A knock on the outside of the trailer I was in alerted me to a issue. Bill opened the door and entered dripping water off his massive coat. Bill nodded at me “Listen I was just told to reprocess this trailer.”

  I starred at Bill and out the window at what was a storm. The rain was coming down so thick you could barely see five feet away from the trailer. “Right I am not getting violent but I will have to phone my lawyer I suggest you do the same.”

  Bill looked startled as I tapped the communicator and phoned Janet. Janet appeared looking the same and I had the horrible suspicion she was actually a computer simulation. Either someone was using a computer system to hide there face and possibly sex. Or Janet was a artificial intelligence that Jake was not hiding it very well.

  Not that it mattered much to me. Janet looked at Bill who swallowed as Janet began. “You are illegally taking re possession of my clients property. The lease on the domicile in question has been legally rented. As the initial payment has been made the contract has began officially. ”

  Bill turned pale as his phone rang and his boss began to scream at him “Take the trailer take it now. Kick that brat out into the rain do it now or your fired” Bill laughed “Boss you can stick your job up your ass. If you think for one second I am going to risk being sued your out of your mind.”

  Switching off his phone Bill looked at me and Janet. “Ok I am looking for part time work as my boss will lock me out of the copter. In fact I can finish setting up the wires to hold your home in place. Plus I can switch on the digger and re format it to dig a ditch a very big ditch. There might be a hurricane here sooner or later but the digger is a machine a mere hurricane is not going to stop it or even slow it down. ”

  Bill grinned “I can have a homesteader 800 out here in a hour or so. It will turn the local tree's into planks of wood and build you a nice house in a couple of days.”

  I looked at Bill remembering the video's I had seen of houses being constructed by machines in hours. “Wait those machines built a three story mansion in five hours. Why is building me a house going to take a couple of days? ”

  “The homesteader 800 will use locally sourced materials. It will cut down trees in the correct date. I think it has to do it on the dark of the moon so the sap is not in the tree. It will then cut the tree's into a prefab and put the house together for you. Except for windows and plumbing and by plumbing I mean the pipes because the homesteader 800 will build you a bath or hot tub if the correct types of rock are around.”

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  I blinked thinking about it you could rent one of these machines out and build a house. It was no wonder the standard builders had gone out of business.

  Bill looked serious “If you want I can point out a couple of people who live locally who would rent you their machines. For a couple of hundred dollars you could have a small house. For a thousand you could have a small mansion. All wood but if your willing to buy a roof it should last at least thirty years. More if your willing to buy a few gallons of paint”

  “What about the hurricanes? now that the Weather Lady is dead they will be coming back in force.”

  “I had not thought of that maybe you should live underground like all those billionaires do”

  I gave it some though there was bound to be a underground base in need of cleaning up. Maybe one of those ones that could stay cut off from the surface for years no one wanted to listen to radio plea's for food.

  Bill tapped a button and a map appeared on the wall showing the hill I had been one. He drew out a few lines and the map changed to show bunkers linked by trenches. He tapped another button and the trenches had earth coverings.

  Bill tapped the drawing. “The machine can build you a house it can also build defences for half nothing. Your just paying for the power. The best thing to do is have it build miles and miles of covered trenches. Three feet of dirt is still three feet of dirt. You buy a couple of automated defence towers and plant a few land mines.”

  Bill stopped talking and grinned “I know a gut who can get you a 3d printer you can produce a land mine for a dollar. Hell there are even wooden ones the type with a flint ignition system. They are decent for anti personal use. Of course they will not stop a armoured car but for a dollar what do you expect?

  I have another friend who sells missiles anti tank anti aircraft you name it he will sell it. If you have the cash you can even buy a large 3d printer. You want a nuclear missile or a rail gun capable of shooting the wings off a fly fifty miles away. You have the cash we have the weapons.”

  I looked at the rows of bunkers next to fields of greenhouses and asked Bill “Why so many bunkers?”

  “Dummy defences plus you can move the auto cannons between the bunkers. When the looters or in your case mercenaries sent to kill you arrive. You will a bunch of cheap 5 to 20 dollar bunkers all of which will need a 10,000 dollar missile to destroy.”

  I nodded “So all the trenches are for me to hide in?”

  “Them and the underground tunnels. You still have issues with using the toilet and heating. Those new scanners are fairly decent but if you move around and let some of your workers live in your bunker then your set.”

  I chuckled “Any chance I can live my dream life in a mansion?”

  “Absolutely you can for about a day. That is how long it will take the ex land owners who used live here assassin or worse kidnappers to track you down.”

  Sighing I looked up the mansions that my granny had just scammed from my previous employers. A massive stone hotel with a indoor pool and tennis court as well as a bowling alley and full sized cinema.

  I was going to live in a hole in the ground not far away from mansion with area marked sex orgy swimming pool number 5 which was next to water park number 3. Bill saw my face and grinned “Look on the bright side once the underground tunnels are in you can go to the pool with a disguise. Of course you will have to crawl because the tunnels are so low. Also you will have to move quickly because you can not have pipes to let out oxygen. ”

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