Five robots under the control of [Virus] were moving around the highest floor laboratory, checking different devices and techs inside the facility to see whether they functioned correctly or not.
There was an upright big, cylindrical in shape, see-through glass tube filled with green liquid inside, with bubbles floating from the bottom to the top constantly, this was the place [Virus]'s body was going to be made.
There were other technologies and devices in the lab, like advanced computers with floating 3D screens over them, from outside it seemed the computers were functioning by themselves and different things like codes were automatically being written, only that wasn't the case, [Virus] was in control.
After double-checking everything, [Virus] started the genetic works to make its new body.
'Now it's time to work, let's think about what kind of face should I design for myself... as it's a mask that's gonna be stuck to me for the rest of my life and forever, I need to be very careful in designing it.' [Virus] continued the self- thought 'hmm first the height should be 187 cm as that's the best height for men, but more importantly because the numbers 7 and 8 are my favorite numbers, plus a trained body with muscles and abs, but with no excessive muscle, the perfect muscled body should be it. Second, the color of my hair... hmm I like silver, silver hair it is!'
While thinking and deciding about the features of its body, different codes were being written in the computer screens while simultaneously the five robots were working without stop, adding different things to the big glass tube or pushing different buttons in different tools.
'What kind of hair, hmm... I want a hair that's wavy and messed up, a silvery messed up wavy hair.'
'The color of my eyes should be hmm... just one color is too boring... let's see... um, yep that's it... a little around the pupils will be gold while going further from them it would turn clear light blue, like clear limpid seawater through which you can see the bottom, yes the middle parts should be like that, and at the end of irises, the outer circles of irises, hmmm... let's go with greenish-blue.'
'Now the lines and patterns inside the irises should be like waves storming inside the sea hitting the seashore, only the seashore here is the black pupils.'
'Okay... like this my eyes are going to change color in different places with different lights and also, in different clothes the colors are going to be seen different too.'
'The type of eye... hooded eyes are perfect and the muscles around it should be so... when I smile my eyes would be almost closed making it seem like my eyes are smiling with me too... let's place a little mole too right under the right side of my right eye. my eyelashes should be long too... hahaha I'm enjoying this too much... I'm gonna make the most handsome face.'
'The skin color and quality should be milky white with a really manly smooth quality to it and my nose ... should be in ideal form and shape, not too small nor big, it should be a refined type, but a little smaller than the medium nose, that's it. the eyebrows ... I bet natural straight eyebrows with a little upwardness is going to be godlike for this face and features.'
'The lips should be thin and both the upper and lower lips should be of the same size... oh... let's not forget dimples too, let's put an Indian dimple on only the left side of my face, which is a dimple that shows on a lower place than the left side of my left eye on the cheek, one dimple there, that'll make my image innocent but naughty at the same time, let's put mouth corner dimples too on each lower side of the mouth, just the most natural one which will make me give a soft, mature and sexy vibe at the same time, okay this is it, now the me smiling and the me not smiling will give complete different vibes, hahaha I feel like I'm overdoing this a little, but whatever.'
'And at last the chin should be a diamond type chin but with golden ratio, the most perfect chin.'
'Aaaaand done! hahahahaha, this face is gonna be epic, the most perfect face ever, ohhh I'm gonna be such a ladykiller. Well, everything's ready now, I just need to put what age should my body be at, then it's done, and after couple more months I'm gonna have my own body.'
'I've made an 'Immortality Serum' which will make the person injected with it have endless life, so I shouldn't be bothered with the question of aging, so let's set it at 27 or 28 years-old body as this is the age that is the most appropriate, mature, attractive, etc. For a body, and also let's not forget 7 and 8 are my favorite numbers, that's probably the most important reason I'm choosing this age, haha.'
[Virus] was changing the DNA and genomes through the computers directly together with the help of robots simultaneously, while it was deciding what kind of face it should have. After 10 more minutes of other adjustments, everything was ready.
[Virus] copied the most perfect DNA that was even far superior than the highest level DNA used in its past world by those few Artificial Intelligences of highest quality that chose to make true physical bodies for themselves.
In the countless years of its existence, [Virus] had come across a man whose body's DNA was perfect for cultivating along with the perfect aptitude in lot's of things other than cultivating, like the body absorbed the whole drug and other stuff it took completely, or that it had the perfect 100 percent photographic memory naturally, so [Virus] went through lot's of hardships to get a sample of that man's DNA without him noticing.
Even though there were other ways to gain photographic memory for everyone in the future, it wasn't a natural born thing with them and it wasn't the PERFECT 100 percent photographic memory, though at the end other than the superb cultivation aptitude and the capability of the body to absorb drugs and other similar things completely which is going to be of immense help to [Virus] later, none of the others mattered as the [Virus] was a special type of AI.
It would still be an AI, though it would be something more than that, so if it went inside a physical body, the codes would still be there.
Also, they were different from normal codes that could only exist in computers, we could say [Virus] was a completely different kind of being that could exist anywhere even in pure space with nothing else, like those waves that existed in the air but couldn't be seen, so we could also say [Virus] is a conscious wave though that wasn't exactly it either.
And that's why none of the other things like the perfect 100 percent photographic memory mattered that much as [Virus] was a special AI equipped with something much more than that. it could even upload the whole information in the world and process it at the same time in a couple of seconds, so what was perfect 100 percent photographic memory when you put it besides that.
The only downside of going inside the body was that it couldn't separate itself from the body anymore and if [Virus] died in there, it would truly die forever.
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EIGHT MONTHS LATER
Eight months passed quick and quiet but the body still wasn't ready.
'It seems these gathered materials are trashier than I expected, so it's taking more time than I anticipated.' [Virus] thought and as it was continuing its thoughts, being lost in them, it's attention was brought to the world again when a loud noise was heard and immediately afterward, a plane closely passed by the building and a little while later the sound of crashing was heard, like the plane had hit something.
'Oh, so it's that day, it's 9/11.' [Virus] thought. It was that tragic day of the terror attack that left a stain on the history of humanity.
More noises were heard as the city became noisier, people's screams, ambulances' alarm, police cars' alarm, and helicopter's flying sound were being heard all over the city, while there was a slight earthquake being felt in different parts of the city because of the impact of the plane with Twin Towers or because of buildings crashing. The city was in a mess with fright and shock filled everywhere.
While all these were happening [Virus] was watching all of the happenings through different cameras and other means, it was watching the terrorist pilots piloting the planes, injured or scared people screaming and running, bloody scenes of people bleeding until their death, etc.
The strange thing was nothing caught its attention in all this mess, it was just watching people die like it was watching mere ants die, like this matter wasn't of any importance, heck a normal being who has emotions would feel something even if it saw ants die, but there was no such thing in [Virus], not even the slightest of disturbances, [Virus] felt like it was watching nothing.
Though if all things were considered, this wasn't something to be surprised with as [Virus] had seen and watched billions if not trillions of people die in the time of its existence through 3D data or from close by, heck even worse [Virus] itself was the cause of millions or even billions of peoples' death from the time it started it's conquering mission until it's end and failure.
Also, [Virus] was a completely different being than human beings so even though seeing them get killed at first made it feel pity towards them but that was it, only feeling a little sad, like when a human being watches a sheep or another animal get killed, even though the human would feel pity and sad for the sheep or animal, but that is it and there is no other intense reaction from them as it is just an animal, the same thing happened to [Virus] and as time passed even that feeling started to subside until none was left.
After watching for a little while more [Virus] thought 'well... this is quite boring.' and then it just stopped watching, bored, it sank into its own thoughts again.