The Quantum Brain (Pulse Science Fiction Series Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

Mechanics and whatever was in that box.
    Mark had a bitter taste in the back of his throat as he contemplated Dr. Kell being smarter than him about something. Mark knew the jealousy was irrational. A research doctor working on some mystery object in the realm of quantum physics would logically know more than Mark Spencer, a consultant and computer expert. Still, the thought of being inferior to anyone galled him.
    “If you are so smart,” Mark growled, “how do you not even know you are being observed while you think you are the one doing the observing, Doctor? I guess the universe still holds mysteries for you too. Doesn’t it?”
    Whatever had Mark’s blood boiling, he wasn’t sure, but he forced himself to calm down. Being upset led to mistakes and while hacking CDR from the inside was not the time to start making mistakes.
    He couldn’t even put his finger on what was really upsetting him. Everything was going smoothly. He was poking around undetected and had possibly found the big treasure he was seeking by taking this job. The forces of the universe were literally aligning to allow him to pull this whole thing off. So, why the bitterness? Something about being alone in the server core on his knees watching from the outside while men like Dr. Kell got the breaks in life to be on the inside was embittering. Mark could handle it from hacking government mainframes from his living room. That felt like spy games. It was fun. Being in CDR sneaking around the maze of computers like a rat, made him feel smaller and disregarded. It was a moment of looking up at something vast towering over him and realizing his real size and place in the universe. And he did not like it.
    It was Dr. Kell overseeing Mark’s cyber security work. It was the quantum physics geek thinking he was going to tell the lowly contractor boy how to do his job. It was the snide, dismissive stare of thugs like Calvin Hall looking on Mark like he was something dirty invading the clean halls of CDR. They gave Mark the devices he could use because his equipment was dirty and not good enough. They gave him his limited codes so they could watch what he did. They told him where he could go and what he could do because he was the unwelcome outsider. Once his work was done, they would march him back out and pay him to go away. He was to crawl back into whatever sewer he crawled out of because CDR was too good, clean, and important for the likes of him.
    It was at that moment on his knees in front of the server spying on Dr. Kell’s work that Mark Spencer decided that he was going to be breaking into CDR on the big day instead of the Federal Reserve. It was a decision made in anger and it was made with finality.
    Mark found one quantum data trail and decided to use his own technique of following it up stream. He was going to see if he could unravel the mystery and understand what he was seeing. Or rather not really seeing. He soon discovered the stream kept spiraling into infinity. Seeing more and more of it made it less understandable rather than more clear.
    He began to think what they had done was open a portal into the Quantum. Or maybe beyond it. He wasn’t sure what that even meant. Could he steal a chamber that was a portal into other dimensions? What would he do with it once he did? He supposed he could try to hold it for ransom, but then he would be dealing with a company with a reputation for making its problems disappear. He could sell it off to any of a hundred black market groups around the world. He didn’t know what shape the world would be in after the event though. Bad shape, he assumed.
    Then, Mark paused. There was something oddly orderly in the data. He was deep below the surface on this single thread with others all around, but he was seeing order. Intelligent design? The data was designing itself. Was that an effect of the quantum itself or was this an intelligence extending into the Quantum? Had Dr. Kell and his mad scientists unlocked