Android Paradox by Michael La Ronn

Author:Michael La Ronn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ursabrand Media

X and Shortcut watched as android scuba divers pulled the mangled android from the water. They dragged him by his arms and laid him at X’s and Shortcut’s feet. His body was mangled from the impact, his head smashed to pieces. He smelled like algae and burning metal.

X leaned over the android’s head. He ran his finger down the android’s face where the ugly whorl of skin was. He pried open the skull and looked inside. “He doesn’t have a black box.”

“This is supposed to be impossible,” Shortcut said. “If you remove a black box from an android, you’ll destroy him. Safety mechanism. He shouldn’t have survived.”

“Unless he was a golem. Someone could have terminated him.”

“It still doesn’t make sense that someone would control him in real-time. He didn’t have jerky motions. He was acting normal aside from his strange way of speaking.”

“Come to think of it,” Shortcut said as he hacked into the android’s mainframe, “I’ve never seen this guy before. He’s not UEA.”

“If he’s not UEA, then what could he be?” X asked.

“Someone must have created him. This android was created to be evil, X. Androids don’t normally have the capacity to connect to the UEA network. We place a lot of trust in you guys, but there’s still fear of a possible singularity. That’s why I’m your partner. You do the heavy lifting, I funnel you the information you need. So the question is, how did this android access the network and manipulate it? And more importantly—”

“Who gave him access?” X asked.

Shortcut nodded and pointed to the android’s neck. “Or more specifically, who upgraded him and installed an access interface? I’ve never seen any chip like this. It’s pretty sophisticated. This is getting weirder and weirder by the minute.”

“Any firewalls or condors?” X asked.

“Nothing. Maybe he didn’t know we were coming for him, so he got sloppy. But someone’s behind him. He didn’t do this alone.”

“He had to know we were coming,” X said. “He baited us into the bathroom.”

“Well, I have his address now. He lives in an apartment building not far from here. We should go check it out.”

X programmed the address into his coordinates and walked away.

“Hey, I’m not done scanning him yet.”

“You can catch up. Wait for me outside the apartment.”

Shortcut nodded and kept working.

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