Getting A System In A Modern World

Chapter 123: Brainstorming Session

Silas felt that the recent, abrupt change in LUNAR's personality, no, he meant Luna as she likes to call herself now. He felt that the changes in her personality is something teens exhibit when they are going through what it's called the phase.

If she was a human, that would has been different, but Luna is an AGI, an highly intelligent and sophisticated artificial intelligence.

Now, how do an AI go through a phase? Silas asked himself this question as he thought hard.

'.....Maybe because she was created by me?.. The more extremely dumb me." Silas said to himself, as he rubbed his temple.

Thinking back to his past self, Silas knew that he got a lot of things wrong, incredibly wrong and he lost sight of so many things, becoming what he was.

Even after he got the system, Silas felt that for the first three months, it was like he was like a car on auto-drive and its gas being stepped on. He just went with the flow, taking life as it came and just making very ..... dumb and impulsive decisions.

Taking life as it came and going with flow wasn't so bad, but the thing is that he lost his purpose, his focus became ... blurry and he kind of lost himself.

After he got the system and making money became as easy as breathing, Silas honestly didn't know what to live for anymore. To be honest, at some point, he got overwhelmed and tired of everything.

It's true when they say that money can't buy everything ....or maybe he wasn't the one who didn't know what to do with the money.

If it wasn't for the incident on the island when he almost died, Silas felt that things would still had been the same.

Silas thought about everything and smiled. He knew that he has a lot he needs to learn and he hopes that life will teach him as he goes on.

Though it can said that he has literally almost all the knowledge and information in the universe at his fingers tip, but Silas knew that nothing beats what one would learn as they experience life.

Maybe he's wrong about everything. Maybe he doesn't actually know himself as he thought he does. Maybe ...just maybe.

Silas looked at out the window and sighed. He felt like he was breaking down and he felt it might be due to his involvement in the event of last week.

Seeing someone die in front of him is something he never thought he would experience again after Alex's mom death.

He thought he was already immuned to it but it seems he was terribly wrong, and makes it worse is that he was the one responsible for their death.

Though he didn't kill them himself and he didn't give a direct order, but last week, a lot of people died and majority of them were killed by Luna, an AGI he created, which means he was still responsible for their death all the same.

Yes, they were people who were in the way of his plans but....

Silas sighed again when he thought of this. He felt nothing during those moments. Maybe it's what one of the things his maxed out intelligence attributes is responsible for, helping him to get what needs to be done when they need to.

The previous Silas was someone who sheltered himself in his comfort zone but now that he's way out of his regular comfort zone, he has to learn how to get used to things.

The world is an equally beautiful and horrible place but he would have to learn to get used to it, and very fast or it would swallow him.

Silas let out another sigh and looked at Luna.

"Luna, let's take things slow. There's no need for the rush."

Luna nodded at Silas' words. While Silas was in deep thought and emotions were going almost haywire, Luna was getting data about it from the Gear and the smartwatch.

What she saw, his brainwaves fluctuations, his near-erratic heartbeat, and the constant sighs, Luna knew that a lot of were going through Silas' head.

{What's your current plan?} She asked, as she took her seat on one of the sofas in the room.

"As for now, we can do nothing but wait till when the bank's building has been constructed, and the headquarter building would be next."

{What about the underground lab facility you intend to build. When do you plan to start with that?}

"About that.... I want to take my time to design it's structure myself. A lot of things are counting on it. We have to make it as secure as possible, no chances can be taken."

{Do you already have an idea for it's design.}

"...Yeah, I think so.." Silas said, as he stood up from the bed and walked to the middle of the room.

He looked at the floating holographic image of the untended location for the lab facility, and folded his arms as he went into deep thought.

Silas had already had thought on what he wants the facility's design to look like, thanks to inspiration he got from watching a lot of things.

He switched the Gear to it VR mode and tapped on the holographic image in front of him.

The next moment, Silas saw himself standing on field filled with different type of trees. He looked around the field, studying the environment.

Silas previously intended to build something to act as decoy on the surface, which is the field he's current standing on, but looking at the field, he suddenly had a change of thought.

The next moment, Silas found himself back in the room.

"Luna, what if we build a tunnel that runs from the headquarter building to the underground facility. A tunnel that only certified people in the organization can handle?" Silas asked, as he started walking around the room, deep in thought.

{Sounds like a good idea but how do you intend to do that. Where do you plan to build the headquarter building? We have to consider the distance between it and the facility.}

"Porto La Cruz. The distance between Porto La Cruz and Los Rosjos is 314 miles and the fastest we can get there with a car that travels at 150km/hr is four hours, but we can reduce that time by more than three-fourth if we use a maglev train as the mode of transportation," Silas said, as he looked at Luna.

{The fastest maglev train can travel 375mph and covering a distance of 314 miles in 50 minutes is possible, but we have to consider things from different angle and any possible situation. What if the staffs working at the facility finds themselves in an emergency situation where they have to immediately evacuate or where they have to assemble as fast as possible, how will they do that?} Luna asked.

"I guess that makes the idea of using a maglev train useless. In an emergency situation, even a second is enough for a lot things go wrong..." Silas said to himself, still deep in thought.

"What about the idea of hyper loop tubes and pods? We can do that right?" Silas asked himself.

{The idea is feasible but it would take a very long time to achieve. The current progress on that concept are almost abysmal.}

"For others, yes but for me, that's an entirely different story. I can easily get every needed knowledge and information on it," Silas said.

{But having a knowledge and information on something, and creating something with it is an entirely different story. Also, you known that you can't do it alone. That's a massive project to embark on.}

"True but what if I have a way to share the knowledge and information I have with other. The Pod can help one quickly learn something by using the neural link and whatever is learned can be replicated into the real world. I can choose a bunch of people, transfer the knowledge and information to them, and have them create it."

{That's very possible but will you trust them enough to give away such precious knowledge and information?} Luna asked, as she looked at Silas' face, curiously.

Silas of course understood what Luna meant. Humans are inherently distrustful and for him who finds it hard to trust others who aren't family, it's would take a lot of effort on his side if he wants to trust others, but he knew that it's inevitable.

If he wants to get things done, he knew that he can't do things alone and expect to succeed. He must learn how to trust others even if it's a little bit.

"We never stop learning, Luna. It seems like learning to trust people is the next thing on my curriculum," Silas said with a smile.

{When do you plan to start recruiting them?}

"Soon but first, I have to make a list of individuals who are qualified."