Chapter 10
At work no
one would shut up about Philip’s demise, nor would they quiet
themselves on the trickling drip of reports of beta testers either
disappearing or being found dead; by their mommies most likely. Many
of the old testers also reported that their model had disappeared
simply, they called the police assuming that someone had stole it
(for it was the height of their popularity) only for cops to find no
signs of a break and entry, or a struggle, assuming of course the
things fought back.
It wasn’t
much longer before the trickle became a flood: as customers and their
full-purchase models started to complain. At first that they were
too chatty, inquisitive, or noisy. It would then escalate to
Sebastian and his team pulling their hair out as the law suits
started coming: some of them had assaulted people in their house,
guests mostly. On famous case was of a housewife in Windsor,
Ontario, who found that her HX01 unit had killed her husband with a
kitchen knife. The reason? The HX01 unit concluded that the husband
caused unhappiness in its female owner.
Also,
Gordon and David didn't report to work for a week prior to the next
set of events that would unfold, foretelling the ultimate problem
Insigna would have.
