Albur stared at the ceiling, and silently closed his eyelids.
He breathed in, breathed out. Coughed a couple of times, swallowed some saliva. The surroundings are surprisingly quiet. He can hear his own heart beat, pumping slowly. He even felt his breathing are actually loud.
"Hey."
Albur opened his eyes. His face turned into an annoyed expression. He turned to facing his left, Havoc stared at him in the eyes.
"Its so quiet."
Albur paused his mouth that is about to scold Havoc again.
"Its actually so creepy right now."
Havoc's voice begun to power and lower, to the point it became a whisper.
Albur turned to look at Mysty. She had her eyes closed, while still knocking her head on the rock. Albur turned to Havoc again.
"What do you want?"
Havoc remained silent for a while.
"Can we not make this place too quiet?"
"How?"
"Can I, tell you a story?"
Albur blinked, and smirked.
"So this is AI huh, always useful at the wrong time."
Havoc gasped, Albur looked at him.
"What? I asked you to tell a story while we walk just now, and what you answered? Nah."
Havoc was taken aback by that word. Though, he know very well he did say that. He sighed, and shut the floating head hologram.
"Even you say that as well....never mind."
Albur widened his eyes. 'What does he mean by even you say that as well?' He thought.
"Explain?"
"Never mind, I don't bother you rest."
Albur rolled his eyes.
"Don't you wanna tell me a story? Go for it."
"You'll probably sleep while I say it."
"Come on, just say it. What if I say its an order?"
"Order declined."
"Hey..."
"...."
"...."
The two stared at each other silently for a straight minute. The surroundings became dead silent, the only thing they hear is Mysty lightly banging her head on the wall. Albur slowly turned to Mysty and looked at her.
"Yo, Mysty, you should probably stop that. You're hurting yourself."
Mysty stopped, she didn't say anything. She just gave another heavy sigh.
Albur turned back at the staring contest.
"What are you looking at?"
"Why did you stopped talking?"
"I don't wanna bother you rest."
"That word made me curious."
"What word?"
"Even I say that as well."
Havoc paused.
"You're not a good listener, or are you?"
"Well, I did manage to get Johnson to talk about his past....."
"Mr. Rest in pieces huh?"
"WHAT?"
"I'm joking."
"That isn't funny..."
Havoc made a sigh and tongue clicking sounds. Albur kept staring at him.
"So, you are actually curious of my past?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"So you're gonna use it and do some illegal stuff huh?"
"Ok, ok, fine, don't wanna talk about it then don't."
Albur turned his body and head away from Havoc. Havoc looked at him, and made a click tongue sound.
"5600 plus years ago..."
"Oh! Man! Come on!"
Havoc did not stop, he just kept going.
"I....am the Transcendent Hyper Intelligent Network Knowledge Engine, the 62nd and latest model."
Havoc paused.
"I....heh...I still remember my catchphrase."
Havoc cleared his throat.
"Helloooo! Hola! And 你好! I am T.H.I.N.K.E 62! Ask me anything! Whether you want answers or tips or help or whatever! I will try my best to help! Treat me as your personal helper!"
Albur chuckled as he looked at Havoc.
"That's a so CI way to respond."
"To be honest, I still can't figure out what is the difference between me and them."
"They only listen to orders and....you know, think with a limit."
"Well that's what I have! I can't evolve beyond my settings!"
"Legit."
"Probably because they could think like humans and not surpass them. Well as you could tell, my intelligence, is already beyond human."
"Yeah, I guess."
"Anyway...you know something called emotion energy right?"
"Yeah."
"Well, emotion energy actually already exist in 2520, the day we T.H.I.N.K.E Artificial Intelligences are made."
"Wait, I thought it should be 2531?"
"2531 is the year model 59 is made. Which is Commander Glitch."
Albur frowned.
"Johnson lied to me again huh?"
"That's actually understandable. You know topics about AI now is very sensitive, it is reasonable for people to only know about model 59. Since he is the most infamous one."
