Chapter 182
"Are you Xin Que, number 37, the newly promoted team leader?"
Feng Caijun, a special assistant serving the Huo family, looked at the woman in front of him, frowned, and asked a question.
Xin Que followed behind the captain and nodded silently.
"Oh, I called you over to arrange the auxiliary measures that the team leader can use."
Feng Caijun looked somewhat impatient and spoke very quickly.
Whether they are team leaders or ordinary assassins, the people in the assassin's warehouse are discarded very quickly. The woman standing in front of him now might be buried in the next mission.
He doesn't need to waste much patience on such a consumable item.
"Team leaders and above can apply to use the work assistance system. Your team leader will take you to the system resources department to complete the process. Once it's done, submit the application immediately, and I will approve it as soon as possible."
Feng Caijun quickly finished his perfunctory instructions to the new team leader and turned to leave the suicide squad.
The captain stood with Xin Que in front of the floating display screen.
"As a team leader, the only system you can apply to use is the 'lower level' category, which is ranked after 500."
"If you're lucky, once you're promoted to a senior cadre, you can upgrade your support system to a higher level."
Xin Que scanned the pages quickly, but couldn't find any system that caught his eye from the constantly scrolling floating display of system information tables.
The captain was getting impatient.
He glanced at the time notification popped up by his personal system. "What's there to worry about? Low-level systems all have the same basic functions, just pick one."
Just as Xin Que was about to say something, several employees carrying floating worksheets on their personal systems walked past her with furrowed brows.
"Why haven't the fifty systems that applied for decommissioning (numbers 1000-1050) been approved for destruction yet?"
"These are old models that have been phased out for over three years. We can't use them, they're just taking up storage space in the warehouse, and we have to spend a lot of effort manually taking inventory every day..."
Xin Que looked at the captain.
The captain's face was full of unspeakable words, "...You have quite a unique eye."
"Have you thought this through? At your current level, you can only be equipped with one auxiliary system. Using such a piece of junk that has long been obsolete in the market..."
Xin Que quickly flipped through all fifty systems. "I saw the supplier's advertisement when I was on a mission before. Although this model of system is outdated, it has a high cost-performance ratio."
"Aside from the chip being a bit outdated, everything else—whether it's quality, compatibility, or the freedom to customize—is great..."
The captain asked suspiciously, "You're not worried about the system maintenance costs, are you?"
Xin Que rested her chin on her hand, her gaze fixed on the detailed data in the system. "This is called rational resource planning."
team leader"……"
1001 never imagined that he would be able to turn his computer back on one day.
Hello, I am...
Xin Que didn't even glance at it, and directly sent the person into the repair shop.
A free inspection will be done first.
The next time I saw this woman after leaving the system maintenance department, it wasn't in the training camp, but in her lounge.
Hello, I am...
Xin Que turned it off again before the startup prompt was finished.
When it was turned on again, 1001 simply stopped talking.
"Hmm?" This time it was Xin Que's turn to be surprised. "Was my method of installing the upgrade chip wrong? Or was there something wrong with the third-hand chip that middleman sold me..."
"Why is he mute now...?"
1001 scanned the woman's iris information. [Are you my new master?]
Xin Que checked the floating panel and confirmed that there were no problems.
“Yes,” Xin Que said, arms crossed, looking at its image on the panel, “From now on, you…”
[Stingy.]
The mechanical sound of 1001 paused for a moment.
Xin Que: "???"
It gritted its teeth, "Why haven't you killed me yet?!"
1001 scanned itself again and discovered that the upgraded computing chip that Xinque had installed on it was a mining card.
Its vision went black. [Damn it, you actually gave me a secondhand mining card I bought on the black market… I'm reporting you for abusing the system!!!]
Xin Que "..."
This outdated system has surprisingly included an anthropomorphic module.
Isn't this like putting gold trim on a latticework pot?
...
[Xin Que, focus your attack on the data link on the left front! It's the backbone program!]
The Miao sword pierced through the air and plunged heavily into the mouth of the snake, which was as tall as a person. Then, Xin Que gripped the hilt with both hands, roared, and forcefully split the snake-shaped data chain in two.
"I've almost completely deciphered the snake swarm's attack modules," Cheng Zheng's voice rang exceptionally clear in Xin Que's mind. "We've been on the defensive for so long..."
Xin Que's angry voice and Cheng Zheng's mechanical voice overlapped, bursting forth with an undeniable madness and ambition within the data link cluster covering the ground.
"It's time for it to pay double!!!"
A hastily constructed electromagnetic pulse bomb was stabbed heavily into the data link that Xin Que had been focusing on destroying with the tip of her knife.
"Crack—Boom—"
Blinding blue-silver lightning, crackling with red sparks, burst forth from the snake's body. Within moments, it spread rapidly along the data link cluster like a virus, engulfing the entire cluster with lightning speed.
The lightning bolt instantly blinded people.
...
[Unknown program... Are you the virus program that Xin Que hid in the prison?]
The administrator's mechanical pupils darted twice, looking at Cheng Zheng, who had fallen into the blinding electric light.
Cheng Zheng's disguised humanoid body had been mostly destroyed in the recent explosion.
[You even have a humanoid module installed, and you've even modified your base program to resemble the humanoid program in the interrogation plan... This mimicry ability... are you not just a simple virus, but an auxiliary program in the real world?]
[A program with an anthropomorphic module installed should have a clearer understanding of the current situation... Why should we risk our lives for hardened criminals?]
You should be aware of the consequences of colluding with serious criminals and going against the prison.
"Enough with all this nonsense... Xin Que!!!" Cheng Zheng glared at the administrator's mechanical pupils. Countless faintly glowing data floated around him, and then those data formed a water-like flow that quickly rushed towards the mechanical pupils.
Xin Que's Miao sword is among them.
Teleported to the mechanical pupil by the small space temporarily replicated by Cheng Zheng, Xin Que did not hesitate. With an unstoppable momentum, the veins on her arm, which was gripping the hilt of the Miao sword, bulged. The Miao sword cut through the wind and left a trail like a meteor in mid-air as she slashed at the mechanical pupil with all her might.
...
[Xin Que,] 1001 hovered beside the woman in a spherical mechanical carrier. [The mission to assassinate the "Gilded Arms Dealer" boss in the outer city has been successfully completed. Return to the Huo family to submit the mission?]
The woman jumped from the top floor and returned to the ground, having changed her clothes.
Dressed in the uniform of a repairman, there was no trace of foul play.
[By the way,] 1001's emotionless, mechanical voice sounded, [You've received an email in your inbox transferring you to the covert operations unit.]
After this task is completed, remember to shut me down and send me back to the System Resource Management Department so I can upgrade to a higher-level system myself.
“No need,” Xin Que closed the car door and steered the off-road vehicle onto the floating road. “The new system needs to be broken in, and I don’t have that much free time.”
【……oh. 】
1001 floated back to Xin Que's eyes, its mechanical voice almost cracking with excitement: "Go back to the Huo family immediately and shut down my scrapping approval!"
【besides----】
Xin Que grabbed the obstructing mechanical device and slammed it into the back seat.
1001 rolled back to the passenger seat. [Could you extend my retirement age by another year?]
Ten years?
[One hundred years?]
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