The Inheritor

Everyone was dumbfounded as they were eagerly waiting to see what triggered a 5-year-old kid to form basic soul and their access was brutally denied by a stupid Television. But no one dared to mock Helena after her longevity soup.

Then suddenly a loud laughter rung, it seemed like the person laughing was trying to control the laughter by covering her hands. But still that person failed to control and let out an even louder yet m.u.f.fled laughter.

Everyone turned around to look at the person laughing. After seeing the person who was laughing Quinn was stunned silly.

Emma was the one laughing, strangely this time she was not indifferent and cold like usual she was laughing like a real human. Emma was always with them it"s just that she will always keep quiet that one would subconsciously ignore her.

The reason Quinn was shocked is that he a.s.sumed Emma to be an android with lowest- level A.I. But the moment she started to laugh she looked more humane than any human around.

Quinn was aware that an android with in-built A.I. was very costly. But he a.s.sumed that his parents spent their entire fortune to get Emma. The reason he believed Emma was android with basic A.I. was that his family could only afford that much.

Quinn learned a thing or 2 about androids from a regular customer of their restaurant. Androids are of two types with A.I. and without A.I. the latter is obviously more expensive.

In fact, an android with the most basic A.I. is costlier than their restaurant; the latest version of A.I. available in the market is A.I. v2.0. Even if whole Peace River city is sold, a single A.I. v2.0 can"t be bought.

He has seen an android A.I. v2.0 in the video shown by the customer once. Emma seemed to be more advanced than A.I. v2.0, Quinn had a headache thinking about Emma"s price.

The only thing that stopped Quinn from asking about Emma was his faith in his parents and his current ident.i.ty. He didn"t want to spoil all his hard work because of his curiosity.

Quinn had already decided to wait for a correct situation to tell his parents about the Basic Soul to give them a form of a.s.surance about his capabilities. The reaction from the Storage Ring served as right trigger to disclose about his Basic soul.

So he used this opportunity to inform his parents, mixed truth and lies to make an appropriate elucidation of how he formed his Basic Soul.

The reason he was confident that his parents will not suspect that he never asked for many bugs is that he has asked many such things. He wanted to have a normal childhood so he would do such stuff from time to time to make his parents believe that he was just an ordinary kid.

But recently there are couple of mysterious things going on, in the house which let him suspect his parent"s true ident.i.ty and ability - First the black storage ring, then his mystical Grandpa and now Emma a high tech android.

He even felt that his entire new life was fake one or there are many things his parents were hiding from him. But he did not ask them as he believed that they will inform him when at right time.

While Quinn pondering about Emma; his mom face turned red in embarra.s.sment and she stared daggers at Andre as if blaming him for Emma"s laughter. Blake sympathized with Andre who was being wrongly accused.

"Emma shut up and get out of my sight." Andre ordered angrily.

"Sorry master it was too funny that I couldn"t control myself. Sorry Mistress.hehehe…"

Then she went outside holding covering her mouth and giggling. Seeing all this Quinn thought "This wasn"t really that funny and Grandpa"s situation was even more hilarious."

What Quinn didn"t know was that Emma antic.i.p.ated Blake"s situation and turned off her face reaction sensors to prevent herself from laughing out aloud. After Emma went out Helena removed the restriction and played the recording.

Everyone was watching the video seriously but no could find anything special about the cartoon and thus they were convinced that they had a monster for a son or grandson.

"I"m really getting old." Blake thought while silently observing the little monster next to him.

After finishing a grant lunch all of them got into a hover car. After 10 minutes of travel they reached a crowded place.

It was a large tubular building, 500 meters tall and 200 meters wide. The whole building was made out of a pale azure stone. The surface of the wall was crude and porous.

The stone building was like mirage from time to time it would flicker. Before entering the building Andre told him not talk inside the building and then advised him to follow whatever Blake told. Helena had a serious look and advised him to take care of himself.

Then they made their way through the crowd to the stone building and stood in a queue. When they entered the building Quinn noticed a peculiar thing, the whole building was silent and too silent. When Quinn tried to enquire what was going to his mother she told him to keep quiet with signs.

Then Quinn looked around, the top was in a dome shape the whole building was in azure color. And opposite to them there was another cylindrical structure it was smaller about 200-meter-tall and 50 meter wide.

Unlike the azure building the walls of the black cylinder was smooth though it was smooth it was not reflecting instead it was just black. One could feel that the light in the surrounding is been absorbed by the wall. It made the whole place slightly dim.

The queue was from the outer azure wall till the white door in the Black wall. There were many such queues and doors.

After half-an-hour of waiting they finally came to their destination. Only an old lady was sitting on a chair giving out badges, badges were made out of a strange jelly like substance. Even collecting badges were only done by sign language.

Blake made a set of complicated symbols for getting the badges before showing a golden card.

After collecting two blue badges and two white badges we went to a door that few meters away. The door let them to large circular hall were everyone who were standing before them were sitting on chairs.

It was inside the black cylindrical structure, the top was open and he was able to see the azure dome. It was the dome of the outer building; the inner building"s top was open. Once they reached the hall Andre broke the silence.

"It"s been so many years since we came here." *sigh* Andre was reminiscing about his past; but Quinn totally misunderstood it.

"If they were rarely visiting such places it means my parents are really poor or normal but then what about Emma and the storage ring. Ahhhh…. It"s driving me crazy." Quinn could figure the truth about his parents.