Frank woke up and, experiencing a slight pain in the muscles, approached the box, he was no longer interested in how much time had passed. The nanobiobots relayed the message of the successful placement of the hives. And at the beginning of assembling new ones, having studied the report in depth, Frank became a little restless. The imprint of his assistant’s personality was clearly felt in the formation of the command sequence. BLAC learned the lesson of abduction when she died. No pity, no compassion – self-defense at any cost. Glancing at the bottle with a cloudy liquid, without waiting for the result of the BLAC analysis, he drank it in one gulp, he felt as if he had received a new organ of perception. He saw a barely noticeable field at the door, and the fact that his strength was not yet enough to overcome it. Having started eating, he tried to contact BLAC, but he issued a notification about an overload with the processing of new data, only giving out information in the form of knowledge, not a dialogue. Frank disliked this method, as it severely damages communication skills, and used it only as a last resort. But he realized that he had changed, and changed a lot. They did something to him, and he, being the one who changed the bodies of people, did not think about this even in the most impossible fantasies. He saw a small booklet with some exercises, he immediately received the knowledge that these exercises will help him to control new forces. And waiting for the result, he proceeded to them.
Time passed quickly, and Frank noticed that no new food was being brought. Either they brought it in while he slept, or BLAC’s plan failed. He superficially understood the essence of this energy. It somewhat resembled conventionally scientific knowledge about the aura, chakra, and so on. They absolutely certainly have an impact in people’s lives, but most of those who talk about it have never encountered it. But some did get access to this energy, although no one scientifically confirmed this in this era. It just exists, and we do not understand it, it is not very necessary, therefore we will not pay attention. This position was adopted quite a long time ago, and only a few of them studied it as a hobby. Frank himself once studied this in detail, in the hope of obtaining an additional source of energy for his brainchild, but the data are not systematized, and did not provide confirmed known access to this energy. In the absence of communication with the outside world, Frank only remembered some fragments of this knowledge.
This new form of energy, and the skill for it, had something occult at its core, and this greatly annoyed Frank. As a man of science, all superstitions were not pleasant to him, despite the fact that some of them really had some scientifically proven basis, but these were only a few. The rest is all self-hypnosis, ordering of events in life, to other events. It was as if the ignorant was screaming, I don’t need to know why, in fact, just because there are forces that we do not know, and they decide. And they did not try to understand these forces. Which in general corresponded to what the scientists did with the aura and chakra.
Frank furrowed his brows, perhaps BLAC is right and there really is a conspiracy, as I have not paid attention to this contradiction before.
Suddenly, a stone at the entrance opened and Frank saw a couple of bloodied “people”. He clearly saw their barcodes, and was eager to learn how they could make these bodies “be Living.” But at one glance in their eyes, he knew that they were already “dead” nanobots, by burning huge amounts of energy, move them like puppets, and using this new energy much better than him, they may well receive it at some distance.
Very convenient, Frank thought, if I master it, I can create an army of artificial people. And in general it is not necessary only from artificial ones. This transfer of energy opens up great prospects. This is scary.
Immediately finished loading information from the hives. Frank realized that everything went too well that even a blind and deaf person would notice it, and there is a battle going on in his place of imprisonment, and if everything continues as well, his energy reserves will quickly run out. The only thing that allows you to hold on is that the newcomers are full of this energy, and if they did not have time to use it up in battle, the nanobiobots effectively extracted and used it. Also, some of the potions and herbs they kept with them were excellent sources. But this was not enough, and not all of them carried them with them.
BLAC quickly passed on instructions for creating compact synthesis reactors, taking into account the fact that it would be from improvised means, it was obvious that they would be unstable and an urgent need to leave this place. Where does this knowledge come from, Frank wondered, I can only complain about the thriftiness of his former colleague.
The two least damaged, artificial people led Frank to the exit. On the way, someone who was not an artificial person joined us. He was two and a half meters tall and one and a half meters wide. Even the largest weightlifters could envy his physique. With a simple blow of his fist, he broke through corridors to hasten his escape. And there was not a single scratch on his hands, Frank’s attention was drew to how the field around the body of this “man” was changing in the process of blows. This is how this energy can be used, BLAC quickly simulated the situation, and Frank received the “knowledge” of how.
Suddenly the cave shook, and two artificial people were torn to pieces, in front there was a slender man, with two “people” of weightlifting dreams. Frank quickly analyzed the recording of what happened and realized that being big doesn’t make you stronger when it comes to energy, but simply a method of compensating for your limit. This slender guy is really dangerous, Frank quickly gave instructions to his hulk, and he, holding Frank in his arms, ran breaking through the walls as far as possible from him. The nanobots in the room were giving him a view, and he saw the BLAC work. Two torn bodies gathered into one, creating a cadaver, in order to block the path of the pursuers. Slender found the situation amusing and sent one of his hulks to defeat the cadaver, but after the first skirmish he dispatched the second. When two hulks could not break through Slender came for some reason to the east. Apparently they really needed me as a researcher, Frank thought a little regretfully. Now they see one of the results they could get, probably not the one they needed, wondering if they can master what I did. In general, they did not treat me very badly and even taught me this energy. But his experience taught him to respond to aggression with aggression, and the regret was gone.
