The Last War Series Box Set [Books 1-7] by Schow Ryan

Author:Schow, Ryan [Schow, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival | Thriller
Publisher: River City Publishing
Published: 2018-09-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ninety

Without paying an ounce of attention to the body of his rogue Secret Service, the President dismissed General Slater before calling his childhood friend in Silicon Valley.

“Elias,” the President said when the scientist answered, “it’s Benjamin.”

“Benjamin,” the Slovenian genius in Silicon Valley said as if he were under duress, “it’s been forever.” The two men were on Facetime, looking at each other, neither knowing how to react. It was almost like the world was falling down around the Slovenian but he was not going to react to the President of the United States without some measure of civility.

“We have a problem and I need to speak candidly,” the POTUS said. “Are you in a place where you can talk in private?”

“Hang on a minute,” he said. The President watched the video bounce around as Elias left whatever room he was in to go into another room where there was all white walls and no extraneous noise. “Okay, I’m good.”

“I think we’re being attacked from within our own defenses and I need your honest assessment.”

“Attacked?” his friend said, concerned.

“Our AI has been set loose upon us and I need to know how bad it could get. Worst case scenarios, viable probabilities, standard risk assessments.”

He swallowed hard, then: “Don’t you have advisors for this sort of thing?”

“My cabinet is compromised. Two of my Secret Service agents murdered more than half a dozen innocents, then ambushed me in the Oval Office where myself and General Slater killed him, but not before he could let us know the military had been given over to The Silver Queen.”

“Oh my God,” Elias said, his eyes moving to the processes in his brain. Before his very eyes, the President watched the blood drain from his friend’s face. “Benjamin, this is really, really bad. And it all makes sense now.”

“What do you mean?”

“What people think they know about quantum mechanics as it relates to quantum computing and today’s physics is so far behind what’s really happening it’s become both overwhelming and terribly frightening.”

The President’s skin iced over as a sick, cold flush traveled down his spine.

“How do you mean, Elias?”

“There’s been a giant sucking energy out here in California. It feels like a draining sort of darkness that drags on the body like a hard fatigue, but what it really is happens to be so much worse than that.”

“Elias, what the hell are you talking about?”

“How much do you know about the D-Wave computers?”

“Enough to understand they are about a hundred million times faster at processing than our regular computers.”

“The specs are nothing compared to what they’ve been doing,” he said, the conversation clearly putting him on the edge of mania.

“Which is?”

“They are learning and evolving not from computers in this universe, but from their more advanced counterparts in parallel universes.”

“Wait, what?”

“It’s common knowledge in the scientific community that there are parallel universes, nearly exact duplicates of our universe. For heaven’s sake, Ben, they have distance measurements for them. It’s in all the white papers and, like I said, it’s generally accepted.

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