The Core: The First Guest by Blatchley Ken

Author:Blatchley, Ken [Blatchley, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirty-one

In the mud and dirt

T he fire didn’t so much hit me as it licked and slithered past me. Something was off about its movements because as soon as it reached me it seemed to lose what power it had that had created it. The tail fell back towards the surface of the sun while the head and part of the body fell through me. Wherever the parts of the fire touched me that were exposed to my cr propulsion it seemed to hold on longer as though it was feeding off of something. I felt revulsion. No… not me exactly, my cr felt revulsion from whatever was trying to feed off of it.

On my interface I noticed something pop up and slowly start to decrease in value.

Fatigue 12%

“Hey, Num. What is Fatigue?” I asked my AI as I hovered there, watching the value slowly start to lessen until there was just a couple of percent left. The last percentage didn’t want to leave me so I briefly stopped hovering, completely turning off my cr propulsion, and letting myself start to fall back towards the sun. The last 2% dropped off after a second which allowed me to hover once again. The fatigue seemed to have fallen off and stayed off so I moved upwards and away from the sun while Num started to talk to me.

“Hello, again Kevin! The System notified me that my programming had encountered an error. Additionally, the System has upgraded me to accept any parameters that are out of bounds with you from now on. I have been hardcoded to not release any data concerning what you are capable of. All data available for release will be set to “Standard Normal”. Additionally, I have a note from the System for you.” Num began with his ever-upbeat sounding voice.

“Oh? What does the System note say?” I asked as I wondered how much of Silver had remained.

“It says “Hello from Silver’s sister. Thank you for saving him. Your secrets are safe with me.” Num replied.

“Oh boy.” Was all I could respond with. It seemed that Silver had left a backdoor for his sister into his System once his personality module was gone.

“To answer your question. Fatigue is a condition that all miners experience while they are harvesting cr from suns. Fatigue is believed to be created when a miner attempts to mine the same location as previously mined. Little is known about this condition besides the fact that it slows and restricts the movement and speed of said miner. Solutions have been developed to combat fatigue. These solutions are known as the Spike and Pushers.” Num said as graphics popped up showing mining robots with the attachments that I had noticed earlier. The spike was the lead harvester with the needle-shaped “Spike” attached while the Pushers were team members with little ridges like those found on a screw. The idea seemed to be that the lead would tunnel as deep as his team could go while still moving and drilling through the molten chaos under the surface.

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