Captured

France looks back. A girl of his age is standing there trying hard not to seem excited. 'Do you want to tell me something?' France asks. 'Yes' she nods, 'What did you do? Your t-chip is giving out alert signal.'

france looks at her surprised, 'What did you say?'

'You heard me. When someone does something illegal their t-chip gets triggered and gives out alert signal. What did you do? Assault? Robbery? Murder?'

'I didn't do anything'

The girl laughs, ' Do you think the police will believe you? Think carefully. There must be something.'

'No... I-' France suddenly remembered something, 'Well, I crashed a robot with zitacode a while ago.'

The girl laughs loudly, 'Yep, this is a crime too. Your t-chip might be triggered for it.'

'But I found it from a public restroom wall. 7 gen robot. Crashed with a Pi sequence!'

'Hmm. I too learned a lot of stuff from public restrooms. Anyway, I told you your t-chip is triggered. Cops might arrest you anytime! Good luck-' she turns around to leave.

France start walking towards her after waiting for a while. He calls her, 'Hey. Listen-'

'Anything else?'

'Yes. I have 2 questions. How did you know my t-chip is triggered. And what to do when it happens?

'I know your t-chip is triggered because I have t-chop tracker. And-'

'Why do you have tracker? Are you a cop?'

'No I'm not a cop. But the people around me frequently get their t-chip triggered. I need to know that.'

France doesn't understand but still acts as if he does. "And what about my second question?"

'As for your that- no one really knows what is the best thing to do if it happens. But-'

"But what?"

"If you're a class-C then there's only one thing that can happen to you."

"And what is that?"

"You'll be lucky enough to be a real criminal"

France exclaims, "Me? A criminal?"

The girl nods, "Police will definitely. arrest you sooner or later and put your t-chip on alert mode. Which means you'll get arrested for smallest things. Then you'll do a true crime."

"what is it?"

"You'll get rid of your t-chip."

France looks at her in silence. The girl says, "This is the fate of a class-C person."

France still didn't say anything. The girl tries to smile, "Behind the blue stadium by crossroads there's a bar called C-bay. Real criminals frequently go there. If you ever want to do the true crime, you're welcome."

She starts walking again. "Where are you going?"- France asks.

"C-bay."

France realises he didn't get her name.

......................

At midnight police came to France's apartment. The VE screen suddenly lights up the whole room. France hears a robotic voice in VE screen, "C DS 7490 class-C France?"

France sits up on his bed,"speaking"

"We are patrol squad from the police. We want to speak to you."

France says nervously, "Sure.. Sure. I'm coming out."

"Stay there. We're coming in."

France tries to think if he needs to open the door. But his door opens before he does anything and 4 officers in black uniform comes in. France gets surprised seeing 3 of them are humans. A middle aged officer looks at him, "7490 France?"

"Yes. That's me."

"You use zitacodes illegally?"

France can't think what he should do now. He hasitantly says, "I did once! Actually-"

"It is a 8th grade crime. If you repeat it then it'll be 7th grade crime. You have to face a trial for it. There are 4 steps for it. For first step..." The officer keep talking monotonously.

France realised that all 4 of them are robots. Using zitacodes to shutdown a robot is not any serious offence so they sent low class robots to warn him. Now he has to keep listening to these stupid robots. He pushed the thought of using zitacode out of his mind.

The robot suddenly asks him, "Why do you want to get higher education despite being class-C?"

France feels humiliated answering this low level robot but they'll keep on going if he doesn't say anything. He says, "I think everyone wants to know new things."

"But class-C people don't have the required brain structure to know new things."

Trying to explain to this robot is meaningless. So France agrees, "I think you're right. My decision to study any further wasn't right."

The robot says, "You're saying that to satisfy me. You actually don't believe that. What are you lying to me?"

France thinks for a while, "I don't believe it right now. But I have to accept it sooner or later."

"You wanted to be researcher. What do you want to research on?"

"I don't really know anything. So I can't answer your question."-He replied.

"We've found that you're always getting new informations. Say something based on that."

France was worried how they would take his answer but he still said, "I am very curious about time traveling–"

All 4 cops attacks him before he could finish. In a blink he is on floor and cops are putting handcuffs on him. He tries to say, "What did I-"

But he feels a sharp pain in his shoulder and the world darkness covers his eyes.

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