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The Surprising Truth About Lying
reports, the engineering warnings, the whole nine
yards. We run it through The Scythe, and we publish
the result.”
Henry stood ready. He felt none of the smooth,
controlled detachment of his old life. This was raw,
dangerous energy.
Lina hit the command.
The Scythe devoured thousands of leaked
documents and, in sixty seconds, synthesized them
into a single, brutal paragraph. But it didn't just post
the results to a news site that could be bullied into
silence or a server farm that could be unplugged. It
fired the truth into a decentralized public ledger.
The moment the data went live, it wasn't sitting on
one computer; it was instantly duplicated onto
thousands of anonymous hard drives across the globe.
To delete this message, a government would have to
kick down doors in fifty countries at the exact same
second. You couldn't sue it. You couldn't bomb it. You
couldn't scrub it. It was permanent, untraceable, and
terrifyingly immortal.
The Scythe’s Output, Power Station Incident
(Substation Delta-2, October 16th):
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