Drones Chapter 14 Dree stared at Marcus, confused. “I don’t understand. Who is attacking us?” Marcus turned back to the code. He scanned over the numbers again, his lips moving with silent words. It was highly advanced programming—much more complicated than anything he had ever attempted. He used HTML to build websites and even to hack into media databases, looking for unpublished stories about his father’s disappearance—but that was child’s play compared with this. As far as he could tell, this code was layered with variable instructions and open-ended algorithms. It could deliver messages like any other, but it could also decide by itself the best way to fulfill its mission. It was highly advanced artificial intelligence, unusual and very complex. It also gave him a very strong indication of what this code was for. “The place where I come from,” Marcus said. “It’s a country called the United States of America. My father worked for the government there.”
