Temporal Pearls

[Your brother is a genius, he knows the whole state like the back of his hand. He also gave me a good upgrade. If I'm human I will marry him!]

"Hey, I thought you loved me?" Seth said with jealousy.

[Hey, you are just a brat and I'm a woman car!]

"Hmm. I'm not talking to you again!"

"Fine by me!"

"Nah, I think he corrupted your data!" Seth grumbled

[Hehe, do you like the change!]

"Well, you behave like a human with emotion, that means you are complicated!"

[That's right I'm complicated. But your last change startled me too!]

'Hmm. This car was taken revenge for my sudden change. Hehe.'

[True, I do like your brother!] She added.

"Okay, I will tell him that!"

[Noooo. A lady shouldn't make the first move!]

"Haha. You are a Lady Car, that doesn't apply to you."

The car and the boy kept chatting and laughing as they drove to their destination—a place where Seth will call home for a very long time.

They came out of the sewer and headed to Dama City. When they were closed the city network turned off.

[As the world is changing, Seth, I advise you to prepare for everything. And I mean everything. Get as many G-tech as you can that may seem useful and those that won't. Don't hold back. From the items that friend showed me I saw things I want but fear you won't want them but now after what your brother told me, I think you should hoard them like crazy]

"Make a list. Don't hold back!" Seth said as they came deep into Drama City. It has high skyscrapers that are very old and some were crumbling.

The road was filled with broken cars but the asphalt was strong and fine. They drove inside, soon they reached the centre where there was a gaping hole that seemed to go down without end.

The car encircled it and Seth noticed the large coin, sitting on the other seat, was glowing, it was what Raaz gave him. Soon, Sapphire reached a large skyscraper with a semi-crumbling ceiling and she parked.

[This is the place]

Where the car was parked, a hidden floor gate cracked and was about to sink the car underground when Seth asked to stop.

[Not now]

She knew Seth wanted to go out and touched the air. He felt the place was not right so he wanted to know what made it that way.

[You might glow and exposes your Identity]

Seth nodded and then began to change clothes. An expensive black suit with a red tie and black shoes with red lining at the cast. Then a red mask his brother gave him.

[Hello]

Seth read through the mask.

[Your brother is smart. This mask is G-tech, it blocks vital signs and suppresses their body radiation. Sadly too expensive to recharge because it needs Yellow Chip to recharge or TE]

It was Sapphire talking to him through the mask.

"Impressive. What do you know about Yellow Chip?" Seth asked. What came to his mind was Yellow Energy he encountered in the game.

[Not much. But it was a pure energy that the old world uses. It's clean and safe. He even told me that Yellow Energy might be the solution to their mutation]

Seth's heart skipped a beat before he began to speculate a lot of things.

"This… world has a lot of secrets?" Seth said with complicated emotions. 'Perhaps the high tech we have was meant to use Yellow Energy but the man contaminated it and thus destroyed it. People have no choice but to use other energy sources which cause disastrous radiation and mutate the workers!' Seth speculated.

The floor gate elevator stopped and a light brightened the place.

"Wow!" Seth exclaimed, they were on a bridge of asphalt that went far away beyond the illuminated light. He looked sideways and he found darkness, it mease below the bridge was a giant hole.

Sapphire drove fast and he saw the elevator moving up to where it took them from, it was about a hundred meters.

The asphalt slid down as they drove deeper down into mother earth.

Seth felt dizzy as he was overwhelmed by inertia and euphoria, he felt he was on an adventure of great discovery.

[Your brother said, money talks in this place. So, you need to make the Overseer respect you using them. However, he said he heard something has changed a bit but doesn't know what, but you should be careful.]

"Money talk!"

[Everything here has a price and if you can afford it then you are the king. And if the Overseer respects you, then you are truly protected. He hoped that what Raaz plan for you here]

"I doubt that," Seth said as he watched darkness passing as the light and showed the road alone. Soon they reached a gate and it opened, the car slid inside.

"Can the mask be changed to Blue or Sapphire?"

[Haven't you noticed I changed it to Red? We will go red, that's what your brother said for now. Later we can change]

"You really are in love with him!"

[Yes]

"Shameless"

[Hmm]

The gate led them to a confined tunnel, to a parlour where a tall chubby bored man stood.

[He is a noble]

"Fuck!"

Seth never met one but now.

Seth came out with no houtiness and walked to him. Just standing before the man, he senses the mask is no longer connected with Sapphire.

"Name?" The board noble asked.

"Seth Enoch!"

The bored man stretched his hand and collected the coin and observed before he nodded.

"I will first direct you to a place to receive a message, then you can use the Coinlavator to find your room!"

Saying that he turned back to the parlour it closed.

Seth went back to Sapphire and the road shifted elsewhere. A flash of colours blinded Seth and he found himself standing in front of a room.

