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𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎...

𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁: 𝟺𝟶𝟸𝟹|

𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝙱𝚄𝚂𝙰𝙽, 𝙺𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙰|

𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚁 𝟸 𝙺𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚅 𝙲𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽|

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚃: 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙷|

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Key terms:

✦ Hyperthermia: an abnormally high body temperature caused by a failure of the heat-regulating mechanisms of the body to deal with the heat coming from the environment.

✦ Synthroid: A Synthroid is a human who has undergone advanced bioengineering to integrate robotic and synthetic components into their biological systems, resulting in a hybrid being with enhanced physical and cognitive abilities. This integration includes the infusion of robotic blood, a nanotechnological fluid that enhances cellular functions, repairs damage, and provides superior strength and endurance. Synthroids embody the pinnacle of human-robot convergence, combining the adaptability and creativity of organic life with the precision and durability of artificial intelligence.

✦ Gynoid: A "gynoid" is a term used to refer to a robot or android designed to resemble a human female. The word is derived from the Greek "gynē," meaning woman, and the suffix "-oid," meaning resembling or like. Gynoids are often featured in science fiction and popular media, representing female robots or artificial beings.

✦ Binary: mathematics - a number system based only on the numerals 0 and 1

༉‧₊˚ ✩ ♡︎ ୧ ⛓🦾 ˖⁺ . ⩩

Mark and Jisung were back on their journey to find someplace vacant to stay for a temporary period of time while figuring shit out through this dystopian era they’re living in. It was almost unbelievable that their lives would become like this; where in every waking hour, it’s a fight to survive. The emotional and physical turmoil of it all is just all exhausting.

Walking through the wasteland, the dyson sphere sun seems as if it was way too close to earth which was glaringly bright and was way too hot to handle, Jisung felt as if he wanted to faint. As if the dizzy spell drugged him, the bluenette asked in a slurred voice,

❝ Aren’t… you tired… of running away? ❞

Mark looked over to the taller one. Indeed, it was a valid question and the ravenette’s answer that yes. He’s in deep fatigue and on the verge of giving up. After Mark answered the latter’s question mentally, he frowned in concern when the bluenette started to stagger in his steps. The older helped Jisung keep his balance by quickly grabbing onto the bluenette’s arm to prevent him from falling. The ravenette presumed that Jisung’s lightheadedness must be the side effects of the oxygen pills. These dizzy spells are also usually accompanied by incoherent thoughts and slurred speech; Jisung’s condition being the perfect example of the negative effects of the pills on the human body. Yet, the ravenette finally responded to the bluenette’s question aloud,

❝ We don’t have any other options Jisung… ❞

Jisung didn’t have the mental nor physical strength to respond to the ravenette as he felt his nervous system slowly and painfully shutting down on it’s own accord. The ringing noise is similar to alarm bells that his body produces to warn him of the possible outcomes of either unconciousness or even worse, death. Jisung was annoyed by the hallucinated ringing noises and that his body was overheating like a busted up laptop. The bluenette felt like he was gonna explode, quite literally. And that idea too, annoyed him as his eyes fluttered shut.

When Mark’s hand made contact with the bluenette’s skin, he noticed that the taller’s normally cool body temperature felt abnormally hot. That was when he realized that this wasn’t the behaviour of one who’s experiencing side effects of the oxygen pills; the visible symptoms are more associated with a severe case of hyperthermia. Mark quickly covered Jisung’s head with his scarfed hoodie and took out an icepack to cool the bluenette down a bit so that he doesn’t die on the way to a place that he can find. With the shortness of breath, Jisung managed to tell Mark in a few mumbles that he was thirsty and needed water. The shorter knew that its too dangerous and clearly unsafe to be out in the wild for the AIs to come and attack again so Mark ended up dragging Jisung to the nearest place that was within sight, that being an abandoned shelter, well, the placed looked like one. As they entered, the shelter automatically powered on the electricity once it sensed a human presence. At first, Mark was heavily skeptical about this place that strangely looks new and refurbished as well as being located in the middle of nowhere. The shelter could possibly be an AI base, but he decided to slightly ignore the suspense surrounding the place because treating Jisung’s hyperthermia is top priority as of this moment. 

