There was a reason Roshan had pissed herself-
Splitting her attention was one factor, but another was that, outdated as Militech's firmware system was, breaking through it in a fraction of a second was simply impossible!
Lier had only managed it thanks to his powerful brain, his absurd amount of RAM, and his exposure to a more advanced version of ICE-military-grade, at that.
He had never tried to crack military-grade ICE head-on, but he had at least seen it.
To build a network barrier, he had been studying the basic principles and common architectures of ICE lately, which had reminded him of that Behemoth.
True, he hadn't understood any of it back then, but that didn't mean he couldn't memorize it.
The versions were hundreds of generations apart, but the underlying approach had changed very little. Most of the difference came down to piling on more resources.
So he had cracked it quickly and cleanly-but to Roshan, who knew none of this, it looked very different.
This Lier wasn't just a cyberpsycho. He was a cyberpsycho who knew netrunning!
Okay, technically, he wasn't quite a cyberpsycho, but that made it even scarier:
Imagine that one day, an escaped psychiatric patient suddenly latched onto you, and you were trying to humor him.
Then he suddenly pulled out a higher mathematics textbook and explained it perfectly, even getting into mathematical analysis, which you had never studied-
Then he produced an ID photo and said he wasn't mentally ill at all, but actually a professor at the university next door!
And he was here to fix your lousy math grades...
"Holy shit! That was fucking incredible, Lier!"
Jackie's eyes were practically sparkling.
V drove, saying irritably, "Incredible? More like fucking stupid. One second later and you two would've been dead!"
Lier kept shaking