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Chapter 1138 The Latest Technology...
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The mysterious Neutonium Core Entity.
Child of Ether.
And "she" who will destroy all humanity and will not stop until she devours me.
These things kept lingering in my head as Henriette showed me my new house, a large apartment with highly technological tools everywhere.
A beautiful, clean bathroom, a kitchen, windows that lead directly to outer space, allowing me to see what was at the other side of the mothership.
There were even plants and artificial sunlight led, helping them grow big and healthy…
The fridge was full of fresh vegetables, fruits, and all kinds of good.
The entire apartment was huge and had two more rooms with beds in them, which would go to no use.
It also had two bathrooms and the toilets sure looked weird.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
"What the hell is this toilet?" wondered Eleanora.
It was like a floating cylinder, and one simply had to sit down there… and do it.
"It's weird, I know… but this is the latest technology."
As I sighed, Henriette finished bringing some things with her robots, boxes full of furniture and all sorts of little things the Elders gifted me, including more food.
"And done… these boxes contain some materials for your Machine Warrior such as Neutonium Shards, Metal Plates, and also more Bullets for Machine Guns and other firearms," she said. "And these boxes over there have fruits, veggies, and other food, packaged rice, bread, yogurt, you name it. It should keep you well feed for at least two weeks."
"I see… thank you Henriette," I nodded. "You may go now."
"Okay then…" she sighed, about to leave.
However, she suddenly stopped walking and then looked at me with an apologetic sigh, blushing a bit.
"Um Blake… I wanted to first apologize."
"Hm? For what?"
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"For how I have treated you before. My actions were… too extreme."
"So that's it… Whatever."
"W-Whatever? You aren't mad?"
"Not really, no."
"But I was so awful with you and everything!"
"Keeping grudges is not really my thing and… I have other things to think about right now."
"Hm… Okay then."
She sighed a bit, gripping her fists.
"Sooo… you forgive me?"
"Yeah."
"Thanks… Err, well, I was thinking…"
"What?"
"I know we started with the wrong foot but, do you want to have a drink? I have something in my car and…"
What is she trying to pull out now?
Does she really just want to share a drink, or does she have ulterior motives?
Maybe now that I have such a title, she's trying to seduce me?
Or perhaps she's simply being sincere.
I read through her face and eyes, she looked a bit nervous, her heart was beating fast, and she was blushing a lot.
"Hm… I want to spend some time on my own first," I said. "Sorry…"
"O-Oh…" she sighed. "Nah, it's fine! R-Really… There was no way you would do that… Yeah, take care."
"I didn't said we couldn't do it later," I smiled. "Come back in a couple of hours. I might ivnite my friends, if that's ok with you."
"Your friends?! Uuhh… well, I guess it's ok," she shrugged. "Thank you… T-Then I'll come back in two hours, is it ok?"
"Sure."
"Thanks!"
She quickly ran away after that, too excited to even look at my face.
This is a trial yet these people all feel so very real.
I'm confused if what I'm going through is just the "replay" of a world that once existed, a mere hyper realistic dream that draws its realism from my memories, or just… an illusion.
It can't be an illusion, it is too good, I would have detected it as such if it was… But it isn't a dream completely either.
It could be a Replay, that both makes this "Story" become… well, be "revived" at the same time as it is still something simulated, yet not.
It's strange…
Perhaps it is that it only exists and is real as long as the Trial continues.
Once it's over, everything might be erased.
Getting too attached to these people wouldn't be good if that's the case, but I'll need their assistance to win anyways, so I have to engage in these social interactions.
"Anyways, Eleanora, let's talk…"
"Finally?"
She quickly sat over my legs, caressing my face, although she was intangible, I could sense her electromagnetic hands through my own electromagnetic aura.
In a way, I could feel like she was physical despite not being physical…
In a way, the entity that spoke to me earlier was very similar to her composition.
"Yeah, I saw some sort of vision…"
I explained to Eleanora what I saw without skipping any detail, she nodded as she heard, realizing that this was a vision only sent to me.
"And she called you the Child of Ether? But why…"
"I have no idea. But all of this confirms several things… First, the Neutonium Cores are, perhaps, some sort of living being. An organism made of electromagnetic energy and crystals."
"So they're aliens…? All the machines, and even the spaceship, they've been fueled through aliens this entire time…"
"Yeah," I nodded. "And I'm sure this is not something the Elders would want to be spread around… Hah, those bastards, keeping such an important thing secret from the rest of the people."
"So this pretty much means that humanity is only surviving by exploiting and using aliens," said Eleanora. "All their technology is powered by them, the Neutonium… aliens? What name would they truly have?"
"I have no idea, but she said that their world had long ago been destroyed," I explained. "I don't know how they found them… perhaps through asteroids left behind from their world being destroyed."
"Hmm, at least, it's pretty clear that who she meant with that was the Xenoids," said Eleanora. "They destroyed the Neutonium Aliens world."
"Yeah, but this "she" that she talked about… Could it be also a Xenoid?" I asked.
"Maybe… maybe if they're a colony, the Xenoids have a queen?" wondered Eleanora.
"A queen…" I muttered. "Hmm, yeah, perhaps that's not too wrong of an assumption. So they won't stop until humanity is destroyed… I have a bad feeling about this."
"The next days might become more chaotic… or perhaps not," Eleanora said. "I fear that this "queen" might be saving everything for the very last day."
"Then we'll have to get even stronger until then," I said.
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