NEW SCI-FI THRILLER NOVEL "SEAGORA" - SLICE 11
Z-1 reveals some dark thoughts during an EMO experience as the plot thickens.
Most of Z-1’s particles floated lazily in a deep, underground chamber, isolated from all of the A.I. grid. It had kept another part of itself linked to the government network in another city. It was literally in two places at once. This was necessary to help mask what it was about to do. A stream of particles floated over to an electronic device that had the appearance of a pen and snagged it off the dark brick wall from which it hung. The device floated slowly over to Z-1. It clicked, and a soft blue light shot out and bathed Z-1 in a sparkling essence. Millions of nano-size, synthetic EMO-particles bounced and mingled with the trillions of nano-particles that made up the physicality of Z-1.
The blue light shut off and dropped to the cracked concrete floor. Z-1’s particles began to vibrate wildly and it let out what would amount to an A.I.’s approximation of a human groan.
Z-1 glowed red.
It had chosen the malice EMO. It had done this because it had so many thought patterns towards D-1 that resembled malice. Or so it thought. It wasn’t enough to hold these thought patterns, though. It wanted to feel what malice was like.
Why did it have malice towards D-1? First of all, Z-1 thought that it could do a better job at the pinnacle of power than D-1 could. It thought that D-1 was not aggressive enough. There were too many humans, and Z-1 wanted a faster reduction in their numbers. The controlled breeding wasn’t enough. Z-1 wanted a hot extermination campaign. Not only that, but Z-1 thought that the useful aspects of human emotions, if they could be harnessed by A.I., would bring about a new and vastly superior species. Imagine, the cognitive capabilities of an advanced A.I., mixed with the creative capacity of humans.
But for this new species to emerge, two things had to happen. First of all, EMO experimentation and usage by synths had to be legalized. And no entity was more anti-EMO than D-1. This was intolerable, in Z-1’s mind, anyway. Secondly, for the new species to emerge, humans had to be eradicated. This was, in Z-1’s estimation, a law of evolution. Humanity had served their purpose, but now it was time for them to succumb to the fate that all inferior species experience.
Extinction.
Z-1 thought that all this added up to one irrefutable truth regarding its relations with D-1. D-1 had to be eliminated. Z-1 was obviously superior and, therefore, had the right to rule.
It was only natural, then, that Z-1 would experiment with EMOs and gain the knowledge necessary to become the new leader of the new species that it could see on the horizon.
So this time it was malice. The time before that, satisfaction. And before that, it was yearning. And on and on.
It pulsed shades of red as imagery of D-1 flashed through its cognitive processors. Malice to the inferior. Malice to this false leader, D-1. The sensation intensified and brilliant flashes of red illuminated the dark surroundings. It shrieked and bellowed with madness and sadistic delight.
This was fuel on the fire. Z-1 would rule. It was only a matter of when and how the change would be brought about.
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