Endless Systems
Chapter 00
China, Beijing
The night is illuminated by the moon and the beautiful stars in the sky.
Deep in the highlands can see directly the beautiful light of Beijing city that looks crowded and peaceful. And on the plateau right at the edge of the highway cliff, there was a man who was lighting a cigarette and leaning casually behind his fancy black car.
“Fuuhh...”.
The smoke that was sucked in was exhaled out after going through his lungs.
The man raised his hand and pulled his brown hair back to tie a ponytail. Long hair with a handsome face, eyes as black as the sparkling night sky, and the ideal body like a male model figure in a monthly magazine.
When he was smoking a cigarette, suddenly there was the sound of a mobile phone vibrating in the pocket of his trousers.
Bzzz bzzz
His hand immediately slipped in and picked up his phone to immediately answer the call.
“What's up, Ling?”
“Shan, there's work for you.”
“Say.”
Xiao Shan was the name of the man. He stood under the night sky all by himself throwing his cigarette on the ground and being trampled to death completely.
“Company X looks suspicious move. The head of the company, Dong Qian just finished a press conference about their technological progress in developing robot humans.”
“Then? Isn't creating a robot human very rewarding and making great progress?”
“Iya, if the research is safe.”
Ling's words from the call left him stunned in silence. It was as if there was something behind her suspicious words.
“What do you mean?”
“I'll give you the data. Try to see for yourself.”
In the middle of that call, a notification sounded from his phone. Xiao Shan immediately opened his phone and opened the data provided by Ling. It had just read for a while, and Xiao Shan was already stunned silent with both eyes wide open.
“I ... this-!”
“As you can see for yourself, they use real humans to be test subjects and use their brains in lieu of knowledge machines for every robot.”
The cruel reality where inhumane treatment is done in a massive way. Xiao Shan's emotions were lured to the point of wanting to explode like the eruption of a merapi mountain. This secretive and cruel project will be very dangerous if it is given support by the government and even other countries.
“You know what you have to do?”
“Ya, just leave it to me.”
Xiao Shan turned off the call. And it wasn't long for him to get in the car to immediately go to company X's building. Unlike the others, Xiao Shan used a formal black suit that was so neat. Making his appearance become even more handsome and dashing while walking into the main door.
When he wanted to walk in, of course the guard there was very tight. There were already two large-bodied people blocking him from entering easily.
“Stop there. Your name, destination and origin now.”
“Very good. Just want to enter it has been blocked like this,” complained Xiao Shan.
“After all this has become a task. We need to check whoever goes into the building, or we'll lose this job.”
“Really? How about I call your boss right now? Could have you guys fired this second.”
“What, are you bluffing me?!”
“Serah.”
Xiao Shan used his cell phone to call someone. Then, not until a few seconds has been answered by the interlocutor. Xiao Shan deliberately used speaker mode for the two guards to hear directly his conversation.
“Halo.”
“Master Dong Qiao. Is this your treatment for a fellow business friend? I've been stopped at the main entrance when I want to go inside.”
“In hadang? Who would dare to do it?!”
“Two guards who said they were loyal and were doing their job.”
While smiling faintly and raising his eyebrows, Xiao Shan gave his phone to the two guards who were already standing trembling nonstop.
“Nih, please talk to them yourself.”
“Ma-forgive us, Mr. Dong Qiao. We don't know anything, this is a full mistake from us!”
“You two this. Next time, I won't give you another chance!”
“Te-thank you, Mr Dong Qiao!”
The change in attitude of the two guards was very drastic towards Xiao Shan. They suddenly gave Xiao Shan a way to enter like a VIP class guest. After he got inside the elevator, Xiao Shan smiled faintly as he thanked the person he called.
“Thank you, Ling.”
“Huh, not a big problem.”
As the elevator doors opened, the spacious and quiet passageway came to greet him. Shan himself had also changed his clothes from a suit, to an ordinary black T-shirt so as not to hinder his movement.
“Ling, which room?”
“Follow the passageway to find the passageway junction. And turn left, there is one room door that stands alone there.”
“Me!”
The guidance from Ling made him move much faster to find the workspace of company X's head, Dong Qiao. A dead light with a dark cold room indicates no people and no trace at all in a long enough time lag.
“I'm already in his room. What's next?” xiao Shan asked as he walked over to the messy work desk.
“Is there a phone, computer or even laptop there?”
Xiao Shan turned his gaze to look for one of the three things. And at the end of the room, there was a small laptop left on an extra table.
“Ada.”
“Good. Connect the laptop to your phone as soon as possible!”
“Sabar first. You think everything can be made fast like instant noodles?!”
