File 4 - You can eat me

The next day or maybe more precisely after Niel takes some rest. He and AI visited a white room with no windows.

"Why we are here?" asked Niel, who saw all kinds of strange equipment in this room.

Niel wondered, what exactly this tool was, what is their function was. All the equipment is similar to fitness equipment but... It's also different.

"We're going to test your strength here. We must know how strong you are after I transform your body with Gene Modification and after I plant Bio-Technology into your body."

"That's right, the torment you gave me got these horns and tails. Both of my hands also changed, now they are covered in black scales," Niel said as he touched the horn and moved his tail forward.

Niel saw the tail swinging to the right then to the left. He could feel a strange sensation coming from that tail. As for the scales in his hand, they looked like a Gauntlet, they also felt like skin and at the same time felt like metal.

"Actually, what did you turn me into? Why are you doing this?"

"I'm telling you, you're a Half-Dragon now. I change you so that you can adapt to the earth's unfriendly environment. This is also done to make you the best Arms Mech pilot," AI said. The girl then looked at Niel. "Haven't I explained this before? Is your bird's brain too small to remember?"

"Okay okay! What should I do now?" Niel approached one of the strange tools similar to a wall and touched it.

"Just hit the testing tool you touched with all your might."

"You want me to hit this iron wall? And this is a testing tool? You must be kidding, right?"

"Please, don't ask too many questions and just do what I tell you to do. You need to know, a dog is even more obedient than you."

Niel turned his head then gave the AI a sharp look. He wanted to say something but held his intentions after seeing the choke scar on the expressionless girl's neck.

"Haa... All right, I'll start now."

"Go ahead and I will record the data."

Niel took a fighting stance according to the knowledge he had gained. The youth then pulled his arm, making a stance ready to hit. He then took a deep breath before hitting the testing tool with all his might.

BANG!!

The iron wall dented and bounced backward before finally returning to its original position slowly. The incident took Niel by surprise. He didn't think he could leave a fist mark three cm deep on that iron wall.

"The punching power is 1 ton. That's above average. Next, please pick this thing up."

Niel obeyed the girl's orders to lift a box made of metal at the size of a truck. The youth then underwent test after test without saying anything.

A few times later...

"I didn't think Gene Modification could give me such great strength." Niel was amazed as he looked at some broken test machines scattered in this room.

"The lifting power is 800 kg. A body that can withstand a 7.62-millimeter caliber bullet. Perception range of 1 kilometer. Average running speed 80 km/h. Maximum jump height of 5 meters. You are an amazing subject."

"I wouldn't feel proud if you praised me using a flat voice while showing me that expressionless face. And stop treating me as a lab rat."

"Okay... Humans."

"Niel! My name is Niel, you should have known my name."

Getting a correction, the AI nodded. "Very well, Niel."

"Good! By the way, what's your name?"

"I'm AI."

"AI for Artificial Intelligence or AI for love?"

"Artificial Intelligence."

"That means you don't have a name. The AI you say is used to call your kind, like when you call me a human. So... What's your name?"

"... I don't need a name. More importantly now, we're going to do the next stage, please follow me" the AI turned around and started walking away from the testing room.

Having no other choice, Niel followed the girl after shaking his head.

Two teenagers walk through a gray hallway illuminated by long neon lights that glowing white. Hallways like this remind Niel of the underground base of some Sci-Fi movie.

After a long walk, two youngsters finally reached their destination. The room they are in now can be said to be quite spacious. Niel suspects, this room has an area of more than 20 square meters.

"This is a training room," explained the AI who walked into the room. The girl immediately approached the pile of black boxes.

"Wait a minute."

"Something's wrong?"

"Do you have food? I am hungry."

Ai nodded. She then touched the metal protective suit on her hip. The protective suit opened up and gave AI a green pill. The AI then handed the pill to Niel who received it with an expression full of question marks.

"What is this?"

"That's your food."

"Good joke," said Niel who then examined the green pill more closely. A few moments later the youth nodded. "This is medicine, not food. Food that I mean is a dish made of meat, vegetables, meat, bread, meat, eggs, or meat. And not medicine like this."

Niel clamped the pill with two fingers and swung it in front of the AI.

"You don't want to eat that pill?"

"Yes."

"And you want to eat meat?"

"Yes."

"So... You want to eat me?"

"Yes," Niel replied without hesitation. A moment later the youth froze. After repeating the AI's words in his mind, Niel became panicked and immediately said. "No, I mean, I want to eat meat! I don't want to sleep with you."

"Sleeping with me? Looks like you misunderstood something. Let me be clear about my words. If you want to eat meat, you can eat me. After all, this Clone was very similar to a human. This clone has quite a lot of meat especially in this section," AI explained then pointing at her ample chest.

What the girl said and did made Niel crouch down and hold his head with both hands. "Damn it! Curse your seductive body, your strange common sense, and my perverted mind! You need to know, I don't want to eat humans! It was an inhumane act!"

"Really? I remember, a town called Untaw often did human hunting for meat. They love the meat of women and children. And for a record, I am not a human."

"..."

Then, the two youngsters were silent for some time.

"... I'm not a dragon or a witch, okay? The meat I'm referring to here is from cows or chicken. Don't you have it?"

"Cow, chicken. What is that?"

"You're an AI with a supercomputer brain, you should know what a cow or a chicken is. They are farm animals."

"Please wait a minute. Let me download that information from the main server," she said then paused, moments later she said, "The farm animals you said they went extinct three hundred years ago."

"Are all kinds of farm animals extinct? Including the chicken?"

"That's right, everything is extinct. Including chickens."

For the first time in his life he lived, Niel felt such a deep sense of despair. Fried chicken and thick steak that became his soul mate no longer exist. The shock he received was so great that it left the young man speechless not wanting to do anything for a few hours.