The Children of Tomorrow (This Alien Earth Book 3) by Paul Antony Jones & Robert Greenberger

Author:Paul Antony Jones & Robert Greenberger [Jones, Paul Antony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2020-10-12T22:00:00+00:00

Ten

This collector was as huge a structure as the one we found Michael, Vihaan, and Miko in. At the top was the cone-like bell, which absorbed power from the Dyson swarm, sending energy through the miles-wide trunk, sweeping down, growing rapidly narrower before broadening again. As it neared the ground, it vanished into tightly-clustered rocks that rose above the trees at its base, oddly out of place in the sea of green surrounding it. Lines of energy moved and shifted within the collector’s trunk. Everything around it was silent, not a rustle in the leaves, not a thrum of energy. The same circular dead zone greeted us, a sobering reminder of the devastating power we were dealing with.

While Chou, Albert, Silas, and I had seen it before, the others gaped now that they had a full view of the mammoth construct. These giant collectors of energy from the stars were repurposing it to geo-form protection, to pluck two billion people from across the multiverse, and to ready the world for the false vacuum. But yet, the network couldn’t easily communicate with us; the Adversary saw to that. How had it stymied plans that were in the works for countless millennia? If the Architect was the Shining Light’s AI, then it had nearly half a billion years to do so much. More questions and more unknowns and I, frankly, had my fill of them.

Albert silently came beside me and slipped his hand into mine.

“This thing still scare you?” I asked.

“Not really,” he said. “I guess I am getting used to it, but I have never seen anything so large and I’ve seen St. Paul’s Cathedral.”

“Silas, are you picking up any transmissions like you did at the other collector?”

“Yes, Meredith, the same Fibonacci numbers.”

“Lead on,” I said, wanting to bow and be graceful, but was too damned tired. I merely gestured that he should move on.

The thing was so huge that we were walking a good thirty, forty minutes around the circumference of this robot-made construct and Silas was giving us no indication we were near the holographic doorway. Several minutes later, he did slow to a sudden stop, the hair on the back of my neck now at attention. Now what?

I shouldn’t have asked. A trio of seven-foot-tall androids, cables running down their arms and up their legs, pulsing green energy within its chest chamber, all making clacking sounds with every move, took a position and stared at us with cold, ice-blue eyes. These were entirely mechanical beings, clearly from some time in my future, and looked dangerous just standing there. There was a grill for a mouth and no nose; after all, they didn’t need to breathe. I saw nothing resembling weaponry so suspected it was internal and feared it to be true as the green energy pulsed like an engine warming up.

“Silas, do you recognize these?” I asked.

“No, Meredith, they resemble nothing I have seen before. They are, though, clearly primitive constructs,” Silas said, almost sounding dismissive.

Michael shuffled forward,

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