to protect you and this place, if you want to find your father, you need this place.” The huge man spoke in anger, looking at Adam sharply.