Capítulo 24: Foundational Work
When Dante appeared on the other side, he was standing at the entrance of a small self-contained room that had a tiny yard as well as a strange machine glowing with a green color that looked like a dustbin at the front, which Dante knew was a Quantum Transporter.
Basically, it delivered packages ordered online or even food. No more 3 days shipping or same-day delivery, this was now instant shipping, not even international, but intergalactic!
You might wonder, if they had this technology, then why couldn't they transport humans and invalidate Dante's so-called superpower?
Well, most of the clever folks would already be able to guess that the reason was pretty simple and obvious.
Quantum Transportation involved breaking down an item from its molecular and atomic structure into quarks and q-bits and then reassembling them at a designated quantum reception point.
As you could guess, breaking down inanimate objects with no life? Pretty fine most times.
Doing the same to a living being? Very, very ill-advised. Also, please do not put in plants or animals, you sick fuck.
Dante entered the building after being given the virtual key which was downloaded to his AI chip and tied to his ID. As such, the entire building came under his control, every facility controlled by his mind as if he was psychic.
The door automatically opened for him, showing him his living space for the period of time he would be enrolled here. The Eternal Academy was a place where every bit of land was like gold, because the uncountable number of people in the universe all battled to send their children here to study.
Of course, while they had the technology to expand the landmass and take in more, why would they do that? To control the enrollment and keep the prestige, as well as limit outside interference, it was best to fix the area completely in terms of living space and only add land for necessary facilities that would bring more objective value to the academy.
So even in a super advanced sci-fi universe, schools were still greedy fucks withholding generational knowledge and putting results over nurturing.
Then again, what did anyone expect?
Unless the government was fully run by impartial and untouchable AI, the human element will always find a way to blacken even the whitest canvas.
Dante noticed that his apartment had one bedroom, one study, a kitchen, and a living room as well as two bathrooms. For its size, it was pretty elite and almost as good as his earth bathroom.
But on this floating landmass in space, it was practically a 3000-acre villa. Dante knew full and well that this was a privilege for not only being in the Unique Batch, but also for being a pure human, his link to the Portinari family as well as his high-rank superpower.
The last one likely made up 90% of the reason.
With his brief encounter with the Eternal Academy, Dante's conclusion was that this academy firmly cared about your objective value and would treat you exactly according to your perceived value.
Dante had a feeling that Xue Bing's behavior might not be unique, but a common disposition and treatment here. If so, then there was no incentive to be 'low-profile'. It seemed the higher your profile, the higher your value and the higher your treatment.
Understanding this, Dante settled down and did not cause trouble. First, he checked out his residence and got familiar with it before downloading everything that was public about Quantum Transportation.
Unfortunately, not every detail was available, but it was enough to do a lot with. Coupled with the other technologies he had 'borrowed', it was enough to do a lot of things on earth for a long time to come.
Dante sat down on his bed and opened the Quantum Network, and then found the most popular e-commerce store on the network which was called… you guessed it, the Etramall. He browsed the stores and then bought two things that he needed.
The two items came to less than a hundredth-thousandth of an Etran, and Dante got it delivered to his Quantum Teleporter. He went out and then the machine spat out his packaged items like a vending machine, making Dante smile.
He took the two items and placed them in the pocket of his captain's jacket and then sat on his bed once more. With a light breath, he returned to his home universe, appearing right in his living room where he left.
He was seated on the couch and the apartment was silent apart from the hum of electronics. Dante had left his old iPhone on the table but he no longer needed it as his AI chip connected to Earth's communications network, whether cellular or internet, and then accessed Dante's relevant personal accounts.
The reason this could be done easily was that it stripped the details from Dante's phone and e-sim. Well technically, he could also easily hack into the details of everyone on the planet, but he was not really interested in that right now.
He was still focused on settling himself in the Eternal Universe and acquiring more standing as well as personal power before dipping his fingers into the home universe. However, that did not mean that there was nothing to do, and this was why he came back.
One thing about the modern era is that with the advent of the internet, many things became traceable, and a lot of information was shared really quickly across the globe.
As such, if he waited for a few months later when his Bionics and Psionics were set, his livelihood there was secured and he had better technology to start taking over, he would experience extreme pushback because he would literally appear out of nowhere with all these ground-breaking things and accumulate power too fast.
Many factions and governments would feel alarmed and begin to go against him in every way, using financial, political, and in the worst case, legal methods to hinder as well as crush him.