He was on a 1-meter-wide metal, serving as a road, left and right, everything was blank or dark. The door was the only thing he could see.

He walked and stood before the door, he placed his hand on the biometric scanner and it opened. He entered.

"What the?" Seth rushed inside.

Raaz was sitting on a reclined chair, his body emaciated and wearing a helmet. His body was connected to many Drip tubes but the source of them has dried completely.

Raaz was dying.

Seth immediately checked if there was anything he could do but he was panicking and had no idea what was happening. He then just removed the helmet.
Discover exclusive content at m,v l'e|m-p y r

The body trembled and Raaz's heart began to beat strongly. He breathed and his body moved. He was waking up.

"Haha. Uncle Raaz, you are not dead. Quick tell me what to…" Seth didn't finish saying that when a punch sent him flying.

Raaz even weak with an emaciated body stood in anger, "Fuck you. Bastard. Weak bastard!"

He cursed uncontrollably and went on to Seth's body, making a fist and beginning to pummel Seth, "Bastard. Fuck you. Bastard."

Emaciated Raaz became tired and stopped panting with anger. "Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you."

Seth's body was limbed, his facial bones were broken, teeth removed, one eye seemed damaged and his jaw was not aligned with his upper skull.

If Raaz wasn't weak he would have smashed Seth's head to death with a single punch.

He stood and sat on the chair and then pressed something. A voice asked, "What do you want, Mr Ragold!"

"I want rejuvenation fluid and ready my fucking car plane!"

"That will be 6 T'cain"

"Fuck you. I did not ask that. Get it ready!" Raaz screened.

"10 T'cain for the insult!"

The fluid he requested filled the container that dripped into his bloodstream and his strength began to return but that only got him more angry as he stared at the dead boy on the floor.

The dead boy's leg twitched and he woke up. His breath was ragged. Raaz stood and kicked him, "Die, you mother fucker, die!"

Before he slumped again and fainted again.

Raaz slumped to sleep. Hours later he woke up, his completion had returned. Even his muscles have developed.

In anger, Raaz dragged Seth and adjusted his facial bones. Then put him on the chair and inject him with rejuvenation fluid.

Raaz wore a white suit with a black tie, white shoes and black lining on the cast below. Then he held a black mask, and he stared at Seth's limp body.

"I pray you died in Gawee, a gruesome death!" Before he walked out of the room. The moment he stepped out, Seth sat up with a sigh. He looked around and reconstructed what happened in his mind.

"I'm sorry!" Seth whispered. His bones were already healing and his jaw was already fixed.

Raaz has been waiting for Seth for 8 months now. The problem was if he left and Seth came there would be a problem because the Overseer will not allow Seth to come to Raaz's room. And if Raaz left, there was no coming back, his work doubled, and his superior demanded he take another assignment. not to mention his wife has pissed up some big bosses due to her destroyed special tech.

Not only that, but he was also having family crises, they needed him. But the bastard brat he was waiting for didn't come.

And the moment he left the protection of the Overseer, his superiors, his wife and his family will track him and he will be pulled elsewhere and with no time of his own.

Raaz then decided to trap himself in the room with a helmet of stasis while nutrition fluid seeped into him. In stasis, he will be asleep and that will force him to stay till Seth comes.

However, in that manner, he spent 8 months before the brat came. For 8 months he left his family to fend for themselves, his wife and her enemies and his superiors whom he knew will skin him alive.

The anger drove to pummel Seth but he still knows Seth was too valuable to kill or to abandon which was why he made the sacrifice.

Seth stood when the fluid finished, there was a remaining injury on his face but he was fine. Even his rib that broke due to the kick has healed. He looked around and saw all of the TEIC his family had been sending away. Their destination was here to Raaz's room.

"So, this place can have in and outside delivery!" Seth surmised and then looked at the paper. Inside the paper was...

[I said you should come quickly but you waste time. Don't remove the helmet, inject me with a needle on the table, and hide. I may want to kick your ass if I see you. Nevertheless, pack about 50 TEIC and used them to find your room. You have met Cloin, he is the Overseer and he is above the Nobles, don't make him your enemy, make him a friend, no matter what.

There will be another delivery with instructions, follow them. Lastly, do not tell me, your parents or your sister, anything about your place. Just say it's a hiding place. And don't bring any living creature without the Overseer's acknowledgement. Also, anything the Overseer asks you to do, even if it's useless to you do it and don't stand before him with valuable objects, things may happen.

If you became friends with him, then you can trust him. Another thing is if your secrets were discovered, you can trust this place and hide and produce more TE. I have some G-tech but I need money, not TE, or game items if you have them send them to me.]

Seth sat there reading the paper. He looked around more and found that he only had an hour to leave because the actual owner had left. That was when he saw 8 months of Raaz's stay of Raaz.

Seth felt sad for Raaz. The way the world was changing, everyone had problems but Raaz trapped himself to meet him.

