Jas stopped in his place without moving a muscle, as in front of him appeared a huge group of people. They were healthy individuals, wearing a strange uniform which seed military, and were all pointing their guns towards him. their number was over 100, and he was alone.
He had a spear gun, which seed very advanced than the version they were holding right now, but he knew if he tried to reach his gun he would be dead long before he could even point it towards them.
"Say the identification code, please."
One of these n and won said that in a strange accent with so tallic echo with it. Jas' mind suddenly worked fast, as he guessed already who they were. The issue now lied in this code thing, which he didn't know.
"II was just passing by here and I have a friend who is very sick, so I thought I might co here and look for help from the dical unit of this cruiser. Is the dical unit still functioning?"
"Say the identification code, please, or we will shoot you down."
Jas sighed, these humanoid AI remnants were really hard to deal with. He rembered many old records describing their stubborn nature, as they never bypassed their programming, which was frustrating to normal humans sotis.
Humanoids, or droids as so preferred to call them, weren't unique for the human race, as there were many other races out in the universe who had similar technology, but different shapes.
Jas squeezed his minds trying to rember anything useful, while doing that the humanoid spoke once again:
"Say the identification code, please, or we will shoot you down. You count to ten, if you don't provide the secret code of the republic of Rojedia, we will shoot you down."
It hit Jas suddenly as he didn't imagine this damaged war cruise belonged to one of the three major battling forces in the old war between the Ravners.
It made sense to him now, as this war was over a couple of millennia ago, which consisted of the model of these humanoids. The only weird thing, though, was the model of this space cruiser, which was only a couple of centuries old.
Jas didn't have ti to think about this right now, as his mind started to retrieve all the information he read about this long gone republic. The old war ended and the striving empires and republics vanished.
Their descendant empires and republics were also lost in ti, so there were many old secrets about this war and each of its fighting sides. Jas' mind started to search desperately about any code to fail.
"654"
The countdown was nearing the zero point, where he would be shot dead here. Jas clenched his fists, he didn't run from that shitty planet to be killed in the middle of nowhere like this.
He would prefer to fight and get killed rather than get slaughtered like a sheep. When his mind reached there, he suddenly felt so old echo, an echo which ca from an old mory of his.
"2..1"
"Wait wait, I know it," Jas rushed to say.
"Then say it now or we will shoot you."
"We shall rise and fight tyranny instead of waiting calmly to be killed like sheep."
These words weren't a code he read sowhere, they were famous words said by the last leader of that old republic. Jas didn't have any ti to consider if these were the right words or not, so he just spoke them spontaneously without any delay.
"That's the code of our supre leader. Rejoice everyone, our new supre leader has arrived."
Suddenly the situation changed upside down, instead of being threatened with death, Jas found himself the focus of respect and veneration from everyone.
He didn't know what he had to say, as once these words were said from this humanoid, more voices repeated the words by those who stood beside him.
Jas was about to ask for them to stop repeating these words, as they looked very funny, but he was silenced at once when he saw more of them erging from the distance and these words started to be repeated over and over again like a magic spell, which turned in ti to be more like a religious chants.
'What is going on?'
Jas kept asking himself this even when these strange mix of droids led him deep into the ship. Everywhere he went, signs of negligence, damage, and the passage of tis were evident, which made him wonder why these droids didn't work together to repair all this.
After half an hour of walking, he reached a very vast place that he felt it had no end at all. The grayish color of dust was the main thing he saw there, mixed with so different colors which ca from more droids standing there.
Jas wanted to ask questions, but these droids kept repeating the sa words over and over again neglecting his questions, which made him very frustrated, but he couldn't do anything.
"This way, supre leader, you can address your people from here."
The humanoid who talked with Jas at the beginning said that followed by the complete silence of every droid here. Jas looked in doubt towards it, as he said:
"I want first to understand everything, what is this supre leader all about?"
The humanoid looked towards Jas strangely as he said:
"Didn't the supre leader tell you everything?"
Jas felt danger, so his mind worked fast as he put on a reasonable answer to this tricky question.
"The supre leader died a long ti ago, but he left his will and inheritance with it. I found this inheritance which led here, but I don't know anything else. So, can anyone here brief about what is going on?"
The humanoid exchanged looks with the other droids, who nodded their heads, so he said:
"You have the supre leader code, so you are his heir. It's normal for us not to feel the passage of ti, as we only can feel the passage of our energy only. I will take you to a place where you can understand everything, but first you need to say so words to the folks here."
Jas knew if he continued to argue with this humanoid he wouldn't reach a result at the end, these droids were really stubborn creatures, or machines.
So, he took a deep breath as he cald his mind and accepted this small thing to do. He needed to understand everything fast, so he could assess if he had gotten himself a treasure or a bomb.
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