What? This Isn't a Cookie!

"Eh?"

Hearing Xu Shi say that, Gu Yi abruptly looked up. "You mean you want me to steal some information or something?"

"More or less. Basically..."

Xu Shi carefully explained what he needed her to do. "Can you manage it?"

"Don't worry. It won't be a problem."

After sizing it up in her mind, Miss Black Rabbit flashed a confident smile, revealing her two little fangs. "But this counts as extra work... Is there a bonus, Boss?"

"How do you even have the nerve to say that?"

Xu Shi found her utterly unreasonable. She ate his food and lived under his roof, yet she still had the gall to ask for overtime pay?

"Wasn't it you who told me to handle things using my old identity?"

Gu Yi pouted. "Back when I did this kind of work, people always paid a deposit upfront..."

"Get lost. I haven't even settled the score with you for slacking off at work yet."

Xu Shi gave her head an annoyed tap. "Do a good job and I'll count it as making up for your mistakes. Screw it up, and you can wait to starve."

"Tch."

Miss Black Rabbit's face fell, and she instinctively wanted to make a face at him.

But after giving it a second thought, she hurriedly held it back. Otherwise, she would definitely get shocked again.

One shock was already more than enough for her. Even at the dosage from earlier, she had nearly failed to hold back a holy-water spray.

"I got it! I guarantee I'll complete the mission!"

I'll just curse him in my head. It's not like he can tell... With that thought, she obediently nodded. "When do we start?"

To be fair, after having just dealt with Jiang Chengcheng and the Xia family aunt and niece, Xu Shi appreciated Gu Yi's cuteness even more.

The main thing was that this girl was simple-minded and easy to win over... Combined with the feedback from his ability, if there were some kind of visible progress bar, hers would surely be above seventy percent by now.

All of this was obvious enough to see. Gu Yi herself probably had not even noticed that she no longer resisted Xu Shi at all.

As for that puppy-like baring of teeth... it was simply in her nature. She had a habit of trying to save face with her words, but the moment things got serious, she immediately turned into a scared little coward.

He just needed to train her a little more. Even if he did not, it was fine. He did not have some nasty fetish for erasing people's individuality, right?

Xu Shi even found it rather amusing when she acted up like this once in a while.

But speaking of which...

"Probably tomorrow. I'll give you some time to prepare."

As he answered, Xu Shi was also a little curious. "But why do I feel like... you're even more excited than I am?"

They could bicker all they wanted, but she could not hide that unconscious anticipation.

"Am I? No, I'm not?"

Gu Yi froze, then guiltily turned her face away. "Chairman Xu, you're seeing things."

In truth, she really was.

People said it was easy to go from frugality to luxury, but they also said that one's nature was hard to change.

Although she liked her current life very much, the work Xu Shi assigned her came with plenty of rules and restrictions.

That often made her miss the thrilling life she used to lead as an electronic kidnapper... Now that such an opportunity was right in front of her, she would be lying if she said she was not excited.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ That was why people were naturally drawn to trouble.

"Alright, alright. Clean up and get ready to eat."

Xu Shi secretly rolled his eyes and did not delve into Miss Black Rabbit's thoughts.

"Coming, coming."

Then he could only hope that his fiancée would like the little gift he had prepared for her.

The following morning.

District 13, an unmanned private hospital under Prism.

This hospital had been established five years ago. It was also Prism's first unmanned hospital pilot project—every human worker had been eliminated, and everyone from doctors and nurses to cleaners had been replaced with robots.

This lowered costs, made management more efficient, and laid the foundation for unmanned hospitals in District 14 and District 15.

At that moment, everything in the somewhat crowded hospital was proceeding in an orderly fashion.

"Patient Number 2200, these are the medications you need to take this morning. Please take them."

Inside the ward, a highly metallic robot nurse fetched the medication and accurately handed it to the patient.

"Bring me a towel too."

There was naturally no need to be polite to a robot. Patient Number 2200 accepted the medicine and casually gave the order.

"Certainly. Please wait a moment."

The robot nurse politely bowed. Just as it turned to carry out the instruction, it suddenly froze as though struck by lightning. "Ple... please..."

"Hm?"

The patient frowned, only to see the robot twitch again as if electrocuted. "Rebooting... rebooting..."

When it raised its head again, the expression on its screen had changed into a bizarre smile.

"What? This isn't medicine. It's a compressed towel!"

The robot nurse snatched away the medicine box and began tugging at it forcefully. "It expands when it touches water, becoming bigger and taller. Open it up, and it's an oversized, extra-thick towel. It doesn't shed or pill, and you can pull and tug it without tearing it..."

"What's going on?"

The patient realized something was wrong, but before he could react, similar voices began ringing out one after another.

"Use it to wipe your shoes first, then your face, then your mouth. Using it five or six times is no problem..."

"Click the little yellow cart below. Buy five packs and get five free—one hundred in total, with free shipping..."

"Reeking of smoke all over, I walk with a touch of swagger. If you want Rick Generation Five, you've come to the right person..."

"You're right, but Divine Arrival is a..."

At almost the exact same moment, every robot in the entire hospital malfunctioned!

The electronic systems were crippled as well, and the whole hospital instantly fell into panic.

"Fuck! What's going on? Where are the doctors? Where are the nurses? Someone come deal with this!"

Someone shouted anxiously at the top of their lungs, but it was obvious that calling for help was useless. In an unmanned hospital, where could they possibly find a real person to help them?

But they could not stay any longer. They had no idea what exactly was happening, but what if these out-of-control robots went berserk and hurt someone?

Thus, a highly dramatic scene unfolded—regardless of whether their illnesses were serious or minor, everyone tried every possible way to flee the hospital, and the place instantly became a chaotic mess.

The news quickly reached Prism's headquarters building, and Ye Shanshan, dressed in a small business suit, hurried toward the CEO's office.

"Chairwoman Xie, this is bad! The unmanned hospitals in District 13, District 14, and District 15 have all been infiltrated, and their medical systems have been paralyzed on a massive scale!"

But when she pushed open the door, Xie Qingyan's expression was even worse.

It was not only because she had already received the news, but also because an encrypted email was displayed on the computer before her.

"Greetings, friends at Prism..."

It was unmistakably a ransom note. It explicitly stated that she was behind the incident, and that her purpose was to extort a ransom.

"With your capabilities, I'm afraid you have no way to resolve this yourselves, so please pay the ransom as soon as possible. Once you do, I will immediately restore your information systems."

"Or you can try... come catch me, nyah nyah nyah, trash~ trash~"

Seeing the distinctive taunting emoji at the bottom of the page, Ye Shanshan immediately realized who it was.

"This... that S-rank wanted hacker, Black Rabbit?"