After walking a day and a night to reach it, the robot arrived at the foot of the towering monolith. This was the location of the anomalous light source they spotted yesterday. As they approached the monolith, the robot had detected steadily increasing levels of EMF interference; now the noise was so great that peripheral systems were glitching and there was a serious danger of a central system crash. A file system check would slow progress but was necessary. A file system check would slow progress but was nec…


