Chapter 9
B illy suddenly snapped the tension. “I don’t understand. It wasn’t time yet. We just had an elimination. Why did Carl die?”
“Neuropathic inceptors,” Thorin explained. “Everyone here has been chipped. And if I’m right, then they’re like the ones I put in product testers.” He paused. “Well, maybe not exactly those ones. These seemed to be getting a signal from the tower.”
“I don’t get it,” I admitted. “So, the tower’s killing people?”
“Not exactly. I think that the tower is reading Rose’s neuro patterns. When Rose makes a decision about someone—it could be subconscious, it could just be her losing interest in them—but, whatever triggers it, her chip sends a signal to the tower. The tower then transmits the signal to a local computer, then that computer sends a kill signal to t
