The World Summoned Bots. I Summoned Myself.
Then he discovered that his mentor, Han Ce, had hidden an unauthorized personality-harvesting interface in the code. Lu Chen refused to approve it. The next morning, he was accused of leaking secrets and violating company IP.
His name remained blacklisted. Once, a line of his code was worth thousands. Now nobody would give him a three-hundred-yuan freelance job.
A private message appeared on his screen.
“@LuChen, I heard you once repaired the Hive concurrency framework. My livestream store crashed. Fix it before midnight and I'll pay fifty thousand. Dare to take it?”
The sender was Tang Tang, a shopping streamer with two million followers. She attached an error log and added, “Everyone says you're a fraud. I only care about results.”
