Chapter 64

I had triggered my time stop, and walked away from the very lucky battalion of soldiers. Walking back to my hotel I slowly calmed down. I left the message up in my vision, not sure what to do about it. The 30 minute walk was quiet and peaceful. I didn’t have to worry about crossing the street, there were no honking horns, or barking dogs as I took the route that led me thru the park and along the waterfront.

Standing at the base of the hotel, I decided against going in, and found a park bench looking out over the still water until the timer ran out. The return of a bitterly cold wind sent me quickly back to my hotel room, as I had no desire to sit further amidst the now moving people.

Back in my room, I sat on the chair in front of my laptop. A countdown timer showed 22 hours and 42 minutes remaining till my meeting. I checked the time, and Portland was only 5am. I moved to Pitcairn instead, flying thru the transport tunnel at 50x and arriving at my secret storage room in the rock. I summoned all my files on everybody that Aida had been keeping, dropping them in a stack in the corner.

A quick send and retrieve of my San Diego phone showed no messages. I wrote a quick message to Pete, and sent the phone back and retrieved it. It showed the message still pending, and not sent. I sent it again for a longer period of time, it came back the same. I must not have any signal, guessing the FBI had turned my phone off. Bastards.

I took a calming breath and checked my stats, as I moved back to the RV sitting down outside on a summoned beach chair looking out over the water. It was still a good hour until sunrise, but I could hear the ocean, and there was a calm peacefulness that surrounded me as I sat there watching the stars grow dim in the early morning pre sunrise light.

I upgraded four times, going to level 130.

My recent foray into the UN had increased the number of people who disliked me. My mosquito was now running at 90k neutral points a minute, with a double bonus for positive, and to keep the full double 50% bonus active on the negative mosquito points from the add frost skill, I needed more negative than positive, so I had left that bank balance higher. I’d also earned a Free Spin.

I had potentially seven new skills, and 6 full free upgrades to use plus the ability to pick from specific categories if I chose. I had neutral points for potentially three more levels, provided they went up at a cost of 100 million each new level.

My countdown clock clicked over to 22 hours remaining, and I took a deep breath. I was worried. I didn’t have much recourse against a System Administrator, whoever, or whatever that was. I needed skills that would make the Sys Admin happy. I followed Scribe’s advice.