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Chapter 40

he following two months were busy for the T West’s. The few neighbors in the area took no particular note of the stream of delivery trucks going to the ‘mansion on the hill.’ It was common for new tenants to order new furniture and remodeling supplies. No one suspected the trucks carried advanced mini-mainframe computer systems, electronic and mechanical components, and a unique variety of chemicals.

New lighting was installed throughout the basement, making it as bright as the noonday sun.

All basement windows were blackened and blocked.

Twisted vortex light beam systems were installed for communicating at 18.5 terabits per second. “That’s like transmitting over fourteen blu-ray movies per second,” Rhett said to Ana. It will give us the instant transmission of large amounts of data around the globe.”

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“Cool,” she said. “Our new mini-mainframe was pricey, but holy-schmoley is it fast. It leaves the best one at AI Concepts way behind in the dust. It calculates at about 7.5 petaflops per second. Not the fastest in the world, but faster than all but a handful of the leaders. This is going to be so great!”

Rhett

nodded

his

agreement.

“I’ve

downloaded all of the AI Concepts design files we dispersed into ‘the cloud’ before we were supposedly blown up in Afghanistan. We should be ready to mix chemicals and start working on assembly next week.”

“Oh my Gosh!” Ana squealed. “I know we’re just about there, but It’s still so exhilarating to see it coming together. I almost can’t stand it!” She began jumping up and down, her red curls almost, but not quite, bouncing totally out of sync with her jumps.

“And speaking of things coming together,”

Rhett said, “you are gorgeous. Come on over here, Honey.” He reached for her hand and pulled her close. She threw her arms around his neck and pressed her full body into his as they kissed.

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