Or perhaps...
A terrible thought occurred to Chu Bamboo. But he took a deep breath, forcing the doubt down. This wasn't the time to dwell on it. He said calmly, "Z, based on the available information! Give me the absolute safest... plan for Hodges and me to get to Nanmo."
After a brief silence, Z spoke. "Latest updated war module, activating now! Permission from Mother has been granted! Now requesting permission from Father..."
"..." Chu Bamboo's eye twitched, but he nodded quickly.
"Father has consented!" Z paused briefly, its tone completely different from before. "Commencing official activation."
"Beginning indiscriminate intrusion! Commencing target acquisition... Successfully detected 3,400 hackable targets in the vicinity! Seventy percent are surveillance devices, the remainder are operable machinery... Initiating trojan intrusion on surrounding mobile phones to monitor information!"
