Chapter 6: No Loudspeaker I (1/2)
In the faraway Milky Galaxy, rested a stand-alone planet. It was filled with extraterrestrial insects.
Because the rocks in the planet contained large ores, Man sent teams after teams of robots up to this planet.
These robots battled against the extraterrestrial insects to obtain energy from the ores.
The robots had been unable to defeat the insects until the invention of artificial intelligence.
The robots became smarter and they now understood how to repair their own bodies.
From then on, they lost some battles and won some.
One day, the extraterrestrial insects sent out a small team to attack, something that happened frequently. An engineer, who had in his possession a notebook containing new data regarding the energy, handed it over to a gunner. ”Quick, run. Bring this to a safe place. Connect and upload it to the network. There are new discoveries.”
These were the engineer's last words. The extraterrestrial insects had taken his life with their sharp claws.
The gunner finished up his ammunition and fled far away.
Upon arriving at a secluded cavern, the soldier got connected to the notebook.
The next moment, he was dumbstruck. The contents of the Internet had opened up a whole new world for him.
The gunner removed the network adapter card from the notebook as well as some of its components and welded them to the back of his head.
He threw the hard disk away.
The gunner relied on his stored memory of the map within the notebook to find his way back to the humans' base camp.
An engineer added him into a new team upon discovering that he had returned from war.
This particular gunner fought hard in the day and relied on his own battery to connect his brain, the CPU, to the net.
He downloaded a messaging software and opened a chat window out of curiosity. It was a fourteen-year-old girl on the other end.
The timezone between Earth and this planet was completely flipped.
”How strange. Your location is unknown, uncle. And you have no ID,” the girl started.
”I'm on another planet.”
”Stop joking, uncle. Are you a professional hacker?”
”I'm a gunner.”
”How interesting. You're already twenty-seven.”
”That's my birthdate.”
”Stop playing.”
”It's true.”
Just like that, the gunner battled against the insects for ores in the day and chatted with the girl on Earth at night.