16 CHAPTER-16

After reaching the highway, Alex had the Nanites turn the Stealth function and made a dome-like structure over him. He then changed the exterior of the bike and made it a uni-wheeled bike and had the Nanites control the bike. He simply closed his eyes and laid inside the bike, as the motorcycle sped up like wind reaching 300 km/hr without a sound or producing any kinetic force.

Alex rested inside the circular-shaped vehicle about a width of two feet and digested the information recieved from devouring the vehicles. Even though the transfer of knowledge is instantaneous, he needs to put some effort to understand and get experience at the knowledge he recieved completely. Without anyone's knowledge, the bike travelled on the highway passing by vehicles, who had no idea that something passed by them at such high speeds.

In an hour the bike travelled from "Tranov calculus city" and reached "Flemington". Alex made the bike stop at a remote place at the outskirts of the city and changed the bike back to normal. He then drove it into the city and into an alley where he changed the Nanites back to their Default form and had them enter his clothes and cover his entire body with a thin sheet of Nanites.

While Alex was in Flemington city, at the previous city "Marcus steel depot" at the storage warehouse where the Nanites devoured the Steel, police were investigating the scene on as to find out how the Steel disappeared. The storage manager was sweating hard, as he was the one responsible for looking after all the storage warehouses. But, never had there been anything stolen, and who in their right mind would steal metals that weigh a ton.

So, when he was notified that two blocks of metal had disappeared, he thought the workers might have displaced the blocks in a different warehouse. But, when he looked through the entire placement sheets and found no extra blocks or any errors in the computer data and the metal blocks were stored in their correct location. Sadly, the camera in that particular warehouse hasn't been working for a long time, and no one knows, when or who and how the metal block went missing.

The police officer at the scene spoke to the warehouse manager: I am sorry, Mr Muta, but this can't be filed as stolen goods. There are no tracks or any clues if there ever was any metal block placed on the ground. We would have surely found out any clues, and I fear there may have been some error on your side". After saying his piece, the officers entered their cars and returned back to their posts.

Mr. Muta opened his mouth to speak, but no voice left his mouth as he dumbly stared at the receding cars, it was when his mobile rang that he woke from the daze and looked at his mobile. He shakily clicked on accept and put the phone near his ears to only hear a thunderous voice from the other end: "YOU ARE FIRED!!".

Before Muta could speak back, the call was disconnected and his knees gave in and he weakly fell onto his buttocks. The workers were snickering looking at his misfortune. Actually, Mr. Muta wasn't a decent man, and he always made the workers work overtime and don't pay them their due amounts. He was arrogant and looked down on the workers and menial labourers. But, now the tables have turned and its their time to look down on him and laugh at his drastic change in the situation.

The company will surely sue him to pay for the stolen goods and fined more for various charges, as he knows many people will kick him down, now that he has got no backing.

Alex, who was at Flemington city doesn't know the consequences of his doing. Even if he knows, he would have still done it, as he doesn't care about people like Mr. Muta, who are selfish and greedy. He is currently racking his brains on how to develop Nanites for which he needs a huge amount of metal and power. If these two things were settled, then he can have them devour everything and anything and develop new technologies.

To reach the last step he needs first to complete the first two steps and for them, he needs a stable input of both power and metals, which can only be bought, as stealing is not a solution for the long term. When the cases of mysterious disappearances of metals start raising, government agencies will get suspicious and they might even found out that its caused by him. So, he is stuck in a dilema of buying or stealing the metals.

If he wanted to buy the metals, there were many problems to face. As he use them to increase Nanites, so there's no output of any products from him, which will raise suspicions in the long term. But, for now there won't be any problem except that he needs a large amount of money to buy them. Even though his family is well, he needs tens to hundreds of millions to buy the number of metals he required. Which they cant obviously provide and he won't ask them.

Alex was lost in thoughts when an idea struck him. He can control Nanites from anywhere around the world, from the information that Nanites gave him the communication range seemed to be very large, Animus didn't specify the number. Still, it must have been a vast range as a very advanced civilization used it.

Contradicting his earlier thoughts, Alex decided the best plan is to steal and devour the metals. But, he decided to send them somewhere far from his location maybe a few states away and operate them from his location and devour the metals at that place. So, even if something happens he won't be in radar, as he won't be near the area of incidents.

Alex then decided on that plan and divided the Nanites into three parts.

The total amount of Nanites on him = 25 kilos.

1: 10 kilos on him for protection and his use.

2: 10 kilos to be used as batteries and to receive thermal energy from a volcano.

3: 5 kilos to be used to devour metals.

After deciding on a plan of action, Alex let the Nanites hide and go to their locations to perform the duties. The energy Nanites (EN) will be going to the most active volcano on the land, which is a few thousand kilometres away from his location. All Nanites use some kind of unknown technology to share energy among them. The other 5 kilos of metal devouring Nanites (MDN) will go to the south of his location, a few states away and start their plan from there.

The Nanites will reach the airport and hide in their respective destined planes and reach their destination any possible way. It will take a few days for them to reach their destination and start the plan termed.

"Overlord Metallum"