The Infinite Loop (The Inevitable Book 2) by Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant

Author:Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant [Platt, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sterling & Stone
Published: 2018-06-13T06:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 2

“I don’t understand,” Jonas said, staring into Theo’s eyes. “You’re telling me all of this ‘because of what I know whether I realize it or not’?”

“It’s complicated.”

Jonas stood. There were two ways to be powerless. One was to have your power taken by force. The arresting robots had done that to him at the mansion, when they’d hauled them all off in chains. The other was to surrender your power, because you thought you were supposed to. Jonas was doing that right now. He could continue to sit, getting lectured and condescended to, or he could accept that he had more power here than he’d allowed.

“It doesn’t sound complicated at all,” Jonas said. “Answer my question.”

“There’s no time. I can explain that part later. What we need now — the reason Polly and 14 stopped their interrogation and sent me in, and the reason I was watching in the first place — is detail on what happened with your disembodied spirit. With Barney. He was a Radius model, 14-F, built for service and intuition. At his age, I’m sure he was quite susceptible to whatever Cromwell—”

“There’s no time? You couldn’t have done it during the three days you kept me waiting in that cell? Or was it four? Hard to tell with all the psychological torture.”

“Jonas, you don’t understand. That wasn’t our doing. You are not in a friendly place. The station is controlled by Infinity and the military. They think I’m human, and even then they only tolerate me for political reasons. I’m not truly welcome; I had to fill out acres of paperwork just to watch your interrogation today. We didn’t ask you to let yourself be arrested so that you could talk to me. The idea was always to infiltrate the larger organization.”

“Yet here you are.”

“I came because you insisted. Because Polly, who has autonomous authority to make such decisions, thought your threat made this the best bet. They did stick you in a cell, hoping to break you down over days. There was nothing any of us at Radius could have done. They wanted to get leverage on you here while quieting things outside these walls, so that when they did finally talk to you, it’d be from a position of power. But they’re operating with one hand tied behind their backs.”

Theo sighed, as if he wasn’t happy with what he had to say, but needed to get it out anyway.

“Remember what I said about layers, about each one down knowing less than the last? The humans and robots here knew to contact the ministries, but don’t truly understand what the ministries do. It makes their choices easy but dulls their effectiveness, since almost nobody knows the objective. This time, it made for a poor decision. Things outside have gotten worse while you’ve been cooling your heels in a cell. Today’s interrogation was always happening from their disadvantage, even though they hoped you wouldn’t figure that out. You played the right card when you said their time was running out.

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