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170 Eight million Robots have died this year. Within twenty years none will be left.

Tell us the secret of life! Silence is punishable with death!

[Looking up]: Kill me! Kill me, then

Through me, the Government of the Robots of the World commands you to deliver up Rossum's formula.

[No answer.]

Name your price.

[Silence.]

We will give you the earth. We will give you the endless possessions of the earth. [Silence.]

Make your own conditions!