CHAPTER 00 - PROLOGUE
“At last they have arrived, it's been 15 working days already!”.
As he had not yet shared this new address to anyone, besides the company in charge of the installation of his custom Royal Road setup, he hopped off the sofa and ran through the house to attend to the door. In the process of this madness he jammed his pinky toe in one of feet of the dining room table and collided with a wooden door in the house.
The house is 2 stories, designed to have a personal and public spaces. The second floor has three spacious suite rooms and a balcony which gives access to the concrete slab on the roof of the house. The first floor is where the general use places are located, such as the kitchen, the garage, the entrance and two big lounges. The decorations were incomplete to say the least, out of the three rooms in the house, only 1 had a piece of furniture, which was a comfortable bed. The kitchen, on the opposing side, was heavily stocked, hosting every single utensils that a professional chef would need, be it a french or japanese dish. All that is thanks to his honed cuisine skills, taught by his late mother on his childhood. The last used space was one of the lounges, in there had a comfortable black leathered armchair with buttons cover by white leather, in front of that there was a little center table and a flat screen attached to the wall.
Arriving at the entrance of the house, he took a minute to recover his breath and open the door.
“Yes.”
“Hi. My name is Jonathan of Tech Fast Co. Delivery Service.”
The delivery man called Jonathan wore a shabby blue overall with the logos and title of his company, and a side bag.
“Good morning Jonathan. How may I assist you?”
“I have a open service in name of Mr. Z. Are you perhaps him?”
“Yes.”
“Could you show me some identification, so we can proceed?”
~ Good, at least they did not send some crap employee!
“Of course, take this identification ID, it should be enough.”
“Yes, it looks like it is. Give me a second to verify your data with the headquarters.”
“Ok!”
“Oh! That is an unusual, my system says that I have to verify your retina to conclude the verification. You must have requested a tricky package.”
~ I must have judged him too soon. A funny one?
“Something like that. How should we proceed?”
The friendly approach was no longer there.
Stolen story; please report.
“Sorry, that was... ”
“Nevermind.”
The delivery man cumsly took out of his side bag a device which resemble a giant eye and connected it to his tablet.
“Ok, Mr. Z. The scanning process is quite simple, you only have to look at the red blinking light in that Big Eye. It generally takes 2 seconds.”
The machine started the verification, however it took longer than 2 seconds, as it did a full scan of the blood vessels in the retina.
“You have requested the delivery and installation of three customized capsule Model Vector V and an satellite antenna setup...”
“Thats it? Because if it is, something wrong must have happened to my order.”
“Sorry, its not. There is still a eco friendly system of alimentation and some resupply for the capsules. Wow, this order of yours is capable of being completely independent of both the local grid of energy and internet, and besides that the capsule’s model is the best in the market, enabling its user to practically live in the capsule for 7 days non stop without body and machine maintenance. No wonder we are behind the schedule by 9 days!”
~ Lets get on with it!
“So, how much time it will take?”
“It will take me 30 minutes to install each capsule if you have already arranged the custom connection to the Vector V, if not I will have to came back some other time. As for the antenna it would be 45 minutes. The eco friendly system installation is a bit tricky, as I have to install multiple panels and cables, so 2 hours should be enough.”
“Hum! More than 4 hours… Ok. I have already done all the arrangements for the capsules. Put them on the salon to the right of the kitchen. The antenna and the solar panels goes on the slab, which you can access by going to the balcony of the second floor. All electrical wiring has already been done, so you only have to connect the devices. That way we can reduce the time needed by an hour and a half.”
“Ok…. But are you sure that you do not want me to do it. Since from the start it is my job, and you may lose your warranty because of your interference?”
“No. Trust me. I am an engineer!”
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