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2024-10-29 19:42:56Adam requested the spaghetti & meatball dish, a bottle of milk, and a piece of every fruit available. He waited for 2 minutes in front of a small window, his food then came out on a metal tray. It cost him 2.3 coins, although he could buy more, he didn't want to raise any suspicions.
While heading to an empty table to start eating, Adam was trying to dig for more information. 'so you need me to have more energy so you can synchronize! How long will that take? And how much energy do I need for that?!'
[100% synchronization requires 2000% current capacity…
Preparatory enhancement time estimated, 10-15 years…
Partial synchronization is not Advised…]
A few images and concepts were injected to his mind, his pupils contracted, he felt so weak. He realized that there was so many things he didn't understand previously. Like the fact that this thing was learning from his memory and experiences, it didn't know any thing about earth or human language that Adam didn't know. He needed at least 10 years to be able to get his answers.
He now understood what synchronization will do, it is meant to fully merge the thing with him. 'if we are not synchronized now! How can you be inside my head?' Adam had one last question that he needed to ask. He actually felt so dumb to have not understood what he was just shown earlier.
[current connection state, symbiotic…
Symbiotic state includes…
Preparatory enhancements…
Active energy absorption…
Thought projection…
Data analysis…]
This time, the images and thoughts projected into his mind left no question unanswered about his current state.
From what he now know, he will need to keep enhancing various aspects of his body, until he reaches the state where he can safely upgrade his energy capacity. This energy capacity is the amount of pure energy his body can store. He needs to do this cycle over and over, between each upgrade.
As he was thinking, trying to prevent his mind from focusing on the food he is eating, two things happened at the same time, one of them was bothering Adam.
[enhancing digestive system…]
"Adam! Vergo is looking for you, he knows that you stole from his stash." Birdy said in a hurry, while trying to not look at Adam to not be associated with him. Meanwhile, Adam was in pain. He opened the milk bottle casually, and started drinking from it slowly as if he didn't hear any thing.
The reason it hurts when enhancing digestion, is because its not an innate function of his body, the symbiote would forcibly stimulate the enzymes producing organs to up normally decrease the time required, and the potency of the absorption would reach almost 100% with light and healthy food, and at least 90% with unhealthy or heavy food.
After finishing every thing on the tray, Adam casually stood up holding the tray, he went to the kitchen's side of the cafeteria, there was an opening in the wall dedicated for the empty trays.
Adam was punished by working in the kitchen for a week before. They would make him clean the empty trays, even though they had machines for that, however it would be beneficial for them to save the energy required for the machine by making someone do it.
He inserted the tray in to the opening, then he stood beside it with his back leaning on the wall. "Adam! you little devil, why did you do that" a few seconds later, a woman in her twenties, with a red hair, pale skin, and oceanic blue eyes, said in anger as she opened the kitchen door opened.
Adam looked at her blankly, "shouldn't you be covering your hair while working in the kitchen?! Did you by any chance go near the spaghetti & meatball?!" his face not showing any emotion, he started to regret eating that dish.
"that's none of your freaking business!!" Wendy screamed to the top of her lungs, as she typed things on her phone.
She requested Adam to be punished, for inserting a bottle of milk with the food tray, which made the machine stop working. Even though it was relatively easy to get the bottle out and restart the machine, there was rule in the cafeteria, any one that doesn't empty the remaining of the food into the trash before inserting the tray to the machine, will have to take the machine's place for the rest of the day.
Immediately after Wendy finished typing on her phone, the sound of August, the head of security, sounded from all of the monitors on the cafeteria walls. "Adam! You are officially the record holder of the number of punishments in one month… head to the kitchen now." August said nonchalantly. "we will not consider it as a punishment any more, we need to invent new punishments for you." He sighed.
Adam did this to escape both, Vergo and the afternoon classes. He wasn't afraid of Vergo, he just didn't want to deal with him now, he preferred to let him cool down first so he wouldn't have to touch him. and the summer afternoon classes were boring, but if he had nothing else to do he would have to attend them.
So he preferred to do dishes and refrain from all that hassle.
At 5pm, Adam had some free time, the cafeteria would close at 9pm after serving dinner. He would have to go back to the kitchen at 7 or 8pm, if he tries to escape punishment, the security would locate him, and hunt him down.
Meanwhile, he was thinking about developing himself. He didn't like the idea of being too weak for the symbiote to synchronize with him, it made him feel bitter. Also he didn't understand most of what he saw happening inside his body.
Adam went to the play grounds, and stood in front of one of the monitors there, these monitors were different from the ones in the kitchen. It had a limited connection to the city network, he wanted to see how much the data analysis function can take him. He touched the monitor, and then…
[data discovered…
Scanning…
Filtering…
Irrelevant data…
Text and language extracted…]
It seemed to Adam that the symbiote is not interested in any thing that he can buy from the city, he wouldn't need to buy any thing though, he was leaving tomorrow in the hope he will never need to come back.
Though it interested him that the symbiote extracted the text and language from the network. 'if you need data, isn't there books for sell on the network! Why are you not interested in them' Adam wondered.
[available data analysis target in current state include…
Digital data…
Quantum data…
Biological data…
Direct data projection available for irrelevant data…
Direct data projection is not Advised…]
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Adam's eyes widened, he gasped in awe. The symbiote just revealed to him that it can read people's minds like it was nothing. Adam actually ignored all the other thoughts and images projected by the symbiote, and focused on the part where it said (biological data), it showed him that he just needs to touch a living being, and its memory, thoughts, and Physical condition will be analyzed.Adam quickly left the play ground, heading to the one person he would test this on.Birdy was helping Roland, the maintenance worker, with his job. Roland is the only one in his team, he is responsible for the entire orphanage's maintenance. the orphanage consists of two buildings, a play ground, and the outer wall which had several cameras and equipment on it.Helping Roland were one of the most paid tasks that kids can get, although usually only older kids are accepted, because of size and strength of course. There were some tasks that required brain more than Brawn, Roland would then request specif
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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
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The dense smooth ball fell to the ground, bypassing the gravity field that previously contained it. It plunged a few centimeters deep into the hard metal floor, a ton of force was concentrated in a small area, making it hard to contain it by regular matter. It was still sinking through the metal floor slowly, as it was being mercilessly pulled by the planet’s gravity.[Connection established. recalculating blueprints to adapt to the signal of the new nanite cluster fabric. More physical contact with the material is required for a faster result.]“Was it successful?!” Keet’s eyes were asking the question before he even moved his lips. He was startled by the sudden disengagement of the sphere from the gravity field. He kept his eyes and scanners on Adam to detect if he is in danger before any thing, and he was relieved for once to see Adam’s expressionless face unchanging. “Can you control it?.”“Yes! The signal is different from any other cluster fabric, my blueprints needs to be modif
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Adam plunged into the ground raising a cloud of dust and creating a small crater around him as he landed like a super hero on one knee and a closed fist.[The modified armor blueprint features ionic thrusters with up to 8 tons of pushing force.]‘you telling me this now?!’ Adam shouted inwardly at himself, he had no idea that the symbiote modified the armor already. his cognitive abilities and thinking speed were on another level compared to yesterday, but still he was a human that easily got distracted by the feeling of freedom and liberation, and forgot all about the need to stop and land at some point. He also wanted to show off a little in front of Keet to pretend that he wasn’t in need of help or assistance, which resulted in a minor knee bruise and a sore knuckles.“That was a cool Landing. Was it painful?!.” Keet chuckled, commenting on his landing and making sure to save the footage of it in his memory for later use.“You noticed! Well! It just needs some practice.” Adam smile
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Adam was sitting on a wooden table behind the house, eating his big breakfast while surrounded by trees, flowers, and whistling birds. The rich sunlight bathed him in its warmth and its wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiations. “Birdy didn’t wake up yet?! He sure doesn’t miss Gem.” He said stuffing his face with more food, He stopped focusing on chewing much, the food would disappear in a few seconds anyway. He was worried about Birdy, it was unnatural for the kid to sleep in.Birdy used to wake up earlier then every one, Adam would sometime Hear him laughing on the top bed, he thought at first that he was having some weird dream. When he asked him about it, Birdy Said that it was the only time of the day he would quietly enjoy reading his comics.“That boy is actually quite something! He trained for four hours straight after you went to sleep, not taking any rest until he passed out on the living room’s floor.” Keet informed Adam while aiming a barrage of scanners and detectors at
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Adam opened his eyes on a massive head of a man with white hair, white groomed beard, and wide opened eyes staring at him with the kind of amusement one would look at a rare creature with.“Waaaah… what the f*ck old man! Stop doing that!” Adam jumped out from the soft bed, away from the massive head, only to realize that it was just Keet, and his head was normal size, it was just too close for comfort.“Rise and shine Kid! We have a long, long day to catch.” Keet said with a happy grin, he couldn’t just wait until Adam wakes up, he needed some explanation for the events of yesterday.“What long day? Go catch it yourself! Let me sleep I’m tired.” Adam had nothing to wake up early for. The symbiote calculated that his body would need 9 more days to resume his preparatory enhancement. he no longer had a dead line to find a plan to escape, he was already in a safe place. And he most certainly wouldn’t give up sleep to start training early after all that happened yesterday. He was simply t
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Birdy was extremely exhausted, he felt that he was about to collapse, but he held on to his consciousness just to finish the third objective of the schedule that Adam created for him. He was disappointed in himself for not being able to continue to the fourth, compared to this schedule, the daily training routine he was used to in the orphanage was literally a breeze.He was oblivious to the fact that he finished a training routine made for an adult athlete, and that there was no fourth objective. the symbiote calculated that he would finish this much of this hell hard schedule, just based on Birdy’s personality, and his ignorance about how hard the training schedule is, and the fact that any human being who experienced weakness would be motivated to become stronger.What kept him going was the image of Keet’s hands wrapping around his whole body, the fear he felt at that moment, he felt too little, and too weak. the name of the protocol Adam created for him made him think that Adam w
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4 hours ago, after Adam went to sleep, Birdy decided to test what he can do with the new blueprint that Adam created, but he was afraid to go outside the wooden house, because Keet might be out there, so he was going to settle with testing the small things.He patted the cute white dog, and then ordered it to turn to the full armor mode with his thoughts. The dog immediately seemed to be giving him a jump hug, only to turn into liquid and swallow Birdy’s entire body into the liquid, and then form the armor around his body, the process only took a split second, but it felt longer to Birdy who was in the middle of it.The armor felt lighter than before, and when he took a step forward, he didn’t feel any weight to it at all. in fact, he felt as if nothing could stop his leg from stepping forward. The amount of power behind the single step was enough to destroy anything in his path.He started to become wary of his movement, to not cause any damage to the house. And then he noticed that