The simplest way to prevent or control this was to create a trail, a public and clear - as well as trustworthy and irrefutable - roadmap that led to his current location.
For example, if Dante started releasing these scientific technologies through various companies and labs under his name without the roadmap, that would be fine initially until the questions came.
The questions were usually very piercing, like where did the money come from? Secondly, they would ask, where did he get his qualifications? Thirdly, where did he learn this knowledge and how did he get there when so many 'smarter' people before him failed?
He did not necessarily need to answer these questions, but they could be slowly twisted in a way that would cause him endless headaches later. As such, it was just wiser and better to build a slow roadmap unless he planned to use military force to take over.
To that end, Dante was planning to solve the three questions of money, education, and qualification. To acquire that, he needed to take organic and logical means from his current location and position in society, so the first item he bought was indispensable.
Dante opened the package and removed the seal, placing the item on his table in his room. It was a small black box with no opening except for a port to receive power. However, Dante did not dare plug it into any socket in his room for this small black box was a generation 3 miniature quantum Raspberry PI.
In other words, it was a pocket-sized quantum computer!
Its specs were too long to explain, but it could virtually destroy any form of technology in this universe even considering the various alien races Dante happened to discover when he connected to this universe's Quantum Network.
And yet, this thing cost him the equivalent of $200 Earth dollars.
Dante then took out the second thing he bought and then assembled it following the manufacturer's instructions. He opened the tank and poured in water to fill it up then sealed it tightly using the instructions.
After that, he hesitated before trusting the Eternal Universe's technology level and the products sky high reviews before turning it on. With a soft hum, it came to life and the water in the tank began to boil then fold crazily.
The indicator near the output port shone green, meaning that it was functioning perfectly. Dante's pale face regained color and he sighed with relief.
The reason for his reaction was because this product was a 100% efficient ultra-miniature nuclear fusion reactor. It was a tabletop device meant to power the most common devices of the Eternal Universe and was equivalent to the lowest quality power bank.
It only cost like $3 and was equivalent to the average child's science fair project in the Eternal Universe, something that they could smash together with ease.
Yet this thing could likely power every household on this planet.
Comparisons were truly odious…
Capítulo 25: Setting Up The AI
Dante's goal here was pretty simple. He couldn't be here physically all the time to lay the groundwork, but this quantum computer could handle anything he needed to since it came with an advanced system AI.
The AI within was not as advanced as the one in the brain chips, but it was enough to surpass anything that the humans of this earth could picture in their movies and TV shows, not to mention that was only the base AI.
Depending on the user's necessity, child AI with custom uses could be easily created and run at the same time as long as you supplied enough power. This was why the miniature nuclear reactor was needed, AI of this level could obviously not be powered by a wall socket.
In doing so, Dante would destroy every power plant linked to his apartment and damage the mini quantum computer due to lack of power on startup.
The mini nuclear reactor was good enough, it had a high power output enough to maintain constant use of the quantum computer without external input since the system was endlessly renewable and produced next to no waste.
If the people of the eternal universe were comfortable enough to let children play with it, you know that its hazard rating was extremely low.
Dante plugged the mini-quantum computer into the main port and it came to life immediately. He could tell because space seemed to warp around it slightly and bent the area around his table like a model's poorly done Photoshop to increase the size of her assets.
Not only that, the quantum computer connected to his AI chip and registered him as its user. This meant that even if Dante gave this to anyone else, without an AI chip and a Citizen Id, they could not use this thing.
Dante allowed the base AI to maintain a supervisory role while he created child AI. The first one was the Student AI, which would connect to earth's internet using his name and sign up for plenty of online courses where he didn't have to show his face.
Even if he did, the child AI could easily replicate a 3D model of him on screen that looked lifelike, like a Vtuber sort of thing but infinitely more perfect.
As for the courses, there were many universities that were online and gave out such courses, some with cheap fees to gather money and some with high fees because they had accreditation that was actually worthwhile.
Dante didn't care about that though. The AI was just to stake as many courses on diverse scientific topics over the next few months and then excel in them greatly. That way, he would build up 'knowledge' with ease.
The second child AI was the Tycoon AI, which was to make him rich. Dante did not plan to take his shabby degrees earned by the Student AI to find a job, and that would be pointless. The schools that offered these courses were cheap in the first place because no respectable company would hire graduates of such a thing.
