52 Going on a journey
Nova, who was currently having fun messing with the economy and making money like there is no tomorrow, started attracting the attention of some investing firms, but Nova seems to have thought about that.
He avoided this by using a broker firm that offered anonymity. Although this came with added fees and few other complications, since she always earned more from the investments she did the fees were not causing her any troubles.
Although the brokerage firm was having a good time as they were earning more and more from just one person, the head of the firm was being contacted by various influential people to tell them who was their anonymous customer who was wreaking havoc on the stock market.
While this was happening Nova’s idle computing power received encrypted data from something with an ID that shows that she created it, The moment the data was received the idle part became no more as she activated it and started analyzing the data she received.
After finding out who sent it she immediately decrypted it leading her to find the over compressed file.
When she calculated the time it would take to decompress the file with just the available free computing power she discovered that it would take more than 6 hours. With that she decided to inform Aron after she finished decompressing and analyzing the file which she expected it to be tomorrow morning.
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[Sir madam Sarah is calling you] Nava said, reminding the day dreaming of Aron that there was a call.
“Thanks,” Aron said as he accepted the call and said “Hello Sarah”
“Hello Aron, I called to inform you that the financial department will be done and be ready to send over the dividends after calculating and paying taxes on the amount. So should they send it the moment they are done?”
“When did they say they will be done?”
“It will take about a week for them to make sure that they don’t miss something important.”
“Okay, tell them to send it over to my account once they are done with it,” Arons said, getting ready to end the call.
“But…” Sarah said showing that there was something she wanted to say
“Is there anything you want to say?” Aron asked Sarah who was hesitating.
“I just wanted to ask that are you really sure that I should take five percent on the dividends”
“Sarah we talked about it yesterday, I’m not giving it to you just for the sake of it, it is because you have been working on the company while trusting everything I said without even going against any of them.
You didn’t even try to leave the company and go to the ones who offered you more incentive and higher payments.
So just think of it as a compensation but also as an apology to the problems I will be causing and making you solve them in the future.” Aron said and ended the call without waiting for her to counter argue his explanation.
[Sir we received a reply from the advanced lab I was in the talk with]Nova told him after he waited for Aron to finish his call with Sarah.
“What did they say?” he asked with expectation on his face in which he didn’t try to hide at all.
[It is a university lab, usually it would have been impossible but for this university this labs fund was about to be cut forcing them to reduce or cancel some of their research
When I discovered that, I contacted the lab manager and offered to sponsor their usual amount of research funds if they allow us access to use their equipment for some period.
After back and forth negotiations they agreed under the condition that our use of the lab doesn’t exceed a month’s time.
And that we will pay for any destroyed equipment which we were involved in its destruction]
“Well that was pretty easy, how much are we going to pay?”
[ten million dollars Sir]
“It will be worth it if we manage to create the quantum chips” He even thought that it was cheap compared to what he was going to create from their labs.
[I thought the same Sir]
“Where and which university is the lab located?”
[The University of Colorado Boulder in Colorado]Nova replied.
“Okay we will leave tomorrow, tonight I will inform and bid farewell to my family about the journey.”
[Yes Sir.]
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That evening at the dinner table.
“Mom, Dad, I will be leaving tomorrow to go to Colorado. I have some work there”
“Have a good journey” Replied his father while his mother asked “When are you returning?”
“The work will take about a month to finish if nothing goes wrong.”
Henry looked sad hearing that his brother will be away from home for more than a month.
When Aron saw this “I will bring back a gift for you, is there anything you want?” He asked Heny if there was any gift he wanted.
“I want an ironman toy and star wars and…” Henry started listing things after things until he was tired of listing.
“Okay I will bring what I can remember from that list” Aron said, making Henry forget his sadness as if it never existed at all. Now all that could be seen in his face was the anticipation of receiving his gift.
“Have a safe journey” Both his mother and father wished him a safe journey.
After dinner he informed his guards that he will be heading to Colorado and stay there for a month so he wanted them to be prepared for it accordingly.
This included from reservation of where he and they will stay to how they will assure his safety.
Some of the things they were doing seemed like the work of a secretary but since they were paid well no one complained.
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The next day Aron woke up, did his Saitama x5 training and cleaned himself.
After that he changed his clothes and packed a few of them in his bag. When he was done he went to pick his phone from the bedside. That’s when he found a piece of paper under it.
When he picked it up he found that it was Henry who put it there.
It was a list of toys he wanted, that’s when he remembered what he said yesterday (Okay I will bring what I can remember from that list).
“HAHAHAHA” Aron could help but be impressed by his brother’s way of making sure he doesn’t forget any of the things he wanted.
Although Aron said he will bring what he can remember, he just said that to avoid his parents telling him to reduce the amount of things he will buy for Henry lest he forgets to do his homework, But Aron seemed to have gained photographic memory as a result of him gaining the runic body so he remembered everything that Henry had said last night.
But he still took the piece of paper with him.
He left his room with his bag heading to the parking lot where his car and the security team were waiting for him to finish his preparation so that they could leave.
After putting everything in the car they left for the San Jose international airport for their flight to Colorado.
When they arrived at the airport they left the car to one of the bodyguards whose work was just to bring them to the airport and return the car home.
After entering the airport, going through security they directly headed to the VIP lounge to wait for their flight time.
They didn’t go to buy tickets because yesterday Nova bought everyone a Vip class seat in order to ensure Aron’s maximum comfort in his long journey.
When Aron thought about this he was really happy that he created Nova, as this has allowed him to solve most of his needs without needing to have a physical secretary with him.
When their flight time arrived they headed to their gate to move on with their journey.
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