[WARNING: Foot balancer and ankle damper conflict! Even slight movements may cause local circuit overload!]
A new notification popped up on the system panel, with a yellow dot lighting up right at the ankle.
Circuit overload? Jiang Chan looked at the words and then looked down at her unresponsive right hand.
Just then, a loud crash came from somewhere in front of the assembly line! It sounded like some large piece of equipment had jammed. The entire conveyor belt suddenly stopped!
Sizzle—!!!
In Jiang Chan's left eye, the cheap visual sensor was instantly engulfed by the burst of bright light and garbled text! Her eyeball felt like it was being pricked with needles! She couldn't help but groan and cover her left eye.
[WARNING: Visual sensor overloaded by strong external light! Data stream anomaly! Lasting 47 seconds!]
On the system panel, the icon representing the left eye flashed wildly, and a detailed stream of garbled text popped up next to it.
Strong light impact... Data stream anomaly... Conflict... Overload...
The alarms, conflict warnings, overload alerts, and the cold data on the system panel in her mind... they were like a tangled mess of threads, swirling before Jiang Chan's eyes.
Suddenly, an idea popped into my head like a match struck in the dark!
Since this broken body is a time bomb, filled with all sorts of incompatible and unstable junk that could collapse and explode at any moment with the slightest disturbance... then why wait for it to explode on its own?
Rather than being slowly gnawed away by these junk, and eventually dragged to the recycling center like that unlucky guy in the cage next door, turning into a pile of cold data garbage...
Why don't you... light it yourself!
Let these unstable conflicts, this damn overload, become her weapons! Become her cover!
Just like that blinding light that caused her visual sensors to malfunction! If she could control this chaos... if she could create even greater chaos...
Could it be that during the "database synchronization" mentioned by the system, one can use the chaotic mess that erupts within their body to secretly insert that "electronic symbiotic virus"?
Once the thought arose, it grew wildly like weeds. Jiang Chan felt her heart pounding in her chest, not from fear, but from a kind of reckless, almost frenzied excitement.
Viral symbiosis... Is this what the system is all about? Exploiting instability? Exploiting chaos?
She licked her chapped lips, tasting the metallic and slightly oily flavor. Her gaze swept once more over the blood-red crash countdown on the system panel.
Either wait to die, or... try lighting a firecracker!
"Number D-734! Abnormal energy fluctuation!" The supervisor's cold electronic voice rang out again, accompanied by a piercing electrical noise. "Warning! Immediately cease all illegal operations! Report to detection room 17 after work!"
The mechanical gripper on her neck finally released. Jiang Chan stumbled and almost fell onto the conveyor belt. She steadied herself by holding onto the cold metal edge.
Testing Room 17? She'd heard of that place. More thorough, more painful than a regular examination. And...it seemed to be not far from the core area of the data center...
Jiang Chan lowered her head, looking at her right hand, which was still trembling slightly and had tiny sparks flying from its joints. Then, she slowly raised her head and looked at the darker, shadowy passage at the end of the assembly line, leading to the core area of the factory.
The corner of his mouth twitched upwards very subtly.
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