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Juan’swith the implications “You mean, it could hack into computers all by itself?”

“Hacking is just the first step Project C is designed to rewrite the code so sea it may not even know it Think how hard it is for us to detect viruses now, ones that ritten by hue Even if we knew the ht have no idea what it said Every coiven over to someone else”

“Or so else”

Lyla nodded “If it wasn’t designed with the right fail-safes in e by the whim of a computer that doesn’t care at all about the human race Or the AI could be controlled by sos like puppets, ready to do whatever they command That someone would instantly become thewe could do about it”

“Where is this computer?” Juan asked

“I wish I could tell you Our access was extre on the computers It was a closed network, so I couldn’t access the internet”

“What was the network?”

“It was called Vajra”

Mallik’s satellite system That confirmed he was so sense to Juan yet

“There were two other things that you should know,” Lyla said

“What’s that?”

“First, twenty-three of the passengers were taken off the island shortly after we got there The rest of us got to talking and realized that they were all hardware people, while ere all software”

“Do you knohere they were taken?”

She hesitated, then said, “No About eight o, we had to redo a ton of work all of a sudden During that tiitude coordinates ere checking data on so One of the data cells next to the coordinates had the word sunken I think it was referring to a ship that sank”

“Do you remember the coordinates?”