“What did you find?” Li asked the moment Sam made it back to the greenhouses. “I’ve got an order in for the parts we need, but there are no openings in the printer queue for three weeks.

“This might get us set up until then.” Sam gently unloaded his haul onto the office table.

“Is that a rice cooker?” Li asked, pointing at the ancient machine.

“Top of the line in its day. I’m pretty sure we’ll find our new control chip in there.”

“Why would anybody put a first rate control chip in a rice cooker?”

“They vastly overestimated the intelligence required to make rice?” Sam shrugged. “How would I know? But there’s one in there, and if it isn’t literally cooked, it’ll...

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