Chapter 2 - The Bastard's Space

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Aria: <S3, did you mention something about acquiring that bastard's space storage? Can I access what's inside?>

S3: <By 'bastard' you mean Dr. Xiang, then yes. Close your eyes and concentrate your energy to the middle of your forehead and you should be able to enter the space. Once you have a good idea of what is inside, you can just think of it and it will appear where you want it to within a 50 feet perimeter.>

Aria concentrated her energy as instructed and immediately was inside the bastard's space. It was a huge warehouse at around 25,000 sq ft at 100 feet height. There were 2 military helicopters, 2 large military hovercrafts,1 small military hovercraft, 1 military tank, 2 large military vehicles, 1 large black suv, and 1 pretty sweet motorcraft inside. All over the warehouse were metal shelvings hanging along the walls, above the cars and all along the sides. There were so many things in the storage area that tall moving ladders were added to the structure on all four walls.

It seems like the bastard collected a lot of military stuff. Against one wall, she even saw a few high end branded light armours, medium armours, and exoskeleton armors. Clearly military grade.

Seeing another wall full of folders and files, she glanced at the papers and books on top of the desk nearby. They were notes full of dates with events that happened all over the world. There was also a few laptops next to them.

Aria: <I'm seeing a lot of dates and events here. Where did he get all of this information?>

S3: <Dr. Xiang sees himself as a historian enthusiast and still had an extensive network even after the zombie apocalypse. He communicated with people in other bases to gather information about what was happening all over the country. He then recorded these events and if there was something interesting that would advance his research, he would create tasks to get samples.

This space was one of his creations through advance space button technology.>

Aria: <There are hundreds of binders and notebooks here. Is there any way to compile and archive them all into a computer or book?>

S3: <Yes, I can compile it in any way you want but...>

Aria: <But what?>

S4: <But if you bind with S3 in order to utilize her identify ability.>

Aria: <Bind? We didn't do that already when I consumed your nuclei?>

S4: <No. Besides getting the space ability with S3's deal, you just consumed the nuclei and our system is still tied to you temporarily. But in order for us to continue to reach our goals, we need a human to bind to.>

Aria: <Hmm. What are my responsibilities once I bind with you guys?>

S5: <Our main mission is to help one of our hosts to survive for 6 years after an apocalyptic event. In this case, we were a few months shy of success with Edward Xiang, but you killed him and you were a zombie, so we all failed our mission. So if you bind with us, all you need to do is survive until November 30, 3033 and the three of us would've succeeded in our mission.>

Aria: <What about me? What can you do for me? Do I have to do any tasks or anything?>

S4: <No tasks since we are not a story driven company. Our company concentrates more on survival for an x amount of time. All you have to do is survive by utilizing us to help you achieve that length of time.>

Aria: <Do I pick only one of you to bind with or can I bind with all of you three?>

S3: <Binding with all three of us is possible but is riskier for us since that means we only have a ⅓ chance of success. It's usually better to spread the system personnel across different hosts.>

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