After walking for a few minutes, they managed to reach the dining room. When Jasper and Dimitri entered, they felt a sense of discomfort.
Because on many tables were placed a few wooden dolls that seemed to be people.
Dimitri walked over to one of the wooden dolls and looked at them with some seriousness.
"Marta, I would like to ask you why there are wooden dolls in this place sitting as if they were people."
Marta stopped and turned her head to look at Dimitri. "They are helping dolls created a long time ago as a way to prevent anyone from feeling lonely.
I understand from your thoughts that you have a sense of fear of dolls, but that can be corrected."
Marta then raised her hand and at that moment the whole dining room changed its appearance as if it were a completely new place.
The walls and floor suddenly became new, the wooden dolls turned into people who were feeding.
Every place changed completely then just a few seconds, so Marta looked at the two inhabitants.
"This is the recovery mode. All things remain exactly the same as reality, however it is only a light projection similar to the one used to create me.
It is very important that you remember not to interfere with any of the people who are feeding because their program is completely corrupted.
Although they cannot harm them, I am completely unaware of the consequences of an artificial intelligence with code flaws.
It is best to avoid contact with holographic people for your safety.
Now just follow me so I can show you the food programming area."
Jasper scratched his head and walked away as he looked at everything rather uncomfortably.
"This whole thing looks so unreal. It's a completely strange feeling that I don't quite like.
Everything looks good, but at the same time it's like it's all a badly done stage play."
Dimitri nodded and looked at the people eating without showing any feelings or expressions on his face.
"Those things that look like people seem completely empty, as if they have completely lost their will to live.
The closest thing I could see to those faces were the war veterans I visited as a child. In their faces, I could see the pain, however, they behaved very similarly to these things.
But in their case things were a little different as they received medication to be able to keep completely calm since otherwise their minds would collapse.
The war was destructive to them because they lost their families and their mental health, despite that these veterans behaved like true heroes.
Well, they never gave the nurses in charge of taking care of them any trouble, although it was too sad to have to see them completely alone.
There was absolutely no one with them, as they all died in the Germans' operation Barbarossa.
A true tragedy."
The two continued walking until they reached a kind of machine that had a holographic screen.
Marta then turned around and smiled wryly. "Just place your hand on the holographic screen and think about the food you want to eat.
No matter how strange it is, you will be able to eat what you want without problems.
Analyzing… Analyzing… Analyzing… Analyzing…
A great amount of insecurity is detected in the two inhabitants."
Marta looked at them with an emotionless face. "The machine can create any kind of thing using only nutrients.
It is possible to recreate proteins and any other class of nutrients that humans can eat. The exact way the technology works is… Error…
Unable to connect to the database, manual restart of the servers is recommended."
Jasper looked at the little girl for a few moments before walking in front of the machine.
"Please, I just want a big burger and a cold coke."
At the moment of placing his hand on the machine, something strange happened because in front of Jasper a plate appeared as well as a huge glass cup.
After these objects appeared, a huge hamburger brimming with cheese and with a large juicy meat appeared on the plate.
As for the glass, it was instantly filled with a black and bubbly drink. Even the glass had a little frost on it because of how cold it was.
Jasper gulped and began to drink his frozen coke. At the moment of feeling the characteristic flavor of the drink, he could only continue drinking until the drink was completely finished.
"This machine is a wonder…"
A few tears fell from Jasper's face before he started to bite into his burger. Dimitri who was looking at him could only laugh.
"Jasper, my good friend, come in you enjoy your burger. Let me take my order. I've been wanting to enjoy a good plate of borsh with a chilled bottle of vodka for a long time."
Jasper who was enjoying his burger moved to the side but not before refilling his glass with soda and three other burgers and some big fries appeared.
When Dimitri looked at that, he could only smile, as that was a good way of saying that the food was delicious.
Placing his hand, she thought of the Borsch that his mother used to make and the Vodka that once invited him to the cosmonaut academy.
Also taking advantage of the moment to appear a great plate of Pelmeni.
At that moment appeared in front of Dimitri a huge bottle of ice cold vodka, a large plate of Borsch which was steaming and another plate with a large amount of pelmenis.
Dimitri didn't wait too long before reaching for the bottle of vodka that was cold to the touch and started drinking.
As the cold vodka ran down his throat, he could only feel a great sense of comfort. After a few swallows, he took a few pelmenis and ate them.
Feeling the soft flour stuffed meat with onion, he could only shed a few tears of happiness however when he tasted the Borch.
His face completely changed because it was as if he could feel a great sense of nostalgia since the taste of Borsch was exactly the same as his mother cooked for him when he was a child.
This just made him start eating the soup as he silently cried, as he didn't know if he would ever see his parents again or be able to come back.