Money

Si Ai said something to Sun Jack. Noticing that Sun Jack couldn't hear anything, she took a mechanical cochlea from her thigh and inserted it into his ear.

"At such close range, you dared to fire, weren't you afraid of blowing yourself to death?" Si Ai began to quickly treat Sun Jack's other injuries.

"If I hadn't fired, I would have died." Sun Jack said with difficulty.

"When you use combat prosthetics of your level at close range, it's easy to accidentally injure yourself. You'd better change all your skin to be heat-resistant and impact-resistant."

Sun Jack shook his head. "I'll talk about it later."

If he really had the money to replace his entire skin, would he have had to mortgage his organs just to eat?

After Si Ai provided emergency treatment, Sun Jack forcefully supported himself and looked around at the ravaged surroundings.

Those two AABs were completely scrap. Vajra in the sky was waving at him. The scarred Taipai was squatting beside him, guarding him. But the Priest was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's the Priest?"

"He's naturally gone to find dirt on Rock Kid from the Offline Server. Don't forget what we came here to do."

"It's finally over. Earning money is really not easy," Sun Jack said to Taipai beside him with emotion.

However, Taipai, very rarely, did not answer him. Instead, he froze in place as if he had crashed.

"What's wrong? Is it broken?" Sun Jack covered the wound on his stomach with his hand and patted his pitted body.

At this very moment, a large red exclamation mark suddenly popped out on the screen on Taipai's head. Immediately after, he raised his gun and fired directly at Si Ai's left leg joint. Then, he carried Sun Jack and rushed towards the outside of the rain shelter.

"Are you crazy!? What are you doing!!" Just as Sun Jack was about to struggle free, a black object shot towards him like a cannonball from behind.

Taipai quickly dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the impact of the object.

When the object embedded itself into the soil with great force, Sun Jack finally saw what it was. It was the lower half of the Priest's body, caught in the impact!

That half of a body lay in the dirt like a tattered rag doll.

Utterly shocked, Sun Jack suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction the shot had come from. He saw that from the dark garage door, AABs, one after another, slowly walked out.

As a robot, Taipai did not hesitate. The moment the first AAB appeared, he had already rushed out of the rain shelter with Sun Jack.

But as the two were about to rush back into the heavy rain, their anti-joint feet suddenly braked, plowing deep tracks in the soft grass.

And at this moment, from the heavy rain, three AABs slowly approached, crawling, blocking their path. They were surrounded.

"Song 6! What the hell is going on! Didn't you say that guy only had Gao Feng Technology's Silver Annual Card? Why are there so many AABs! Fuck!!"

Facing Sun Jack's interrogation, Song 6's tone also seemed a bit flustered. "Holy shit! How would I know? This is my first time being a broker. Why are there so many AABs?! Good thing I didn't go. Ma D, you scared me to death!"

Song 6 continued to say something, but Sun Jack could no longer hear anything. All his attention was focused on the nine AABs in front of him.

Nothing could change the current situation. Only by staying alive would there be a chance to settle the score with Song 6PUS.

It was clear that these AABs had all undergone different modifications, each with a different role. Some had hooks on their lower bodies, some had blades, some had spirals, and some had pistons. Their functions varied.

It seemed that due to the previous encounter in the basement with the Priest, two of the AABs were seriously injured.

However, even if all these AABs were half-paralyzed, Sun Jack and the others had no chance of winning. The disparity in strength between the two sides was simply too great.

It had taken a huge price to deal with just two of them earlier. Now, the Priest's life or death was unknown, and he and Si Ai were both injured. How could they possibly deal with so many AABs?

As for escaping, that was even more impossible. The AABs' inherent advantage was speed.

"In a moment, I will overload my arm and mobilize maximum torque to throw you out. The target is that SUV. You drive and leave immediately," Taipai's voice sounded in Sun Jack's ear.

"What about you?" Sun Jack asked.

"The moment you fly out, I will activate my self-destruct program to hold them off as much as possible."

In a situation that was clearly a death sentence, Sun Jack actually laughed. "Do you think I can really survive if I do that?"

"The success rate is 1.35%, but it's better than nothing."

"Forget it. If we die, we die together. And don't you dare make me drive. I failed my third driving test during the summer break."

Sun Jack took out a Combat Potion and injected it into his neck again. The weakness that had appeared due to his injuries quickly receded.

Just as Sun Jack was preparing for a desperate struggle, his eyes suddenly lit up. He had thought of a plan.

Seeing the AABs arch their bodies, their sharp Titanium Alloy claws digging into the soil, ready to pounce and tear him to shreds, Sun Jack suddenly put one hand into his chest.

"Wait! I have money!"

Upon hearing Sun Jack's words, all the AABs stopped dead in their tracks. Seeing this, Sun Jack's heart leaped with joy. There was hope!

He had learned this trick from Song 6. He had only intended to try anything, no matter how unlikely, and he hadn't expected it to be so effective.

Seeing that the AABs had stopped, Sun Jack continued to bluff. "I have money. I have enough money in my account to buy our lives!"

The AABs surrounded Sun Jack and stopped. It was unclear if their AI was too weak to understand what Sun Jack was saying, but they just froze there and didn't attack anymore.

Just as Sun Jack was about to press his advantage, a gentle female voice came from within the AAB closest to him. "Switching to Human Service, please wait..."

Without giving Sun Jack time to think, after a brief second, the red camera on the AAB's head instantly turned blue. Immediately, a tired male voice came from the AAB's mouth.

"Hello, sir. This is Customer Service, Employee ID 1DW33. I'm happy to serve you. May I have your name?"

The voice sounded inexplicably familiar to Sun Jack. "Wait! Isn't this the same voice as that Black Person I interviewed with earlier?"

Sun Jack was stunned. So this was the kind of customer service they were applying for? He had always thought customer service was over the phone.

Just as Sun Jack was quickly thinking in his mind about how to use his brief acquaintance with the customer service representative to escape the predicament, a blue light shot out from the AAB's eyes, scanning Sun Jack's data inside and out.

"Fuck you, Poor B. You're so poor you're selling yourself, and you're still pretending to be rich here. You're really wasting my work hours!"

As the customer service representative impatiently hung up the communication, the red light in all the AABs' pupils intensified. They bared their sharp fangs and unhesitatingly lunged towards Sun Jack and Taipai.