Lazy Immortal

In the other part of the city, the crook was being chased by a dozen peace keeper and drones. Despite the crook being faster than the cops, he was being cutoff at almost every intersection.

"f.u.c.k, If I ever meet that fat b.a.s.t.a.r.d again." The crook roared out loud as he found a sewage tunnel and entered it.

Lan Long was still rolling around in his apartment due to the pain. The implant kept burrowing into his skin. The pain almost caused him to blackout but as soon as he was about to lose consciousness there would be a spark of electricity keeping him conscious. After about 15 minutes of nightmarish pain the implant stopped. The pained slowly subdued and Lan Long finally breathed out a sigh. The constant screaming had left his throat parched. He couldn"t even find enough strength to curse out loud.

After about an hour of peace, Lan Long finally got up and went to the kitchen for a gla.s.s of water. After drinking his fill, Lan Long walked like a zombie towards his room. He was tired and was still shivering from the painful memory. He finally laid on his bed and closed his eyes.

On the other part of the city, the crook had finally lost the cops. He had found a safe corner in the tunnels and sat down with his back to the wall. He reached for his device and pulled up picture of his girl and his friends smiling slightly. Memories came rushing back, there were sad one, there were cheerful ones, but even in those terrible ones he had always been with his friends.

The latest client had screwed them over, they were informed that the research was to control the human minds and they had formed a team to rebel against such blatant attack on humanity. Their leader thought that they were up to betterment of the society. They had been played like fools their entire life. Their goal was a sham. They were betrayed and left for dead. He was the sole survivor of the gang. He had placed his bet on black-marketing the tech he got. He thought he could flee and strive for revenge.

Then he had met that fat f.u.c.k who had f.u.c.ked him over. At least he had solace about the fact that he was about to die as well. Probably, reunite with his gang in h.e.l.l and wreck the s.h.i.t out of it. He laughed drily.

The implant went dormant for a while as Lan Long slept but about two hours into sleep two tentacles stared to reach for the electricity outlet. They were like two worms slowly crawling toward the food. In about another hour, the tentacles had finally reached the outlet had attached themselves to it. The implant started to make a slight hissing sound as it forced Lan Long body to near the outlet. As pain, had rendered Lan Long numb, he couldn"t feel the hair sized tentacle borrowing through hi skin.

"The f.u.c.k" Lan Long shouted as he tried to get off the bed only to find out he was now in capable of movement. He could feel all his clothes on his body even the buzzing of the implant but he simply couldn"t move. Everything below his neck was now incapable of movement. Tears rolled down Lan Long"s face as was feeling all the regret in the world. He thought that he was going to starve to death, crying even harder.

"Oh please. Let me live." Lan Long cried and tried to struggle even hard, only to realize that it was all useless. Inside his body, the tentacles had now drilled into his skull and slowly spread throughout his brain and were now trying to drill out of his glabella. The pain began anew and induced another round of horrifying screams from Lan Long.

The crook on other hand was awake now and was holding a trigger under his thumb. He was relaxed and looked carefree but in eyes was a psychotic look. Their team always had a bomb ready in case the ever needed a quick distraction or utter destruction. The bomb was a Augmented charge bomb, it could be charge to the required output necessary and at its maximum it was equal to 500 megaton of TNT. The crook let out a scream and held down the trigger. It took 15 minutes to charge it completely and when fully charged it could not be stopped or disarmed.

BEEP. . . BEEP. . . BEEP

The beeps could be heard All the way to Lan Long bed room but Lan Long didn"t even care about it or didn"t hear it all he was still screaming his lungs out. The tentacle attached to the electricity outlet began to and so did the implant. The process of alteration of memory and reflexes required a lot of energy and that energy being drawn from the electricity outlet. The tentacles which had now spread throughout his nervous system began to glow and the alteration process began. The light emitted was being absorbed by nerves as their efficiency was forcefully upgraded. The entire process was supposed to only last about 10 seconds but due to the lack of energy, it was being drawn out. The pain was so intense, that Lan Long couldn"t breathe, in fact he couldn"t even think.

ZZZZZZZZ. . . . .

The crook heard some whizzing noises which sounded like the mini drones. He stood still, silent as a dead man, he stopped his breath and took out a gun with his free hand. The sound got closer and closer. He crooks heart was beating faster with each pa.s.sing moment. The drone came into view and luckily was looking elsewhere. Crook slowly aimed the gun at the drone and fired. As he squeezed the trigger, the drone turned around and a flash was seen.

BANG.

The drone was down but now the cops new where he was and now he had to run, again, until the bomb was completely charged. The last image sent by the drone revealed that fugitive had a trigger pressed and was clearly waiting for something. The cops didn"t like that something and upped the number of drones. Every drone, cop, detectives and even military got called in. Whatever the trigger was for, it could not be allowed to do its job, especially one of the most crowded cities on the planet.