Seth didn't know as he was having those thoughts, an invisible futuristic ship was hovering above Raaz's flying car. Even he didn't know because of how advanced the ship was.

In a flash of light, the flying car vanished into the ship before the ship moved fast that came close to the speed of light toward space.

"I will be damned!" Raaz cursed, he knew this would happen but still, he was terrified.

Seth packed what he could before he called the voice and asked for the rest to be sent to his room.

"Mr Ragold has already instructed us to do that," the voice said.

Seth then came out and found himself in a tunnel and his car there. Entering she asked.

[What was that?] She asked.

"You didn't see what happened?"

[No, I was forced into sleep for a moment before I found myself here and you were gone. There is an AI more advanced than me here, it took control of me for three seconds. And you were likely controlled through the mask you wore. Where is it?]

" I don't know. It's gone!" Seth said. Raaz did say he shouldn't stand before the Overseer with valuable items.

They were now in a car elevator and when they reached a new destination, where many cars were parked, Seth saw a gate and they drove there.

[Guest, Welcome, park your car please]

The gate AI said.

[That AI is higher than me] Sapphire said.

Seth drove and parked before he came out carrying 50 TEIC with him to the gate.

[Please place the Coin into the slot!]

Seth did.

[Remove it, this is not your entrance. Enter the small door]

A small door opened and he found himself in an elevator made of rusted metal and nets. He went down where he saw other elevators moving but there was no one in them.

'Maybe it was made so that we can't see who is inside!' Seth thought.

When it stopped, the door stayed closed and there were no instructions. He found a slot to insert a Terran Energy Isolation Chamber and he inserted one.

[Welcome to Coinavator City. We apologise for the change of Currency. T'oin or TE is the world's future, so please bear with us.]

The elevator opened and he was in a corridor, he walked and reached the only door with a place to insert TEIC and he did.

[Welcome to Coinavator Districts. We are all about transactions of goods and services]

The door opened and he passed through another door to insert TEIC. That repeated itself till he only had five TEIC out of fifty.

The Overseer was observing him with a satisfied smile. "Ragold knows what he is doing! Hehe. I will put a word for him not to be zombified!"

All this process was for nothing but I take all the fifty TEIC Seth carried. The man lost interest and looked elsewhere.

It took four hours of riding one elevator to another till he reached an area where there were rows of rooms that all looked like. They were made of metal and wood. Seth's large coin led him to one of them and the moment he inserted it in the slot, the door opened and he walked in.

It was an empty 4×4 room filled with spider webs, dusty floor and wall. The room suddenly shook, Seth ran to the window and found the room being elevated from the series of rooms. Then it was connected to a metal beam far above, then it slide like a train.

"This is terrifying. This place was a maze, with no guide one will get lost and starve to death. And this room will keep changing location from time to time for maximum security!"

"The moment you are in the room, not even me, without your approval will know your location. The Supreme AI loves his residents and will keep them safe as long as they feed him energy" a hologram of Overseer showed up and explained.

"We have four rules but more can be made due to conditions. You do not speak of this place, you do not take pictures, you do not plant bombs and you always pay before service delivery. Have a nice stay!" The hologram vanished.

[Rank 1 TEIC can be converted to 1000 T'oin. Would you like to convert your TEIC to T'oin]

"Yes!"

A slot opened and Seth placed the five remaining TEIC one by one and he ended with 5000 T'oin.

Suddenly, it became 4999 T'oin and his room cleaned itself, a bed and mattress springing from the wall, and a table and chose with a reading lamp also came out. Then a brum, packer and dust bin also come out. A screen also appeared where news began to play.

[You are about to receive the items sent by Ragold]

A section of the wall turned to a circular door and a wooden cabin slid in and other boxes. It was rearranged to give enough space to move around. Seth checked the wooden cabin and found the instructions.

He can synchronize it to his cabin and make it so that when he logs in here it's as if he logs in there. However, he needs to take a SYNC device from here and plug it in there.

The other boxes contain the remaining TEIC and other items Raaz prepared for him. One of which was an International Passport but can only be used in the Coinavator.

There were sets of suits of different colours and instructions on which occasion to use them.

Book of ingredients that contained the type of food he needs to eat for more energy. There was also a Desktop the old but also advanced that can't be traced when used and other stuff.

On the items, there was a constant reminder that he shall not reveal his location no matter what and also to befriend the Overseer.

He sat on the soft bed and lay down. "Is this a place where those high-ranking people hide?" Seth muttered, "It seemed as if with their arrogance they will not stay in this type of room!"

Seth pressed a caller and said, "How can I get my car here!"

[You need to upgrade the room, that will be 1000 T'oin]

"Okay do it!"

[It will take 24 hours]

"Alright, can I leave and by the time I come back the upgrade is over!?"

[Yes]

[What name shall we refer to you, your real name should be avoided]