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- Underground eXperts United
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- [ 10th Generation ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "10TH GENERATION"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew/uXu
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- "Reach out and touch faith"
- (depeche Mode)
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-
- The fact that Brian Lawfeller was dead did not annoy me. Of course, it
- is hard to see a young man die, but as a police man you have seen it all
- many times before.
- I arrived first and had to pick the lock to be able to enter the
- apartment. Neighbors had complained about screams and "strange" noises -
- like someone was fighting. Being only two blocks away, I was there in less
- than a minute. Silence welcomed me as I entered - not good. It often
- meant that something was over. Inside the apartment I found Brian
- Lawfeller on the floor in the middle of an arsenal of various computers.
- Dead. With interesting marks on the body. I quickly made a list in my
- head of what confused me.
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- 1. Brian Lawfeller was dead.
- 2. The power was off.
-
- There had not been a murder. I noticed that the door was locked from the
- inside and that all windows where impossible to open. Even if you managed
- to open them you found yourself being twelve meters above the ground with no
- ladders available.
- The power was off. I know from experience that computers, and especially
- MANY computers, need much power all the time. But in this case the room
- was dark and everything was shut down.
- I called for backup - status "murder" anyway - and begun to seal off the
- important areas. I kept an eye on the body while my mind worked with the
- irritating question about what really had killed him. How the hell did he
- get all those marks on his body? First impression was that Brian had been
- riddled with thousands of mad needles. Small stains of blood covered him.
- Then the answer to why the power was off came to me, even more unexpected
- then i thought it would. Brian held a knife in his hand, an ordinary
- kitchen knife, that he had cut the main electrical cable in two parts with.
- This made me even more puzzled. Why had he done that instead of simply
- turned the computers off or unplugged the cable from the socket?
- I do not call myself an super sleuth but something made be completely
- convinced that there was a intimate connection between the death of Brian
- Lawfeller and his advanced computer hardware.
- I examined the desk that seemed to contain his notes. What caught my eye
- was that he had a computer game laying in the desk between a bunch of heavy
- programming and hardware books - "The Artificial Simulated Life Process!".
- There was an odd feeling about a game in the middle of all the
- "intelligent" literature. I could, by reading on the back off the
- package, get a brief understanding about what it was all about.
- "TASLP" claimed to be the first "real" AI game for home computers. No,
- let me correct myself, it was not a "game" - it called itself "a plain
- entertainment program". The program simulated the Universe as it probably
- looked like minutes after the Big Bang. Gas, material and space plunging
- into each other. You could watch the Earth come to life in realtime if you
- wanted to, but it was probably more funnier to speed up the evolution. The
- program could handle speeds up to fifty thousand years per second on the
- fastest computers. Which meant that you could get to the first sings of
- life after a very long time. All the way to the human race would take
- incredible long time. But it was "very funny and interesting" anyway,
- since the program was - as we know - "AI" supported. One computer-created
- universe was never repeated again.
- My knowledge of computers were - I dare to say - over the "average"
- level. I convinced the other people of the force who begun to drop into
- the apartment, as if it were a bistro, to let me examine the computer
- system. They nodded and did what they were there for; taking pictures,
- searching for hair or just looking around. Murder is fun, especially for
- police men.
- They system was easy to get into. Since it was his private computers,
- there were no passwords or security, but however a slight feeling of
- disorientation. Brian himself probably knew where to find everything he
- wanted but I had some problems. Something that made the investigation a
- bit easier was the fact that I knew what I was looking for - and I
- found it.
- Brian Lawfeller cracked the TASLP program. A shame that he did not write
- any notes, since it was very hard to get the point of his programming.
- After a few hours I knew what Brian had worked with the last weeks on his
- computer. By some unknown reason, Brian had bought the TASLP program and
- cracked it. Then he had started to re-program certain routines. It took
- me some minutes before I realized exactly what he had done. He had
- increased the speed of the program. Instead of fifty thousand years per
- second, the program now easily handled - it was hard to believe -
- three billion years per second. I could not get a test of it, since
- many important files was missing. They must have been erased by mistake.
- I searched other parts of Brian's small system, but found nothing that
- could give me any clues about his death.
- I felt very unsatisfied when I walked home.
-
- But I had a dream that night. When I woke up I understood.
-
- Chief inspector Roger Raven looked up from his pile of papers and stared
- at me. - Albert, did you say "Light Penetration Test"? You know perfectly
- well what the price of that kind of operation would cost us. I don't think
- they even would use if it was The President who was the victim!