On the other hand, the implant was now fully merged into the nervous system but most of it resided in the brain. The glow from the tentacle was blinding white at this point. Even Lan Long"s skin was starting to glow. Alteration was almost about more than halfway done. The implant could theoretically boost memory, reflexes and computational power of the brain to rival that of a supercomputer, almost a million times that of a normal human. So as the process neared its end, the pain would have become almost insurmountable. Lan Long could only stare into the ceiling as he could do nothing else. The time was pa.s.sing slowly, every moment felt as long as a year. Lan Long hoped the it would be over so, he screams for death in his mind but all the reply he got was an ever-increasing amount of pain. Resigned to his fate Lan Long gave upon the struggle, had now devolved into a suicidal maniac hoping for death in every pa.s.sing moment. He craved release from the pain, by any means necessary.

The Crook gasped for air as the sirens blared nearby. He didn"t stop running for nearly 10 minutes and was still continuously running at his top speed. He looked at the trigger only to see the bomb was only about 75 percent loaded. Disappointed, he kept up his speed and ran as fast as he could. After all these were the last moments of his life, he wanted them to be glorious.

The glow from Lan Long"s body was getting brighter. The outlet was red hot and started to melt away due to heat. The tentacles were forged from super conductive materials and was highly resistant to heat and pressure, which was why the tentacles was still sucking up all the energy from the electric grid of the city. The current loss and voltage drops were being noted through the city, Even the backup generators, failed to replace the energy loss. Suddenly, the entire city was powerless. An executive found out that a certain residence was drawing all the energy from the grid and called the cops on it.

Crook had a vehicle now, which he stole from the hover bay. He was now trying his best to leave the city. He had realized that he could still have revenge if he escaped. He was trying his best to out run the cops. The cops had the number on their side and knew the city like their own bodies. They cut off the crook in every way possible, some overly patriotic cop even tried some suicidal maneuvers. The crook has way too experienced in this kind of chase and when he had his mind in the game, he was all impossible to stop.

The tentacles which had now realized that their power source was cutoff, began searching for a new one immediately. The scurried straight to all the devises with batteries and immediately drained them of their charge. It was barely enough to be counted as a grain in the desert. The bomb which was almost charges was now emitting heat. The tentacle immediately marked it as an excellent power source and all of them gathered around and pulled it straight to Lan Long"s body. The bomb was placed above the head, closest location to the implant, as the tentacles formed a tight net around the bomb and began to absorb the charge. The new supply of energy, increased the glow and Lan Long"s body was now glowing brightly. As the process neared to its end, the implant stopped corking completely and began to gather and immense amount, a horrifying amount of energy. This was not the part of the process. This happened due to the gaming hack which was inserted into the programming by the crook. This energy was now being used to stimulate an artificial s.p.a.ce with separate s.p.a.ce time continuum. The AI in the implant Calculated that the easiest way to do this would be to open a worm hole and proceeded accordingly.

The crook looked at the trigger again, only to find it only at 90 percent of charge. This time he was not disappointed but joyous as the time allowed him to escape the blast radius. He increased the hover bikes speed to its limit and headed away from the city. Cops where slightly slower as weren"t as experienced as the crook. After he had escaped from the city, crooked finally smiled as he checked the trigger again. This it read 99 percent. The crook had eyes peeled to the trigger as he barely paid attention to the road.

PING. . . PING. . . PING

The trigger indicated that the bomb was now fully charged, all he had to do now was to wait for the EMP burst to fry out the cop"s vehicles and then bail the f.u.c.k out. He decisively started to raise the speed and headed straight into the sky. Some cops immediately followed while some of them set a perimeter around the area, effectively making an inescapable net. The crook had the eyes on the city lights.

BOOM

The bomb had finally gone off, the implant had enough energy to make a worm hole and it did just that. All the energy was concentrated towards a single point inside Lan Long"s brain and the reality collapsed at that point. A huge EMP wave was created, this didn"t affect the implant or Lan Long as his bogy was already super-heated.

The crook saw the lights in the distance flicker, he immediately killed the engine and as the momentum died he began to free fall. The cops were surprised as this was absolutely unexpected, they immediately activated the containment barrier around the crook and his vehicle. There was a slight smile on the crook"s face as he raised his arms. The cop"s communications were glitchy at this point, and soon they engines were fried. The crook laughed as he immediately started his engine and flew into the horizon. Although he was confused, why didn"t the bomb go off, he was too happy to escape out of that tragedy which is why he didn"t care.

Lan Long who had a wormhole inside his head was still experiencing teeth shattering pain, finally exploded into nothingness as the wormhole shrunk as it had lost it source of energy to remain open any longer.