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A Figure Like That<br />

scarf along with tightening her hood to reduce<br />

the chance of her getting frost bite, which at<br />

her age was a possibility. She had the virus in a<br />

protected sealed container inside the body of<br />

the machine and the when it reached a<br />

thousand meters into the icesheet, she had<br />

designed nano robots to break down this<br />

container and insinuate the virus further and<br />

deeper into the ice. She had considered using a<br />

tactical thermal nuclear fusion bomb to break<br />

down the ice sheet as that would have been<br />

much, much quicker, but what would have<br />

come with that was radiation and not only<br />

would that likely denature the virus and make it<br />

useless but it would also kill people much less<br />

specifically, which was not her plan. It also<br />

made everything significantly more random and<br />

chaotic and Matilda hated randomness so she<br />

had got her organic chemists to create a type of<br />

dynamite or TNT as powerful as the “Little Boy”<br />

– the nuclear bomb that was dropped onto<br />

Hiroshima at the end of World War 2 by the<br />

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