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"Me, going there?" Sun Jack looked up at the Ta Faction passing overhead and was immediately stunned.

"Ta Faction merchandise sells this well in the Holy Grail? They even have a female version now?"

What blew Sun Jack's mind even more was the scene he witnessed next: in the sky, he saw not only female Ta Factions but even a female version of Sun Jack!

It seemed ordinary merchandise could no longer satisfy Guan Sanke's appetite; they actually wanted gender-swapped versions too.

More than the gender swap, Sun Jack cared about something else, namely where this female Ta Faction could be purchased. He had just clearly seen that the price tag was still on it.

After quickly determining the direction, Sun Jack hurriedly flew towards the origin of the female Ta Faction. It wasn't difficult to find, especially with other female Ta Factions periodically pointing the way.

Soon, a merchandise store appeared before Sun Jack. A huge 3D advertisement of Ta Faction was shining brightly, suspended in mid-air.

"Oh my God... this is... how is this even possible... this." The Matrix, seeing everything through visual sharing, immediately became incoherent.

At least in her understanding, all this was too shocking. Could everything happening around her just be an act? And the characters could even sell merchandise!?

"Now you understand why I knew you weren't a real Holy Grail Person," Sun Jack said as he walked directly into the store.

The store was clearly dedicated to selling "Revolution Sun Jack" merchandise, with all kinds of Clones impressively displayed on the walls. Not to mention female Ta Factions, there were even loli Ta Factions, chubby bear Ta Factions, and trap Ta Factions.

Any XP could be addressed here, and inside the store, numerous Holy Grail People were picking out their companions.

"Sir, may I help you with something??" A polite salesman approached Sun Jack, whose mouth was agape, and asked with a smile.

Sun Jack squatted slightly for a second and casually pointed at an unmodified Ta Faction to his left, "How much for this one?"

"You've chosen the standard Ta Faction, good taste. As "Revolution Sun Jack" has progressed to this point, they've stopped producing this model. It's very collectible, and the price is 499."

Sun Jack couldn't afford 499, let alone a single Golden Stock. "I'll take a look at something else."

"Of course, whenever you decide, just let me know. Next door is the Jack merchandise chain store. If you need, you can check it out. If you buy Ta Faction and Sun Jack merchandise together, you'll also enjoy the Sun-Ta Combination discount of 10% off."

Ultimately, the salesman backed off before Sun Jack had to resort to force.

He knew they were selling their merchandise on the Holy Grail, and it was one thing to know that, but seeing it with his own eyes was another thing entirely.

Sun Jack looked at the various styles of Ta Faction on the wall. Right now, he didn't have time to worry about anything else. The only thing he needed to figure out was how to get one back to Metropolis.

"Could I get it for free?" Sun Jack first thought of the simplest method: robbery.

But the Matrix's words dissuaded Sun Jack from that idea. "I advise you not to do that. For such a small amount of money, no regular Holy Grail Person would ever consider robbery. If you did that, you would be revealing that you're not a Holy Grail Person."

"Is there any way to legally earn 499 Golden Stocks in the Holy Grail?" Sun Jack persisted in asking.

"I'm afraid not, you're not a Holy Grail Person, and you don't even have a Golden Stock account. If you made money—wait a second! Jack! Get away from there now!"

Feeling the urgency in Matrix's voice, Sun Jack's scalp tightened instantly, and without a moment's hesitation, he turned and walked toward the store's entrance. "What's going on?" he asked.

"You've been spotted. See those two with the black hats on your left? They're the Holy Grail's security AIs! Their presence here means the other party has already noticed something odd! The central system has raised the nearby threat level."

A nanoworm camera on Sun Jack turned toward that direction, and he immediately saw two Holy Grail Persons wearing black hats, one behind the other, closing in on him.

At that moment, Sun Jack's muscles tensed up instantly. He had prepared for the possibility of being discovered before he came, but he hadn't expected to be spotted so quickly.

Sun Jack tried to blend into the crowds on the street to reduce his presence as much as possible, but under the current circumstances, it was futile. The two Holy Grail Persons in black hats closed in even tighter and started to quicken their pace, closing in on him.

"What, take them on forcefully? No! That would definitely reveal me, win or lose!"

Sun Jack quickened his pace, arrived at a crossroad, and immediately activated his Mimetic Camouflage, sprinting toward the road on the left.

The two in black hats realized he had spotted them and, without any attempt at concealment, took to the air and flew after Sun Jack at high speed.

The once-undefeatable Mimetic Camouflage was nearly pointless against their scanning equipment. The technology disparities between Metropolis and the Holy Grail were just too vast.

Just as they raised their hands to activate non-lethal weapons on the fleeing Sun Jack in the distance, Sun Jack swiftly dodged and rushed into a store on the right.

The two security AIs landed at the storefront in unison and looked up together, the store's name catching their eyes - "Revolution Sun Jack."

If there was any disguise that was the ultimate disguise, it was not disguising at all.

By the time they entered the store, Sun Jack had already reverted to his normal appearance and was hiding among the rows of inactivated Sun Jack clones.

Whether it was the body structure or the Battle Armor they wore, everything was an exact match with no differences—at least none that the scanners could detect.

As he watched them move back and forth, scanning inside the store but unable to find him, Sun Jack breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, upon hearing the Ta Faction Store's salesperson say that a store selling Sun Jack merchandise was nearby, he had come up with this idea on the spur of the moment.

Otherwise, he might have been caught by these two things.

Just as Sun Jack was planning to wait for them to leave on their own, the situation changed again. One of the black hats approached a salesperson and pulled out a data wire from their wrist, directly inserting it into the salesperson's neck.

Sun Jack wasn't alarmed at all; before entering, he had activated his Mimetic Camouflage and had made sure to avoid the salespeople's line of sight.

When the security AI removed the data wire and didn't look in his direction, Sun Jack knew his guess was correct.

Just as he thought he'd make it through this trouble, two laser beams shot out from their eyes, scanning the area's subtle dust traces meticulously.