Technosis: The Kensington Virus by Bell Morgan

Author:Bell, Morgan [Bell, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781507618721
Publisher: Hell Bent Press
Published: 2015-02-07T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

PROJECT CRONUS

“Baxter? Baxter? You all right?” Blaise called in after a few minutes.

Jamie said nothing.

“Baxter, are you a frothing at the mouth, angry text messaging tech zombie?” Rosen asked.

The silence continued. Blaise looked at Rosen and signaled that he would go in high and Rosen would go in low.

“I’m angry,” they heard Jamie mutter. “But I’m not a tech zombie.”

“What is it?” Blaise asked.

“It’s reports; reports about patients from here,” Jamie replied. “It’s also surveillance reports on us going back to the Cyber Warfare Base. Someone in our group was recording…I can see me, I can see Drake, I can see Ganos.”

Blaise stepped into the room. “What is it?”

“All the recordings. All of the reports. Everyone is in here. Except Marshall,” Jamie said.

“We’ve got to get back to Fenwick,” Blaise urged.

“Not before we grab one of those entrainment units.”

∞

Jamie sat quietly in the back of the Mustang, reviewing the tablet. The reports continued on and on. Forty subjects, all tech terrorists, all taken into the facility, and all treated with entrainment units. Then there were the videos from the Cyber Warfare Base in Fort Meade, Maryland. The files. The five files. As Jamie watched it again and again he realized he was watching Marshall gently guide them to those files, the five files. When he looked through the 40 on the tablet he tried to guess which of the 40 had been the five they were looking for. He read through medic notes. Patients with tech violent tendencies and genius or near genius levels of tech skills. The notes talked about the precipitous drop off in tech skills following the entrainment sessions. They talked about the preferred ability for the preservation of tech skills for project Cronus.

“What are you finding?” Rosen asked.

“This was a federal corporate project,” Jamie said. “They were trying to retain higher functions while controlling the antisocial behavior. They were trying to make killers docile geniuses so that they could work on a project. Project Cronus.”

“Any idea what that is?” Rosen asked.

Blaise was too distracted by concerns about what had happened to Fenwick to care about what Jamie was discovering.

“Cranial Retro Opthalmic Neurological User System,” Jamie replied. “It sounds like some sort of visual entrainment system for programming the brain directly through the eyes. There are all sorts of notes on wavelength frequency, kilohertz transmission signals, data transfer and repeat message propagation requirements. There are about a dozen patents in here for hemispheric brain synchronization and limbic bypass and selective engagement codes.”

“So they were test subjects?” Rosen asked.

Jamie shook his head. “Some of them might have been. But it seems most of them, or at least the ones they were really interested in, were the ones they needed to deliver or develop code for the system.”

“What happened to all of them?”

Jamie read on. “The Cronus notes talk about ‘feedback failure’ and ‘infiltrative brain trauma.’ There are a number of post mortems here where they tested tissue samples. Dendrite death in upper regions of the brain. Preservation of the motor function.

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