“Wait, that actually makes sense!” I sat on the bed and wiped my face with a tissue. “They wanted to kill us, and Monty’s job was to see if they succeeded. Instead of leaving and reporting what he saw, he carried me to the mine’s office. The officials working there called an ambulance. They probably didn’t know about any of it, because how could they? Nobody initiated them.”
“Exactly!” Sue interrupted me. “The android acted independent of the instructions of his owners. He did something that he independently decided to do. Thus, he became dangerous to corporate plans. He could have given them away. That is why they decided to destroy him, regardless of the costs it incurred.”
She nodded. Her blue eyes glowed with excitement.
“Now, let’s continue: I don’t think the prototype was given ba