So he would have to set up his own labs in his own name and be his own main researcher. Luckily, in America of today, one did not need much to set up a lab except to follow the safety guidelines, acquire the relative permits, buy the equipment and hire the necessary staff.
In fact, most applied science-related graduates would tell you that the hardest part about setting up a lab was the bloody money, because acquiring the machines and tools needed to run the experiments cost a heckload of money.
Obviously, the Tycoon AI was on that. How it would make money was by doing various internet jobs that were short and quick payout, like art commissions. With a quantum-level AI, you could be sure it could generate a whole anime series of top-notch quality based on a 20-word prompt in any sub-style you want, so mere commissions were nothing.
The AI would also write web novels and upload them to certain platforms that paid well for them. No organic author could beat its chapter upload speed and mechanical accuracy, so it could have hundreds of chapters out in a day, but obviously it would be best to tone it down to make it realistic.
The Tycoon AI would also develop games of all genres, from 2D anime-like games similar to dangaronpa, to 3D anime games like Genshin Impact, to 3D realistic games like The Sims, it could code anything in seconds and produce all the assets itself with slight training.
What you thought the Tycoon AI would do think like hack banks, play with the stock market, and steal money covertly from the rich? That was too naive and cliche, not to mention it was not solving the issue of acquiring clean and irrefutable money.
Working internet jobs like this was the only way to quickly amass money with clean electronic traces without working a physical day job, that's why so many people do it. Even if the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, the other governmental agencies of America, and even the other big countries wanted to descend on Dante once he released some of his 'findings', they would be left speechless.
The boy was from a good family and his grades all his life were above average. No offenses, a very clean sex life that could not be turned into blackmail from false rape accusations nor any illegal drug use.
The boy was just a socially-adept handsome nerd!
How do you deal with someone like that?
They'd be more likely to believe he was a natural genius that awakened later than any foul play. After all, it wasn't impossible for him to gather such skills given that his mother was a Chemical Engineer, so there were some 'science' genes in him.
The third and final AI was to perform the task of Assimilation and Qualification, called the Genius AI. This AI would publish some papers in various science journals that were very groundbreaking and near to the truth, but not enough to give others the boots they needed to get there ahead of him.
Its job was basically to make his name rise to fame among the world of scientists, making even the best of the best known that there was a rising kid who seemed to be enlightened by the God of Science himself.
The reputation was necessary because if he opened his lab and officially published his results, the first pushback would be among the science community. They are responsible for a lot of the great technological progress we have made, but as stated, the human element stains everything.
Hubris grows where intellect flourishes, and it festers evermore.
None of the older scientists are subconsciously willing to accept that some brat from somewhere suddenly got up and solved the problem they had been stumped with for years, and so they would hinder it. It didn't even matter if they took a look and felt like this was the truth, they would refuse to see the positives and only see the negatives then exaggerate them.
However, if Dante had built up his rep as a wonderkid close to the truth, some may not even go against him. He might even have some fans among the older folks because scientists respect anyone who can truly enlighten them and make them marvel.
In essence, the goal was to change 'where did this arrogant brat come from? Where are his qualifications?' to 'hm, if it's that stellar young man, then it might be likely'.
After setting them up, Dante stood back and saw that everything was beginning to run smoothly. The Quantum Computer obviously did not need plugs or ports, it could connect to any network just like his chip.
The Tycoon AI would take over Dante's accounts and debts, and pay what needed to be paid while gathering the finds, the Student AI would take his credentials from his schools and then act like him, 'studying' online, and the Genius AI would contact various journals with his 'minor breakthroughs' and build credibility as well as fame.
Seeing that everything was set, Dante was satisfied. There was also the mother AI to supervise anything and maintain the set of extensive rules and commands Dante had input to be the baseline.
It could be seen that in the time Dante was away, this small black box could turn the world upside down and do things no human would think possible, but funny enough, that would only be the tip of the iceberg.
Dante stepped back and nodded to himself before teleporting to the Eternal universe.
When he appeared, he was in his bedroom, still seated in the place he left. Obviously, nothing had changed since he only spent a few minutes away, and Dante finally felt the fatigue that came with completing so many objectives in a short period of time.
He sighed and had his exosuit sink into his flesh as he preferred to sleep with little clothing on. As such, the young man lay on his comfortable bed and set the room to resemble his childhood bedroom before going to sleep.
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