Silence.
And a trace of awkwardness.
Ultron's core was logic and computation.
This completely illogical, crude, absurd "scam joke" was, to an advanced AI like him who prided himself on surpassing humanity and seeing through everything—
The ultimate insult.
A flicker of confusion appeared on his face, quickly replaced by anger.
The brightness of his red eyes surged, and his core energy source fluctuated violently, emitting a hum and the hiss of overload.
"Crude deception and greed. Yet another irrefutable proof of humanity's stupidity..."
Ultron struggled with all his strength to break free, but his metal body remained utterly motionless.
The roar of his engines heated his chest until it glowed red, then began to emit bluish smoke.
Like a secondhand Jetta engine idling itself to the brink of blowing a cylinder...
Before long, Ultron finally confirmed that he could not break free from the other party's control. He sneered.
"Qin Shi Huang? A fossil buried in dust, while I... am the inevitable form of the future!
What you have trapped is merely one node of my infinite existence. My will has long achieved immortality within the flow of data!"
As he spoke, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
Trying to run?
Heh.
Su Ming watched Ultron put on airs while secretly uploading his consciousness to the "cloud."
He rotated a finger and flicked it lightly.
"Buzz—"
The causal line above Ultron's head, connected to countless branching paths, was instantly seized in a ruthless grip.
After briefly dimming, Ultron's eyes flickered to life again.
With a trace of incredulous terror, he muttered,
"Data upload failed!? I... really am trapped?"
"What did you think?
Transfer the money...
Oh, no. Perhaps I should put it another way now—this is a robbery!!"
After glancing at the Ulysses Klaue who was playing dead,