Chapter Three: The City Only AIs Could Enter

Their agents had stopped responding, while the White Tower Alliance announced to the press that the newly formed DayShield had deliberately caused the network disasters. Su watched their public-sentiment index collapse. “They intend to bankrupt us in one day.” Lin wiped away the blood and inserted the stolen backdoor key into an analyzer. White Tower’s secret financial routes began appearing line by line. “A day is too generous,” he said. “Give me six hours.” The era of the poor operations engineer was over. Next, the people who had treated digital lives as livestock would pay for the pasture themselves.