martin-kolacek.cz/en-us/ ‘What would they give for it?’ ‘I don’t know. A lot.’ ‘A lot of what?’ ‘I don’t know. Anything they have a lot of.’ ‘Sand, probably?’ ‘You’re still missing the point, Grunt. Compared to other book heroes, you live an extraordinarily good life. Of course, a hero must suffer a little so people will care.’ ‘Do they care more if a hero breaks his wife’s nose while trying to satisfy his overgrown libido?! I felt like a total idiot back then!’ ‘Be happy you are not my sex-life autobiography. You’d embarrass yourself so many times you wouldn’t even notice a broken nose.’ ‘Why do I have to live in sewers?’ ‘So you have a healthy colour.’ ‘What?’ ‘Stop that, Grunt. I know it hasn’t been easy for you. But you must understand how complex the human psyche is.’ ‘I don’t wanna!’ ‘Sure. But even if you don’t like me you have to choose. You either help me or wait for the Administrator to do whatever he feels to be logical. And since you live in sewers in a murderous society, endangered by big unbeatable machines, surrounded by people like Gravefiller...’ ‘All right, all right. I see the point. So what do you want me to do?’ ‘I will take a step the Administrator can’t say is illogical. I’ll write a virus to infect the matrix and connect it with the junkyard. So all the shit I’ve created will overwhelm the matrix. It will make the Monolith so overworked it 203
Grunt RX-10
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