I’ve been underground at the Yar base for who knows how long, and I’m getting worse and worse no matter how much ti has passed, the heat just won’t let up.
From the hunger cycle and the amount of ti I’ve heard Yar reading books, I know I’ve been underground for days, but it never got any cooler.
Yar has evolved a lot from listening to my explanations, and now she’s much more human you can practically no longer tell her apart from a real person.
I just can’t stand the heat anymore, my vision is blurry, and I feel like I’m going to die even though I can’t. That’s the bad part about not being able to die.
I still feel pain, I think I’m suffering from severe heat exhaustion due to the extre heat for days, and just drinking water isn’t helping.
"Shizune, are you okay?" Yar asks with concern as I slowly bite into a food bar.
"...I’m fine..." I lie to her as she picks up another book. This is already getting boring she reads the books, asks questions, and I answer. We’ve been doing this for so long while I just keep getting worse.
"Yar, can we put the books aside for now... by the way, how long have we been doing this?" It’s practically beco an annoying routine. Initially, I was afraid to leave, but now I just want this heat to end.
"17 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes, and 27 seconds since we started the readings. If you add two more hours, that’s the total ti since we t," she says matter-of-factly, placing a book on the table.
’17 days? That long?’ It seed less. Okay, I did sleep a lot when I was tired, but even so, I thought it was a week at most.
"Yar, why the hell is it so hot here?" Even at night, the temperature remains high. If I could die, I would have already.
"It turns out that humans have caused serious problems with the Earth’s protective layers, which has caused the temperature of the entire world to increase, although my records on this are limited."
"What I have is mainly data on different types of storms that can occur due to human influence. It’s sad that humanity has destroyed this beautiful planet," she says with a sigh of regret, sothing she learned after I explained the concept of sadness to her.
Yar not only learns and replicates emotions, but she truly integrates them as sothing absolute. It’s absurd how she truly awakens and demonstrates feelings like a human.
I’ve even seen her cry after learning the concept of sadness and reading a tragic love story book.
"Shizune, your body temperature shows abnormal variations. Is this a natural thing for the human body? My body doesn’t have this integrated function," she asks genuinely as I think.
It’s no use lying that I’m fine anymore. Initially, I thought that since I wasn’t going to die, there was no need to tell her I was feeling unwell, but now my vision is blurred, my body is hot, and I’m tired.
I have headaches, feel like vomiting everything I eat, and the water is no longer helping. Even taking a bath makes no difference because the water is still hot, and due to the ambient temperature, the water stays lukewarm.
"Yar, is there any functional dical wing still in the city?" I can’t stay hidden here like this. At this rate, my condition will only get worse. What’s the point of not dying if I’m going to be incapacitated? At least a functional dical wing should have ways to cool down.
"dical wing?" Sothing seems to alarm her, and then she looks at a dical book she had read to so ti ago, in which it spoke of certain conditions. She finally seems to have realized that I’m not well.
"S-Shizune, why didn’t you say you were feeling bad? I think there’s a dical wing nearby, but it only has broken equipnt and no power source, but it may have so dicines. I’ll take you there, okay?" She says, getting up quickly and coming over to .
She extends her arm to help stand, giving her shoulder for support. Unfortunately, Nyzz’s avatar hasn’t appeared to help , and the power of misfortune only serves to cause destruction.
"We need to go quickly, or you might die!" She says as we start moving.
"I believe the problem is the prolonged exposure to heat. I’m sorry I didn’t notice, I was so focused on understanding the fascinating human emotions," she apologizes in a sowhat desperate manner.
"I-It’s okay," I say as we climb up. Strangely, the heat seems even worse as we ascend.
"Yar, why... is it so absurdly hot?" I ask again, even though I’ve already asked. My brain is confused.
"During the storms, the climate tends to drop to a more livable average, but after the storms, the temperature can rise to a maximum of 70 to 90 degrees."
"I don’t have enough dical and teorological information to take care of you. I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry," she says in a desperate tone, almost too much, for not having noticed this before.
