‘Well,' Sebastian began, 'as well as sending jets to your location, I also sent ten
jets to each and every other place that I was planning on sending the robots too,
but because of you, I have to resort to other means. So, it doesn’t matter
where you go, you will always be targeted. Even you won’t be able to defeat all
of those jets all at once.’ He started to laugh. I hate that laugh.
‘How do you know
the army won’t target your jets instead?’ I asked.
‘Good question,’
he said abruptly ending his laughing and switched from mocking to serious in a
split second. ‘I’m not going to lie and say they won’t, but they haven’t yet
and that will give me enough time to do whatever I want,’ or in other words he
doesn’t know and therefore hasn’t planned on them turning up. Unless he has
planned for when they do show up and is keeping his plans a secret. That thought literally went round in a circle.
‘And I will do exactly that… whatever I want. I will destroy the most advanced robots in the world and then my robots will be the most advanced in the world, and by the time they have enough resources and firepower to even come close to mine, it would have all been destroyed. The irony.’
‘And I will do exactly that… whatever I want. I will destroy the most advanced robots in the world and then my robots will be the most advanced in the world, and by the time they have enough resources and firepower to even come close to mine, it would have all been destroyed. The irony.’
‘You really think
that you’ve predicted the limit of my ability. I have destroyed everything that
you have thrown at me, albeit two robots, and I will continue to do so.'
‘And I
congratulate you for having done that and your determination,’ he said
sarcastically. ‘Everything was going so perfectly before you showed up onto the
scene. I never planned for that and so I am having to use some of my resources
a little early to compensate, but that doesn’t matter because in doing so, I can
be and am one step ahead and always will be.’ He started to laugh his manic
laugh once more, making me cringe. I screwed my hands up into fists as tight as
I could to try and keep myself from destroying the TV.
I don’t want to sever this
conversation until I’ve completed triangulating his position. I know that, by doing so, Sebastian may get some kind of notification that I’m trying to hack
into the signal and will then attempt to block it. Of course I’m hoping that he
doesn’t find out about it, but if he does, it was worth a try. There are plenty
of other ways that I can get his location, I’m just utilising the easy way
first before moving onto the more difficult ways. I’m not sure how close to his
location I’m going to get, but if I can get at least a couple a hundred yards
away, it’ll be something. Any more, then it may be difficult to find him from
then on, but as I’ll be on the right track anyway, so it’s nothing to grumble
at.
‘So you’re not
going to attack me with your jets, just threaten me with them until you either
see fit or I make the wrong move,’ I said.
‘Oh, I wouldn’t
say I’m threatening you. I’d like to see it as… Well, actually, yes, I guess you
would say it is threatening,’ he said thoughtfully, ‘Anyway, but yes, they will
attack you if you make the wrong move. And I think you have just done that. I
know that you are trying to break through my firewall, trying to get my
location. That’s why I have routed this message through a dozen proxies. This
message is practically untraceable.’
‘Practically is
all I need,’ I countered, confidently.
‘I would like to point out that
each of the many proxies that I have fed this signal through have strong
firewall protection that cannot be broken. If you attempt to, penetrate into any
of the servers, the code has been written to automatically learn and adapt to
any attempt. I developed it myself,’ he added as if he wanted me to congratulate
him.
The moment he finished explaining
about his code, a message popped up on the TV stating that nothing could be found.
Well, I did say that I have many other ways to find his location, but they all
involve trying to hack into the system, and if the code is constantly going to
learn and adapt, it’s going to be impossible. I now have no way of finding his
location as quickly as I would have liked.
‘Ah, I see your attempt has failed. I did tell
you so,’ Sebastian smiled. ‘What are you going to do now? But be warned, you do
have ten fully armed jets ready to fire outside your door.’ I don’t know is all
that I can say, but I don’t want him to know that. There has to be another way
to get his location. ‘And if you make the wrong move, all I have to do is press
this button and they will tear your house apart. And don’t forget that this
button will not only activate the jets outside your house, but will also
activate every other jet, so be careful with what moves you make.'
He’s expecting me to give up, isn’t
he? He’s expecting me to say that he has won. I will not let him win. I need to
figure out what to do next. I need time to think. But I can’t if he’s watching
me as that would give everything away.
Then, from out of nowhere, I got
a brainwave. It was one of the best brainwaves I’ve had in a very long while.
‘Fine,’ I said reluctantly, ‘you’ve
won.’
‘Finally,’ he said, relieved. ‘I
would like to congratulate you one more time for giving me a good challenge,
and as a reward, I will call off the jets, but only the ones outside your house
mind. I’ll keep the ones outside each arena and prime them to attack the
moment they recognise you with their scanners, and remember, when one starts
attacking, they all do and you’ve just admitted that you can’t be in more than
one place at once, so please don’t try and let me take over the world my own
way.’ And that was all he had to say before he disappeared from the screen and
was replaced by static once more before switching off entirely. I heard the
sound of the jets fade away into the distance as they left.
‘I need your help,’ I said to my
watch. Interface appeared in front of me.
‘How can I be of assistance?’
he asked.
‘Can the watch crack code?’ I
asked.
‘It can,’ he nodded.
‘Awesome. Is it possible for you
to hack into Sebastian’s system and break what can only be described as an
unbreakable code? It learns and adapts itself to defend off any attempt to
cracking it and stops them from doing so. Can you do that?’
‘I can,’ he nodded again.
‘What do I have
to press to do that?’ I asked, looking down at my watch.
We spent the next
few minutes navigating through my watch, pressing this button and that button
until the watch displayed the relevant information needed to hack into
Sebastian’s system.
‘So, I press this
and the watch will start hacking and will then bring up a message when it is
done displaying the Sebastian’s location.’
‘It will,’ he
nodded once more.
‘Awesome,’ I said,
pressing the button and the watch started. ‘I can only imagine the look on his
face when he realises that I’ve just cracked the impossible… well, what he believes
is the impossible anyway. Hopefully, I can stop him before he gives the command
to the jets to start attacking.’
It surprised me
with how quick the watch was able to complete the task. It brought up the
location and the coordinates. All I need to do now is take those coordinates
and insert them into the teleportation section of the watch and stop Sebastian.
I’m still surprised that he allowed me to give up as easily as I did. I am
weary at whether he is expecting me to do something else, but it would be impossible
for me to figure out if he has anything ready for when I do. I just have to cross
that bridge when I come to it.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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