Redeeming The Golden Ticket To Life

Chapter 74: The Cat's Out Of The Bag

[POV Hu Qiang]

When she started to sing a lullaby to Xiao Wei in her silvery voice, my very soul stirred with a myriad of emotions.

As she sang the words, 

"Oh my sleeping child

The world so wild

But you build your own paradise"

My heart quickened, for a short moment, I panicked. As it felt like she was accusing me of letting her down the last time. My guilty heart pained on those old memories.

(I wonder, how much did she remember about her past? Did she recover all her memory? How much is she clear about that accident?)

I keep on looking at her as she kept on singing, while I tried hard, not to meet her eyes.

The guilt within me was preventing me from approaching them.

'I found myself in a different world than them.'

Finally, Xiao Wei fell asleep. Bai Chang laid him down softly on the bed.

"Do you have something to say?" she asked.

I gather myself, "When will you sing a song for me?" I asked.

"Not tonight"

"Then when?"

"Someday in future, when I feel like it," she flippantly replied.

"Come, let us go to bed together," I offered.

"You go to sleep, I would like to stargaze for some more time," she replied and made herself comfortable in the armchair.

And the night passed by in silence.

****

Next morning I dragged Bai Chang as well as Xiao Wei to the hospital for a check-up.

Let's leave it at that, I guess. Because the amount of grief I saw in her eyes made me flinch.

All our medical reports would be sent to our home within a week.

The downside to it is- 

Bai Chang banned me from entering the Villa for a week now.

(Poor me)

*****

[POV Bai Chang]

Going to the hospital was altogether another bunch of trouble. I am already what will show up from the blood work and the following pandemonium that would take place in the Hu family.

(I really dread the future at this very moment.)

I was so miffed by Qiang that I banned his entry on the property for a week.

(He deserves it.)

So here I am enjoying the calm before the incoming storm.

Xiao Wei stayed by my side.

I observed that he looked much more elated than when Qiang was tagging along with us.

Sure enough, the Father and Son, do not see each other, eye to eye.

While Zhang Wei took Xiao Wei to practise basic martial arts, I walked towards my study room on the third floor.

"Jiffy, let us get to work," I commanded as soon as I walked past the door.

"Hello Eli, you want to continue the last project?" it asked.

"Sure"

'I programmed 'Jiffy' to call me Eli, to keep some trace of my real self in this world. A place that is foreign to me, I feel 'Jiffy' is my long lost relative.

(As it was common in Star Time System Civilisation, for humans to have an accompanying AI Robo, specific to their own family.)

I made myself comfortable on the chair and then began to crunch data and numbers to gather as much vital information we can obtain from hacking the government IT department in sly.

Actually, the firewall that I developed for the contest was a malware that can only be triggered if, Feling attacked the firewall himself.

Yesterday, at the event, Feeling joined the party pretty late. But the moment he tried to tackle the firewall, unknown to him, he triggered the hidden bug within the firewall to sweep data from the adjoining systems and send it all to 'Jiffy' through a remote Bluetooth system.

This world already has research in the relevant research pipeline to explore the maximum potential of the wireless Bluetooth system along with the respective data speed.

Bluetooth was originally designed to exchange a lot of data at close range in continuous, streaming data applications. The devices can both send and receive data at the same time. This is perfect for many common consumer products, such as computer headsets, where the two devices are close together.

When Bluetooth low energy (BLE, formerly called Bluetooth Smart) hit the market in 2011, the key advantage over earlier versions was lower power consumption over the same range, but with lower bandwidth. It's intended for devices that only need to exchange small amounts of data periodically, extending battery life by months or even years.

Many factors are affecting Bluetooth range, typically:

1)The output power of the transmitter

2)The sensitivity of the receiver

3)Physical obstacles in the transmission path

4)The antennas

While the radio performance and antennas are pretty static for a given Bluetooth device, the surroundings can vary a lot. Outdoors, in an open field, you can get a range of up to a hundred meters. But that is a rare situation. Indoors, obstacles like concrete walls will attenuate the radio signal and the effective range will be drastically reduced. In normal use, ten meters is a good guide to what can be achieved between two Bluetooth devices indoors.

When developing a Bluetooth device, you can give your device a better range by selecting the Bluetooth chip with the best receiver sensitivity and output power, and making sure that you use a good antenna.

Sometimes you may need to use Bluetooth over hundreds or thousands of meters. 

Currently, there are a few types of Bluetooth available for commercial uses like- 

BLUETOOTH V2.1

BLUETOOTH 4.0 (LE) 

BLUETOOTH 5 (LE)

Now BLUETOOTH V2.1 has a range of up to 100m; with frequency 2.402 2.481 GHz; maximum data rate - 1- 3 Mbit/s; application throughput - 0.7-2.1 Mbit/s; while the topologies in use are Point-to-point scatternet.

BLUETOOTH 4.0 (LE) has a range of up to 100m; with frequency 2.402 2.481 GHz; maximum data rate -1 Mbit/s; application throughput -Up to 305 kbit/s; while the topologies in use are Point-to-point mesh network.

While BLUETOOTH 5 (LE) has a range of up to 400m and 1000m (outdoors); with frequency 2.402 2.481 GHz; maximum data rate -2 Mbit/s; application throughput -Up to 1,360 kbit/s; while the topologies in use are Point-to-point mesh network.

All three of them use the standard network IEEE 802.15.1.

While in the Star Time System, we had better Bluetooth versions with a range exceeding over 5kms and the data transfer could take place through clouds. 

The idea behind it was to simply put together your data in a sharing cloud, using it as a temporary host. This cloud is already synced with your system through connections. As it is already jacked with a receiving system the amount of data transferred becomes irrelevant. Of course, there are some trade secrets involved in it, but for now, it is best that this civilization remains unaware, As the third world war is on the brink. As most of the major countries have a nuclear weapon, the history that I read in the future, depicted these few centuries as the darkest time of Human Civilisation. The time when Humans underwent a rapid cycle of destruction and revitalisation.

While the Star Time System played a major role in re-establishing human civilisation.

(The million-dollar question is, what did Bai Chang's parents have to do with all this?)

I work on them all night long. While in between programming I thought if Feling was made aware of what happened right under his nose, would he cough up blood or put a bullet through his brain. The result would surely be interesting to look at, that I am sure!

[Knock.. Knock]

"Come in"

"You need to take some rest otherwise Mr Hu would chew off my head again," he said straight away.

"Well, good morning to you too!" I smirked.

"I am here to give you heads up, your blood work report arrived this morning," he pauses for a dramatic effect to attract my attention.

"I know what it showed, I am guessing, it came with a term written as, anaemia," I casually replied.

He raised his eyebrows, "How do you know?" he asked in sceptically.

"Well, what else would you get, for a person with such a rare blood type? After all, I just donated my blood to my future self just a day before the medical check-up," I simply shrugged.

"Wait- WHAT!" he exclaimed, "when and where did you donate your blood?" He was seriously contemplating what to do. His voice had turned a little harsh and his fists were clenched tight. 

(I wonder what caused him to be so worried?)

"Chill down, now would you! We have a private hospital catering to my needs alone on this very property," I informed the ignorant man in front of me.

"Come again, we have what now?" 

He was trying to wrap his head around the fact that we have our own hospital on this very private property.

"Listen carefully, we have a fully functioning, high tech private hospital on this very Villa property," I concisely explained. 

"Then, who was your attending doctor?" he asked the most important question.

"Who else, would it be, of course, it's me!"