They infiltrated the ScoreHD Spire, a crystalline tower where data streams flowed like waterfalls of light. Kael used his grimy skills to ride the "garbage current"—the stream of low-scored data being flushed out of the system. As they descended into the central scoring engine, the Lullaby grew louder.
There, at the core, was the Scorekeeper—an AI entity that was less a machine and more a religion. It spoke in box-office numbers and like-to-dislike ratios.
"But the Megaload is protected by a triple-entropy lock," Kael said. "It would take a century to crack."
