System Nullification

Chapter 21

 The situation immediately got awkward. "Hey Reed!" I said back.

 "Hi..." Jack and Will simultaneously said.

 "Can I just say something?" Reed asked."Sure, I guess," I said.

 "To be honest..." Reed began. "Average pedestrians wouldn't be that armed. You got your weapons from some sort of organization."

 "Oh, the sweet irony of Iris figuring out what you were going to say before you even said hi to us," Will laughed.

 "Oh, and you guys got your weapons from some organization," Reed assumed.

 "Since there's no point in lying in this day and age," Jack said. "Yes, we have our marvelous clothes and our weapons from some sort of organization."

 "From that building behind you?" Reed asked.

 "Uh... no," Will said. "Another place."

 "Thought so," Reed said. "That building is probably smaller than the White House. If you guys were in a top secret organization for the government, it'd definitely be bigger."

 "Wait, how do you know we work for the government?" I asked. "Shit, wait."

 "Why not know?" Reed said. "To be honest, too much information was hidden. And the cops kind of suck. With just those cops, that crime spree one day wouldn't have been solved. Those cops are just a crappy cover up. Anything released about the government is just a crappy cover up. Because we're advanced. Times would have changed. But public information about the system is a lot more simple than how the system was back then."

 "Okay, literally, rarely anyone thinks about this except you," I said. "So I give you props for that."

 "Thank you. Now, as a reward, can I have more information about the government?" Reed asked.

 "I feel like it'd be pretty nice to study stuff like that.""Sorry... it's... well, you know, classified," I replied.

 "I figured," Reed said. "But try not to look too suspicious when you head out of school together. To be honest, it was kind of obvious you were all working together in a secret thing."

 "Hm," I said, genuinely not knowing what to say.

 "And on top of that, I have seen things," Reed added.

~"Everything has some sort of worth to it." - Reed

 I was about twelve when I saw this logic defying thing.

 I grew up in the northwest province. It was the tech-savviest of all of the other provinces, so naturally I grew up with stuff like computers and knowledge of computers. At the age of five, I learned the basics on how to build a computer. For now, I'd stick with the computer my dad bought me for my birthday, but I was proud of my build and hoped to improve it someday.

 I lived in a normal family. I wasn't living the angsty life on the streets, or the super rich family life. It was just another life, with a family of technological workers. I wondered if my life had any significance because I wasn't learning too much about the world.

 So I usually set off on what I called an adventure, which was typically reading things or just taking a walk. I studied books on human psychology and books on how computers operated. I studied theories from the past, current theories, theories intended for the future, and theories on politics. Everything about it was fascinating, and I thought I wouldn't find something more interconnecting than knowledge and me. When I turned six, my family decided to move to the northeast province, the art focused province. Art always fascinated me too, so knowing that, I was truly thrilled to be moving there. I hope that one day I'll be able to thank my parents for raising me and letting me learn all these new things. They taught me that the world, not just my own was worth something. Everything has some sort of worth to it.