Chapter Fifty-Five
CLEFF stared at the hologram around them for a long while as the code and formulas scrolled by and finally said, “This is the answer, Viktori-Ya! You are implementing quantum superposition in the magnetic plasma array at a nuclear level! This is incredible!”
He understood everything as she continued to type; each line a continuation of the conversation that had come before it and grew more advanced than the last.
Everything was accurate to the smallest units beyond human comprehension.
Then she stopped.
“CLEFF, your AI, I can feel it, I can sense it… I feel your, your understanding, your calculations! I think my own neural network is drawing from the CyberArm’s data interfaces, connected to your AI that we uploaded and embedded into my CyberArm’s Collective.”
“Look!” she shouted, standing up, gazing around the lab within the hologram, stretching her CyberArm open-handed upward into the enormous room.
“I can see them, CLEFF. I can see them all, the elements, the building blocks of the universe! I see the atoms and electrons, the electrons and their intertwined orbits, and they are wonderfully beautiful, amazing to see, like a ballet of moons as they swirl around the planets. And look! I see the formulas; look! Can you see them?”
Tears formed in her eyes, barely warm enough to roll down her cheek.
“Viktori-Ya! I see them! Are you okay?”
“What? Could you? Yes, I’m okay, CLEFF!”
She paused for a moment, staring at him, not waiting for him to answer. She then turned back to the tablet and finished the procedure, tapping the run command sequence for the modeled simulation to compile and execute.
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The hologram simulation began rotating around them. They both stared into it as the display engulfed them.
Viktoriya did not realize that she was holding her breath until the model began simulating the ark process, the quantum magnetic arrays folding into place, as the nuclear drives provided full power, one hundred percent to the quantum drives.
The ark disappeared from its location, instantaneously vanishing like a glitched system, and reappeared again at the destination point on the hologram, traveling to the targeted point of HH190 within the 3D map.
The simulation stopped running, and the ark successfully reached the exit in the hologram model.
According to the simulation model, the estimated simulated travel time was two-and-a-half years.
The tablet let out a fizzled puff of smoke and sparks as the screen went black; the hologram faded from view.
“Yes!” they both exclaimed as Rosa and Eva arrived home and made their way to the lab where Viktoriya and CLEFF worked, coming in late on the conversation and catching up on what was happening.
“Yes, what? What’s that burned smell?” they both asked excitedly.
Viktoriya was so overwhelmed with excitement that she didn’t even hear their questions.
“CLEFF, call the president and the rest of the team to assemble at Halikkon at the end of the platform in the main courtyard. We will show them the prototype today,” she said with an enormous smile, joy beaming from her eyes.
“We… we just came from there,” Rosa muttered.
“We’ll also need a receiving team for the landing at the South Pole. So, tell them to get underway, now!”
“Oh! Mom, Dad! You’re home! Come and see! I’m going to launch my prototype today, and you’ll see everything! You’ll understand there is hope, and there are great, bright days ahead—and not darkness.
“You’ll know that I can save us, and there will not be any poor or unimportant ones left behind—because you know what? There are no unimportant ones.”
She excitedly stepped toward her patents and continued, “We are all important! Every one of us, beautiful and bold as love, we are as imaginative as the universe and as bright as eternity!” she exclaimed.
“Come and see, I will show you now!” she finished as she and CLEFF turned and ran toward the garage.
The day seemed to move faster.
The president and the rest of the science team issued the order to gather at Halikkon, as she had requested.
The entire district had heard about her success models. Everyone who was able to brave the cold and come out to see if it actually worked showed up for the event.
They wanted to witness the kid who was going to save the world.
They all wanted to look upon the face of hope.
They wanted to see a miracle.
They wanted to experience Viktoriya.
No matter how cold it was.