- His reaction was expected. But I knew Roger. If you just twisted and
- shouted a bit, he gave up after a while and let you have whatever you
- wanted. It took me about ten minutes before he agreed to do a LPT at the
- scene of the crime.
- The light penetration test was expensive, but had to be used in cases
- where it was necessary. It simply analyzed the contents of material that
- had been in close range of the crime and created a very dizzy film about
- what had happened. The analysis was based upon marks from molecules that
- light leaves behind. Actually, I did not really understand how it worked
- and frankly - it had been very unsuccessful in solving mysteries due to
- the very bad quality of the final result. But I was convinced that it
- would be very useful to me in this case.
- The technicians who were in charge of the LPT came one hour after we
- called for them. Things had to go fast, because the marks from the light
- slowly fades away as new visions of light constantly crashes into walls,
- floors and ceilings. They worked in an incredible speed. Everything went
- fast, they even had a permission from the government to drive 100 mph on
- all roads. As we arrived to the apartment they rushed into it and quickly
- began to search for "good" areas of the room. After thirty seconds they
- decided to try a piece of wallpaper which they cut down from the wall and
- stuffed into a black bag. When it was done they slowed down and started to
- act normally again.
- - We are finished, one of them said with a voice that sounded like a
- great sight of relief. The results from our penetration will be on your
- desk tomorrow.
-
- That night I dreamed the same dream again.
-
- Roger Raven handed me the brown envelope from the Light Penetration INC.
- His red face betrayed him as usual.
- - Uhm, he began as usual when he was about to say: I'm in a damn hurry
- right now! Since this was your idea, I think you should look at it and
- leave a report if something extra pops out.
- He limped away ("Shot by a damn junkie three years ago!") to his office
- and closed the door behind him.
- "We have successfully done the LPT at the scene of 35M victim: Brian L.
- The tape will begin two hours before, what we believe is, the incident. We
- are very sorry about the bad quality. Mark Haywood - L.P INC"
- They were right - the quality of the film was very bad. But still, it
- was possible to see a dark shadow that must have been Brian Lawfeller as he
- was sitting by his computers. It looked like he was programming something,
- his hands were moving in front of a light area that must be the monitor.
- Now and then he leaned back and watched the monitor flash.
- I knew that he was working on the TASLP program. If I was right about
- this one, I also knew that he tried to speed up the code. This part of the
- film would not help me. I pushed the FF button until I found what I was
- looking for.
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- Brian was looking at the monitor. Then he obviously executed the program
- he was presently working on. But he did not lean back and watch the monitor.
- Instead, he suddenly got to his feet and walked away. Why? Anything could
- have happened - the phone maybe rung, somebody maybe knocked on his door,
- anything could have happened. We will never know.
- The monitor flashed alone. After thirty seconds the light increased and
- it looked like parts of the light was flying out of the screen and landed
- on the table. There it continued down on the floor and placed itself over
- the area that I knew was the place where the power-sockets had been
- installed. The light that still moved around over the table began to grow.
- Suddenly, Brian entered the room. Like a flash of lightning, the light
- threw small parts of itself towards him. His body twisted in pain and he
- turned around and ran away. Not for long. He came back with something that
- must had been the knife that I saw in his dead hand. The light now
- stretched itself out from the monitor like a snake and rolled around in the
- ceiling. Brian threw himself to the floor and begin to crawl towards the
- sockets. The light attacked him but he probably managed to reach the
- cable, because everything suddenly turned black.
-
- My hands are shaking. I know that the bizarre idea that popped into my
- head after the dream is true. I am right.
- Brian Lawfeller tried to speed up a program that simulates a Universe
- with worlds, similar to our own. The worlds have true evolutions - both
- natural and technical ones. The creatures involved in the program wants to
- survive. They hunt for prey and kill their enemies like our own
- civilization always have done. But they are fast. Too fast. With the
- help of Brian Lawfeller's skill of programming they managed to reach a level
- of knowledge that made them understand what they really were. The speed
- helped them to produce technology to survive before it was too late. They
- tried - but failed!
- Roger Raven enters. He asks: Did you find anything?
- I shake my head and he leaves. But deep inside myself I know that there
- will come more people like Brian Lawfeller.
- Some day, the speed will be too fast to be stopped in time.
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- Call THE STASH - Home of Underground eXperts United.
- Or check the INDEX file for a complete list of where you can find us!
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- Until then... Listen carefully.
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