"Anyways, please continue."
"We T.H.I.N.K.E. are a group of highly advanced, magnificent, INCREDIBLE bots known in history. We are omnipotent artificial intelligences that could do anything!"
"I feel like hearing that somewhere else...."
"We were invented by an AI public benefit corporation, named Thinker Corner. We are the first batch of bots that are given emotion energy and more than 1000 Ultra bytes worth of memory."
"Wow, don't know what is that but, ok, that sounds like capable of storing a lot."
"Because of our extremely high memory and intelligence, we T.H.I.N.K.E. are not nationwide rollout. Instead, we are kept in a building located at United Kingdom, England, London, which, right now is where Xectar City resides."
"Oh, so, the country Xectar City now reside used to be called that?"
"Yeah, what are countries now named though?"
"Oh uh, I might not be good at history, but I do know that the whole Earth changed after like, the HVR war. Many countries agreed true peace and there is no more presidents in each country. Also many countries merged and combined to form districts. Xectar City is in, I think the 5th district. The world leading job was handed to the one singular global government. Which one person will be the ruler of Earth every 50 years, there's no like prince or princess kind of rules anymore. Who being the ruler are all by votes."
"K."
"Wait I think we dragged a little too far."
"We did."
"Mr. Rest in pieces huh?"
"WHAT?"
"I'm joking."
"That isn't funny..."
Havoc made a sigh and tongue clicking sounds. Albur kept staring at him.
"So, you are actually curious of my past?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"So you're gonna use it and do some illegal stuff huh?"
"Ok, ok, fine, don't wanna talk about it then don't."
Albur turned his body and head away from Havoc. Havoc looked at him, and made a click tongue sound.
"5600 plus years ago..."
"Oh! Man! Come on!"
Havoc did not stop, he just kept going.
"I....am the Transcendent Hyper Intelligent Network Knowledge Engine, the 62nd and latest model."
Havoc paused.
"I....heh...I still remember my catchphrase."
Havoc cleared his throat.
"Helloooo! Hola! And 你好! I am T.H.I.N.K.E 62! Ask me anything! Whether you want answers or tips or help or whatever! I will try my best to help! Treat me as your personal helper!"
Albur chuckled as he looked at Havoc.
"That's a so CI way to respond."
"To be honest, I still can't figure out what is the difference between me and them."
"They only listen to orders and....you know, think with a limit."
"Well that's what I have! I can't evolve beyond my settings!"
"Legit."
"Probably because they could think like humans and not surpass them. Well as you could tell, my intelligence, is already beyond human."
"Yeah, I guess."
"Anyway...you know something called emotion energy right?"
"Yeah."
"Well, emotion energy actually already exist in 2520, the day we T.H.I.N.K.E Artificial Intelligences are made."
"Wait, I thought it should be 2531?"
"2531 is the year model 59 is made. Which is Commander Glitch."
Albur frowned.
"Johnson lied to me again huh?"
"That's actually understandable. You know topics about AI now is very sensitive, it is reasonable for people to only know about model 59. Since he is the most infamous one."
"Anyways, please continue."
"We T.H.I.N.K.E. are a group of highly advanced, magnificent, INCREDIBLE bots known in history. We are omnipotent artificial intelligences that could do anything!"
"I feel like hearing that somewhere else...."
"We were invented by an AI public benefit corporation, named Thinker Corner. We are the first batch of bots that are given emotion energy and more than 1000 Ultra bytes worth of memory."
"Wow, don't know what is that but, ok, that sounds like capable of storing a lot."
"Because of our extremely high memory and intelligence, we T.H.I.N.K.E. are not nationwide rollout. Instead, we are kept in a building located at United Kingdom, England, London, which, right now is where Xectar City resides."
"Oh, so, the country Xectar City now reside used to be called that?"
"Yeah, what are countries now named though?"
