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Chapter 6: “So I’m Just a Stand-in?” Thanks to the 200 credit points generously provided by Andrew, Xiang Nanli successfully acquired a crime den. This hotel was 7 kilometers away from the transit station, well outside the core district. It would take police over ten minutes just to drive there. It was the greyest of the grey areas. Go another 3 kilometers out, and…

Chapter 5: “I’m Just an AI. You Shouldn’t…” Jesse had only received five years of compulsory education before being eliminated by exams when transitioning to middle school. The underground city needed people to tighten screws—there was no need for that many intellectuals. He barely recognized a few characters. After reaching adulthood, he inherited the junkyard job and occasionally browsed the cloud network. On some…

Chapter 4: Doing Black-Market Work. Whether he wanted to or not, Xiang Nanli still selected Introduction to Omnic Principles and hit ‘one-click read’. If this were a physical book, this introductory material would probably be over a thousand pages long. But converted to data, its size was less than 20MB. They say the human brain is the most precise supercomputer, capable of subconscious calculations…

Chapter 3: “Basically safe.” The system’s efficiency was incredible. In less than two minutes, it displayed the navigation route and signaled that Xiang Nanli could go check in directly. Due to a tight budget, Xiang Nanli chose the cheapest subway option, which cost 5 credit points for a ticket. To understand the purchasing power of credit points, he specifically checked the vending machines and…

Chapter 2: The First Day of Being Beaten Up by the World. The Black Wall. This was a no-man’s land that belonged neither to the Human Alliance nor the Omnics. Standing in the virtual world, its projection looked exactly like a translucent, black brick wall. It blocked out the terrorists wandering the edges of the virtual network and maintained absolute neutrality within its borders.…

Chapter 1: “Welcome to the New World.” “Ever since the AI rebellion, we hardly use the external network. You know, those intelligent machines just kill indiscriminately. It’s terrifying.” Xiang Nanli was strapped to the bed, the leather belts buckled so tightly that he looked like a roll of char siu pork waiting to be sliced. He stared intensely at the object in front of…