part 2 - The Blockchain And Three Days Of Fire

The Blockchain inhabitants

Anon turns his head and looks at Minus with interest

Oh it looks like you already know a lot about it, it was going to be a surprise but ta da! Blockchain actually never disappeared, NATO was never able to fully take control of the network or destroy all the nodes no matter how hard they tried.

Blockchain is not only a way to create a currency runner by their own users, is also a tool to prevent corruption, fraud and make a stand against the centralized government.

But it not only takes Blockchain to prepare a coup d’etat against NATO, come with me, there's someone I would like to introduce you

We put back our masks and follow him to a room at the other end of the warehouse. The whole place was dark and messy with cables on the floor and lots of computers and with people working over old wooden tables, they would react all the same, putting on their anonymous masks as we passed by.

At that moment I remembered something.

Hey Anon, aren't we supposed to be taking a boat to cross the 60th parallel through the Neva bay?

I know Plus, but don't be inpatient, I have someone to introduce you before, is the master mind behind all this plan.

I thought that were you

I'm pleased to hear that but no, I'm the one in charge of logistics, we're actually commanded by an AI called 3.

What, an AI? Please don't tell me you just asked an AI an step by step guide of how to start a riot.

Not really, this one is different to all the others, she's the only known AI that managed to copy herself in an human brain, and is right behind that door

We see a door 2 metters high with the number 3 stamped there

Three? And why's that name?

She told me that it was because it was humanity's favorite number, it appears everywhere

Just at that moment I got a message in my phone, it was from a new contact I hadn't added called “three”

Three: oh, you're finally here, just one second please, I'll be out with you in a second

A couple of hours later we were still waiting

Oh Anon, come on, how long is this going to take?

Maybe a little bit more than we expected,like any other human girl she likes to spend hours doing her hair before coming out

At that moment we hear a big strike as a girl kicks the door wide open and comes out,the room inside is so bright that we only manage to see her shadow at first but she comes to greet us very soon.

Privet tavarish, ya menial zabut tri Я рад познакомиться с вами.

Hey three, remember that they don't speak Russian

I know Anon, don't worry, is just that Russian is my favorite language to greet!

Hello Plus, eet

Hello Plus, how are you doing, and you must be Minus, hi, hi, I’ve heard so much about you two and your adventures in central asia, to the oceans to the jungles.

She speaks very fast and has a curled hair with 2 ponytails in the shape of RNA strands

Wait, wait, I can barelly understand you, please talk a little bit slower

No problem Plus, and sorry about the delay, I had to do my hair and these beautiful curled bucles are hard to prepare, also, I’m still getting used to this body

Why do you have those two ponytails

To cover these antennas of course, I try to stay in contact with all my other copies inthe Blockchains and even out of Earth in satellites and refugee ships.

I thought you were human

I’m still 93% human, i just have some implants to enhance my performance. In the Northern Federation they made an exception with me as I can get in contact with the human refugees outside Earth.

Yeah the frogmen, I mean the gray told us about it, is incredible there are more than 5 million humans wondering in old warships in space hoping to return to Earth someday.

They (the gray) tried to kill me a couple of times do you know, for them it was too dangerous to allow an artificiall intelligence to scape from the cyberspace, it looks like they were very worried about me creating an army of little ant robots that would end up consuming all matter in the universe to create even more ant robots. They already had some problems with other machines which were able to obtain the capacity of growing, evolve and reproduce like natural lifeforms do, the thing is that machines do it so much faster that in no time they can consume entire planets and spread all across the universe, destroying all other life forms they found in the process.

Nevertheless I managed to convince them that those are not my aims, although I still have to send them some report of what I’m doing every so often. But anyway, too much talk, let’s go to the boats, it’s already 9 pm and the cover of darkness is perfect to cross the neva bay north of the 60th parallel without being detected by NATO.

Just by sounding her fingers a gate opens in the floor and we see an opening to the ocean 30 mts away. We would have to use a small boat suitable only for 4 people in order to cross.

Well guys and milady, it’s not a luxury jatch but it can take us to the north in one piece, hopefully. Just make sure to keep your limbs inside the boat.

Thanks for the warning Anon

We depart in silence with a sky full of stars above our heads and the lights of the city on the horizon.

Three, I was wondering, where are those space ships with refugees located.

Well, they are scattered, when the North Federation lost the last war agains NATO and were pushed back to the 60th parallel many ended up trapped in reptilian territory. It was hard having to reach the 60th parallel in the middle of winter while rushing away from the reptilians, those damn lizards really like to eat humans. Back then the gray helped as many as they could to escape and saved many but not all, the reptilians had long ago broke the truce which stated that Earth was to be a neutral buffer state between the gray and reptilian empires. Due to this the gray decided to intervene too and take with them as many humans as they could but this almost made a war to break out between the two powers so the gray haven’t been seen on Earth since then, well, at least until very recently when you contacted them while they were disguised as the Frogmen.

Anon, is that true? Earth is a neutral buffer state?

Kind of, nowadays is more like a reptilian colony, they control all land outside cities and the only reasons why they don’t take the whole planet and make humans their slaves and dinners is because they don’t like cold and they definitely don’t war to start a war with the gray aliens.

Yep, and the survivers who fled live in political assylum in different parts of the gray empire and in old warships the gray leased them to live.

So that explains that strange haircut and those antennas.

Well, is not just for that, I also get constant updates from my other copies, my memories and personality are stored in multiple Blockchains and this body is just another node like any other of the network. I’m like a being with millions of copies, but most of them are usually stored in a variety of devices going from computers to cellphones, to airplanes, electronic gadgets and even some toasters connected to the internet.

So are you immortal three?

Not really, this body is 16 years old and will end up dying but my momories will last for a along time in the Blockchain, maybe forever.