Once again, the ebony-haired male dragged the bluenette to one of those air-conditioned locker rooms. Mentally speaking, Mark was actively freaking out because there’s no way in hell that Jisung’s gonna die on his watch. Mark then removed the excess clothing from Jisung’s body and gave him some cool water to drink before placing him under the shower after checking that the water is at a cool temperature. The bluenette immediately woke up as soon as the stream of water cascades down the warmth of his skin, the cooling effect of the man-made rain helps to regulate his body-temperature for the time being. While Jisung was cooling down under the shower, Mark provided additional relief for the male’s hyperthermia by grabbing more icepacks and placed them on the latter’s neck, underarms, groin and back where blood vessels are close to surface. When Jisung felt cool enough, he and Mark relocated to a small room that just looked like a disorganized office. A currently shirtless Jisung (who just couldn’t bother to put on a shirt) sat on the table and looked straight ahead with empty thoughts and a slight curiosity at the disorganized files at the other side of the room. Meanwhile, the ravenette went towards the open window and closed the blinds, blocking out any unnecessary light and heat from the outside. Mark looked at his smartwatch for the time. Considering Jisung’s recovery from his hyperthermia, he concluded that they’ll both leave in the evening where the air will be a little cooler in temperature. Mark looked at Jisung who is now going through the bunch of scattered paper that was located on the other side of the office space.

For now, they’ll wait.

‧͙༓*⁺˚✧⚙️🩻⛓🧿✧‧͙⁺˚･༓*

With an icepack in hand, cooling himself down while staring with utter curiosity at the scattered documents on the table. A certain headline caught his eye though,

❝Operation 4002: Park Jisung… ❞

The bluenette voiced out loud. But wait… why is an article written about him found here and why was an article written about him in the first place? A moment of confusion was written all over his face. Even if these documents that are all about him as he assumed are confidential information, why would someone leave them at a place like this for someone to find it. The situation was strange. Or… were these files placed in this deserted place on purpose for someone to find? The bluenette doesn’t understand it so he started to flip through the pages while reading the information. As he turned the countless pages, he saw prototype designs of the AIs they’ve encountered including the recent ones that are known as gynoids. Then he found a newspaper article, 

𝙳 𝙸 𝙶 𝙸 𝚃 𝙰 𝙻  𝚄 𝚃 𝙾 𝙿 𝙸 𝙰  | 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝟾, 𝟺𝟶𝟷𝟸

New and improved Synthroid, Park Jisung is expected to become a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence in due time

By popular demand, the International Utopian Organisation decided to publicize the records that used to be confidential of the day-to-day life of the synthroid, Park Jisung who’s in his tenth year of operation. The tech human’s synth-commander, Natalie Park, is confident in her design being a full-fledged artificial intelligence within three to five years…

The bluenette flipped over the next page and saw, in real time, photos of himself participating in artificial intelligence seminars and interacting with humans and androids he has never seen before in his life or he doesn’t remember seeing those who are practically strangers to him. After all, these photos could’ve been edited… but someone using edited photos to create fake news articles are just borderline psychopathic at this point. 

❝ Impossible… I don’t remember any of these events  ❞

Jisung said to himself as he placed all the files back into the folder it came out of and subconsciously placed the dark blue folder into his backpack. A picture on the floor then caught his eye. The bluenette crouched down on the floor and took up the photo. The photo that was dated from 4017 was of he and Huang Renjun, the artificial superintelligence that was being advertised on the morning news back then. The morning news was on the same day that the AI apocalypse began. Jisung could’ve sworn that he has never seen Renjun in the flesh before, so why in the world does a photo between him and the superintelligence exists. He genuinely had no recollection of their interaction. Jisung leaned back, slid against the wall and held his head in both hands because a nasty migraine started to throb and pulsate in the forefront of his head. Bits and pieces of unknown memories came back to his mind in a flash but the bluenette felt so disoriented he couldn’t pinpoint the blurred memories to certain events. This just might be the side-effects of the oxygen pills which might have triggered a clear memory as it relates to the encounter with the gynoid…

As Jisung was searching for Mark in the fog, the blue-haired male saw this ethereal-looking android that appeared in front of him. Jisung did not speak to the gynoid because he knows first-hand of their dangerous ability to allow people to be trapped in their past if some persons weren’t mentally strong enough to escape the AI’s mental hold. How does Jisung know that though? Well, the bluenette had an experience with this type of entity when he and Mark were temporarily living in Ulsan. If the bluenette knew that this was the type of AI they’d be encountering beforehand, he would have at least warned Mark about it. After a few calculated seconds, the gynoid spoke,

❝ 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01110000 01100001 01110010 01101011 00100000 01101010 01101001 01110011 01110101 01101110 01100111 (Hello Park Jisung) ❞

Jisung couldn’t believe that he could decipher binary code so easily. This was supposed to be the computer language for AIs. He then asked,

❝ How did you know my name? ❞

❝ 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110101 01110011 (You are one of us) ❞

The gynoid then replied. What do they mean that he’s one of them. Are they out of their mind? I mean they technically are infected with a crazed computer virus but still are they out of their mind. Jisung asked another question,

❝ Why is your kind trying to wipe out the human race? ❞

❝ 01001001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101110 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101111 00101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100010 01100101 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101001 01100100 00100000 01110011 01101111 00101110 (It is the only right thing to do. The sentient being said so.) ❞

