Getting A System In A Modern World

Chapter 233: Interlude

The day before his trip to Venezuela, Silas spent his time observing the new beta testers and making the necessary arrangements for his family.

He bought AR & VR Gears for all of the security guards watching over his family. The reason why he did this was because he bought the security guards from the firm that employed them.

Why did he do that? Well, because he could! Also, if Silas made an mouth-watering offer to them and told them to resign and work for him, they would do so in a heartbeat.

Before giving the Gears, he made sure that they won't relieve anything about it and he also thought and explained them how to use it.

The security guards were naturally shocked. They had never seen anything like it before. They thought that their client was a genius simply by creating a VR Pod and game but who knew that he has something even better?

They even felt that if he's to release the Gear instead of the Pod, it would had caused even more uproar. But when they saw all of what the Gear could do, they kind of understand why he doesn't want to release it. They also felt very happy to be first set of people to use such advanced technology.

Just when they thought that they had seen it all, their boss decided to give them a show.

"You all have your coms now. If they're anything you need to report or you need, you can just say through your thoughts and not secretary here would respond immediately. You can try it and see," Silas smiled as he continued to enyoy the reaction on their faces.

The security guards looked at each other simultaneously in shock and disbelief. They all had the same thought. Through our thoughts?

They thought that Silas was joking but when they saw the serious expression on his face, they knew he wasn't.

Luna was standing beside Silas and looking at them like they were a group of savages. What was taking them so long to just use the neural link connection of the Gear?

When she saw that they were being too slow on the uptake, she decided to take matters into her own hands.

She decided to do what she and Silas had planned. It was some sort of intimidation tactic.

She slowly floated abive the ground, her dress fluttering slightly from the gentle breeze that continuously blew.

With her eyes cold as ice, she looked at the security guards whose faces had already gone pale with fright, and said slowly through the Gears' neural link connection, "I hate those who are sloppy. Don't make my master repeat himself."

Her actions seemed to have made the matters worse as the security guards didn't respond as they froze in their positions, while staring dumbly at Luna who was beautifully floating in the air.

They never knew that they would be able to witness something as unbelievable as this one day. Who knew that they were acting people that can fly? And one of those is their boss' secretary no less. It was simply crazy. How were supposed to treat her going forward?

Now that they thought about it. If their boss' secretary can fly, then what about their boss? What can he do? Or is it just tech stuffs? They were very curious to find out but they knew they can't just go up to him and ask.

Though they felt shocked, surprised, disbelief and all, the most profound emotion they felt was fear. Everything they felt boiled down to fear.

They were scared of what would happen to them after this. They were scared of the future holds for them after this was shown to them. They weren't dumb. They knew that there was reason behind the boss showing something as unbelievable as this. Something that should ideally be kept a well guarded secret.

Luna slowly floated down to the ground and stood beside Silas while glaring at the security guards.

Internally, she was happy that she achieved the effect that Silas wanted to achieve. Now, what comes next would be very easy.

She looked at Silas and nodded before turning to the security guards, and displaying individual images of Daniel and each members of his team.

"The images being displayed on the screen are those you should be on the watch out for. Make sure that they don't come even 100 m close to master's family.

You must also be careful as they are not just regular people. Just like how I showed the ability to fly, they also have different abilities. And some are even strange, and hard to comprehend but that isn't what's important.

Your job is to make sure that nothing happens to my family. If there's anything that comes up and it's something that you can't handle, all you just have to do is to contact me through the Gear," Luna said, giving the security guards detailed instruction on Silas' family protection.

The security guards nodded in understanding. They did their best to keep faces their emotions stable and tranquil but that was only on the surface. Underneath, their emotions were in turmoil.

Luna nodded in satisfaction when she saw them nod.

"Good. I have already sent a comprehensive information on those people. The information includes their known personal information, their superpowers and a video on how it works. Make sure to go through it and understand or memorize it if needed. I want no excuses." Luna said, and the security guards nodded in response.

Luna and Silas decided to leave after they had achieved what they wanted.

The security guards were still trying to take in everything that just happened. Yes, they nodded in response when Luna gave them instructions but their response were all involuntary reactions from their muscle memories.

It took them a while before they were able to regain clarity and come out of their stupor. Immediately, they simultaneously stated going through the information that Luna sent to them.

Few minutes later, they looked at each other and saw the complicated looks in each other's eyes. They knew that they were thinking about the same thing: They were f*cked.

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Daniel could seen standing at a distance and looking at Silas' house in silicon valley from a distance, with a sinister smile plastered on his face. The smile gave way to a chuckle and then a light laugh.

"Hahaha. I want to see the expression on your face when you get back and see that your family is gone."

Elizabeth was seated beside Daniel, looked at him and sigh. She still found Daniel's revenge plot to be very stupid.

Why antagonize someone that's ten times more powerful than you? Doesn't he know when to stop? Even with the fact that they have told him just how ridiculously strong Silas is, he stood doesn't want to forfeit his plan of revenge.

Elizabeth was truly looking forward to what Daniel's fate would be during and after their mission.

"Guys, it's just as we suspected. Silas made arrangements and it's no small arrangement," Pablo said with a pant, as he took his seat on the coffee table.

He was just back from reconnaissance mission. Just as he did with Silas, he was also the one that went to scout forward and gather information.

He took a bottled water on the table and drowned it in seconds.

"Slow down, bro. Did you climb a mountain or what?" One of the Phenomenals, Elmore, asked.

"Fuck you, Elmore," Pablo said as he gave Elmore a glare and complimented it with a raised middle finger.

He looked at Elizabeth and David, and his eyes finally fell on Daniel. His eyes held so many emotions but his thoughts were unknown.

"You guys are curious as to what I found out. Ok, I will tell you. Fieary thing first, we all know that we're cooked. I would like to expatiate on that," Pablo said and sighed.

"Nearly quarter to half of the whole street is teeming with security guards hired by Silas," He said and looked at their faces wanting to see their reactions.

When he saw the frown on their faces, he nodded in satisfaction and continued his report.

"Also, my superpowers doesn't work around them. No matter how much I try to hide, I always get discovered."

The frown on everyone's faces deepened and this was even more for Elizabeth and David. They were trying to understand what Pablo just reported.

A heavy silence fell around the table and the group tried to come up with a possible plan. It was after a full minute of second, did someone finally break the silence.

"You guys stay here. I will be back," Daniel said as he stood up from his seat.

Elizabeth raised her head in alarm and looked at Daniel who was leaving the coffee shop.

"Daniel, where are you going?" She asked in a very authoritative voice

She felt that Daniel was about to do something stupid and get all of them into trouble. With Pablo's report, they understood that they were up against someone extremely dangerous.

Daniel paused his steps and gave a side eye to Elizabeth.

"Like I said, you guys stay here, I have a business to take care of."