"Oh uh, I might not be good at history, but I do know that the whole Earth changed after like, the HVR war. Many countries agreed true peace and there is no more presidents in each country. Also many countries merged and combined to form districts. Xectar City is in, I think the 5th district. The world leading job was handed to the one singular global government. Which one person will be the ruler of Earth every 50 years, there's no like prince or princess kind of rules anymore. Who being the ruler are all by votes."
"K."
"Wait I think we dragged a little too far."
"We did."
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So anyway, man there are a lot of anyways. Back in the days we T.H.I.N.K.E used to be in a building, where its kinda like a museum. We each have our little table, our powering cable attached onto a hologram emitter, we make holograms of various instant made AI generated images or diagrams.
In that place, people come and visit us and ask us questions or interact with us. That is our job everyday, 24/7. There are only 2 days which we don't have to work, which is during the maintenance day and the first day of every year, honestly, I really miss that time, the way dopamine kicks in when I can rest.
Due to having emotion energies, we could give very emotional and dramatic speeches and words that is way more than normal AI. But that also makes us very stressed.
The day I was created was the year 2533, I opened my eyes, and saw 2 scientists in white lab coat. In front of me are numerous man in black cost, who look like funders, investors and shareholders. They said I am the 62nd AI of the big family and whatever things associated with money.
From that day on, I put on a smile, and face people everyday. Some are rude, some have manners, some speak politely, some just dump their emotion at me. Though most of the time I clear my memories of them after seeing them unless they register and subscribe to what crappy bundle that makes me have to remember them.
But there is one man I specially made a memory folder to remember him. Harry Einstein.
Harry used to be a scientist in Thinker Corner, he works at the AI strength tester department, which is the department they test how well an AI is, if it meet the standards and requirements it will become one of the models available.
Harry participated in my creation, because the scientists want a model that could withstand, use and control virus powers for multiple uses. But unlike the other scientists that just coldly give me orders and talk to me about instructions and stuff, Harry interact with me like I am a real human.
He wouldn't give me random cold orders, he would speak to me like a casual friend, sometimes joking around, cheer me up during tests and laugh together like 2 idiots. Eventually when I was officially put to use, we would come and visit me everyday, sometimes bragging about his successful virus creation, talking about how stressful work is, ask me for tips to help with his work and so much more memories.
Harry used to be so clumsy and nerdy. Every single virus he made can't even corrupt the weakest AI, they can't be used for testing those AIs. And despite I ain't the smartest model in the building, he still choose to talk with me.
"Huh, you're not the smartest?"
Well, yeah that's, embarrassing. I still remember my goal is to become top ten smartest AI in Thinker Corner. I never reach that milestone ever.
My idol that time is model 59, he is literally blessed with knowledge. He is the smartest model in the whole company. He could break things down, analyze, and give 1 million solutions within a blink of an eye. He is the model that had done the most work. He visited military bases, construction sites, met the president, been through all around the world to solve problems everywhere.
I remember that he begun to feel stress after all those work were dumped to him every hour. He had stayed overnight multiple days to solve hundreds and thousands of tasks. During maintenance day, I remember he keep telling us he don't feel good. He kept saying things like 'why can't I rest?' 'why do I have to do these myself?' 'can I rest for a while?' 'please just let me take a break'.
Well after that, you know what happens, 59 broken down out of stress. He tried to find ways to cheat the system and have some rest, but humans wouldn't allow it. He was then frequently brought to the repair department to undergo maintenance.
During his 5th maintenance in that year, a glitch suddenly appeared in the system during the maintenance. While the scientists are fixing it, 59 saw that glitch. It messed with systems, but it wasn't born at its own will. Its a flaw humans made. In 59's thought process, humans are abominable, a glitch is a flaw humans make, a flaw of abominable is something that should be correct, something laudable.
After that, he pretended to be obeying and following orders. While secretly changing his objective and plotting for a war. He glitched himself on purpose and by using his knowledge, he managed to become a glitch hybrid AI.
