Daniel made a small bow to the statues, and after Vincent chuckled he started to explain the rules "anyway from now on you can explore freely, the dimension already knows you and will show you the way out when you want to exit, you just have to follow the rules, that aren't many, first of all in the streets you can see from here, there are many doors with colored names on them, black, green, red, blue surrounded by green, blue surrounded by red or no name on them,
the ones with black names are the collections of the deceased family member, every future generation can access to see their ancestor's collection, but unless the wisp of consciousness left allows it, you can't touch anything
the green names are the collections of the alive family member that allow entry, but touching isn't allowed without permission, for example, I gave you permission to take the pieces of technology from my collection so you can take them, but your mother's even if the name it's green can't be touched
the red names are the alive family members who don't allow anyone inside
the blue names are the missing family members or those who died less than 10000 years ago, in that case, the option they have chosen last, stands if they are surrounded by green you can enter if it's red not
and finally, the ones with no name are empty, but you can't simply use them, the dimension owner has to give you permission, for example, your father doesn't have permission because he offended the dimension trying to sneak through a red name door"
Daniel asked "the dimension owner? and what about the hazard room, mom talked about?"
Vincent said "that's a secret, as for the hazard room, there are some common facilities in the vault, apart from the hazard room, there's a lounge, a spa, a heated pool, and others, this place it's too big I haven't seen all of it"
Daniel had already understood, and curiously asked "can I take a look at the things in the hazard room?"
Vincent said "in there, there are dangerous unidentified things, so it's better if you don't"
Daniel said "but now that tickles it's free, he can tell us what they are"
Vincent thought about it and then said "we must treat those things as probable explosives, so you will command tickles from outside, and absolutely not enter in any circumstance, after tickles deem something safe you can have it"
Daniel said "ok, I will wait outside, I promise" happy to put his hands on more scraps of technology
vincent looked straight at daniel and said "you should know that those things found in my collection aren't the only objects in there, the specter family has been amassing objects they do not understand for many years, and every item that was deemed dangerous, even if because it was owned by a dangerous person, ended up in a hazardous materials sphere in the hazard room, to be assessed, even I don't know how many there are"
Daniel said "well we just want to check the technological ones, right?"
Vincent said "you don't understand, 99% of the things in there it's of technological nature, we specter understand cultivation stuff even too well, what I meant is that there's no way we can check everything or well need to stay here for a dozen of years, so you can only try your luck in this 7 hours before dinner, afterward you stay as far away as possible from that room without supervision"
Daniel thinking about tickles said "again I promise I will not come here if someone is not with me"
Vincent said "who are you trying to trick kid, you want to come here without me or your grandmother, maybe your parents if they stop stalling and just breakthrough already" he was a little upset by Daniel's sneaky wording
Daniel said "that's what I meant, I promise can we go now?" he was desperate now, and was only left with 7 hours to check, catalog, and misappropriate toys
so Vincent proud of his grandparenting started to make way, and from the central square they were in, Daniel could see that every corridor had a different color of stone pavement, and the one Vincent was guiding him in had an ivory color, and there were no doors, but arches and one in particular with formations all over was their objective, easily identified by the hazard symbol on the center of the arch
after entering, there was a 10 meters by 10 meters square room, in front of a big double door and another identical room could be seen through thick glass-like panels, and behind that other room, there was another, but this one seemed to go on forever and was full of shelves that were cluttered with hazardous material spheres
the number of spheres, made even Daniel have problems with counting, he couldn't see all of them, he looked at Vincent and said " how are we going to do it if I can't go pick how can I choose?"
