"Was that.. Was that teleportation?" Andrew asked. Andrew was young and more accepting of his surroundings than the doctor, who clung to outdated views. Though he felt like it was still unbelievable, he still wanted to ask. Robin chose not to respond.
Sigret and Myrene entered the cell as the entrance to the cell unexpectedly opened. They had been waiting for Robin and his captives to show up for quite some time.
"Took you long enough." Myrene said while looking at the three more people. Robin, who was quite irate that Sigret and Myrene had not informed him earlier, inquired, "Did you know of what these two were doing." Sigret nodded her head, but Myrene was expressionless.
"We did nothing wrong. It was you who kept us in a cell without our consent. You can't expect us not to have fun. Do you?" Lydia protested. Robin simply gave this narcissist a brief moment of her dead fish eyes before dismissing her.
"So what do you want to do with them? We aren't opening some kind of exile country here." Sigret asked while looking at them. She wasn't thrilled when Robin said he wanted to send these people to North Korea, but she refrained from speaking out at the time. However, after seeing these people here, she felt a little disgusted.
"No, I want them to work for me." Robin said as he walked out while gesturing all of them too follow him. The first ones who were taken aback were Julius and Lydia. Except for Julius who had seen the world out, Lydia hadn't seen anything around. The window was positioned so that she could not see any of the nearby landscape, so all she had seen was the blue sky.
Lydia and Julius followed him, while others still being in a confused state decided to just go after him. They discovered themselves in a lengthy corridor with nearby cells, all of which were vacant. As they made their way to the exit, there were no guards present. They had the impression that this place was a jail because of all the empty rooms nearby.
They eventually stepped out as the exit approached quickly. A sizable open field surrounded by various structures greeted them. It was a military base and it was apparent from the first observation.
There were some soldiers going through their drills on the ground with an officer shouting at them, a number of white colored robots walking around with various kinds of logistics in their hands, some robots seemed to be magically vanish when they approach some towers placed around, there were vehicles that were jet black in color and some people were working on it, they even saw some vehicles become invisible.
The international visitors had never before seen such a military installation. All of them had once toured a military base in their lifetime, and a select few had even been to bases with futuristic equipment and vehicles present, but this was unique. Jaw-dropping would be an understatement.
"What is this? Some kind of VR simulation?" The doctor asked. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, so he ascribed his altered surroundings to a more sophisticated VR by taking some sort of medication to make him perceive these things as reality.
"This is south of North Korea. Welcome to the BroNovuK base. This base was built from technologies of three different civilizations. One from one of the possible future of humanity, another from another future and the last one is an alien civilization."
"What?"
"Que?"
"Say that again!"
"You heard me right. The vegetation, the plants, the swirling solar panels around belong to a human civilization which is roughly around year 2070s if it is measured from our perspective, the invisible vehicles, aircrafts, the men in military garbs are from another human civilization which had seen constant wars in their lifetime and the robots, the towers, the structures around were built by an alien civilization. They had been organic once, but in a war they lost their species with only a general robot being left alive. He brought it upon himself to revive his ancestry and heritage and single handedly made an empire to bring down his enemies who brought demise to his civilization."
The three games that Robin had pulled out were briefly explained in one breath when he responded. Julius was aware of their advanced technology, but he merely assumed it resulted from covert study on their part. But this had gone too far. Future humans, or aliens? Who the fuck are these people?
"I know it sounds ridiculous, you can stay with them for some time here and they will themselves tell you the situation here. Of course, if you try to run, you will be shot on site. You see, unlike the ones you have served before, I am their God here, so any thing that you say against me or go contrary to my wishes will be faced with the end of a laser gun barrel and you won't be the first one to die in that way." Robin ended his conversation with that and turned away. He had spent quite a bit of time with them.
When they gradually accepted the circumstances they were in, it would be simpler to manage them. Of course, Lydia, Julius and even the doctor wouldn't be allowed to go out. Only Diana and Andrew would be permitted to return, and only with his supervision.
"I am going back." Robin said and apparated away leaving them in the dust. After calling for the TARDIS, Sigret and Myrene entered through the entrance. And after a short while, the TARDIS also disappeared.
"I thought he only knew magic. What is this advanced technology shit?" Lydia mumbled.
"Hi, I am Julius. I was caught sneaking inside the border of North Korea." Julius came forward to introduce himself. They had never previously given a formal introduction.
"I am Diana. Is this really North Korea? I don't see many Asians around." Diana replied.
"I can't say for 100% sure because I have never been out and the people here don't look like them, but since I was caught in the border, I would say that there is a high possibility of that being the truth." Julius said.
"If it's really North Korea and he is controlling behind the scene, then it would make sense. He has a huge plot of land with which he can sell the berries." Diana replied.
"True. Hi.. I am Lydia... I was caught threatening him." Lydia replied without any tinge of fear.
"You are bold... I am Andrew.. Working for EU." Andrew replied while being practical and revealing his background. Why trouble with the formalities, he thought, when he would never be able to escape. The Labcorps doctor, on the other hand, couldn't help but scan the surrounding vertical foliage. The more he observed, the more astonished he became.
The plantations here were unlike anything he had ever seen before. He was in awe of everything around him, and he began to think that this might not be virtual reality but rather reality because the VR couldn't replicate some of the emotions he was currently experiencing. The issue at hand was whether Robin's statements were accurate or not.
They had time to research.
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Robin returned to Labcorp in San Francisco and came out of the closed room underground. When he emerged, Buckley and Frayer welcomed him.
"I have taken care of them. Diana will return to work soon. Just fire the doctor." Robin said.
"Sir, isn't she a CIA spy? Won't it be bad for us?" Frayer asked.
"No, now she works for us." Robin said and didn't elaborate further.
Frayer said, "Okay, sir," and knew when to stop talking. They had already arrived at the port where their ship was waiting for them. Robin wished to personally verify whether or not everything went according to plan. It was always a good idea to show up at the company and present the face of leadership to the workers who put in a lot of effort for him, even though he didn't believe the families would have the energy to deal with him by this point.
In reality, he raised the pay of lower-level men and women who worked in logistics and other menial tasks after he arrived. He didn't need money, so why take it from the business and give it to the less fortunate individuals instead?
He had to spend a lot of time moving around because there were so many containers that had come. He had conversations with everyone, including the safety and operations teams. He would spend a significant amount of time here because the first trials would begin among the institutions in San Francisco itself.
Additionally, he was eager to spend some time in America.
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