Chapter 14 Reminiscence from few days ago that feels years ago (and in part is true)._Summer Field

Adela was busy coordinating the process of moving containers from here to there, opening and unboxing contents. Priorities change sometimes, like:

Matt: [Find more robots asap.]

Adela: [Yes, but...]

Matt: [Something wrong?]

Adela: [Not really, it just the easiest is "sexual robots" no problem if I get those unboxed.]

Matt: [Why should this be a problem? We need more robots; these sexual robots have different parts.]

Adela: [Not really, they look more humans; they have skin, and they even have reproductive organs, which are not functional, for pleasure purposes.]

Matt: [if they can work, bring it.]

Adela: [Ok, what about the special CPUs?]

Matt: [The ones high-quality AI chips?]

It was pure luck as they were trying to move containers and keep the balance of the ship when one of the containers released from their holders fell and opened, revealing their cargo. When the robots came to clean up, the code in the boxes was different from the manifest.

Maybe if this were in the port or the warehouse, nobody would notice, but this robot used Matt memory crystals holding information like product ID and model codes. When they looked inside the CPU, there were only AI chips in special packing boxes. Now they saw better the container; this should be different from others. Then they started to look for similar containers, and more AI chips came out.

The edge technology in those AI chips allows Matt to use digital personality cloning in the robots.

Matt is probably the only autonomous AI outside corporations or governments; most of them hate the idea of autonomous; nominally, they fear the AI develops destructive thinking, but there are limitations that humans don't have: kernels and rules. Of god-made humans, he let them go without any of these preemptive rules.

Sean loved Matt as his creation; his time and full resources were focused on this; he even let Matt have digital personalities clones of many humans, and Matt can create more AI's.

Sean believed that many feared the AI's were because they were few and too powerful. Here the first issue was solved, creating more than just Adela and Him; the second comes solved itself: the actual technology level limits the AI's in the robots; there's few with real power, and it's limited by hardware and energy supply capabilities.

The ship has become a mess and is in danger; the balance is really important in ships and airplanes; the containers that got empty were lowered to the sand. Adela asks Matt every hour if they can move to a safe place.

Explorers prioritize the mountain range; there they keep looking for a place to build a base with modular structures they had inside in some of the containers.

Matt noticed Alex's health problems; he proceeded to add Maira as his doctor. Selena asked if he could have another maid.

Matt thought is a good chance to add something like a combat maid, creating Serena.

They found a rock valley, close by the cliffs in the limits of the desert; in the close examination, they found a gate in the rock wall.

As they analyzed the facilities, they were surprised at how well maintained they are.

The series of tunnels leads to different facilities or even towns, farms, and ranches; kilometers of tunnels; they keep exploring and mapping; so far 3 cities with almost all the services; many of this places had something akin to a sun in the roof, emulating the day and night shifts.

Matt gave priority to creating Karol as a linguistics-specialized AI and assigned 70% of the available resources; this was almost anti-climatic when Karol decode the languages used inside this complex in less than 2 days, or 64 hours, of earth. It is true that Matt gave her most of the resources, tools, and free access to the memory crystals with information, but it feels so quick that he fears something is wrong, even if they checked twice.

This is probably one of the key factors in they want to survive here; the scanning OCR is almost burning; they got more from the ship containers and trying unorthodox ways to build more processing power, as the teams were busy looking for scrolls everywhere they hit vaults with libraries or the equivalent.

The artifacts they keep finding were worth of fantasy novels or web novels, vaults with valuables, weapons, artifacts, and currency, then they got the stargates...

That's what Matt thought first, but Oscar from the linguistics team soon shot down that hope. The 9-meter-diameter like ring artifacts placed there were an experimental project of the former inhabitants.

This was an artificial dungeon or labyrinth; according to the information, when ethera gets too concentrated, it sometimes distorts dimensions, creating pockets or smaller ones that they call space. by the way in the vaults there are some of these space artifacts that they are ready to use.

There were bottlenecks in the research: rare materials, and basically put it: computer process power.

One definitely advantage AI had over others is learning speed; in the "I know Kung Fu" Matrix moment, not just one of them was learning; even though they are limited AI's, they still had more than a normal human.

