Pay Back Part Four
"It is worth a try. For robots to gain sentience they must have some form of speech." Yin Li replied.
"Actually, if they are preprogrammed to run certain tasks it may not be so… we can only tell if we investigate the mountain." Alicia wondered if the robots of this world were just a ruse for those looking down from above. They could be programmed to go about a daily routine as if they were humans. Making it seem the poison in the air was needed for some kind of protection for their planet.
The two flew closer to the mountain top where they found a large facility that took up almost half the mountain. Large smoke stacks rose up into the sky that produced the green poisonous gas. There was another gas being produced with it that seemed to push the poison up into the atmosphere keeping it from hitting the ground.