The Trinity

The Jackson brothers walked down the Chinatown searching for something fun to do. They shoplifted gums from a small supermarket, visited the alleyway to get paid from the tenants, played a few rounds of vintage street fighter in an arcade and there they saw these girls playing the dancing game in such hot motions.

The oldest of the three, Samuel, decided they would have a good time with the girls tonight, so they left the place and waited outside till the girls came out.

They approached them from behind and each of them said hi to the girls. They offered them a free dinner and the deal settled right there. The drive to the place was boring and slow but steady. They chatted a bit, got to know each others better. Kevin and Louis, the other brothers got their eyes on the other two girls, while Samuel sat his eyes on the one named Janet as early as they were in the arcade. Occasionally he would take a glimpse through the driver’s mirror and offer her a smile, she noticed it and blushed every time. He was already thinking positively about what would happen between them tonight.

As he pulled over and about to get out of the vehicle, they heard the crying and yelling from the diner. They stayed put in there for a while until a shadow rushed out from the place. Silence. The brothers stepped out and slowly walked toward the structure and the girls followed behind skeptically. What was inside frightened the girls, it was nothing they haven’t seen before from Quentin Tarantino’s movies and other tv shows, but the reality of them watching it at such close range scared them. The brothers recognized one of the bodies is leader of the CK gang, but did not bother about it and went straight for the cash register, better not waste it in the evidence room.

They fled the place and had dinner at another place but apparently the girls didn’t have much appetite after witnessing such horrible things happened. The drive to drop them home was quiet as if they were incapable of speaking for themselves. Samuel tried to hug and kiss Janet, as it was the only way he knew how to comfort all girl he had been with, but she just pushed him off gently and entered the house without saying a word. The brothers shared the same luck.

Before long, they woke up in a small and dimly lit room, tied to the chairs and covered in blindfolds and splashed by cold water repeatedly until someone spoke. The blindfolds were removed and they saw the brother of CK, the ‘spokesman’ of the CK gang, sat in front of them.

“Do you know why you are here.”

“We didn’t do anything, I swear.” said Samuel, nodded his brothers.

“Do you know who I am?” He stared at Samuel, sweat running down his forehead.

“You are Chuck Kellein, CK’s bro.”

“Damn right. Now tell me, did you not call for help when you saw him lying there? You piece of trash.” Chuck shouted and spat on Samuel.

The brothers remained silence and kept their head low.

“Did you three not do anything!” yelled Chuck and punched Kevin on the head.

“Stop, please,” Louis said. “We couldn’t do anything, he was already dead.”

“And you just walked away?” Chuck turned and gave Louis a backhand slap.

“I swear we didn’t know anything, we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” said Samuel calmly.

Chuck gazed at him.

“Do you know the chicks that went with you?”

“No, we picked them up at the arcade center in Chinatown.”

“Is that so? Do you know where they live?” Chuck soften his voice.

The three stay muted once again.

“Is this how you three want to play it? Okay, let’s play,” Chuck laughed and signaled the guards to pull them to another room. “Tie them up, and get some guys to the arcade center, find the girls.”

The brothers were pulled into a room with high ceiling where chains were locked in place, the guards hung them up on the hook and left. Merely minutes passed when they started to moan and struggle. They swayed around, but as time went by and energy burnt out, they gave up and went into a coma.

Meanwhile a few guys went to the arcade center and woke the poor Mr. Chan, he was forced to make the call to Janet’s uncle and told him the unfortunate things she had been dragged into.

The brothers, with six hours stayed hanging, were eventually released after the meeting between the bosses were over.

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Project Aurora

Never be afraid of the night, because now the night you know is gone (Don’t worry, Batman is staying). With Project Aurora in full effect, we should expect the sky to be half as bright as the day at night.

Project Aurora utilize the energy-efficient improved and specially modified LEDs panels, by lifting them up and hang them on the fixed orbital track so that it would always be shining on the dark side(Night side) of the earth.

With that many light panels shining from all different angles, the night would be as clear as the day, whiter but not too bright that would blind you.

