“Don’t àn the ànjiàn!”
“I am not going to àn the ànjiàn unless nàge diànnǎo tells me to”
“Why would you do that anyway? You want to do everything the diànnǎo tells you to?”
“It was right about the wúrénjī wasn’t it?”
“The wúrénjī thing could have been a lucky guess, who could have known they were going to fly over nàge exact building?”
“The diànnǎo did. 我不觉得 they have developed the ability to lie, David.”
“Did you just first name me?”
“Yeah, nàge shì 你的名字 isn’t it?”
“Yeah, Just qíguài coming from your mouth, 就這樣”
“Can we get back to the ànjiàn please?”
“Sure”
“Ok, wǒmen now zhīdào le what? 我们 zhīdào nàge green ànjiàn launched the wúrénjī and nàge building went down. Wǒmen also zhīdào nàge yellow ànjiàn started nàge fire on the East side. Nà zhège red ànjiàn ne?”
“Nàge ànjiàn it’s wired up to the diànnǎo and the diànnǎo is telling us not to àn it”
“It might be a reverse psychology thing. Like it’s telling us not to, but really wants us to. Maybe it can’t execute its mission itself and needs humans interaction or something”
“You are possibly duìde. Or it could be a double bluff, where it zhīdào we would think it’s a play so we would think to àn it.”
“Hěn confusing”
“I am actually confusing myself to be honest”
“Oh it changed”
“Ok, tā shuō shénme?”
“ 你可以 àn the ànjiàn now”
“Shénme!?”
“It changed its mind for some reason”
“I still don’t think 我們 should àn it, it’s testing 我們 now”
“Ok, now it says ‘you don’t have to àn it if you don’t want to ’”
“It’s playing games with 我們的 minds David. Mind games. It always was. If I wasn’t tied to this desk 我 would have left the building a long time ago”
“But you are tied to the desk, and I am tied to this pipe. So 我們 aren’t going anywhere, 我們 zhīdào de shì these three ànjiàn and what happened the last times 我們 pressed 他們. What if the red one sets us free?”
“你觉得 the diànnǎo has developed an evil streak?”
“I’m not sure nàshì how it works”
“Well it tied us up didn’t it”
“我觉得 it wanted to make huíwénzhēn and now it has no choice but to chew up the building”
“Why couldn’t it just find more mines to mine?”
“It’s all gone now. the raw materials, it has to get whatever it can find. The important question is what happens when they run out of metal in the walls, will 他們 eat themselves? or try and get the iron from 我們的 blood? Scary thought.”
“The idiot who programmed this AI to make huíwénzhēn is probably laughing in 他的 grave. Nobody knew that after the machines had finished with all the delivered steel, they would build more machines to harvest more steel from other places”
“Yes 我們都 zhīdào, but why tie us up and leave us with nàge ànjiàn?”
“Nàshì the question everyones asking”
“No David, nà búshì the question everyones asking”
“Diànnǎo changed again”
“Tā shuō shénme?”
“No it says, 我們 want to zhīdào the answer to nàge question, and 我們 can’t stop 他們 making huíwénzhēn”
“Let’s àn the ànjiàn”
“But what if something awful happens”
“我 hěn willing to take nàge risk David”
“Hang on before 你….”