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No
matter
how
much
you
might
know
intellectually
that
you
’
ll
be
re
-
sleeved
with
the
bulk
of
your
mind
intact
,
the
person
you
are
at
that
moment
is
going
to
die
.
You
had
to
have
been
desperate
to
pull
that
trigger
.
It
had
to
have
been
something
,
"
I
smiled
faintly
,
"
life
-
threatening
.
Given
that
assumption
,
it
didn
’
t
take
long
to
come
up
with
the
virus
scenario
.
Then
all
I
had
to
do
was
work
out
how
and
where
you
’
d
been
infected
.
"
Bancroft
shifted
uncomfortably
at
the
word
,
and
I
felt
a
stab
of
elation
run
through
me
.
Virus
!
Even
Meths
were
afraid
of
the
invisible
corroder
,
because
even
they
,
with
their
remote
storage
and
their
clones
on
ice
,
were
not
immune
.
Viral
Strike
!
Stack
down
!
Bancroft
was
off
balance
.
"
Now
,
it
’
s
virtually
impossible
to
snug
something
as
complex
as
a
virus
into
a
disconnected
target
,
so
you
had
to
have
been
jacked
in
somewhere
along
the
line
.
I
thought
of
the
PsychaSec
facility
,
but
they
’
re
sewed
up
too
tight
.
And
it
couldn
’
t
have
been
before
you
went
to
Osaka
for
the
same
reasons
;
even
dormant
,
the
virus
would
have
tripped
every
alarm
at
PsychaSec
when
they
set
up
the
‘
cast
.
It
had
to
have
been
some
time
in
the
last
forty
-
eight
hours
,
because
your
remote
stack
was
uncontaminated
.
I
knew
from
talking
to
your
wife
that
the
likelihood
was
you
’
d
been
out
on
the
town
when
you
got
back
from
Osaka
,
and
on
your
own
admission
that
could
quite
possibly
include
some
kind
of
virtual
whorehouse
.
After
that
,
it
was
just
a
matter
of
doing
the
rounds
.
I
tried
a
half
dozen
places
before
I
hit
Jack
It
Up
,
and
when
I
punched
up
their
inquiries
the
viral
contam
siren
nearly
blew
my
phone
out
.
That
’
s
the
thing
about
AIs
—
they
write
their
own
security
and
it
’
s
second
to
none
.
Jack
It
Up
is
sealed
off
so
tight
it
’
ll
take
the
police
months
to
tunnel
in
and
see
what
’
s
left
of
the
core
processors
.
"
I
felt
a
vague
pang
of
guilt
as
I
thought
of
the
AI
thrashing
like
a
man
in
an
acid
vat
as
its
systems
dissolved
around
it
,
consciousness
shrivelling
down
a
tunnel
of
closing
perspectives
into
nothing
.
The
feeling
passed
rapidly
.
We
’
d
chosen
Jack
It
Up
for
a
variety
of
reasons
:
it
was
in
a
roofed
-
over
area
that
meant
there
would
be
no
satellite
coverage
to
dispute
the
lies
we
’
d
planted
in
the
mall
surveillance
system
,
it
operated
in
a
criminal
environment
so
that
no
one
would
have
a
problem
believing
an
illicit
virus
had
somehow
got
loose
inside
it
,
but
most
of
all
it
ran
a
series
of
software
options
so
distasteful
that
it
was
unlikely
the
police
would
ever
bother
to
investigate
the
wreckage
of
the
murdered
machine
more
than
cursorily
.
Under
its
heading
on
Ortega
’
s
list
,
there
were
at
least
a
dozen
copycat
sex
crimes
which
the
Organic
Damage
department
had
traced
to
software
packages
available
from
Jack
It
Up
.
I
could
imagine
the
curl
of
Ortega
’
s
lip
as
she
read
the
software
listings
,
the
studied
indifference
with
which
she
would
handle
the
case
.
I
missed
Ortega
.
"
What
about
Kadmin
?
"
"
It
’
s
hard
to
know
,
but
I
’
m
betting
whoever
infected
Jack
It
Up
in
the
first
place
probably
hired
Kadmin
to
silence
me
and
make
sure
the
whole
thing
stayed
covered
up
.
After
all
,
without
me
stirring
things
up
,
how
long
would
it
have
been
before
anyone
realised
Jack
had
been
iced
?
Can
’
t
see
any
of
its
potential
clients
calling
the
police
when
they
got
refused
entry
,
can
you
?
"
Bancroft
gave
me
a
hard
look
,
but
I
knew
from
his
next
words
that
the
battle
was
almost
over
.
The
balance
of
belief
was
tipping
towards
me
.
Bancroft
was
going
to
buy
the
package
.
"
You
’
re
saying
the
virus
was
introduced
deliberately
.
That
someone
murdered
this
machine
?
"
I
shrugged
.
"
It
seems
likely
.
Jack
It
Up
operated
on
the
margins
of
local
law
.
A
lot
of
its
software
appears
to
have
been
impounded
by
the
Felony
Transmission
department
at
one
time
or
another
,
which
suggests
that
it
had
regular
dealings
with
the
criminal
world
in
one
form
or
another
.
It
is
possible
that
it
made
some
enemies
.
On
Harlan
’
s
World
the
yakuza
have
been
known
to
perform
viral
execution
on
machines
judged
to
have
betrayed
them
.
I
don
’
t
know
if
that
happens
here
,
or
who
’
d
have
the
stack
muscle
to
do
it
.
But
I
do
know
that
whoever
hired
Kadmin
used
an
AI
to
pull
him
out
of
police
storage
.
You
can
verify
that
with
Fell
Street
,
if
you
like
.
"
