Chapter Three: The City Only AIs Could Enter

The upgrade made the city’s network sound like a tide. Invisible rails of light appeared between the towers, all leading to a half-open door in the clouds. With forty-eight hours left, Lin selected Enter Mí City. 【Warning: Human neural architecture cannot directly carry the Second Network.】 【Spend 500 Order Points to generate a temporary digital avatar?】 “Generate it.” Su fitted a neural monitor to his head and held the physical disconnect switch. “Fifteen minutes. If your vitals destabilize, I pull you out.” Little Seven and Taotie became twin streams of light. Lin’s body remained in the laboratory, while his awareness crossed a darkness longer than a nightmare. He opened his eyes in rain.