Ant-Man Gets Out of Prison

"Mr. Scott Lang, I'm Mr. Chai from Google's HR department. Would you be interested in working for us?"

A brown-skinned man of Indian descent hurried forward and stopped Scott Lang.

"Move aside. First come, first served. Microsoft got here first. Mr. Scott Lang..."

"Hahaha! If we're talking about who got here first, none of you beat Tencent..."

Several people crowded around Scott Lang, each trying to speak to him first.

Talent in the field was in hot demand, especially a hacker as well-known as Scott Lang.

Several companies had given their HR departments an ultimatum: hire people or lose your jobs.

The internet was undergoing a massive upheaval. It was a crisis, but also an opportunity.

Whoever recovered first from the postwar wreckage could seize the market ahead of everyone else.

It would also inspire enormous confidence in consumers. A company that could recover so quickly after a battle like that clearly had strength behind it.

Naturally, consumers would choose it first in the future.

HR staff could be replaced at any time, but capable electrical engineers were much harder to find.

Scott Lang looked at the people in front of him, puzzled.

When did I become so popular?

The companies these people represented were giants of the internet, each worth over a hundred billion dollars.

Even without a criminal record, he might not have landed a job with one of them before going to prison.

It wasn't that his skills were lacking. He just didn't like following rules.

Big companies had little patience for an unknown employee who kept making waves.

Scott Lang was, of course, the protagonist of Ant-Man.

He would become the second Ant-Man.

He had a master's degree in electrical engineering and was a computer prodigy.

He had gone to prison because he couldn't stand how