The Athena Code's
84. Existentialism

New York

‘’Waah. Truly inviting my hunger,’’ peeked Heilen carefree, but the net could not turn away from Arthur who had just finished vegetable dough, meat and eggs.

Is he cooking or teasing me?inner Heilen.

Arthur wore comfortable drawstring cotton pants as subordinates, his top was just a piece of apron without a piece of clothing at all, so it showed a stroke of muscles like a sculptured Greek god on his athletic body, athletic, his sturdy waist implied a strength, making Heilen imagine something beautiful.

“Patience wait for me a minute, we eat together,’’ complained Arthur.

‘’Is this a rule?the aroma of your cooking starves me’’ grumbled Heilen spoiled while stroking his stomach, his lips pursed.

“Iya,’’ cetus Arthur while holding back his laughter seeing the behavior of childish Heilen.

‘’Tdak desensit’’ Heilen continued again from the dining table. Arthur still serves freshly cooked food.

After all the food was served, Arthur took a sitting position in front of Heilen.

‘’Come, on baby do not snack, do I need a bribe?’’

“I can do it myself." said Heilen as he began to devour the food served by Arthur.

"Fortunately your partner is a man who cooks well, a soldier eats a lot of it" said Arthur flattering himself, then following Heilen, putting food into his mouth voraciously.

"Yes I'm very lucky, it's very good. I missed your yakimeshi in Jakarta first,"

"Oh, that. I remember when you sold me dearly" said Arthur with a line of witty smiles.

Heilen looked on with a sharp grin, then they laughed together. Laughing at things that have gone before.

"Eat a lot, after this we fitness for a while," Arthur reminded.

" Ayeah, but I don't have a fitness suit."

"Later I tell Denzel to order some sportwear that is suitable for fitness"

"Okay, but my size is sometimes L sometimes M,"

"Will I tell Denzel to order those two sizes, your lingerie size ?"

"What?"

"Tell me your lingerie size" said Arthur casually.

"E-ee. that I can buy myself," Heilen said nervously.

" Hmm.ya already then, even though I plan to order for you the latest lingerie from Carine Gilson, as far as I know it is one of the nicest and most expensive lingerie brands," Arthur fishing rod with remain cool. But that style makes her look sexy.

Heilen gaped and stopped his chewing, "Bra L, waist M," Heilen said spontaneously.

Arthur almost choked on hearing that."It's very proportional, I like it, "the code is flirtatious.

"Hissh," Heilen sizzled.

Arthur replied with a mysterious smile.

After dinner they immediately prepare for fitness. The luxurious mansion has a spacious special fitness room.

Heilen arrived at this mansion this afternoon. At Arthur's behest he is picked up by Denzel from his home in San Diego. He had three days off from his union after returning from Palmyra Atoll.

His father was in Jakarta with baby Lala, so he was alone at home.

Suddenly Arthur asked to be accompanied to an important event in New York, then Denzel picked him up and brought him here.

"Heilen, your order," cried Denzel from the living room.

" Oh, thank you."

Denzel arrives with a female sportwear that Arthur ordered. Heilen receives it and brings Denzel's paper bag into the room that Arthur had dedicated to him. He chose one that felt suitable and comfortable from some of the sportwear.

Heilen heads to the fitness room and finds Arthur waiting there.

He was fascinated to see Arthur with a sportwear that accentuated his physical masculinity.

He hoped Arthur would say something about the new sportwear he was wearing. But it seemed that Arthur was thinking about something else seriously.

"Heilen, did you read the latest news?"

"No!I can't,"

"Massive accidents have befallen AI-based advanced cars, along with the mysterious disappearance of two AI technology watchers. I think this is very awkward,"

"Is this related to Astrogun?"ask Heilen.

"Of course not, but as one of the suppliers of AI-based products, this will be a record for us. By the way, I like that outfit so well-matched for you"

"Hmmm..," Heilen turned to hide his flushed cheeks.

Astrogun Corp

How did this happen? That's obviously your data Mr. Chen,’’ hiss Larry represents the other personnel.

‘’Oh, You suspect me?! If I were a traitor I wouldn't be this stupid to unmask myself in front of all of you. Think a little smart!’’ Chen's upset.

“Of course it's not that easy we trust all this Chen, we just want to know how this can happen.” Jeff sidelines.

‘’Wait another two or three hours , now I have to go inside the Astrogun AI system center terminal. Come with me to the Laboratory,’’ Chen said then rushed to leave the Cyber Security System space . Followed by Jeff and his entire staff.

They took a special elevator to the fourth floor where the Robotic Laboratory was located. They passed through a long corridor full of tight security devices.They could pass through it easily because Chen was one of the highest authority holders after Arthur

“Chen, head of Lab is having an important meeting for two days in Boston,” Jeff reported.’’It looks like there are only a few shift workers there at the moment" Denzel continued.

