Glitch Utopia
Chapter 21

The Job Comes

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As Sun Jack watched, the sky outside gradually brightened, and the rain changed from moderate to light.

Sun Jack knew he couldn't continue like this; sitting around wouldn't get him any food.

He rubbed his face hard with both hands until it turned red, then tidied his mood and stood up again.

"Taipai, wake up. We have to get some food today, even if we have to steal it!"

Just as he put on the jacket dried in the washing machine, Sun Jack saw a box suddenly pop up in the upper right corner of his nervous system's central screen. It was Song 6's avatar, trembling and buzzing.

Hesitantly opening it, Song 6's tattooed face directly loomed before him. "Yo~~long time no see, bro!!"

"What do you want? Are you going to pay me back?" Sun Jack asked impatiently.

"If I'm going to pay you back, I need money first. Do I look like a rich person now?"

"If that's all, I'm hanging up." The hunger in his stomach made Sun Jack irritable. He was so hungry he wished he could gnaw a piece of flesh off Song 6's face.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't hang up, bro. Aren't you looking for work? I have a job here with a generous reward!"

"Who told you I was looking for work?" Sun Jack felt his privacy had been invaded.

"I heard it from Taipai, D. He asked me if I had any jobs here. If he hadn't mentioned it, I would have found someone else."

Sun Jack walked over and hit the charging Taipai hard. "Can you not be so smart! Did you ask me before you went looking for him?"

Taipai: "(꒪⌓꒪) Fuck, didn't you ask me to help you find a job? How can you say one thing and do another? You can't even afford to eat, so stop pretending. If you don't find someone soon, you'll die at home with no one to collect your body."

Sun Jack shook his head helplessly and looked back at Song 6. "What kind of job?"

"Heh heh, a good job! If we succeed, you two will get at least 5 @"

Hearing this, Sun Jack didn't show any happiness. He wasn't a naive newcomer anymore. Through previous job applications, he already knew the actual value of @ Crypto Coins.

For a week, it only cost 0.15@ to hire someone to risk their life working for you. Now, there were 5@, so if the reward was so high, there had to be a reason.

"Tell me first, what's the job?" Sun Jack asked with his arms crossed.

"Find something."

"What thing?" Although he was so poor he couldn't even eat now, Sun Jack still felt he needed to ask for details first.

Just then, Song 6's camera flickered. "Someone's coming, I can't talk anymore. I'll send you the address. Come and see. This is a team activity, and you won't be alone. There are beauties too~~!"

Sun Jack was a bit hesitant at first, but when he saw that the meeting point was a restaurant, he immediately grabbed his jacket and went out.

"Taipai, stop charging. Let's go, we can finally eat!"

Riding Taipai, Sun Jack excitedly arrived at the address Song 6 had mentioned. Immediately, they were stunned by the appearance of the building before them.

"Are you sure this is a place to eat? It feels more like a place to take a dump," Taipai said, tilting his head back.

The so-called restaurant before them was a dilapidated bar beneath an overpass.

The bar's name was "Hot Dog Restaurant." It was reasonable for this city, but its appearance was far from it.

Various black and blue garbage bags were piled so high they almost caved in the roof. The tilted neon "Hot Dog" sign, due to a malfunction, flickered incessantly while spitting sparks. The ground was a mess of potholes and sewage.

"We're already here, let's go in and take a look. Remember to chamber your rounds," Sun Jack said and walked inside.

As soon as he entered, Sun Jack was surprised to find quite a few people inside. They were guys with various prosthetic limbs, dressed in all sorts of ways, with unfriendly expressions, gathered in groups around tables.

Looking at their empty tables, Sun Jack felt he wouldn't find anything to eat here.

"Hey!" A metal arm rose from the left corner, waving continuously. "Bro, we're over here!"

Sun Jack, with a slight frown, walked over. Just as he was about to confront Song 6, a beautiful woman beside him caught his attention.

She was a young girl wearing a semi-transparent, glowing green raincoat. Underneath the raincoat, she wore a t-shirt and hot pants. She was tall, and her hair was replaced by purple optical fibers with electromagnetic pulses, tied into a ponytail behind her head.

At the moment, she was leaning on a stool, a chip plugged into her temple flashing rapidly, clearly processing some online matters through her nervous system.

"Come, come, come," Song 6 said familiarly, walking over and pulling Sun Jack to sit on a stool. "Let me introduce you. This is Si Ai, our accompanying doctor and engineer for this operation."

Hearing her name mentioned, the girl's chip stopped flashing, and she looked at Sun Jack and nodded.

"Oh? Si Ai? That's a nice name," Sun Jack said, extending his right hand towards her. "Hello, my name is Sun Jack."

Si Ai looked at Sun Jack's hand, the corner of her mouth curling up slightly. She also extended her hand and grasped his firmly. "First, I need to correct something. Actually, Si Ai isn't my name. Si Ai is my fetish."

"Oh, fetish, huh?! Fetish?"

As Sun Jack subconsciously retrieved the meaning of the word through his nervous system, he felt his soul being hit with a shock of a hundred thousand tons.

Fourth love was a type of love independent of the first type (normal heterosexual love), second type (male-male love), and third type (female-female love). It was the fourth type of love, where the woman was the aggressor and the man was submissive, a new way of love that only accepted women penetrating men.

"My god! Can't things just be normal?! It's one thing in other places, but how can even fetishes be so complicated?!"

While Sun Jack's mind was frozen, her hand had already begun to slide down his arm.

At that moment, Sun Jack's internal alarm bells rang loudly. "This is bad, this woman is going to do me!"

Feeling a chill run down his spine, Sun Jack quickly stood up, nudging Taipai beside him, and quickly switched places with him.

Seeing Sun Jack's action, Si Ai wasn't annoyed and immediately shifted her target to Taipai. "Hi, hello there, little tin can. Those prosthetic limbs on you must have cost a lot of money, right?"

"No, no, no," Taipai quickly said, pressing his hand against her mischievous one. "Σ(゜ロ゜;) Please spare me, please spare me. My system can't be compatible with your XP."

Seeing his opponent's hands getting more and more out of line, and since Taipai was his robot, Sun Jack couldn't just stand by and do nothing. He pointed at Taipai's head. "She's a woman."

As soon as he said that, Si Ai lost interest and sheepishly withdrew her hand.

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