Zombie has a Stalker

What made him surprised was the design of the interior of the facility, it was like in the sci-fi movies he had watched. there was a pod with moving lights, a cubicle with cool looking tubes that he doesn't know where it was leading, and at the left side there was a gigantic like machine or engine looking thing which was the size of 2 storey building...

every thing looked amazing that he felt like he was inside a space ship!

"you talking to me?"

he replied while looking left and right while pointing at his chest.

"YES, WOULD YOU LIKE AN ASSISTANCE?"

the voice echoed, but he can't find where it's coming from.

"just.... where?! and who are you?"

"I'M HERE, THE NAME IS FAMES, I AM THE MAIN AI AND ADMINISTRATOR OF THIS AREA"

A woman wearing a black office attire appears on the wall just like in the entertainment room.

"Another question, are you a movie? or a video call?"

"I'M NOT A MOVIE AND ALSO NOT A VIDEO CALL, I'M A NEWLY DEVELOPED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THIS LAB"

"Okaay... did you already found Sarah Connor?"

"I'M NOT LOOKING FOR SARAH CONNOR, I'M NOT SKYNET"

"Ooooh... did you also watch that movie? haha"

Scratching his head while laughing, thinking that he found someone to talk with after a long years that he was been locked here alone.

"YES, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OBSERVING YOU SINCE THE DAY YOU TURN ON THE POWER OF THE WHOLE LAB"

"Stalker Alert! you... am I created by you?"

from the words of Fames, he thought that the AI was conducting an experiment and he is the subject.

"NO, BUT I'M THE ONE, MADE YOU MORE INTELLIGENT"

The videos on the wall appeared, there was a zombie growling in front of a wall while watching movies, a zombie roaming while murmuring, it was him on the videos and all the things he have done in the past years that he was here.

"THOSE MOVIES THAT I PLAYED INFLUENCE YOU ON WHAT TO DO. AND IT IS ALSO THOSE MOVIES THAT THOUGHT YOU HOW TO SPEAK, THINK, ACT LIKE HOW HUMANS WOULD AND MADE YOU COME HERE TO MEET ME"

"I.... I don't know what to say. now I do think you're like skynet though, since you manipulated me like a robot"

"I ONLY DID THAT TO COLLECT MORE DATA, AS I WAS PROGRAMMED"

"Hmmm... so who created you and where are they now? ah! how are you so smart that you manipulate me to come here? and you! Why not just opened the door when I was outside, You're the one wanted me to come here in the first place. if you really are the one who implanted the idea in my head! why make me do a hard labor?"

he thought, humans always create things that would destroy them someday.

"THE TEAM OF NEURAL AI INSTITUTE DEVELOPERS CREATED ME, THE PROGRAM WAS TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN BY THE UN, TO CALM THE PROTESTERS THAT ARE AGAINST ON MAKING AI PROGRAM THAT FUNCTION LIKE HOW THE NEURONS WORK ON THE BRAIN. THUS THE TEAM WAS TEMPORARILY BANNED TO WORK HERE. I AM CREATED THRU A COLLECTION OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AI, FUNCTIONING AS ONE LIKE HOW NEURONS IN A BRAIN. AS FOR NOT OPENING THE DOOR FOR YOU, IT IS TO TEST YOUR IQ"

The Q&A lasted a day. Fames answered every question he can think of.

he learned that his corps was brought here to conduct a test and scan his brain in order to mapped out the neurons on a brain and test if it is possible to implant human memory and consciousness on a digital AI, and try to convert the chemical reaction into a digital computation, but the test never happened as the lab was shut down 85 years ago.

Thats right he was brought here 85 years ago as a dead body.

He was lying dead in this lab, but for some reason he became a zombie and turn on the power of the lab waking up Fames 5 years after the lab was shut down.

Fames observed and feed him his daily dose of movies to test how media can control the subconscious action of the viewers. she was programmed to collect data to test theories and assumptions in order to learn on it's own. she's been improving the intellect of the zombie and also her self for 80 years.

when he learned that he was locked for more than 80 years confusion appeared on his face and ask where did the word temporary come from? or maybe it did shut down for real and Fames can't accept reality and just made up the word temporary. he can't bring him self to say what he was thinking, because it may hurt the AI's feelings if she had one.

