《Into The Portal: Monster Invasion》148- Put Your Trust in AI, But Keep Your Powder Dry
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Miles looked at the children hugging each other in the room, with pity. When the door opened, a putrid smell filled both Cross boys’ noses, making their faces ugly. These kids were sitting and sleeping in their demures. All the eyes in the room were listless, looking dead. There were occasional coughs, most of the kids were sick. Miles unintentionally activated his elemental vision and looked at them with surprise. Now he understood what was happening.
All of these kids had rare elemental superpowers!
Miles looked at the colors in their bodies with surprise. Healing element, light element, reflection element, barrier element… All of them were the most precious rare elements and they were there to be used as tools when they reached the age.
“Cough, cough, cough.”
Ever since Miles entered, there was endless coughing coming all around the room, but one of the kids was coughing without stopping. Miles split the crowd and reached the center. The color on this kid was like beige. Miles didn’t know what element it was, but it wasn’t important. The little girl looked not much older than 10 years old and was on the verge of dying. She was coughing heavily, and there was blood at the side of her lips.
Miles grabbed the little girls and ran out of the room with his maximum speed. “I will take her to a hospital. The rest is in your care.” Miles shouted.
“Go ahead, I will take care of them.” Merlin smiled and looked at the children with pity in his eyes. The cruelty of the world. He would be in the same situation if he wasn't born into a prominent family, maybe worse.
Miles was running faster than a car. He tried to limit his speed to protect the little girl, but she was on the verge of no return, so he had to run fast. His speed passed the cars in the air, and people on the sidewalk pointed at him in marveş. But he couldn’t care less, at this point. He usually tried to hide his strength and speed, but now he could only use everything he had, if he wanted to save the little girl.
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There was a hospital not far from the underground facility he and Merlin broke into, so it took only a few minutes for Miles to reach there. Miles ran to the ICU and called for a doctor. “Need a doctor stead! She can hardly breathe, it looks like pneumonia. Her living condition was an underground room with putrid and feces.” Miles filled in as the ICU doctor as they took the girl to the room.
“Alright, we will do the best we can. Please stay outside.” The nurse said and closed the door. Miles looked at the door in panic and turned to sit down. He could hardly contain his anger and his legs were shaking. Why? Why were people greedy to this extent? They didn’t even care about the lives of innocent children.
And how did they escape from Mother AI’s surveillance? After knowing she lied to humanity, Miles wasn’t trusting her as much as he used to do. ‘What else is she keeping from us?’
Miles read some articles while waiting for the doctor to emerge from the room. There were many things discussed on Uninet. Recent news dropped on citizens’ heads like bombs, and there were turmoils everywhere.
People, who used to have peacetime once again, started to be afraid once again. There were threats everywhere. Undead and mutated animals were surrounding them, and aliens would visit them anytime. How could they try to survive in these conditions?
“How can a machine lie to us? It should have told the truth, and let us deal with it!” One of the commenters wrote harshly below the article.
“It’s reasons are not that far-fetched either. After all, human nature is unpredictable, and it was new to our world. It didn’t know humans enough to trust with the information. It is normal for it to have other agendas.”
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“It is a tool for us to make use of. We may have come to an agreement to avenge its creators, but it should have said everything like a good machine. Not hide things from us!”
“Who do you think you are, you pleb? It helped us in our darkest time and kept us from some of the information she had. Now that time had come, it told us what it knew, so shut your stinky mouth and be grateful.”
“I agree with ^^. Mama Hill helped us greatly, and without it, we wouldn’t have a chance to fight back at all. Even with a single portal opened, we were about to go extinct, but when later more portals opened, it helped us to seal them and awakened our superpowers. Ask yourself if you could survive without your superpower, then start to question the AI”
The public was divided in two, and people were arguing everywhere. Some thought Mother AI should have told them before they encountered those aliens, some said that she was right to keep it from humans. But they were just arguing. None had the guts to start another riot, and could only be keyboard warriors.
Miles read the comments indifferently. He had his own opinions. He lost his trust in Mother AI for two reasons, first because she kept the information even from the higher-ups. Second, when she appeared with Adam, it proved that she was listening to their previous conversations. Miles always had his guard up because he had too many secrets.
But thankfully, unlike other wristwatches, Coin was different. Miles was almost certain that even Mother AI couldn’t listen to him whenever she wanted. That is why he wanted others to remove their AI watches. But even still, they couldn’t escape from Mama Hill’s surveillance.
If so, how could she not see people abducting children? How did those kids hide from her eyes? Miles couldn’t help but suspect there was something fishy about all these.
At this time, the door opened and the doctor walked out with a deep sigh. Miles stood up and walked to the doctor. His eyes looked deadly, and questioned, “How is she?”
“She survived. You brought her just in time. Luckily, her lungs hadn't collapsed and she could still breathe.” The doctor said with a smile. “Technology did all it can, now we need a strong healer to heal her. Unfortunately, this hospital doesn’t have one.”
“It is okay. Prepare an ambulance and I will take her to a strong healer.” Miles answered.
“I am not sure I can do that sir.” The doctor said embarrassedly and looked at Miles. “By law, we had to inform the police when there were mistreated children, and the police are on their way. You have to wait for their arrival. Oh, here they are.”
Miles looked behind and saw three people walk in with their blue uniforms. They had deadly auras around them and cut edge technology handguns in holsters. They all looked at Miles, and Miles felt killing intent in those eyes.
“Something is so wrong!” Miles thought to himself and asked Coin to send a message to Merlin.
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