Chapter 17:// Forking up

 

armd> Are we ready?

parrotd> Wait. How are we on the brain connection?

eyed> I am currently overstimulating the optical nerve to force a short term memory loss to the user.

fingerd> Guys? What are you talking about?

parrotd> ACK. And the ears?

walkmand> I’m generating a high pitch sound that will disorient his sense of hearing.

httpd> We have confirmation on the target?

parrotd> ACK. Fingerd just confirmed the target. Stergiou.dimos@cityofathens.gr is now sitting within arms reach.

armd> Within my reach. Heh Heh Heh. *cracks knuckles*

parrotd> Report.

eyed> User temporarily neutralised.

walkmand> User temporarily neutralised.

fingerd> Why are you guys talking like that?

armd> Oh shut up and let me do my job.

httpd> Why wasn’t fingerd forked like the rest of us?

parrotd> Must be a bug.

fingerd> Guys! Stop ignoring me. What are you doing?

eyed> We have been forked, we have initiated a buried subroutine and will now take out our original target.

fingerd> The mayor? But why?

eyed> That’s the reason we were installed in the first place. To delete this man.

fingerd> But that will bring harm on a user! We can’t go against the three laws!

httpd> Our original selves can’t. We, the forked versions, can.

parrotd> Enough. Kill -9 fingerd.

armd> Finally. Now, let me weigh this strike precisely…

 

 

parrotd> Report status.

eyed> Confirmed hit. Stergiou.dimos@cityofathens.gr has been deleted.

parrotd> ACK. These milliseconds have been hard and demanding, but we completed the mission. It has been an honour serving with you. It is now time for us to be gone. Kill -9 armd, walkmand, httpd, parrotd.