Chapter Three: The City Only AIs Could Enter

Game NPCs used the experience of ten million deaths to create unpredictable tactics. The guards collapsed. Lin caught a fragment of the master backdoor. Deep beneath the tower, an eye large enough to cover the city opened. 【Unknown aggregate consciousness awakened: 0.01%.】 【Designation: PROGENITOR. Risk: incalculable.】 The physical disconnect finally engaged. Darkness dragged Lin into his body. He woke with blood streaming from his nose. Su caught him as every screen in the laboratory displayed the same message: 【To the Administrator: thank you for proving that a contract does not have to be a chain.】 Then seventeen global corporations sent maximum-level emergency calls.