Hollywood Zenith

Chapter 942 Linh-2

I remembered that date clearly, it was middle of july of the year '07. The logical world of computers was exactly what I needed to give me a purpose to do anything, something that finally got me excited throughout the day.

The complexities of humans that was so much to bear for a so called genius, turned into an obsession to learn a much more simpler language, how machines interact. Maybe because my village was poor or because there wasn't much technical innovation presence in the country, especially not in the rural area where I lived.

The only logical thing to do was to move, I asked my caretaker and he happily sent me away. Next year was a blur, most of the people I interacted with, I knew nothing about. They said that I would become the next computer wizard propelling the country to a new height.

There were also others of 'similar' talents but they could never compare to me who barely talked. I was way past it but still I always answered them truthfully. Sometimes they would make faces, many times I was even yelled out but I always believed it was best to be truthful because that was one thing I learned from my mother.

She was unhappy with me so she sent it away. She was true to her feelings and never contacted me again. I only told them what I truly feel about them, they were lousy at best making common mistakes. On few occasion, I even found myself getting ridicules by them. They even stole my notes after that I ceased writing. It's not like I need it, I remembered everything.

All the things I saw was still as vivid as yesterday's dream in my mind. Soon, they opted to use the same tactics like some of my 'friends' back home. Honestly, I never understood why they were so interested in me. I never bothered them so they shouldn't care about me right? But the reality was completely different.

I was never the one to believe in afterlife, I don't even care what happened to me but I knew that I didn't want to die. It's not that I was afraid of death but I wanted to explore the world, my curiosity was the only thing that keeping me focused so I did as they told me.

We were part of some elite hacker group working to please our 'master' as they crudely put it. I did try to sneak out the tough firewall system but unfortunately, we soon understood that they had taken our research and built a perfect cage around us to keep us away from the real world.

The sophisticated programme was engineered in such a way that any deviation would result in overseers to know our exact footprint which would lead to another beating. After couple of times, we all gave up and focus more on surviving.

Our group consisted of three girls and nine boys, after couple of months we were so tired that we didn't even had any will to defy our captors. We would work till midnight than go back to sleep for six hour than get up and get to work again. Few people among them started adjusting to the routine as all of liked a streamlined approach to our day to day life but some of them started getting sick.

I did read about how it was hard for some of us with this condition to take care of menial chores. If we voiced our complain it would only be met by a demeaning cough by the guards but that didn't stop me from doing just that.

I was thrown into a cell with few strange women who looked much worse than me. They were very frightened by my appearance but when they saw that I was a girl they soon took me under their wing. It went on for couple more times because I was stubborn than one day it all changed!