Arnie and Otto were wandering on the ground level for some time. Then, Arnie halted. "Uh, where are going again?" he asked Otto.
Otto stopped too. "To inspect different areas of the factory, to see if everything's in order and to show our support to the workers."
"Oh yeah. I was a bit faded for a bit."
"I noticed, since we were going around this level for minutes. See this door here?" Otto inclined his head towards Rick's workshop. "This is the third time we went past it."
"My bad. I just got a bit confused. Let's go to the Grinding Station and check things out." said Arnie. So, they set off.
"Oh, this place looks OK." said Arnie, impressed. They arrived to the Grinding Station. They saw some of the Mudokons, who were standing near the grinders, pulling levers and cleaning up chunks of meat.
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Rick lowered the pipe a bit, seeing as Goresplatter had other concerns than making sure he doesn't escape. The Slig sat down in a corner and mumbled to himself.
Rick looked at RG-49, who was still standing in the middle of the corridor. He took a few careful steps towards him, to see if Goresplatter noticed. Then he ran to RG-49. "Hey, RG are you OK?" There was no response.
Rick remembered how he activated RG in the first place. He slapped the robot's shoulder and waited for the effect. RG's eyes didn't lit up this time, of course, but he made a few tentative movements. He was waiting for further voices. Rick noticed this, so he spoke. "Good to see you're OK..." But he couldn't finish because RG was waiting for this moment, and seized Rick by the throat.
"It was unwise to make a sound, organic. I can't see you, but my aural sensors are still working, I can hear you." said RG-49.
Rick was turning blue under the pressure RG applied to his throat. "I... not... release me!" he spluttered.
RG processed data for a moment, and released Rick, dropping him on the floor. "It wasn't you who attacked me."
Rick coughed hard, and looked at the robot angrily. "Pure genius! I could have told you that."
"I can recall an image of a Slig's fist before my visual sensors, so it couldn't have been a Mudokon." said RG, looking around, which was rather useless, since he couldn't see anything.
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