I'm not saying we run screaming at the gates or anything stupid like that, only that we need to keep tabs on this guy somehow, make sure his hand doesn't slip while we're fucking around out in the Wastelands digging up code with our new friends.

[Stealth seems to be this guy's forte, if he was able to gather this much in such a paranoid environment- Levi's pretty impressed by that, actually- and so maybe there's a way to extend whatever illusion had allowed him to hang around. IT'S A THOUGHT, one that he'll share once he comments on the next bit:]

But anyway, what you said about a bigger system- that's definitely possible. We could be sitting in one bigass quarantine zone some other programs set up to keep themselves safe from the mess. I was out there too, and what we saw looked a lot like those things in Texas, the Infected. They moved the same way, their behavior... The only difference is that here they're calling it something else.

[Was Giovanni here for that one? Hell if Levi knows, but word travels pretty fast (...ha) around here and so he figures this guy probably has some idea what he means.]

...That'd make the Defenders the kings of shit hill, what an honor... No wonder they're all so friendly.

[That idea changes things, a little bit... But not enough. Even if everyone here was banished from a larger area, they should have stuck together, not exiled and isolated themselves more.]

What made you think there's more out there? Were there messages sent or received?