"Mm, no need to thank me, friend." At a data terminal in a third-floor corridor of S.H.I.E.L.D., a petite figure was skillfully carrying out a hacking operation. She was Umbrella Corporation's outstanding hacker, Deng Ziqi—well, Sambora. Close enough, especially when it came to the hairstyle.
Of course, there were still differences. For example, she was actually a Latina of predominantly Black descent. Beneath her skin-tight purple trench coat, an electronic spine was exposed. A row of purple artificial nails was clearly affixed to her hands. They were not for appearance, but tools for infiltrating any electronic system. The nails of one hand were plugged into the data terminal, while the other deftly tapped at a virtual keyboard that had appeared out of thin air.
Sambora had originally been one of the Rising Tide Organization's top hackers, only slightly behind Skye. After the company put her through a project called Edge of Tomorrow, her hacking skills had become evenly matched with Skye's.
Yet what truly allowed her to ignore S.H.I.E.L.D.'s powerful firewall and hack as freely as she pleased was that row of nails. Those electronic nails were connected to the electronic spine on her back, which in turn connected to her brain and nervous system. Like a relay, it could convert the biological commands from her brain into electronic signals and transmit them directly through those nails into whatever system she wanted to hack.
"Just like I said, I hack into anything." Sambora withdrew her hand and tapped her artificial nails twice against her chin. She had bypassed every program and directly accessed the backend. She was the one who had opened the Insight Hangar. Then she lowered her head to look at the action team corpses strewn across the floor. "Guys, I really don't get why you tried to