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SAM INSTRUCTED PENG TO MOVE ahead of the limo and use his siren to cut through traffic. He wondered how the President would react to Commander Kung leaving his post in the middle of a lockdown. Sam pushed these thoughts away as he leaned his head back to rest and think through his next steps.
Although his visit in the President’s mind was brief, he got the information he needed, or at least hoped he did. There were two data centers involved in the creation and operation components of the micro attacks in the U.S., and the program was code named “Dragonfly”.
Dragonfly was only a part of China’s much larger artificial general intelligence (AGI) program, which was thoroughly frightening in its vastness. The President and Party had set very aggressive goals for AGI as a country, with var
