Destiny: Quantic Dreams Book 3 by Elizabeth McLaughlin

Author:Elizabeth McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I made a point of cozying up to the androids who had been friendly with me the next day. They were more than happy to show me their food manufacturing capabilities once I shared choice stories of my adventures in botany. The androids seemed to be amused that a human would bother to breed plants ‘the old-fashioned way.’ It turns out that unlike our printers at the shelter, the ones in the machine city could print down to a near molecular size. The computers contained within only had to be fed a sequence of DNA and it would pull the necessary elements for whatever was needed. They were even happy to let me try them out. I fed the printer the instructions for a simple child’s toy and seconds later I had a small wooden horse to hold.

Perfect.

The androids had detailed information on my every move. I doubt that any of us so much as used the bathroom without a system-wide alert going out. Getting back to this printer with enough time to produce enough palm seeds was going to be a challenge. Hopefully the trial was going to be enough of a distraction. Maybe I could play up the grieving daughter angle and say that I needed time to myself? If that wasn’t an option, I could always find a way to start a distraction. There had to be something around here that could cause a large enough distraction. There had to be fire suppression systems here. If I was able to short something out…I could figure it out later. If I was going to pull this off at all, I needed to relay the information to Eliza and Marcus. I flirted with the idea of telling Dad as well, but he had enough on his mind as things were. His mental state was too unstable since we got here. Adding something else on top of the pile wouldn’t do him, or me, any good. Best to keep him out of it unless absolutely necessary.

I did some rough math. Seeds alone wouldn’t be enough to end the impending famine, but perhaps I could use splice their DNA in with the existing food supply. There weren’t any obvious incompatibilities between the two organisms. The labs would still be intact by the time we made it back and I could start work on my tablet on the way. I would sleep a hell of a lot better as soon as the plan was in place. I made my excuses to Eliza, Marcus, and Dad and found a corner of the building we were housed in. The software was not unlike a program compiler. Pulling up the DNA from the potato plants, I split the screen with palm seed DNA. To the untrained eye side-by-side, the two structures looked nearly identical. To mine, they were the world’s most interesting puzzle. All DNA is made up of chemical building blocks called nucleotides, comprised of a phosphate group, a sugar group, and nitrogen bases.

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