The room Ling led Mew into was a state of the art computer lab.
She watched as the male assistant sat at the nearest interface and pulled up a
search program.
Mew leaned over to whisper to ling. “So what’s his name.” She
asked.
“That’s Cory.” Ling replied.
Cory filled out the search parameters that they knew. He set the
system to its task and a large [SEARCHING] icon popped up and faded in and out.
“And why is he searching for the game console?” Mew asked.
Ling nodded. “To see if we have one.” She explained.
Mew was lost. “To see if you have one where? Why?” She asked.
Ling gestured to the rest of the building. “This ware house is the
technology library and machine repository. We’re hoping that we have one
waiting for us in one of the storage compartments here.” She explained.
Mew nodded. “Ok but what’s so important about the game console?
Aren’t we supposed to activate the ring?” She asked.
Ling nodded. “The ring console is based on three hundred year old technology.
On a consumer level we moved past it long, long ago. When your friends erased
the data on the ring and console we were left with a three hundred year old
remote control that has no known visual interface and runs on code that no
known machine can interpret. We’re down to digging through the oldest machines
we have in the library to see if any of them are able to show us why this ring
console isn’t turning on.” She said.
Cory stood up “G – G- G –Got it!” A paper with the box code and
game system information printed out.
Ling grabbed it and glanced it over. “Toll definitely had a passion for old rare electronics. This thing wasn’t made here, it was brought all the way from earth.” She said as they left the computer lab and headed for the machine repository.
The doctor saw them come out into the hall. “Did you find
anything?” He asked, jumping off the chair and running to catch up with them.
Ling handed over the paper. “Vintage to the point of being nearly useless. I
highly doubt your friends were into video games that old.” He said looking at the rest of the information. “Row nineteen,
Section F, Box eight. You’ll need a ladder” He said handing the paper back to
Ling as they entered the repository proper.
The others moved with purpose, the storage facility was nothing
new to them, but Mew was stunned instantly by the sheer size of the area and
the never ending rows of stored materials that went all the way to the roof of
the building. “How?” She uttered mostly to herself.