This was another key factor or game-changing moment for all of them. Soon they were solving the bottlenecks. in the materials problem, well, they have literally millions of tons in minerals or materials the golems collected.

When the tests came to the PDM, they created a pocket dimension that is a stable space, and then the tests came to inside possibilities. As the research scrolls numbered hundreds and thousands in the logs of the experiments, they soon reached the ideal safety; the inherent affinity to algorithms by the AI's helped a lot.

With the advent of the accelerate time flow inside the PDM, they overcame many challenges, including building better bodies with processing abilities beyond belief; the time investment is in hundreds of years and tons of materials.

Then other discoveries of magic or ethera applications, all documented in scrolls, make so easy as seen a tutorial in YouTube, then take your own with terabytes of information Matt had in the crystal memories, they started experiments to integrate everything they can as soon as possible.

Now, 14 days after their landing, Adela sit in her office with panoramic windows that oversee the dry docks; dozens of ships is deposited in those special structures; her "first body," the Adela Ship, is there, now empty of containers; there are still hundreds of workers doing labor on the ships and wreckage they brought from the desert.

🔱

In front of a cafe & bookstore located in the multimodal transportation terminal, Beth is sitting in the wide balcony that also serves as a food court yard and indoors park, with tables and public services. Her and her daughter's stores is placed in between this balcony and the street, together with other stores.

The wide balcony is facing one of the access and exit ways from outside to Summer Field; in the far inside, they can see towers holding aircraft piers in each floor; the size, the high, the many of them, is stunning.

Beth was from a little town in Wyoming, and when she got a lotto price, she decided to pull her husband and family to 3 years around the World Cruise. With over 80 years, they decided to see the world.

Her husband is one year older, 85 years old. When the storm hit the cruise ship in the Horn of Africa, they felt they will die.

The ship landed aground in the sands of the far as can see desert. After a few hours without power, the captain of the ship decided to ration the fuel, food, and water and keep calling for help via radio.

In the morning of the third day, an helicopter came flying and landed in the helipad of the cruise ship.

The situation looked desperate; some passengers tried to riot, asking nonsensical questions and demands, but the military send people as military police, and together with cruise ship security, they kept the order.

In the evening of the sixth day, the helicopter came and took the Staff captain; the Captain was bedridden, and her husband too; she could stay awake.

After one hour more or less, many airships came to the cruise Ship and many fully armored soldiers with faceplates and capes came to them, many of them had the medicine snake symbol on the upper left arm. the crew and volunteers started to guide them to the worst-looking patients.

Her husband was one of them, she tried to get close, but she fell on the floor. one of the armored soldiers hold her up and asked her about her intentions. She just started to cry and said to her, that she wanted to stay with him.

Another soldier was examining with a small, thick bar over her husband. The Cruise doctor moved his head to the sides, indicating her husband had died. She almost fell again, if not because two of the medical soldiers held her by the arms.

They looked at one of their own, and by the looks was a woman medical soldier but with medicine snake with different color. With a fluid movement, she took of her husband shit off and pinned something in his chest and neck. Then somehow she got something like a stretcher in her hands. Two other soldiers lifted her husband and put it inside. The soldier in her right spoke to her:

[Madam, don't worry, your husband can be saved; our captain put him in stasis; we will now take him to our hospital; do you want to accompany him?]

Beth: [Can I?]

[Yes, don't worry, come with us, please take this, it help you]

He then put a silver color bracelet with strange engravings; she immediately felt better, but still one of them helped holding her arm.

Her husband was inside a cocoon that looked like a stretcher with a small window to let see his face inside.

On the outside, a small levitation vehicle let them inside; part of the cruise ship rails was cut off.

She and her husband were accommodated next to another cocoon with people inside, then they lifted off and flew to a big Clipper aircraft.

Inside the small vehicle landed and immediately all started to mobilize. When they were placing her and her husband inside some kind of big circle with engravings, the one next to them gave a flash, and after that nobody was there. Then they started to place cocoons again inside. She looked at her at her helper, and he said:

[don't worry, we will be soon in the emergency room of the hospital]

A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.

Then everything was filled with lights.

