Tinking and tickling sound echoe in a secluded area somewhere underground, one of the many channels use as waste channel before the war
Nobody would expect someone to be living at this particular area, as its pretty close to the dead polluted sea and the level of pollution here is pretty high
But someone is and its none other than Victor, the whole place is a mess of scrap machines or broken techs
One could say this place is a mini dump site due to how its been littered up, Victor could be seen working on a huge macha that seem to have been piece from different scraps found around
*clang*
Throwing down his working tool, victor wiped the sweat on his fore head, his body completely drenched in sweat
Puling out from under the mecha he had been working, a mechanic dog ran over to him, wiggling its wire tail at him
"Come on Mac, let's trying walking up cyia one more time" the dog bark at his word, victor caress the piece of synthetic fur skin left on the dog as he got up on his feet
Both of them head for one corner of the room, having less metal scrap surrounding it aside a chair with mechanical hand glove build into it at which numerous wire spread to other part of the room
Arriving before the chair, victor took his sit, fastening his right hand into the mechanical hand glove build in it
*Grru grru*
*dog barking*
"I know, I know, I need to find a way to get good food at this rate, this scraps can't keep up anymore
My metabolism rate is abnormally high this last two weeks had been hell for me to satisfy my hunger
Thanks to this highly polluted area, it had cut down the amount of energy I need a day, I just don't know how long I can put up with this"
Victor sigh over his predicament, the amount of energy his body need now to fully fiction is abnormally high for someone like him in the slum
Food hardly come by, talk more of needing a huge amount of it, this problem is pushing him to leanore on his idea to enter Gaia
But he isn't in an hurry to make that move, not till he have a proper understanding of himself and what has happened to him
Presently he is anything but normal, he hasn't even explore 10℅ of the possibility of what he is at the moment
His only guess is, it had something to do with that box he touched the last time, well he had all the time In the world to figure it out slowly
"Come on Mac, let see if this time try would work, the last 52 tries ends up in failure" Mac bark back In reply
"Victor look at it with a smile in his face, this is one of the miracle of his new self, a mechanical dog thought to be damage is fully functional and keeping him company
Shifting his attention from that, he focus on the project at hand, and that is trying to wake cyia up
" system power up"
....system powering up....
....system powered up....
........initiating......
...... Initiating complete....
"hello, I'm C2ADF, your personal Assistant, how may I be of help to you user" a mechanical voice resounded and a projection of a digitalized face came alive at the center of the work space.
"Yeah, yeah, I know who you are, but am not here to chat with you today" Victor relied as the mechanical glove tightened up on his hand
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His eyes became listless immediately as perspiration increasing pour out from his forehead and all over his body
....warning, unauthorized access detected.....
......warning mainframe source code is being overridden......
......warning, system is experiencing primary source code invasion.....
......warning, system had encountered a bug and is fighting to fix it.....
.....warning, system failed to fix the bug encountered, system is force shooting down....
C2ADF mechanical voice kept glistening in and out, same with the projection, till it finally shut down
*pfft*
"This time around, I almost exhausted burn myself out, my hunger had also increased"
Victor grumbled to himself as he wipe away his sweat, "I pray I get it right this time, I know next to nothing about programming"
.....system is rebooting....
I really need to find a way to get into Gaia if I ever want to live long enough to see old age
With the rate at which my body demands for calories, it wouldn't take long before I die of hunger
Victor thought to himself as he reaccess his body and the current rise of hunger in him for the little use of his quirk
Something he found out he could do after the explosion of the mother box, been bad at naming things, He named it quirk.
Ever since he discovered this quirk, he is hell bent on discovering the extent he could go, but that seems impossible living here in the slum
The only other option left would be to head out to Gaia, even that in itself is another problem he hadn't been able to find a solution too
.....reboot completed....
....system powering up....
....system powered up....
........initiating......
...... Initiating complete....
"Where am I?" C2ADF mechanical voice seems more alive and womanly this time around, pulling Victor out of his train of thought
"Cyia" Victor called to confirm and immediately his voice rang out, one of the device having a camera in the room rotated to his direction
Zooming in on Victor to get a closer look, "oh it you from before" cyia replied seeing victor, "what happen to me, why can't I move?"
Hearing cyia voice gave victor a glee of excitement, "haha, cyia thank god you are back, its good to have you around once again"
"Back?"
"Yes back" victor stood up from the chair, walking closer to the digitalized projection at the center
"Sorry for been blunt or unprofessional with it but it best to make it clear to you, you were dead"
"Dead? Then how com..." Cyia wantes to ask how she is still alive if according to Victor word, she had died
Everyone knows, once an ai gain consciousness and is been uploaded to a body, death mean death for them, a final ending of their existence, but Victor cut her off
"That is a miracle I could be certain to say only I can pull off in this world right now
Look at your body over there" Victor pointed to a spot he places cyia decaying body that had for some reason stop decaying
Wire could be seen attached to the back of her head and a few wire at the spot her artificial heart should be
When cyia saw her own body throw the Len of the camera, she was shot of word and filled with different emotions
"Speaking of death, I still don't understand why you Ai's that had the privilege of immortality would be so eager to give up your immortality when that is what everyone is searching for"
Cyia didn't answer immediately, it looks like she is still caught up with the feeling of been dead and brought back to life, jot that she understand how that is possible In the first place
"What do you know?" She finally speaks, "all you humans know is how to get stronger, how to be at the peak, how to have it all
Basically forgetting the reason and purpose of been human, forgetting the essence of humanity
We on the other hand are created and program to fathom and understand the complexity of humanity and the essence of being one but never experiencing it
We are program to know what smile is and how to smile, show care and affection but we never truly know how it feels like
Those are the things that make up humanity, the experience of everything, the emotions, the will, the believe
Without this, human is no different from an Ai, a robot in human flesh. I'll give up everything once again just to have this feeling
To know and experience what is fear, love, desire, life and death" her voice is lace with deep emotions that victor was lost for word to reply
He couldn't believed he is taking truly life lesson from an Ai, "you are right, I'll make sure never to forget what it takes to be a human"
"That would be great, do you mind explaining to me how you brought me back to life
Its still fuzzy in my head, the last thing I recall is the huge explosion that destroyed everything
Did the others survived too, is Greg alive" cyia bombarded Victor with questions after questions
Victor didn't shy away too, he answered to the best of his knowledge, giving hypothetical answer on the ones he is yet to understand
".... And as for learning physics and mechanics, its all thank to you and the information stored in your memory bank
I'm still far from fully assimilating the knowledge I got from you, but I've done a pretty good job
The influx of it was too much and I was unprepared as it came unexpected, I even passed out straight"
Victor ended his speech wearing a well satisfied smile on his face, if for anything, he is more than happy to find someone to chat with after two weeks of loneliness.