Aios' Real Form

The room was very clean, octagonal in shape, and quite spacious. On each wall were panels with lots of buttons, as well as twenty-four-inch monitors. Except, on one side of the wall where there was an automatic door that Captain Dharma and Ryan just passed through.

In the center of the room, there are two waist-high altars. One altar is on the floor, and another of the same shape is on the ceiling, upside down. It was as if the two altars were a large pillar cut off in the middle.

The width of the surface or the diameter of the two altars is about one meter. And in the middle between the two altars was the real figure of Aios, floating.

The Artificial Intelligence is in the form of a large ball with a diameter only the size of a basketball. The ball itself is not a real physical form or a solid object such as glass, for example. Not at all. But, it's just a blue light that rotates very slowly, with lines that are more like paths neatly arranged to the center point of the transparent sphere itself.

The surface of the blue sphere is composed of many hexagonal-shaped plates, which are formed by light paths from the center of the sphere.

"This is how Aios is when she is in sleep mode," Captain Dharma told Ryan.

Ryan was quite fascinated by the original appearance of the SC45 spacecraft's mother computer. The blue light that looks very calm seems to be able to hypnotize the mind. Later, Ryan also saw the arrangement of complicated wires on the two altars.

On the flat surface of the two altars, Ryan found some round devices that were more like unique projectors, Ryan was very sure that the projectors on the two altar surfaces were the ones that formed the projection of the blue ball of light aka Aios in front of him right now.

At least, there was one large projector embedded in the middle of the two altar surfaces. And there are eight projectors around the projector in the middle, and the size of the eight projectors is smaller than the projector in the middle.

"Then, where is Aios' real body?" Ryan asked, his eyes still on the bluish sphere of light.

"Right here," Captain Dharma pointed to one side of the wall—the wall directly opposite the wall where the only access in and out of the room was.

On the wall, there is a screen that is larger than the other screens in the room. It extends from knee-high to the height of the captain's head.

Like the other screens in the room, the large screen in front of Captain Dharma only displayed some information on one side of its screen. In Ryan's eyes, this condition represents that the Main Computer is in an inactive position, and he is the person responsible for Aios's suspended animation.

"What about the gadget I asked for?" Ryan said.

Captain Dharma pointed to the wall to the left of the main computer.

"You can find everything you need there," said the captain. Then, pointing at the wall on the right. "And there too."

Ryan stepped over to the wall on the left. For a moment he looked at all the devices, buttons, cables that were in place, and the monitor on the wall in front of him.

The man smiled, he saw a secret drawer. Ryan pressed a red button at the bottom.

That's right, he thought. The outer layer of the wall in this section is exposed in both directions. And in it was a rectangular room measuring one by two meters, the walls in the room were covered with some kind of soft ivory material, and also fire-resistant. It can be seen through a triangular sticker on one of the drawer walls.

It was in that secret drawer that Ryan found a thick laptop shaped like a suitcase, twenty-four inches. Also, there are three neatly arranged seven-inch C-Pads.

"What do you think?"

Ryan turned to Captain Dharma, the man smiled and nodded. "Yep! It seems that everything is already available in this room."

"You need someone's help for this thing?"

"Naa, that's not necessary."

Ryan took out a laptop-shaped suitcase from the drawer, put the laptop on the floor, then took a C-Pad, and placed the gadget on top of the laptop.

He also found a thick file put together in a volume in a drawer. He opened the sheets of files and smiled, the files were manual books containing everything about Aios, the Artificial Intelligence itself.

"This one," Ryan held up the files and showed them to the captain. "Very, very helpful."

"Well," Captain Dharma nodded. "I can see that. A guidebook, of course."

"Yep," Ryan just sat down on the floor. "This is all enough to help me."

"Are you sure? You don't need anything more than all that?"

Ryan shook his head.

"A chair, maybe? Or, a table?"

"Ow, come on, Cap!" Ryan laughed softly. "Do I look like someone who needs those things?"

"Alright, alright," Captain Dharma laughed.

While Ryan turned on the C-Pad in his hand, and then opened the laptop and turned on the device, Captain Dharma felt useless.

So, the captain decided to leave the room, leaving Ryan to his own business.

"Alright, Yan," Captain Dharma turned around, heading for the only door in the room. "I'll leave you alone, so you can focus more on all the things that are confusing my head."

Ryan just laughed at the captain's words. Well, maybe for someone like Captain Dharma, this thing regarding the SC45 aircraft's master computer software is something that makes their heads spin.

But not for someone like Ryan. The harder and more complicated a program is, the more challenging the adrenaline will be to immediately tinker with the program instead of mastering it.

The satisfaction of it all, other people probably wouldn't understand, but it was a lot of fun for someone with special abilities like Ryan.

TO BE CONTINUED ...