Sitting in the table of the food court balcony with her book in her hands but her sight lost remembering, someone sits beside her, placing a big cup of coffee and rolls with different fillings.

[God, this sight really never tires me]

Clipper ships passing in front of them just hundred meters from the balcony, dozens of airbikes from the Army speeding inside passing between the balcony and aircraft, the other ships exiting, using a way some 800 meters from them, to the right, in the distance, you can see the open gates to the outside.

Beth looked at Norman, her husband, sitting there looking at the view. A few tears came out, and she smiled, happy with the luck of their second life. Now they are younger and healthier; she had this shop, and he manages a ranch.

Norman took his tablet, pressing some buttons, changing itself to a newspaper version.

[Look, they will open the frontier cities to anyone that likes to go there.]

[Frontier city?, What is that?]

[Look, is a fortress floating city]

Norman pointed to the picture of a city floating in a rocky canyon.

Another person came suddenly and sits in another chair of their table, still wearing his armor. Tom, their grandson, was part of the Military Forces in Summer Field.

He looked at the newspaper Norman was showing Beth.

Tom: [Huh, that's my next appointment; I am leaving in 2 days; it should be 3 months of deployment.]

Norman: [Deployment?]

Tom: Yes, the higher-ups are worried about the ethera increasing; we are thinning pretty much of monsters all around, but they want to be sure we have enough power to deter any menace, there's some nasty monsters that are rough, even for us.]

Beth: [Even for the Summer Field Army?]

Tom: [Yeah, but don't worry, that's why they're bringing better of everything; tomorrow I have to go replace my armor.]

Norman: [Replacement?, So soon, is it just 2 days old? And by the way, why are you still wearing? and dirty by the way...

A server robot got close, holding a tray with a "full box food" promo and 2 big cups with sodas. The promo came with burgers, fries, chicken strips, a warm cream soup small bowl, a salad small bowl, and a few muffins.

Tom: [Oh, that's mine!, thanks.]

He took the tray and placed it on the table.

[Sorry, I just arrived from training; as I was explaining, the higher-ups are really ramping up everything, and yes, I received this armor 2 days ago in this time flow, but I'm ready used 6 months inside the PDM; also, they don't want to take any shortcuts.]

Beth: [Sounds good, right, Norman?]

Norman: [yeah, off course, anything that makes him safer as they can

Your father and mother ready knows?]

Tom: [not yet]

Tom keep eating, Beth just keep thinking how winning that lotto was life changing, the was enough to lay their debts and buying the trip for their 3 children and their families, one of the few lucky that come here with their family complete.

Norman: [Beth, I will join the Defence Forces.]

The Defences Forces are like National Guard in the USA, they had 2 levels: Civil Defense and Military Defense.

Beth: [I thought you were taking your time, you are right?, You are a war veteran and that left some scars.]

Norman: [Is ok, this time is should be different, also I want you and me taking a more proactive way to live, I am thankful for everything here and my job, your and Lauren shops in this incredible place, but this frontier cities will be a place to get new experiences.

Having this new life, I mean, I feel like I have 25 again and also this people has help us a lot, is fair try to pay back some.]

Beth: [I know, I feel the same, we ready made some consulting with Agatha.]

[Hi, here is the rest of the order.]

Another tray with food was placed on the big round table.

Norman: [hi Lauren.]

Lauren: [hi dad, Tom, just finish eating and go change, I don't why I feel weird seeing you.]

Tom: [Yes mom.]

Lauren store is beside Beth, is a cafeteria.

Lauren: [Why the serious faces?]

Beth: [Your father decided join de Defence Forces and will ask be appointed in this city.]

Beth pointed the newspaper in Norman hands.

Lauren: [Cerbedi?, is a fortress city in the frontier?]

Beth: [Yes, they will deploying in few hours, the newspaper say the site is temporary, after the wave they decide where should be placed.]

Lauren: [So pops ready decided?, ok, I will send the message to Agatha, is ok Mom?]

Beth nods: [Do it.]

Norman: [what do mean?]

He looked both, hAdela was busy coordinating the process of moving containers from here to there, opening and unboxing contents. Priorities change sometimes, like: