London, England April 8, 4078

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Remember, if we try, we can fight it! Alex, I remember where I saw that! It was on a letter addressed to me . It said:

Remember, if we try, we can fight it

We can fight Neatech. Stop putting in your information and meet us tomorrow and 9:00 at the old Big Ben

I remembered that note right before I stepped out of the Taxi in front of the old Big Ben "Hey pal, can you just pay the check? this place creeps me out." said the hipster cabbie

"sure."

Osborn was nowhere to be seen, so I was considering walking back to the main road to hail another taxi until I heard a sharp whisper "Detective, Over here!"

From behind the ruins I saw a pair of big round glasses peering out at me.

I walked over.

"So you came."

"Of course I came, I'm trying to solve a case."

Chad Osborne looked at me, trying to see if I was serious.

"look, I am assuming that a while ago you got a letter right?"

"the one with the words Remember, if we try, we can fight it ?"

Chad nodded "I am part of the union who sent that letter. We don't know what happened to Richard and Jacob either, but they were one of us."

"Can you explain why both men had advanced protection and war systems in their houses?" I said

"we are fighting a war, detective"

"what war?"

"A war for our humanity"

We were both silent for a moment.

"Don't you see? asking for information, seeing everything we do?" Chad opened his mouth to say more, but suddenly big burly men came out of nowhere and grabbed us by the arms and started hauling us back to their car. It had tinted windows. Uh-oh.

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