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- There was one door. On the wall opposite to it hung a giant piece of paper. It was a contract. The words were too small to be read by human eyes, and there were seven blank lines underneath them.
- ...
- "Idiot," said Lim. "Signing something you didn't read."
- "There must be a million words on that monster. Look. It's his country, his rules. If he wants to kill us, he'll do it, contract or no contract. That was a risk I was willing to take. Ocean will protect me."
- ...
- "Wonderful," said Mr. Bucket. "Wait. Baby. What are you doing?"
- The four black triangular eyes of the Taranturoo were shooting out a green light that was scanning the contract.
- "I am having Taranturoo analyze the contract and abbreviate to me what is important. It will only be a moment."
- The light turned off.
- "There we are," said Lim. "Let me see... Okay. Not surprising. It's literally all gibberish."
- "Gibberish?" asked Keerthi.
- "Most of this isn't even real words," explained Lim. "Half of it is a list of prime numbers and a guide on farming and preserving cucumbers that he translated into binary. The other half is a lengthy scientific paper about something called a "Sudanese Blister Beetle" that he took and translated between German and Italian about fifty times over until it became unrecognizable, and then he just copied and pasted the result."
- "Um," said Mr. Bucket. "Well. Shut up."
- - Chapter 9: The Contract
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