One of the hulks was caught by the cadaver, and crushed, absorbed. The slender one laughed and hit the cadaver. The cadaver turned into a bloody mist. Who quickly pounced on the second bully, but did not have time to transform him, Slender sprayed his second bodyguard with the second blow. The powerful field around Slender did not allow the bloody fog to approach him, and after studying a little with his eyes Slender rushed in pursuit.
Frank discovered that all this happened in literally 5 seconds, from the moment of his escape. He crossed several battlefields, and realized that BLAC was directing him to the place where artificial people came from, for there was either a way out or a storehouse of energy. Nanobiobots gradually filled all the rooms, forming a map. And Frank understood that this is an absolutely huge mountain. For the coverage area has already surpassed any metropolis, and it still has not found a way out. All the captured bodies pounced in the direction from which the fresh forces of the enemy came, all the heavily damaged ones began to form various deformities, in order to collect energy to resist the pursuit of Slender, for the purpose of experiment, and the selection of a sufficiently strong resistance.
But it was in vain. A small burst of energy from Slender turned them into dust when they first appeared, even those deformities that used metal and stone in their structure. But that didn’t matter. The nanobiobots adapted and were quite able to survive these blows, although they could not penetrate the field, a hurricane of dust and flesh began to gather behind Slender.
At first Slender did not pay attention to this, but the hurricane began to destroy the rock and surround it. The reactors were working to their limit to create this barrier. If I don’t find a way out now, we will all die. Although this monster may survive.
The hulk carrying Frank began to bleed. Frank noticed that Slender launched some kind of attack on him that was too difficult for him to understand. And if the hulk was alive, he would have been dead for a long time. Now only nanobiobots allow him to resist, because apparently his opponents simply do not see, do not understand them. What is rational for society, using energy and fields like magic. Walking wonder generators. For them, what I do is also magic, which they do not understand, but it does little to threaten their main, Slender. Frank hoped very much that the slender one was in charge, he was frightened by the thought that in the place where he was moving, something even more monstrous could await him.
Suddenly BLAC issued a warning, judging by the map and the rock stucture , he was moving towards its center. to a dead end.
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The boy stood opposite the Master. The Master scrupulously studied his condition, snorting with displeasure.
He was an elderly man who had already lived for three centuries, given his limit in cultivation, he no longer hoped to prolong his life by increasing his strength. Only elixirs and rare ingredients can allow him to live another half century or century. And one of the most promising rare ingredients stood before him. He was not very interested in where he came from, he only heard that this boy is almost a hundred years old, and he does not age, he cannot cultivate, and is an energetic abyss. It doesn’t matter how much you send into it, the energy will be absorbed. He is weaker than ordinary people, but he does not age and heals injuries quickly. Perhaps by understanding it, I can become immortal, the alchemist thought. But yesterday the unimaginable happened, the boy reached a basic level of cultivation, just in a dream. He looks only 8 years old, but this monster has already survived 3 generations of guards. Because of his powerlessness, he was never feared, and simply considered a freak. But yesterday this boy reached the strength of an ordinary child.. Usually, children receive a basic level of cultivation up to 3 years old, simply by learning to speak and understand the world around them. Of course, there are people who are completely incapable of cultivation, although rarely, because they rarely survive childhood.
The boy’s peculiarity was in his non-aging and energy absorption. The alchemist feared that if he advanced, he might have lost these traits.
It is necessary to check, the alchemist decided, and put his hand on the boy’s head and began to send energy, it, as always, began to be greedily absorbed, and only the Alchemist wanted to remove his hand, he felt that the pressure increased, and there was even something like a recoil.
The alchemist pushed the boy away, but after checking his condition, he realized that almost all the energy had been sucked out of him, and he did not find any other changes in himself. Perhaps, given the increased cultivation, he became more gluttonous, perhaps he could be trained as an anti-mage from the black cults. Although it won’t work, the magic hurts him. But it is quite possible that he will be able to absorb shields and curses. The alchemist suddenly froze, there are no other uses, I need him to rejuvenate or at least prolong life. The alchemist nodded to the servants to lead the boy back to his lair.
Sitting down at the table, the alchemist drank potions to replenish his energy, and began to organize the records. Suddenly he found that his energy had hardly recovered. In a panic, he jumped up and drank two more potent potions. The result was similar, as if three quarters of the received energy were spent somewhere. The alchemist stood in shock, until at a certain moment he noticed that for a century already, the crooked back easily straightened, the pain in his knees suddenly almost disappeared, and his eyes began to see clearer than in the years of his youth. The alchemist did not know whether to be happy or not. He locked the door and carefully checked his senses, and realizing that his body is beginning to recover, he does not get younger, but the body is brought into a state of complete order. The alchemist was not a strong magician, and such absorption of energy would greatly weaken him, it is hoped that when the body returns to normal, the absorption will weaken, otherwise I will become an easy prey and trailblazer for other alchemists, with the same desires as his.