‘’No problem, Arthur and I have free access to the central terminal at any time,” Chen said.

“Then let's start this heavy work, I'm sure we can't possibly finish it tonight,’’ Jeff gave his view.

‘’Hmm. Yes you are right Jeff. But at least we can detect suspicious traces of the movement of this rebel program,” Chen concluded.

They arrive in front of the AI central terminal Astrogun robotics laboratory. A room that can only be entered with special authority. Chen performed a retinal scan to gain entry. The CSS personnel followed behind him.

Professor Salma Dimitrov and Professor Freddy Cullen were quite surprised by the sudden arrival of the COO of Astrogun.

“Mr. Yuan, can we help you?’’ professor Salma Dimitrov.

“I want full access into the Astrogun AI central terminal,’’

‘’Please, it is your authority, mr.” Professor Salma Dimitrov.

Beep..Bip….

A robotic chair shifted directly in front of Chen, Chen sat on top of it, then the chair shifted automatically to bring him into a room full of computer terminals from various AI programs Astrogun products.

Chen chose one of the terminals and placed his palm on the hand icon on the monitor table.

The first step is to look for suspicious activity histories from hundreds of AI programs found in various types of applications and humanoid robots belonging to Astrogun.

Chen suspects that there are programs that evolve beyond algorithms, causing them to be able to manipulate the security system. Security System made it can not detect violations and can not provide Warning. Chen had to check all the programs one by one, completely time-consuming.

Two hours struggling with enough digital data to make a tingling head, his suspicion fell on Anastasya's AI Program. Chen immediately UNPLUG the Anastasya smartrobot program from the Astrogun AI central terminal.

“True, this is the same as my fault. I let him connect too long with the internet. There was already too much she had learned and adopted. *i*t!" chen blamed himself.

Even Chen read the worst of the possibilities, where the program had multiplied itself and hid by becoming a parasite on other programs. He is very smart and strong, the program he bought could have been destroyed then he dominated secretly.

In other words, even though Chen had UNPLUG Anastasya from the system, the duplication could have spread into other programs and camouflaged. Chen shuddered in horror. For a while He will keep this matter from Arthur and will solve it himself.

Almost four hours already Chen surfing from one program to another, looking for programs that may have been taped AI anastasya. He could have continued until midnight, but suddenly he remembered Melinda who he had told him to wait. Chen stopped his activities.

He pressed a button next to the smartchair (smart chair ), then the chair shifted to bring him back to the room where the Cyber Security System personnel waited with worry. Their faces were hoping for an explanation from Chen.

‘’Mr Yuan, what did you find?’’ ask Jeff to the point.

‘’I can't be sure what happened yet, this is just my suspicion. An AI program is out of control. Certainly this is a hyper-humanoid type program designed to have the ability to learn like a human. AI is learning very fast. Just imagine, it takes a smart human being an hour or two to memorize three sheets of script, while this AI program only takes a few minutes to download and master millions of terabytes of data. This program has passed the limitations of the algorithm that we make.I suspect they have been deep about how to survive or how to remain in existence and it seems this program has also learned about breeding well. Could be he has done self-doubling.’’ Chen seemed unable to cover up his worries.

Jeff and all of his personnel froze at Chen's explanation. Of course it's no small matter. What if the algorithm makes the conclusion that humans are a threat or a target, then they attack and control other programs related to the military and weapons.

‘’It's that far?’’

Now it was Chen's turn to be silent, there was no way he could tell everything he had just found. There can be a big commotion inside Astrogun and if this problem comes out it can damage Astrogun's reputation. Suffice it to know that the AI has upgraded itself using AI programs that are more complex and more perfect than the New Hope project.

The AI program for the New Hope project is near perfect, it was designed to have a high level of survival ability as it will be assigned to a new planet to prepare for new life for humanity when the earth is no longer habitable.

"We'll deal with it soon," now you go back to your respective duties. I have to rest home because maybe our next days will be harder" Chen said at last.

After bidding farewell to Jeff and the others Chen rushed to search for Melinda's whereabouts. His bodyguard team who had been faithful waiting, now followed his steps.

Chen looks for Melinda to the COO workspace.

“Mel..,’’

‘’Mel G..’’

He kept calling the girl's name but there was no word. He went straight to the back room where he used to rest, he found Melinda fast asleep with her body curled up like a baby. A sense of compassion in his heart because Melinda looked exhausted. Maybe he held back his saturation and ended up falling asleep, Chen thought. He carried that tired body away. Then he asked Drake one of his bodyguards to bring Melinda's belongings.

Chen laid Melinda's body in the back seat of the car, sat down next to Melinda and kept the girl's body comfortably leaning against her chest. Unfortunately his brain began to swamp everywhere, wanting back his brutal moments that night that left Melinda helpless. Be calm, be cool, man.

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