Episode 3

Humanoid? Could it be a Primate? But what would a Primate be doing in the frozen Glaciers?

"Can I see this scan?"

Once more, the world around me became a 360 Degree screen, but this time, an ultrasound scan of the surroundings appeared before me.

"Can't you get a better quality image?"

Negative

Nanites are needed to create Cybernetic Eyes

Ultrasounds is an inbuilt function of all Exoskeletons to be used in emergency

"I see."

I begin to scrutinize the image, the figure is entirely white, but that could be the sonar and not the real color.

"This picture is too blurry to make out the creature clearly, but from what I can tell, it's 8 foot tall, hairy, massive arms and legs. The head resembles an Ape more than a human.

I don't see how you can mistake this for a human?"

Please look at what is lying around the body

I take another look, and my jaw dropped.

There is a shield lying next to it just a few inches away from its hand.

Immediately I receive the information in my head on the different types of shields humans have used in history, and this one roughly matched a Steel Tower Shield except for the center, which has a considerable dent like it was struck by something powerful.

"It could be the Ape picked it up somewhere like a museum or something. They were intelligent enough to do so in my time. I think something struck its shield hard enough to make it fall into the crack."

This A.I.C. assumed the same

But could they be intelligent enough to write down information on stone Tablets?

"I don't see any stone Tablets lying around?"

It lies scattered around the body

This A.I.C. had taken time to reattach a virtual image of the pieces back together

The screen behind the clown avatar showed seven broken pieces of stones around the body, reattaching themselves together correctly to form a rectangular Tablet with words etched into it.

"Hey, I recognize those engravings. They are all Zeroes and ones. Is…is that tablet engraved in binary code?"

Affirmative

How do you know if it came with the Ape and not something that has been lying down here for years?

The organism has pieces of it on top of it, which suggests it fell here along with it

"Can't argue there."

This A.I.C. has had 6 hours to wait till you were created and spent the time analyzing the tablet

There is a message etched into it

The ones and zeros are on the screen get replaced by alphabets, and suddenly I realize there is more to this corpse than meets the eye.

The message reads, "My people. The chief of chiefs Zalmar has betrayed us. He secretly works with the Cold Ones. They will attack our homes by the next full moon."

"There are more of its kind? Who are the Cold ones? Do you think it wrote this down?"

So many questions came up from reading that message.

Uncertain

Chance of being a messenger – 97%

Probability of being the one who recorded it – 3%

"I can guess why you think it's a messenger. It could explain why the shield was damaged, and it fell here."

Does Digital H.C.C. wish to absorb the Biomatter from this corpse?

"I can see why you needed an H.C.C. to decide what to do as this thing is related to humans somehow. Maybe not genetically a Homo Sapien, but if it can use binary language and a shield, it's pretty advanced compared to an ordinary ape.

But right now, I cannot afford to let my curiosity of this creature stop us from recovering my body. There might never be another chance like this where we get Biomatter, so I give you permission to harvest it and start the repairs."

Digital H.C.C. has granted A.I.C. permission to harvest the Biomatter

Setting up Base (Human) Structure Blueprint for Nanites construction

Error – Base (Human) Structure Blueprint is missing

Cause - File might have been deleted during or before the reboot

Troubleshooting…

Solution – Create new Base (Unknown) Structure Template Blueprint from D.N.A. found in the spinal fluid of the corpse

A.I.C. is commencing the Spinal Fluid extraction process needed for the Base (Unknown) structure Blueprint.

"Wait! What are you doing?"

A.I.C. is commencing the Spinal Fluid extraction process needed for the Base Structure Blueprint.

"I know that, but why can't you create a Human body based on images of humans in your database? I mean, you should be smart enough to do that, right?"

Digital H.C.C. does not understand how A.I.C. & Eden Exoskeleton works

Request Digital H.C.C. to let A.I.C. carry out the protocols without interruption

"Did…did A.I.C. just tell me to shut up and watch?"

Affirmative

I get stunned into silence by that verification and watch silently as the A.I.C. issues a command. A drill pops out of the Exoskeleton right into the spine of the dead creature on top of us.

Within a few minutes, the 360 Degree screen displays a gauge slowly filling up as more spinal fluid is extracted.

A table appears on the screen, breaking up its base structure and elements found within the body.

After waiting for half an hour, the gauge is filled. The genetic information rotates together into a tornado until it combined to form the creature's body template that looks like an 8.5 Foot tall Yeti colored like a Panda bear.

A thick furry layer of white-colored hair covers the head and center, and the rest wrapped in shaggy black hair. The areas around the eyes and ears were also black.

As I studied the model more carefully, I could faintly make out the face of a human. Its eyes were Human as well, but the mouth had reverted to an Ape.

I look back at the Genetic table and discover that this creature has around 90% Human D.N.A. in its body, with the rest being unknown in origin.

"A.I.C., why do you term the remaining D.N.A. as unknown? Surely it's clear to me where this D.N.A. could have come from."

This A.I.C. does not hold a genetic table of all the species that existed on earth.

For now, it will be classified as unknown until more data can be collected

The spinal Fluid extraction process is completed

Harvesting Biomatter

4 Hours until Biomatter is entirely harvested and converted into Biofuel

"Why will it take that long?"

The Exoskeleton will be using Tendril needles to extract the matter directly from the corpse

It would be simpler and quicker if this unit had a biological component to carry out the task of consumption

Unfortunately, there is no other method as of now

"So this is like a failsafe feature that all exoskeletons have if their Biological Components are destroyed?"

Affirmative

The giant screen now shows a new gauge that shows how much Biomatter is getting extracted per minute and a second gauge displaying the Biofuel tank capacity, which is up by 0.1%

I watch the screen for a while, but something in my mind starts to pull me away to the image of the Creature model.

My mind starts to create scenarios as to how this creature came to be. Was it natural selection? No, that is out of the question for obvious reasons.

I need to know if these creatures are Humans who turned into apes or ApeApe who turned part human. But which human would go so far to allow this to happen?

Some other possibilities like Gene Editing, Splicing D.N.A. with other Animals, Regressive Devolution, Lab experiments have gone wrong, or if a virus made apes evolve into this.

There was only one such group in Human society that rejected technology and believed natural evolution was the only way to go instead of Cyberfication, which they called Impure Evolution.

The Biological Puritans!

"A.I.C, do you happen to have any historical footage of the Biological purists?"

Affirmative

Retrieving data concerning the Biological Purists

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