’Seventy to ninety?’ If it’s already this hell, just imagine when the temperature reaches its maximum.
"The Mother Source has taken any ans of cooling inside itself to preserve, and the Mother Source is the only place in the world where the temperature is still stable enough for life," she says as we reach the surface.
"S-Shizune?" She murmurs, alard, when I almost fall.
"I-I’m fine, l-let’s just go..." I don’t know why going to a dical wing is a good idea. She herself said they don’t have ways to cool down. I think I’m hallucinating at this point.
"Shizune, you’re not going to leave, right? Please!!" She says, crying, her tears dripping onto my clothes.
’Damn that android creator who didn’t think to put air conditioning in Yar,’ I think, exhausted, as I take unsteady steps.
"I’m not, I j-just need to rest in a nice place..." I won’t die from the heat. It’s just bad.
"Shizune, I estimate we can reach the dical wing in 5 hours of walking. There’s no way to cool you down there, but there may still be functional dicines and ways to help with the problems caused by extre heat exhaustion."
"There’s also a chance of finding so sunscreen or sothing similar that the Mother Source didn’t collect, given the storage space limitations."
"H-How so?" I question as she quickly takes from one building to another to avoid being seen by drones.
"The Mother Source has limited itself in collecting resources to keep in safety. The Mother Source has 3 main functions related to preserving materials."
"The first is to store and care for valuable resources for humans. The second is to recycle certain materials every so often, maintaining a functional and stable operation regardless of how many storms hit the city."
"And the third, considered the most important, is self-preservation. The Mother Source needs to be functional to perform its other functions, so it focuses first on defending and restoring itself rather than the other things."
"In other words, its biggest expenditure of useful materials is in the construction of androids and drones. It builds hundreds of them per day and stores them, usually destroying the older ones to rebuild them."
"So the amount of material it stores is about 70% for self-repair and 30% for useful materials for humans."
"Obviously, the storage area itself is gigantic, I believe it’s 19 tis larger than this city, which is already enormous by human standards."
"But since it needs to maintain this logical margin, certain materials are abandoned by it, such as surplus food and water, clothes, so dicines, and other basic items that it already has in high quantities," Yar explains, but I barely understand what she’s saying.
"In short?"
"There are materials under the sand that can help you. We just need to find them... Shizune? SHIZUNE?" She shouts when I barely react.
"Please... don’t shout... my head hurts," I murmur to her, and she sighs in relief.
"Hold on a little longer, let carry you," she says urgently. I just nod, and she quickly puts on her back and starts running, but her speed is the sa as a normal human.
"Yar, I think... I’m going to pass out," I tell her, and she seems tense.
"..." She doesn’t say anything.
"I-I’ll help you, okay? Just don’t die, please. I don’t want you to die. You’re special to ," she says, running with all her might, even a bit recklessly, considering the drones flying around.
"Thank you... you’re special to too," She’s like a child learning to walk. The difference is that she’s learning emotions. If it weren’t for this damn heat, I would have had a lot of fun with her.
"...P-Please don’t talk like that," she cries as she runs quickly, probably rembering the tragic goodbyes from the books she’s read, many of which had such farewells.
"I... I’m not going to die, I just need to rest enough... we can read more books later..." I tell her as she practically leaps over obstacles, crushing the car bodies she jumps over.
"Yar, be calm... if you run like this... you’ll be seen," I say, concerned. From what she said, being captured isn’t necessarily the worst thing. In this situation, if I’m captured, I’ll be treated in a state-of-the-art dical wing within Y.A.R.A, the Mother Source.
The problem is that if Yar is captured, she will be destroyed as an unacceptable failure. A machine that disobeys orders and flees for years is an anomaly, and Y.A.R.A is just a supercomputer.
So Y.A.R.A won’t care about Yar’s opinion. As a computer, it will simply choose what has the best probability of success and order based on numbers.
"S-Sorry, sorry, I-I’m nervous, just hang on a little bit, okay?" She says, running more carefully as I feel my vision fading. I think this is my limit.
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