Back again… Sorry for not be able to update sooner.

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To answer a question that has been asked more than once : yes, I plan to get Zero on this fic... eventually... I have no idea how long this fic will be.



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-- Doctor Cain's journal --

//MMX115//

X has ended his first month in our company. I am pleased to report that everything is progressing nicely. I took it upon myself to allow X some freedom. After showing a satisfactory behavior in his interactions with one member of the team (Mary), I have allowed the other members to join. He will also be free to circulate at his convenience on this level (2d basement). Yet, he still won't be granted the permission to leave the laboratory. Wich brings me to speak more of X's programming.

The complexity of it amazes me everyday. I was able to finish the first layer of data mearly this week. What was my surprise when I realise there was more to come. Basically, the language to configure X is pretty simple, but it gets harder once you realise how the different programs are linked one to another. They are connected quite similarly like the computers are connected to the Iternet. Each program creates many links to other programs, eventually the design takes the shape of a giant "web". But more amazing, the programs of this first "intranet" are actually multirecipients of other programs (much like nots), wich constitutes an other plateau of sub-layers. I suspect these new layers will, themselves, hide some more sub- layers.

What doesn't help is that X's entire system recycles every 24 hours.

Less technically speaking, X continues his adaptation of our time. By now, he shows the caracteristics and knowledge of a sixteen years old teenager. This progress is quite estonishing, but I beleive he has reached a limit and his no longer able to integrate as much data as he did only a few weeks ago. I suppose X was simply compensing for his dammaged programming and is beginning to learn at a more "normal" speed.

I had hoped that X wouldn't require as much care and attention as this. I had expected to be able to integrate him to the rest of the world within a few weeks, but he requires as much from me that would anyone of his "age". As much as I enjoy his companionship and the chance to see him evolve, it appears I will have to be more and more away from him, as Sigma grows insistent to have me back at the Maverick Hunter's HQ.

Restraining X inside the laboratory isn't only to give him more time to adapt, I am still uncertain of the stability of such a complex programming. But I am conscient of his desire to explore the outside world. If everything goes well, I will consider letting him take his first steps outside....

//MMX115/endfile//

Cain

-- Log out –



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TBC.