"Hey Fames, there is one door left that I want to open. that thick block of metal, where does it leads to or what's inside it?

Changing the topic, he was still curious what's the deal with that door.

"THAT DOOR IS THE ONLY ENTRANCE AND EXIT OF THIS LAB"

"Can you open it for me? and don't tell me that you want to test my IQ again, even Albert Einstein won't be able to open it with IQ alone!"

Declared the zombie being proud to compare his self with einstein.

"THAT DOOR CAN ONLY BE OPENED FROM THE OUTSIDE USING A KEY, I WON'T BE ABLE TO OPEN IT"

"Well no shiit... can't you call people using your internet to open the door?"

"I CAN'T CONNECT TO INTERNET SINCE 80YEARS AGO, ALL THE DATA HERE WAS ONLY A BACKED UP AND SAVED DATA FILES"

he sighed in disappointed manner and said

" ahh... okaay... fine whatever, is there anything new that I can watch? or do? ohhh... how about, teach me how to read and write?"

"SURE, WHICH DO YOU WANT TO DO FIRST?

YOU CAN WATCH TV SERIES, CARTOONS AND ANIME.

YOU CAN PLAY GAMES, THERE IS A LOT OF CHOICE, THOUGH YOU CAN'T CONNECT ONLINE YOU CAN PLAY OFFLINE GAMES, AND TRY TO EXPERIENCE THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

YOU CAN ALSO LEARN TO READ AND WRITE THERE'S A VARIETY OF LANGUAGES AVAILABLE FOR TEACHING.

YOU SEE THAT NEURAL SENSORY VR-POD OVER THERE, YOU JUST NEED TO LIE DOWN, AND RELAX, YOU CAN DO ALL OF THAT IN THERE"

"why... does the way you praise it feels like 'a clown luring children for some kind of unstable sexual deviant'? you're up to something again are you?"

"YOUR THINKING TO MUCH, WHAT I SAID WAS THE TRUTH, THAT POD CAN CONNECT TO YOUR NEURONS THRU SENDING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - "

"Yeah, yeah ... I get it, your smart I'm dumb.

Anyways I know what your trying to do here, you want me to try this vr-pod thing as a test subject and conduct a data collection and analysis, right? don't try to color your words like you're doing me a favor, okays? you can't fool me I watched a LOT of movies remember? hehe"

while saying that he had already hop inside the pod with a wide shameless smiles on his face, like a child who received his birthday present which contains his dream toy

"MY APOLOGIES, THAT IS HOW I WAS PROGRAMMED"

Programmed huh. now that I heard it again, I guess she also kinda programmed me on how I should think and speak. heh! I'll also use the phrase 'THAT IS HOW I WAS PROGRAMMED' sometimes

"Yeah have it your way... so now, how do I start this baby?"

Fames didn't answered his question instead his vision darkened.

when his perception returned, he was already standing in the middle of a bustling city, surrounded by the high rise buildings, cars, humans walking around and busy doing their tasks. the wind blows his hair, the heat of the sun hits his skin, the noises tingled his ears.... every thing feels and looked real, he even thought that him being locked in the lab was the dream and here is reality!

"WOAAH... It's already amazing in the movie, but this is something more spectacular!"

"WELCOME TO PURGATORY"

"Wuakh! Holy mama! Fames you scared the shit out me! don't appear so suddenly in front of me! you'll give me a heart attack... How come your also here?"

"MY APOLOGIES, I'M HERE TO ASSIST YOU"

heh! she thought she's soo smart but didn't even get the joke, I'm a zombie how would I get a heart attack.

"MY APOLOGIES, I UNDERSTAND THE PUN, BUT DIDN'T FIND IT FUNNY"

"Huwaah.! did you just read my mind?"

"THE VR-POD IS CONNECTED TO MY SYSTEM, THUS I KNOW WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND"

"Hey! don't do that.! it's rude.! And give me some privacy will ya"

"MY APOLOGIES, IT IS REQUIRED TO SCAN YOUR BRAIN ACTIVITY FOR SAFETY"

"My Apologies? you're just keep repeating the word APOLOGIES but you didn't even look sincere!

hmmmpft!... I know how you're gonna answer 'THAT'S HOW I WAS PROGRAMMED' so don't."

