Chapter 39: Thoughts, Plans

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.

"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."