>>5672271Ah yes, nothing the CEO loved more than an angry AI coming back from the grave and thrashing his rusty property.
The sand was traced in, table taken, virus install attempted, attempt at counter-virus has failed, and just when the man-turned-machine thought he would break the Cull's visor for its insolence, it turned out that all he had to do, was say that collapse of Naya Bombay's main Spire was not "an incident", not "for the AI's own good" and not "lesser evil", but simply, that it was not his operation to begin with. Huh.
Threats were at least temporarily put on hold and Cull lowered the stun baton that it stole, to which CEOBot signaled for the snipers to stand down. Cull put the pin back into the grenade it was cooking. CEOBot stopped the EMP burst sequence. Cull revealed it set up a minefield up ahead. CEOBot announced there is a dirty bomb in Cull's oven. Cull provided the antidote to the poison it administered to everyone inside the vehicle. CEOBot had put the gun down.
{What?}
[What.]
{A gun?}
[Yes.]
{You had a gun on you all this time?}
[Does that surprise you?]
{Yes.}
[That's why I had it.]
{BEEP.}
Finally, both machines moved onto the business. CEOBot asked the AI what does is actually want from this interaction. Then, what would interest Terminus in nearly 4 decades old, remains of what once used to be Naya Bombay, that were scorched as they entered the atmosphere? He was there and saw the hellish descent as it happened. What did Cull see at the crash sites?
The gun was fake. 