Chapter 2 - Beginning II

After the war, a lot of technology was lost but over time humans were able to regain what was lost and greatly improved them, surpassing even their ancestors, but humanity's lost is not just the technology. no, the humans also lost one of the biggest advantages of being human, (fertility)

For some reasons humans are showing symptoms of infertility, and during the last 200 years it only becomes apparent, more and more couples are unable to produce a child, so 150 years ago the United Government along with all superpowers has unanimously made a difficult decision, to pursue one of the taboo branches of science, (Cloning)

At first, it was bombarded by a lot of oppositions, but when the government released the data and study of humanity's infertility for the last 200 years,

the world was shocked.

data shows that for the last 100 years the human population not only It didn't increase but actually decreases, it was so alarming that study shows that if humans didn't do anything to address the infertility issue human would be extinct within 200 years later.

A lot of alternatives was given such as in-vitro fertilization or most commonly known as

(seed project)

but it was scr.a.p.ed 20 years later because humans born this way are showing symptoms of mental issues, such as derangement or aggressive personality even with the most advanced technology they can't figure out what's the source of the mental issue.

In the end, the Governments were forced to shut down the project because cloning is showing good progress, not only it was cheaper.

No human clone is showing any mental problem it even shows some upgrades in human intelligence and physiology the only downside is human clone has a short life span compared to natural born humans.

but because of cloning the term "family" is beginning to lose its value even after more than 70years a clone is still not accepted in most communities especially the religious community, it strongly rejects the government cloning project and did not accept any clone in their community.

The radial city where Arc and his family lived, is an exception it's an open city where clone or human mutant is accepted without being discriminated against,

Jorge Ferdinand Radial the founder of Radial city.

He once stated that to him any human whether it's a clone or a mutant is still a human, he also said that what makes human a human is not our genes or how we are born but it's the principle to accept and to love others unconditionally are what makes us human.

Using his fortune that his family was able to amass over the past six generations he founded a city near the wasteland, near enough to be able to take advantage of the rich abundance of material the wasteland was able to offer but far enough to be safe from radiation.

A lot of people thinks he was crazy and even his own family thinks the same, they said that it was a fools dream, but Jorge was not discouraged in fact it only fuels him to prove himself, he strongly believes that he was building a Future, one that everyone will be accepted, and true enough 50 years later he was correct, in the last 50 years since the founding of Radial city it becomes the center of commerce in the southern part of United Governments and countless people visit it every year to trade or to simply experience the open city able to provide.

Arc check his mobile phone and look for anything interesting such as games or latest trend but after few minutes he lost interest, and only his annoyance increase he still can't fall asleep it's like he was on drugs or something his body wants to rest but his mind wants to party.

you have new mail!

"Hmm, it's been a long time since he gets any personal mail".

He gets messages from his sister or from his annoying boss who keeps on taking advantage of him. but never a mail or email, the last email he gets is more than a year ago, it's from his relatives saying don't disturb them anymore.

he checks the sender it was blank,

"hmm well, it might be a spam."

even though this was a new account he created after the accident. he can only count on his fingers the people who know this new email address, Click! he opens it the only thing he saw was a link, the link address covers the whole page.

-eh, what the hell is this web address? it must be a prank right.-

"has it been like this two years ago?" he asks himself,

he may not be active anymore online, but he was not a novice. before the accident, he was an active user. he was an active member of many forum and he was even a moderator in one of them, though he left all of those things behind two years ago, it's not long enough for many things changes to happen, normally he will just ignore it a shady website is full of virus and worm that preys on any new user, though the human technology has advanced during the couple of centuries the virus and those hackers is also advancing along with the technology.

well since he has nothing better to do he can't even fall asleep so he might as well check the link out. Click!.... he blacks out!