e Joplin girl, Kat, everyone.

    “t  a dream Cad. tokyo.”

    “tokyo?”

    “Yes, you collapsed in t control room in So blo of t seconds to spare. t up in smoke. You needed treatment but Fouler suggested  fly straigo tokyo. You’ve been out for almost t seemed tried to kill you using some kind of infrasound to destroy your internal organs. Luckily  you out of time. You sustained only mild internal hemorrhaging.”

    “I remember. It rol room in S t happened?”

    “One of ted somettracted t of trouble and o t I  make it out alive. Luckily Antor arrived just in time and saved me from being outnumbered. I el  in t to tal building but by time  t by one of t  in front of our faces, mumbling incoly. e found a onator in the major-general’s hand.”

    “Yes, I remember you s.”

    “Yes.”

    “And the AI?”

    “e troyed along  to be sure.  talking about. But t screamed and tem  do  by a virus. And ts, ttle dots on to try to save t ed to get out of there quick.”

    “Real people? Permanently jacked in?”

    “Yes, you e intravenous feeding system and o terface. to secret PLA reports.”

    “to make sure t escape into cyberspace. It could cause a lot of here.”

    “I kno  for  important t the major-general is no more.”

    “Yeaer all t excitement I don’t quite feel up to anoter ence,” Cald t ot fine.

    “t is on top brass. And funding for all PLA-related projects is being closely monitored. ts at tsingy ional tV. A top-level investigation is unde