Chapter 487: Choice

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As time passed by day by day, although Xiao Ting was often absent-minded, the Digital Personalities she had copied did a fine job completing her work.

She directly opened over a hundred task processes on the network, where they tirelessly overlapped and debugged Digital Personalities around the clock.

As for Xiao Ting, all she needed to do was to oversee everything.

Since then, Linda Linda still came by every so often, and gradually, she began to see traces of Hilda in her.

Sometimes she even wondered if Hilda had been using her all along? It was definitely something within her manipulative nature.

Was she really that good at hiding? Not a single trace exposed in front of Sun Jie? Only showing her innocent and tender side to Sun Jie?

Whenever she thought of this, she felt a tinge of sadness, as if only when facing someone you like do you hide your flaws.

If the other person didn't hide their flaws from you at all, did it mean they never cared about you? Was all the goodness she felt in the past just her own wishful thinking?

"Clang" Steel fingers tapped on the table, bringing the distracted Xiao Ting back to reality. When she saw Sun Jack's disgusting face, she immediately felt nauseated.

"What do you want!" Seeing her react like an agitated cat, Sun Jack seemed a bit puzzled.

"How's the work going?"

"Testing! Get lost, bastard! You're fucking up my tests!!" Ever since she found out about Hilda's relationship with him, she despised Sun Jack even more.

"Bang!" Sun Jack threw a punch at her face, making her stagger.

But the next second, Xiao Ting grabbed a metal tray from the table and hurled it with all her might.

Sun Jack didn't dodge, and landed another punch right in her stomach, sending her flying up with her mouth gaping open.

A pistol appeared in Xiao Ting's hand, and she pulled the trigger repeatedly at Sun Jack's neck.

The bullets tore through the Bionic Skin, revealing the pitch-black Subcutaneous Armor underneath, doing absolutely no harm to him.

After a round of brutal fisticuffs, Sun Jack simply stripped off all her Combat Prosthesis by hand, tossing her to the ground like a rag doll.

"Show some respect, don't forget who's the boss here!"

"Bullshit! What are you capable of! Have the guts to compete in the network! Sun Jack, fuck your mother!"

Sun Jack immediately kicked her, dislocating her jaw. "Get your fucking work done! By the end of the month, I need to see preliminary results."

Once Sun Jack left, the exceptionally irritated Xiao Ting didn't bother with her battered body, retreating back into the network world, too disgusted to deal with this all-too-frustrating three-dimensional world.

However, today was destined to be troublesome. As she was modifying a woman's memory and personality from her stock, trying to turn her into Hilda, a voice pierced through to her again.

"I have seen your experimental results, they are good enough now, you can start. Just implant the malware and I will deal with Sun Jack for you, he will never threaten you again."

"Who are you? What's your grudge against Sun Jack? I can help you take him down together!" Xiao Ting said through clenched teeth.

"You don't need to know who I am, and you don't have the right to know. Just do your job, get your money, and leave."

"How can you guarantee that you'll save me after I finish the job? There's still a nuclear bomb tied to my neck! What if you just don't pay and I end up getting blown up?" Xiao Ting was fighting for her interests.

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"You have no choice, you can only choose to cooperate with me."

"You've got to give me a way to contact you, right? If something comes up later, how am I supposed to reach you?"

"Contact me with this ID." A string of numbers came through, and the voice of the other party vanished once again.

Xiao Ting, however, decided not to let the person off easily and began to attempt a counter-trace. Yet, her range of tools turned up no traces on the network.

The other party's technical skills were far superior to her own; she hadn't even touched the first layer of their defenses.

"Who the hell did this dumbass provoke that they're so damn formidable?"

Time ticked by, and the development of new technology gradually neared its end.

Finally, after half a month, she found Sun Jack again with the fruits of her labor in hand.

"Are you sure it's safe? If something happens to me, you're going down too," Sun Jack said as he looked at the data being transferred.

"Hell, you talk too much! Are you using it or not?"

"Why does it show that my consciousness upload requires access to neural network permissions?"

"No shit, Sherlock. If you want to achieve consciousness overlap, of course, that means inserting data chips into the brains of both the original and the clone, how else do you expect to use external devices?"

"Oh, I see. Alright then, Tapai, call Delete over."

The surgery began promptly, within the confines of this office; Delete and Sun Jack underwent the insertion of neural network chips.

After everything was completed, Xiao Ting looked expectantly at Sun Jack in front of her.

However, to her disappointment, Sun Jack showed no signs of irregularity and began the consciousness upload right away.

"You can go now. Once we've confirmed there are no issues, Sun Jack will release you," Tapai said from the side.

Xiao Ting, holding back the fury in her heart, returned to the office and sent a message through that ID address. "I've completed my task! Where's your promise?"

However, in response to the message sent by Xiao Ting, there was silence from the other end, and not a single sound came through again.

It was at that moment that Xiao Ting realized she had been deceived; the person had merely been using her all along.

Xiao Ting thought for a moment, then sent another message to that ID, "It's a good thing I didn't choose you this time."

Just after she sent the message, the voice reappeared. "What?!"

No sooner had the other party spoken than Xiao Ting's door opened, and Sun Jack walked in with Tapai.

"I'm sorry, but the Trojan I implanted was a fake," Xiao Ting said, raising her neck for Sun Jack to remove the bomb from it.

"I really despise Sun Jack, even wish him dead, but if I had to choose between you and him, I'd rather choose him. At least I trust him when it comes to credibility."

"He went after Hilda! Have you forgotten?" The voice that had been absent for so long reappeared.

"So what? I loved her, but she's already dead. I can't let that stop me from maximizing my interests, can I? Talking about feelings, I'm at a loss; I'd rather talk about benefits," Xiao Ting said, as a matter of course.