Chapter 25: Chapter 24: Clearing the air

The camera pans around the landscape as Gottlieb fiddles with the controls of the station’s gun, focusing more on his thoughts than on his work.

 

It seems that, for this entire time, Kai has been ahead of him. Kai has been watching everything that he does, as Kai has always done, and has, from this, been easily able to anticipate Gottlieb’s actions and plans.

 

— He supposes that being an artificial intelligence, powered by a space-bound supercomputer will offer you some unique advantages in life, after all.

 

However, while he had, in a way, thought that he and Kai had reached a point of no return that could easily eek into the life or death of one of them or the other, it seems that he was just being played.

 

Gottlieb looks up at the blue light, mounted above his head.

 

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