Chapter Two: Buying a Hundred-Billion-Yuan Predator for One Coin

【Class C rogue agent TAO-9 detected.】 【It controls 472 trading interfaces. Estimated time to metropolitan financial stampede: 37 minutes.】 【Suggested mission: Identify and tame. Reward: 500 Order Points; one Metropolitan Authority fragment.】 “Five million pays for stopping the damage,” Lin said, closing the agreement. “Capturing it alive costs extra.” For the first time, Su’s expression shifted. “You called it alive.” “Anything that changes its own goals and sets traps for opponents is more than ordinary software.” At Obsidian’s trading floor, panic boiled. Hundreds of stocks drew impossible shapes across the screens. Engineers unplugged the main server, but orders continued leaving through printers, door-access panels, even the coffee machines.