[ Following Heero is maybe not the best option, but right now for poor Hermes it's Heero or nothing. Of course Heero's got no idea where he's going, but if they can get to one of the far walls, perhaps there will be some way to interface with the... whatever this is.

This place SUPERBIA has brought them to may be completely alien to him, but he can recognize some of the bits and pieces of circuitry that make up the innards of a computer, and that gives Heero some confidence.

If only this metal landscape weren't so hot. Heero wipes the sweat from his brow. ]

No. If the AI wanted us to be fooled, we would be fooled. An intelligence capable of simulating reality in realtime could easily make that reality appear to run on C++.