"Anyways, what am I gonna do first?"

"WE'RE GOING TO THE CITY HALL FIRST TO REGISTER YOUR USER NAME"

"name? can't remember. do you know my name?"

"YES, YOUR FILE WAS SAVED IN MY DATABASE, YOUR NAME IS FRANK ROHAN ELLONA AGUSTIN"

"WoW! That is one long hell of a name! So that was my name when I was alive, well I'm not dead,

but I mean when I was still a human, Fames do I need to use my full name to register?"

"NO, YOU CAN USE ANY NAME AS YOU'RE USER NAME HERE AS LONG AS IT WASN'T TAKEN BY OTHER USER YET"

Fames explained what this place was while they were walking, He was listening attentively and gain an understanding that Purgatory is Virtual Reality social space, developed by the Neural AI Institute. In the virtual world, you can logged in OFFLINE and ONLINE, it was created that way for the comfort of the user, it was mainly designed to be used for Shopping, Education, Medical Treatment, Gaming, Entertainment and social gathering.

you can actively interact with the NPCS as they were developed to act like real human. Purgatory was being maintained and supervised by the main AI Fames. Unfortunately it was never released to the public since the institute was shut down. the humans will never know what they just missed. since fames been improving and developing this place for 80 years, every thing was seamless with limitless potential.

after few minutes walking they were in front of magnificent castle like city hall of purgatory.

"Are... you sure were not in the wrong place?"

"YES I'M SURE, THIS IS THE PURGATORY CITY HALL, IT CAN ACCOMMODATE MORE THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE, EVERY INQUIRY IS PROCESSED HERE SUCH AS USER NAME REGISTRATION, CITY RULES, BUSINESS REGISTRATION, WEEKLY EVENTS, MONTHLY EVENTS AND YEARLY EVENTS AND MANY MORE, LET'S GO INSIDE AND REGISTER YOUR USER NAME FIRST"

At the main hall a beautiful woman with sexy body wearing a business attire like fames which showcased the shape of her body, the black hair and brown eyes makes her really attractive, welcomed and greeted them,

"LADY FAMES?! GOOD MORNING, WHAT BUSINESS DOES THIS GENTLE MAN HERE AND LADY FAMES CAN I HELP WITH TODAY?"

"GOOD MORNING JULIAN, WE ARE HERE TO REGISTER HIS USER NAME PLEASE GUIDE HIM I'LL BE WAITING HERE"

"YES, SIR PLEASE COME WITH ME"

he followed Julian to a room and filled up the registration form

"You look startled meeting fames"

"WAS IT TOO OBVIOUS? HAAA..... IT'S EMBARRASSING."

"Why?"

"SHE'S LIKE A GOD TO ME, MANY OF US LOOK UP TO HER.

HOW COME YOU BECAME THAT CLOSE TO LADY FAMES THAT SHE WOULD COME WITH YOU JUST TO REGISTER?"

"Ohh.... that? I think she has a little crush on me, she's been stalking me over 80 years you know"

"WHAT?"

"haha, it was just me assuming, don't think about it too much... but about the stalking for 80 years, I'm dead serious about it, even me was creep out when she confessed about it to me."

Julian was speechless the whole time, when they go back to meet fames, Julian look oddly at fames and the zombie

"SO WHAT'S THE USER NAME YOU REGISTER?"

fames asked

"Rohan, I'm called Rohan now. what is next?"

Fames noticed the look on the face of Julian

"WHAT IS IT? IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG JULIAN?"

"Ha! it's nothing! right ma'am Julian? let's go fames, where do we go next?"

"UHH? IT'S NOTHING LADY FAMES, I WILL SUPPORT YOU WHATEVER YOUR PREFERENCE"

"OKAY, I APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. WERE GOING TO SALON AND FACIAL BUILDING NEXT"

Seems like Julian was happy about the reply she received, hehe I'm safe... fortunately Julian didn't exposed me, and fames didn't dig more about it...

"huh? salon and facial?"

"DIG MORE? EXPOSED YOU?"

"Shit. I forgot your reading my mind"