The Culling (The Culling Trilogy Book 1) by Ramona Finn

Author:Ramona Finn [Finn, Ramona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

One Authority member wrote:

‘Though the idea itself gave birth to our greatest societal achievement, the Culling, we must move on from the idea of Extraction, as it was a cruel and expensive practice. A stain on our history.’

So, if it were true, that they’d really extracted people to send to Charon, they didn’t want the citizens to know. And they didn’t want to make the same mistake of doing it again.

I watched as more very familiar images came to the screen. Brain scan after brain scan. Brains to be culled and brains to be left alone. I could recognize them with no trouble. And the sight of them was strangely soothing to me. I’d spent years studying them, after all. Culling was my life’s work. My entire world.

And then. There were images of code. Some of it written in a hand that looked strangely familiar to me. Other parts of the code were inputted into a dummy computer, in an attempt to see what they would turn out. I was shown draft after draft of one program, attempting to be written from scratch.

No. I leaned forward in my chair. This wasn’t a program that was being written. This was a virus.

I frowned. I recognized that handwriting.

I watched as, little by little, I could follow the arc of the evidence being presented to me. This virus was apparently being inserted into the Authority database. The very thing that synced with all of our integrated tech.

But what did the virus do? I watched in sickened fascination as my question was almost immediately answered.

We were back to the brain scans. I recognized them as coming from people needing to be culled. They were violent and prone to murder. But then there were different brain scans in the screen next to the first. These ones I didn’t recognize. I’d never seen ones like these.

The red on these brain scans were in strange places, suggesting activity in different parts of the brain. I didn’t know what to make of them. What did they mean? And almost as if I’d asked the question out loud, words appeared in that same handwriting, below the many images of the scans. Rebellious. Stubborn. Defiant. Artistic. Rogue. And then there was one word underlined five times. Rebel.

I leaned forward. So these were brain scans for someone with these traits? How was it that I’d never seen one before? I knew that people like that had to exist. And if they existed, then I would have come across their brain scans at some point in the hundreds of simulations I’d undergone.

But then I sat straight back in my chair as I realized that the virus had initiated on the screen. The two brain scans were overlaid, the violent and the rebel, one over the other. The rogue brain scan disappeared, absolutely dissolved into the violent brain scan.

I made a noise as if I’d been slapped.

This virus made rogue brain scans appear to be violent? Murderous?

My father.

The thought choked me. Murderous.

No. Rogue.

I felt a rising tightness in my throat, in my head.

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