“Mie instant course need process, weird base! It's fast, just do it!”
“Iya, noisy!”
The laptop turned on normally and immediately opened to the main page of so many documents. Then, Xiao Shan searched through all the files listed in as much detail as possible. Until finally, he was surprised to open one of the files that contained recordings and photos of human brain trials into the robot.
“Truly trash!” grumbled Xiao Shan.
“You got it?”
“Yes. Complete and powerful!”
“Good. Move the file immediately and send it to me.”
“While I did.”
The process of transferring the data was completely successful into Xiao Shan's phone. He immediately got up and rearranged the room so that no trace was left behind.
“Can!”
“Good, now send to me!”
“still 30% in shipping process. Wait a minute.”
When Xiao Shan walked down the hallway to get back to the elevator, Ling suddenly gave him some bad news. By looking at the cctv he managed to hack, countless terrifying people ran up the stairs as if chasing after something.
“Um ... Shan, we have guests!”
“What?!”
“Quick go from there. Looks like there's a security tracking your movements!”
“Maybe the laptop. There is an automatic alarm in it.”
“Think of it later, quickly run out!”
While he was running in the middle of the hallway to find another way out, Xiao Shan had been stopped by a group of people who had come carrying firearms and others far ahead.
“That's him. Catch that guy!”
“Sialang. Ling, which way?!” asked Xiao Shan.
“Um ... turn left!”
In accordance with the direction Ling was monitoring from all the cctvs he managed to hack, he gave Xiao Shan the safest and fastest way to immediately escape from inside the building. It even got into the air vents that led Xiao Shan to the roof of the building.
“Hey, it's stuck on the roof. You want me to do something crazy to escape?!”
“Sorry, Shan. However, they had all surrounded the floor of the building. Their number is too many!”
Xiao Shan walked to the edge of the roof of the building. He looked down at where the big, crowded street would be a passing vehicle. Not only that with a distance as high as 15 floors of the roof of the building from the surface, it will only cause anxious feelings for him to think of strange things.
And when Xiao Shan was cornered like that, the situation became even worse when there was the sound of a weapon cock ringing behind him.
Clack!
“Ah, shit!”
“Any yes, it has been more than 3 years I managed this project. And I'm very wary that something will happen sooner. I can't believe that the person involved is one of the secret agents of the Chinese government, Xiao Shan.”
Xiao Shan turned around slowly. There he saw a middle-aged man standing at him with a firearm. It was none other than who it was, that company X's own head, Dong Qian had come to catch Xiao Shan wet.
“Dong Qian,” grumbled Xiao Shan.
“Well, what's with that sharp look? You took my stuff, I should be the one that's angry, right?” dong Qian Sahut.
Dor's!
“Ugh!”
The trigger pulled down without hesitation and pierced through Xiao Shan's right thigh. Made her fall on one knee while enduring the pain of the blood that flowed incessantly.
“Shan!”
“Duh duh, pain huh? It's definitely.”
Xiao Shan tried to get up on his feet again. He endured the pain with a faint smile on Dong Qian.
“I went on a far more horrible mission than getting hit by a single bullet. This ... is nothing,” Xiao Shan murmured.
“Wah, I'm impressed! Is that how I should react?”
“Maybe.”
“I don't have time to joke with you. Give me back what you took from me, and I'll let you live.”
The threat completely cornered Xiao Shan from all directions. Especially from the so many people Dong Qian had come to catch up with him from inside the building. As great as Xiao Shan's reputation as a secret agent was, there would be no way he could escape against more than a dozen people with firearms in their hands.
He's silent, it doesn't have to be anything. Only, he still understood the mission he had to do.
“Ling, how's the data?” whispered Xiao Shan.
“Another moment ...”
98 … 99 … 100%
The data was received by Ling. The entire evidence against the illegal project that Dong Qian had secured was completely.
“Already. We got all the evidence, I made a duplicate of it just in case. Now, I will seek help from the government side to-!”
“No need, Ling.”
“Hah?!”
Ling was stunned silently hearing Xiao Shan's words that refused his help.
“Shan, what did you say just now?!”
“The most important thing is the data. Whatever happens to me in the future, that data will not be lost.”
“Xiao Shan's. Don't try anything crazy. You're gonna get out of that situation. There's nothing I can't do to-!”
Xiao Shan turned off the phone. Because from any side, he knew that Ling would not accept the harsh reality. Dong Qian was still pointing at his weapon while waiting for him to hand over the data.
“Xiao Shan's. Hand over ... the data!” threaten Dong Qian while preparing to pull the trigger.
However, Xiao Shan only smiled faintly as if he had no regrets.
“Ya, it's done. To the government of China.”
Dor's!