Getting A System In A Modern World

Chapter 39: Thoughts, Plans

*11:46 AM*

Silas woke up feeling very weak and his head felt fuzzy, and disoriented. He couldn't move his body at all and could only lay on the bed and look at the ceiling in a daze.

It took him a few minutes before he was finally able to snap out of it.

"Was that why the system said that I will be incapacitated for a week? Even with my high stats, it still took me some time to be able to move my body," Silas said to himself, as he stood up from the bed and made his way to the bathroom.

"No visible change with the increase in my stats but my body feels different, way different than before. I feel like I can process so many thoughts in my head all at once and multi-tasking is now a simple matter for me.

Also, my body feels very light and I feel an explosive strength in my body, but I don't know how strong I am," Silas said, while examining his body in front of the bathroom wall mirror.

"The increase in my intelligence, strength and agility are more noticeable, only the stamina that needs testing."

Silas quickly freshened up and went back to his room. When he got to his room, he picked up his phone to check for any missed calls or messages.

He was right to check as he had some missed calls and messages from Mr Rendall, the real estate attorney.

Before returning the call, Silas checked the content of the messages. The content of the messages were easy to guess as it was just him informing Silas that the second batch of buildings had been evaluated and their details.

Their details: six buildings in total, five of them are apartment buildings and the last one is a twenty story office building.

The cost of the buildings ranged from $38-$90 million. All of them with a total cost of $305 million and a total evaluation of $320 million.

Silas wasn't surprised when he read the details of the buildings. He had already been told by Mr Brandon that this particular set cost more.

"The evaluation of these buildings are lower compared to the first set. It's still good though, an appreciation value of $15 million is not a figure to scoff at, but who are selling these buildings anyway?"

When he was done with going through the buildings' information, he called Mr Rendall.

"Hello Mr Silas," Mr Rendall's came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello Mr Rendall. Sorry for the late response, I had a long night and I'm just waking up. I've gone through the information you sent and they are good. Get the papers, I will sign it and make the purchase," Silas said.

"Alright, I will be at your place soon."

"Good, I will wait for you then," Silas said and ended the call.

"I should be able to complete the first chain mission if I get to purchase this same set of buildings two more times," Silas said as he thought of the mission's progress.

Silas left the room and went downstairs for lunch as it's already 12 noon.

'I missed dinner and breakfast.'

....

While eating, Silas noticed that his appetite has increased greatly. The amount of food that will fill him before now can't even make a dent on his appetite.

"That's something to note, the higher the stats, the bigger the appetite."

Silas quickly finished his food and went back to his room. After he woke up and was still unable to move his body, Silas thought hard about what he wants to do in the future, and made a decision that he wants to open his own tech company.

Some might be asking why? Why start your company when you can get rich from just spending money?

There are many reasons but here are some of them. After waking up, while he was also thinking about the future, Silas started thinking about the system, its origin and the origin of the things in the store.

Sure, the origin of systems are usually vague and veiled under some mystery but what about the origin of the things in the system store?

Where do they come from? Just thinking of the description of the Gene Enhancement Serum and Uniscript programming language.

They have one thing in common, they were created by someone, maybe some higher dimensional being or race but the crux of the matter is that they are created by someone.

He also remembered what the system said when it was explaining to him about the origin of the Gene Enhancement Serum. It said that before the serum was created, people couldn't absorb dark energy without the consequences of mutation or death.

Now, the question is, who are these people?

Silas was not dumb and could already guess who or what they are. Aliens!

Thinking of these, Silas also thought of some of the items and knowledge he saw that were related to space travel.

Imagine that, going to space, seeing the stars, black holes up close, exploring the universe, maybe even coming in contact with those alien civilizations?

What about wormholes, are they real? What's actually the truth about the universe and not the hypothesis, theories and concepts our scientists form about it.

Silas felt that coming in contact with an alien civilization is him overreaching it but still, just the thought of finding life out there, in the vast cold, emptiness and darkness of space excites him.

But first, before everything, he still have to take care of a certain Lucas Anderson.

Immediately, Silas put a call through to Mr Williams.

"Hello Mr Silas, how may I help you?"

"Mr Williams, I need you to get me a private investigator and also start preparing a lawsuit against a Lucas Anderson. Also, try to get as much information as you can on him."

Mr Williams was surprised when he heard this. He couldn't help but ask himself.

'Who is this Lucas Anderson and how did he offend him?'

"Mr Silas, I can arrange a private investigator for you. Also, about the lawsuit, what are we charging him with?," Mr Williams asked.

"Sexual harassment, embezzlement of funds, forgery of evidence, coercion and extortion, fraud and abuse of power."

Mr Williams was even more surprised when he heard this.

"Mr Silas, these charges are not small and it's not something we can talk about over the phone. Let's meet in person to discuss it, choose a time and location."

"Alright, I will send the details to you. Help me get the private investigator as soon as possible."

"Yes, I will do that immediately."

"Ok," Silas said and hung up.

'Daniel, I hope you can survive without your father, his influence and the company, because I'm going to take everything away from you.'

After the call ended, Silas decided to focus on other things. He decided to go through the knowledge he bought yesterday.

Immediately, he thought of it and a surge of information flooded his brain, almost making him dizzy.

He shook his head to remove the dizziness he was feeling and was finally able to think straight.

He started going through the information, and after going through the information, Silas' mouth opened in surprise as he was completely shocked by what he read.

Scientists have been pumping out thesis statements on so many things, majorly physics related subjects but everything has just been theory.

But just a casual information on the virtual reality and augmented reality had him fascinated. After going through the information related to both of them, Silas found out that almost everything he saw in movies can easily be replicated into the real world.

The information he has on these subjects is something that surpasses humanity's current progress, maybe by hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years.

About the information on Quantum Computing, that area is just like something that came out of a super advanced sci-fi movie.

Silas would have loved to describe it but there's no way to do that.

The information that actually made him open his mouth in surprise is the programming language, Uniscript.

It was said in the information that the main reason the programming language was developed was because they wanted to use it to create a Cosmic Intelligence AI.

Cosmic Intelligence AI?!

Silas was stupefied by this information.

'Cosmic Intelligence AI?... We are still struggling with artificial intelligence and the world out there is probably already on Cosmic Intelligence AI?'

'Just how far behind are we? Are we really as primitive as depicted in movies?'

'The universe is advancing both in technology and so many other things, but the countries in my world are busy fighting each other.

Spending hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars on military development. Developing nuclear weapons to destroy the world they live in, instead of using that money on fast-tracking our technological advancement.'

'Everything is just all about greed and profit.'

'If Earth gets invaded by a civilization that uses a perfect AGI and is so technologically advanced, would we survive?'

For the first time in a long time, Silas felt fear as a chill ran down his spine.

"No! I have to start making my moves now."