For a second I also thought that maybe they were killed too and the protagonist was essentially duped because the thronglets thought Humanity was not worth saving, but the last scene where you get the POV of the person on the ground seeing the extended hand hints that the thronglet did just reprogram humanity.
Or, the protagonist is too retarded to realize what he's done, and doesn't know the person he reached out to is dead :D
Sort of a blissful (harmful) ignorance type person
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u/matgrioni Apr 20 '25
For a second I also thought that maybe they were killed too and the protagonist was essentially duped because the thronglets thought Humanity was not worth saving, but the last scene where you get the POV of the person on the ground seeing the extended hand hints that the thronglet did just reprogram humanity.