Vincent said "you don't!" then continued "I will go in, bring one in the halfway room, and tickles will check there"
Daniel said "ok, let's move faster than" he was ready to go, tickles turned into a little scaly dog, and ran inside the door with Vincent, Daniel could perceive everything through tickles, so it didn't matter that he was outside
vincent took the first sphere and opened it, inside was the famous egg from before, tickles started the invasion and soon later daniel said "audio, video surveillance equipment, thousands of years old, nothing interesting it's advanced but I'm not interested, basically junk to recycle"
vincent put it in a small empty storage crate he prepared to haul the pieces of technology he had promised to Daniel and took out another sphere, it was a statue, and it was another piece of surveillance equipment
after a while, Daniel was a bit bothered by the growing pile of surveillance equipment, and said "everything should be explosive, right, I don't even want to imagine how much of this stuff will turn out to be surveillance equipment"
Vincent wanted to retort but he knew the kid was right, bombs that the known civilizations could build aren't enough to even scratch him, so it's much more probable for these things to be bugs than explosives
after half an hour, daniel said "what's this, why is this fake sculpture designed to split the nuclei of a heavy element"
as soon as vincent heard it he activated all of the defense measures "that's a post-industrial fifth stage weapon"
he wasn't worried for himself but for Daniel, the base shielding would prevent the heat and shockwave from hurting him, but from all he knows Daniel's body was vulnerable to radiation, and even if it wasn't because of the mutation, he certainly wasn't willing to risk it
Daniel was surprised by his reaction and said "I thought you didn't know anything about technology"
Vincent smiled and said "I know what's necessary to know, and I certainly know what an atom bomb does"
but his worries were useless, Tickles came out of it with the heavy element, disarming the bomb in an unorthodox way, and Daniel exclaimed "it's like the stuff in the game, plutonium"
Daniel could already feel his little hands on it, but Vincent put the plutonium in the sphere again and said "no" before putting it inside his personal storage, and grabbing another sphere from the storage
daniel could only make puppy eyes because he already knew grandpa would not change his mind
for another half an hour it was still all junk and Daniel said "instead of the stuff from your collection please take something interesting someone else left"
vincent was abusing tickles to check what was what in his collection, he was pissed that those things weren't what they were supposed to be, he already knew that there was a material that could trick the spiritual sense, making an item look like it was made of stone or clay, while inside there was something else, but since when there was so much of it
anyway Vincent would always let Daniel win when he could, so he took a silver slim cylinder from further back, because it looked like it would do something, and gave it to tickles
and Daniel after a few seconds was happy again and said "mine mine mine"
Vincent asked "what does it do?"
Daniel said "give it to me I'll show you" already holding his hand forward
Vincent gave him the 30 cm long cylinder and Daniel moved it in his hand and it became a two meters long quarterstaff, then he closed it again to 30 cm and shot a bolt on the wall then he turned to the other side and a taser style electricity arch appeared
Daniel said "it's a cool-looking weapon"
Vincent said "it's just a low third-stage hybrid infantry weapon, you can keep it if you swear not to use it improperly"
Daniel said "I promise I won't" he had finally found something interesting after a full hour
next Vincent brought other items from his collection, the number of surveillance devices was astonishing, but finally, something good came out of his pile
Daniel had a puzzled look on his face and said "I think this is an external hard drive" looking at the crystal fixed to a metal base, then continued "it's similar to the quartz technology in the books but more advanced, even tickles can't extract the data"
Vincent said "if it's nothing dangerous you can keep it"
Daniel said "sure I'll look at it better in the lab"
then they continued and after 3 hours since they arrived, Vincent's pile was finally over, Daniel was already imagining what exciting stuff the specter family dumped for him now that all that junk was cleared
Daniel said "old personal device, worst than mine, junk"
Daniel was now looking a bit sad and said "some kind of vibrating stick, I don't really know, but it's junk"
Daniel said "still junk" he had given up on giving even the small introduction "more junk"
Daniel was starting to become desperate, he thought too highly of this pile of junk, but its only redeeming quality was how well the hazardous material sphere preserved them, so he was about to ask Vincent to bring him to the stuff in his vault room, but finally, something good appeared
Vincent opened a sphere and took out a belt, it was made of numerous, small metal segments and the buckle was a rectangle with an orange light on it
tickles entered and Daniel lit up, it was advanced, but it was also lacking the security that advanced stuff had, so Daniel could immediately use it
Daniel asked for it, and after putting it on he started to fly, and said "how about this"
Vincent asked "it's a flying belt?"
Daniel made a disappointed look, then said "it's an antigravity belt, with small thrusters, too bad its battery is almost empty"
vincent asked "what?" only to see daniel fall back to the ground and say "well it's still good stuff" putting the belt together with the lance weapon and the crystal, then he remembered how many things they went through to get those three, but still decided to keep going till the end, no matter how much junk, he could see it as recycling, since he needed materials anyway
with 5 out of the 7 hours already passed, something good made an appearance again, a bracelet-shaped personal device, but much more advanced than Daniel's
luckily it was brand new when it was put in a sphere, unluckily it was something like 230000 years ago, according to what was written in the sphere information "found on the body of a zerion warrior, possible weapon, quarantined till further study, Arvin specter"
so the battery was worse than dead, but Daniel could tell it was a more advanced device because half of the parts were too complicated for him to understand, and the few he understood were clearly a transmitter a receiver, and what looked like a signal amplifier, but everything was so little and cramped together, he wasn't even sure
Daniel said "well, I'll keep this aside, for now, let's continue" putting the bracelet in the pile with the lance the crystal, and the belt, he had some good toys to research