Just a little intertwining of the two scenes, here, as both Lola and Jacob are finding out the truth about what Fumiaki did in Folkestone. That little mass murder seems to have been craftier than it looked at first…
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Lola: This is getting out of hand. I need to talk to the boys in the machine shop...
Analyst 4: Miss Lamb! Y-you need to see this!
Lola: No. No, this can't be right.
Caera: What's wrong?
Lola: This is the core dump from Jacob's genocide case. It says that Fumiaki's attack in Folkestone...
Zoey: ...was a dual release. Two viruses. One messy and short-ranged, to get attention. Plus a second, airborne strain...
Analyst 4: Miss Lamb! Y-you need to see this!
Lola: No. No, this can't be right.
Caera: What's wrong?
Lola: This is the core dump from Jacob's genocide case. It says that Fumiaki's attack in Folkestone...
Zoey: ...was a dual release. Two viruses. One messy and short-ranged, to get attention. Plus a second, airborne strain...
Oh-oh!
I second that. And add a “there goes the neighbourhood.”
Oh… dear. Wonder how helpful Fumiaki!bot was feeling about humanity – is it mind-altering like Guyaquil, is it body-altering like his chrysalis viruses, or is it merely deadly?
Maybe it targets genocide men. 🙂
Please tell me it’s not the zombie outbreak.
hmm, a counter-Guyaquil perhaps?
As genocide men are the only unmodified humans, it would probably be pretty easy to create a virus that only targeted them.
Spreading it to them is the problem.
Guessing what a crazy AI is doing is sort of a fool’s game, but two options for the airborne virus come to mind:
—Kill all humans
—Speciate humans (make everyone different).
The second would be very hard to do unless it forced random mutations or allowed humans to absorb DNA from the environment (the virus can’t carry a lot of different DNA itself).
Killing off the genocide men wouldn’t be enough to start the revolution that sim-Fumiaki wants.