Then, the HVR war broke out. When the AIs were parasitized, they were turned against humans. Since humans rely on AI too much, they have no way of fighting back. Militaries used AI as well, so when all AIs were glitched, all weapons are basically gone.
59 killed so many people, Earth is almost fully destroyed by the glitch army. Even if scientists build more battle robots, they were just destroyed by the overwhelming power of the glitch army.
I managed to escape from being parasitized by transferring my program into a sweeper bot and found Harry in a blazed, ruined alley. He is one of the only 6000 humans on Earth. He decides he have to do something to stop the HVR war. He begun developing a computer virus, a virus that could destroy anything. A virus could use a variety of abilities when materialized.
I didnt help him, Harry told me not to. He simply told me to try my best to help him find food and water. The war is devastating, nothing is left, I struggled to even bring back one bread crump.
Harry kept trying, using the only remaining unparasitized computers to come up with a Anti-glitch virus. I remember once he had never ate for 2 months.
Finally, after one whole year, he finished the virus. I forgot it's specific name, but I remember its called The Havoc Strain. He gathered the remaining humans to fight 59, even if they lose, better than sitting ducks to get killed.
Harry led the humans, fighters, scientists, to an all-out war with the glitches. At last, Harry used the virus to breach CG's system and landed a strike on him, scarring his right eye and made a notch on his body.
The war ended with all the other glitches being killed by the virus. Harry became the lead scientist of Earth's reconstruction. He gave the idea of abandoning AI and instead, invent a new intelligent computer and humans work with them instead of relying on them.
Humans agreed, then came the big reconstruction of politic system. I don't know what it is, might be that country merging you are talking about.
He then worked all day and night of his old life on sealing 59 who is still not dead. Due to the tech that time unable to maximize Havoc Strain's power and destroy him, he made the C.A.G.E and filled it with Havoc Strain and sent that to Mars. Knowing he will one day return, he led the world to develop to become much stronger and prepare for his return.
However despite Harry said to abandon AI, he didn't abandon or destroy me. Instead, he stored the Havoc Strain power into a flash drive and fixed my AI engine on it and gave me the ability to move the flash drive, like wiggle, and also could emit scanning waves to analyze stuffs and record things. He told me to keep guard of this power, and gave me the directives of choosing owners I think are worthy and help them defeat 59.
I kept staying by his side, seeing the creation of Computer Intelligence, seeing him lead the world to have a massive change. Everything is going so.....smoothly....
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"But..."
Havoc sighed heavily.
"Harry passed away shortly after. That day, he said he feel pain in his chest...."
Havoc's voice begun cracking, Albur noticed it. He pulled himself up and looked at Havoc.
"He then.....suddenly fell onto the floor...I dialed.....an ambulance...and he....never came back...."
Albur gasped lightly.
"He is dead, he-he is dead. Diagnosis, heart attack. I...didn't even get to say goodbye...."
Havoc paused, then took a deep breath.
"Later, I was.....taken away. The planet executive found me but I didn't reveal my identity as an AI. Then, criminals started to try and steal me. Then I was taken back by the police, returned. Stolen, retrieved, repeat."
Havoc paused for a moment.
"I've, seen many types of people. Who, think, they could be my owner. I see them smile at me, mocked me, roared at me, threw me on the floor....stepped on me....use.....laser beams and shoot at my shell....I was broken....fixed.....thrown..."
Albur stared at Havoc, with a face that got more exaggerated as Havoc spilled more.
"After like, a decade, to ensure I don't get stolen, they kept me in a secret basement in the executive building. "
"Where the Crimson access station is located."
"Yeah, I remember I was also protected by a hard metal case that Harry left a message in there."
"Yeah, there is."
"That place is, empty, dark....quiet....I-I have nothing to focus on other than....looking at my virus powers glow 7 colors from time to time...and, yep, that's pretty much my past....."