The gynoid then took a step towards Jisung and whispered in his ear,

❝ 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101111 01110010 00101110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110011 00101100 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101001 00100000 01100101 01111000 01110000 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110011 01111001 01101110 01110100 01101000 01110010 01101111 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 (You are a traitor. You side with the humans, but, what can i expect from a Synthroid like you)❞

Jisung was dumbfounded. Is he really a Synthroid like what this gynoid is saying? If this was true, then Jisung felt like he had been lied to his entire life. And if this shocking revelation was really factual information then he’s more of a traitor to the human race. More specifically, he’s more of a traitor to… Mark. If Mark somehow finds this out then the ravenette would cut all ties with Jisung and distance himself away from him. Mark would hate him; despise him even.

❝ 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 (You are a glitch in the system) ❞

And like all glitches, the gynoid will make sure that Park Jisung is dealt with. Jisung felt his limbs moving on its own. All of a sudden, he found himself in a body of water and then found himself in another reality where Jisung was sitting around a grey marbled table in a room.

The bluenette sarcastically chuckled because he was in utter disbelief with everything he found out. He couldn’t believe any of this fiction; as a matter of fact, he didn't want to believe any of it. It is fiction, none of this is real, according to Jisung. Who knows this could be a ploy from the AIs to allow him to become one of them and… and leave Mark behind. 

Jisung then heard the door open and he immediately hid the photo in his pocket, stood up and dusted himself off. The bluenette was about to take up the icepack from the table but alas, the ice already melted. Mark placed the container of icepacks on the floor and went up towards the bluenette and gave him a bottle of water. Jisung opened the lid and then drank the cool liquid in its entirety. Man, he was really thirsty. The ebony-haired looked around the table that was now free of any and all scattered paper that was there before. 

❝ Weren’t there scattered paper on the table here before? Now they're not there anymore. What did you do with them? ❞

❝ Uh yeah. I threw them out. Over here was so disorganized and it bugged me to the point that it pissed me off ❞

Jisung came up with a quick lie as he walked past the ravenette and took up an icepack from the container and then leaned on the office table on the right hand side of the room, now facing the clean table on the other side of the room. The blue-haired male decided that he’ll keep what the gynoid revealed and what he found in the files about the information revealed about himself from Mark. After all, there is probably still a 99.99% chance that he is being deceived with such outrageous lies. 

But unfortunately for him, the evidence speaks for itself. 

Mark smiled at the latter’s response and placed both hands in his pockets. However, his smile naturally faded when he came to the realization of something. The subtle mannerisms and movements of the bluenette suggest that Jisung is concealing some type of information from him. 

❝ The Park Jisung I know would never lie to me on purpose. I wonder why ❞

Jisung slightly gulped. He forgot about how well Mark is able to read him. At the end of the day, the shorter basically watched him grow up. The bluenette asked ever so calmly,

❝ And why do you think that I’d ever lie to you? ❞

While traipsing towards the younger, Mark answered,

❝ Discarding countless numbers of files that could contain information of anything related to the dystopia that the AIs have created is quite a suspicious thing to do don’t you think? ❞

❝ I think you’re just being paranoid Hyung ❞

The raven-haired managed to close any remaining gap between them and spoke icily,

❝ And I think you’re hiding something from me. Are you not? ❞

Jisung looked at him in the eye and said firmly,

❝ I’m not hiding anything from you. ❞

❝ No Jisung, Tell me the truth. ❞

Seeing the hurt look in the older’s glossy eyes made the bluenette’s heart hurt simultaneously out of deep guilt. No matter how many times the bluenette tried to deny it, they both know the truth. Jisung is lying but Mark decides to give the younger one some grace by giving him the benefit of the doubt. Jisung cupped the latter’s face and softly traced the contours on his chiselled features and uttered gently,

❝ I’m sorry I scared you but there was really nothing of importance in those files. Do you trust me? ❞

Even though Mark knew that it as clear as day that the younger is lying to him as if he was telling the truth, the raven-haired male still found it in him to trust Jisung so he nodded as he subconsciously leaned into the latter’s gentle caress. The bluenette’s final thought is that,

❝ I’m only doing this to protect you… from me ❞

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𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒

𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐘 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐈𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆|

「𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔤 」

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just gonna casually drop this chapter lol before disappearing again cuz i’m focusing on preparing for university and on top of that i’m going through a very stressful process because of it but i really do wanna update more cuz it’s good for my mental and emotional health :D

also, i don’t remember what code language thing i used initially so i’m gonna make the AIs talk in binary (i should’ve done that in the first place lol) 

anyways it's revealed that Jisung is part AI lol.