Each panel is combined with thousand of LEDs in a compact circuit board that draw power from the Sun when at other side of the world. There are currently two sets of these panels on each side of the earth while one act as backup.

The current coverage including all South and North America, The Europe with only a small part covered in Russia, and the Asia, the Middle East and Africa. While these panels mainly covered the major cities in the countries, some would have dimmer light coverage because of the distant but still acceptable luminosity.

Besides providing the lighting services, the panels also include surveillance camera that would help construct the photo of the earth daily, which would be used for scientific purposes for the United Nations(doubt it).

As the testing phase began in the year 2018 in some of the major US cities, the reception were well and promising, as the project gathered funds and most public support, the project went completely operational at the year 2023, with the totally self-sustainable design, the panels were thought to be able to last for at least 10 years.

As of the effect, most people found the light comfortable, and the crime rates dropped in the first few years. The lighting usage and expenses were cut in half. And the most obvious problem being not able to look at the stars and the dark sky in the first year the light launched. After receiving so many complaint and feedback from the public, the world agreed to turn off (or dim the brightness as they said) the light at multiple scheduled period every night.

From the space station, the earth on the other side of the sun looked pale but bright with so many dark spot surrounding it.

From the moon, it looked as if it was another moon.

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HackaFes

Sam Bellino attended the 2019 NYC HackaFes in January and was not impressed by the sheer scale of the event. According to the leaflet he received from email, the number of local attendant that year was exceeding three thousand people between the allowed age of thirteen to thirty seven. He was one of the youngest to attend the event, and he had previously followed his parents to the Maker Faire but did not like it there, so here he was.

The HackaFes provided more than one million in prize for all the winner, which was obviously one of the major attraction. Though the venue was crowded with people staring at their own rigs while drinking soda and eating pizza, Sam always felt like that would be where he belong.

He was assigned a seat in sector B, the newbie section where amateur hacker met. The request about transferring to sector A, the elite section, was denied due to his young age.There Sam met some grown up with skills worst than his while he browsed at their prototype.

People were surprised by his design and speed the minute he started working. There were older people like him and could work in high speed but still maintain the linearity and integrity, but none was that good at his age.

It was later decided he should be indeed sitting around the professional and experienced veteran hacker, did he saw much more potential of the art in hacking.

There were a group of people surrounding him while he work his way through an old encryption system and displayed his logicality and clear mentality. He instantly fell under the spotlight and attracted more attention.

By the third day he had been through all the possible thing a young hacker could try that he was given a special glimpse at the work of higher end system. Those posed no headache and he went straight away in a day. The fifth and last day of the HackaFes soon arrived and he had been the most prolific young hacker among the crowd, he was given prizes amounted to 7K, and was approached by companies wishing to seal a deal with him as a consultant.

There were others like him, growing by the numbers. But as they shined their skills to the public, they were sure to be watched, monitored and preyed by the people with ill intention.

Sam Bellino was the not first one to fall into the hand of the wrong side. Many had been through that path, told the story of been there, done that.

The day Sam disappeared was a school day, his parents were not aware of him missing until later that night when he didn’t go home, his parents contacted the police as soon as they felt something was wrong and by that, Sam was gone without a trace for a long time. The investigation on missing people were tight on resources because of budget limitation, and his parents could do nothing much on their own.

Meanwhile, Sam were dragged into a hacktivist group and was told to assist them with his skills. There were other hackers there monitoring his every move so he could not get help online. He aided them with some minor system intrusion and operated a money laundering credit scheme that backed their financial problems.

There was a one time job with all the hackers in a room finding a way to breach the national surveillance server to temporary bring the connection down in New York, that was the most intense and the best experience he had in hacking. If not for all the people in the room and the teamwork they had, he would never be able to achieve such action alone.

Day by day, he gained belonging to the group of fellow hackers, he was willing to be the puppet of the group, as long as he could continue the fun. He started to share the same ideal of the group, to end the government’s the illegal monitoring on everyone’s digital footprint, once and for all.

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