TIME [Future Bad]

Lima

After breakfast, Alex gets ready to leave. He will go to Tokyo, Japan to check his time machine.

Alya had persuaded Alex to let them come along. However, Alex forbids it on the grounds that their robot costumes do not yet have an identity so it can cause problems.

They eventually comply and stay home with Helen. Helen is busy taking care of Rachel, their daughter —Helen and Alex— who is still six months old.

"Gue was bored, ****," Rey said as she switched TV channels. Actually, the show inside is quite interesting. Rey isn't the kind of person who likes to watch.

"What do you think is bored?" Said Risa. He was using Helen's skincare.

Actually just a tool rubbed into the face. Helen says it can make skin healthier and glowing with a single use for fifteen minutes. It is also used as therapy when tired.

"Do you want to go to the market?" said Helen who is now tidying up dishes that were just washed by a machine.

"Is zwman still a market?"

"You think?" Helen chuckled a little. "Markets and other shopping centers are made so that, if we are bored we can go out while shopping. Because, we do not always feel at home continuously.

"After all, Rachel's asleep. I can leave it to Lucky. You're bored, you're at home?" Helen.

They also snuggle. Afterwards, Helen told them to get ready. Helen gives clothes to Rey and her friends.

Helen was waiting in the living room. She wears hot clothes that are used in winter.

After everyone got together, Helen took them out of the house. They don't use vehicles. Just on foot.

Outside the house it was still dark. They —except Helen— are astonished by this natural phenomenon. Rey even looked at her eyephone many times, to make sure of the clock.

"Helen, which country is this?"

"Antarctic. Well, global warming is causing some polar regions to melt. Including Antarctica. Even so, Antarctica remains a land that rarely gets sunlight" Helen explained. He handed each of them a bottle of water.

"Maybe you're thirsty later" he said.

"Although so, we still use the light absorbed from sunlight to grow crops. Sunlight only comes at certain times" Helen explained. Rey and her three friends are just beards.

"I think the future will be more sophisticated with more advanced buildings. It turns out the same. Even if there's no glass room, I can think it's my day" Rey said. I don't know if chatting with Alex and Helen can make their language style follow the style of Alex and Helen.

"Indeed. It shouldn't be like this. However, because of those rogue robots, we have to move to Antarctica and of course with a declining economy" Helen explained. Rey and her friends are surprised. As if understanding, Helen opened her voice to explain.

Five years ago, an agency created a robot with artificial intelligence, and produced it in large quantities. Unfortunately, the robots are really human-like —have some common sense. They are servants, and help the work of men.

That was an incredible achievement. However, as with humans, some of them rebelled. They want robots to rule over humans. They influence other robots to rebel.

"Well, of course they won. They were created to have a protective device in their bodies. They were able to take over the Army, the sea, and the air" Helen gulped down her drinking water.

There were about a thousand people left in this world. Seeing the many casualties, they made a deal. The content is, humans can only live in the South pole, and only those who have a license can get out of the South pole.

"In the end, we made a new civilization in this place" Helen closed her explanation.

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"How are they doing?" Alex asked as soon as he got to the lab.

"I'm not sure. Fifteen minutes ago they were still in that hollow hole. The sensors did not detect them. I'm sure they've been taken out" said XiaoQi, Alex's co-worker. (Suppose they speak English).

"How's this? They really have disappeared!" Alex shuffled his hair.

"I'm not sure they're gone. There must be some mistake. We have to fix it" XiaoQi said again. The girl who was about in her twenties was trying to encourage Alex. He knew, Alex must have felt very responsible for all these events, because he who had stubbornly wanted to open the machine at that time.

"Yes, we have to fix it."

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