DeathCo (Tales From the Patchsphere) by Kevin Donohue

Author:Kevin Donohue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, satire, intrigue, espianage, hightech

35: “Oh The Humanity!”

From Yogi Patmos' Journal

“Patmos, a great challenge has been laid upon our shoulders!”

Barney and I scanned and pondered Syznic's blueprints and diagrams on the sheets of paper on the table in front of us. Adam Kane was waiting for us in the main cavern, sorting and selecting the newly arrived 'volunteer test subjects', most of them slaves from China. This was it.

“Barney! For the last time, these so-called circuits are absolute nonsense, science fiction and fantasy—real Dead Head stuff! We are being set up.”

“Wait, Patmos. Why would Syznic and Leong even bother—”

Barney fell silent and placed his hands over his eyes. The murder-suicide of Gidget and Al Leong, right at this critical moment, had knocked us all over for a loop. Adam Kane nearly had a meltdown when he found out what Gidget had done.

Barney found his thread. “Boffin Syznic was a brilliant innovator, but he was also a genuine mystic. He and poor Al surely knew that the end was near, so they altered, obscured, and spun these diagrams… these schematics are surely coded in synthetic propositional logic… code… surely to throw the enemy into confusion… the answers MUST be right in front of our faces… it is up to us to crack the elusive code!”

I then shifted into Esperanto. “NE EKZISTAS KODO! Tiuj estas falsajoj, kaj vi scias gin! Gidget pensis tiel ankau!"

(THERE IS NO CODE! These are dummies, and you know it! Gidget thought so too.)

Barney stiffened and hissed back into my face: “Hush! Se Adamo ekscias, vi kaj mi mortis. ”

(Hush! If Adam finds out, you and me are dead.)

We continued our conversation in that little-spoken language.

“Estas Kane ke multe de idioto? (Is Kane that much of an idiot?) It's clear that he can't comprehend a basic circuit! Does he even know the difference between direct and alternating current, or even have a fundamental understanding of basic physics? You cannot create energy out of nothing!”

“Says who, Patmos? You saw the video from that cannery! The blue sun!”

I leaned in close to Barney. “Listen, Brane. These so-called patch-apps had nothing to do with that bullshit sun illusion. Those poor fools summoned that thing up… from themselves. They were all stoned on those devil herbs, right? Everybody was told to concentrate on that image… a false image, um, which blew up in their faces.”

I knew how stupid that sounded, even before the words left my mouth. Barney knew it too.

“That power surge wasn't FALSE! The instruments clearly recorded… look, the video clearly shows that their step-up transformer wasn't properly installed… those fools probably couldn't tell the difference between a standard capacitor voltage transformer and a constant-potential descriptor… they ran that experiment on blind faith…”

“More like blind stupidity! Those people in that fucking cannery died for NOTHING, Barney. Just like the so-called 'volunteers' that are going to die today.”

“What would you have me do, Yogi? Kane won't listen to me anymore. You have to talk to him!”

“I've already tried. Put your foot down, damn it! You must demand that the first test be conducted without the drugs.

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