[Skye: Boss, the exhibition was a huge success! The network's completely swamped!]
Skye was thrilled. What did someone like her-a dropout orphan, a street kid of the new era, a self-taught hacker who specialized in clicking on shady little websites-want?
A sense of identity. A sense that she mattered.
Just moments ago, Lier's demonstration had drawn a live audience of 600 million worldwide. This wasn't the World Cup or an Olympic opening ceremony, but merely an exhibition held by a company, or rather, New York City alone.
People preferred watching competitive events to official exhibitions like this, but Atlas had pulled it off anyway.
Six hundred million people had watched live, and even more would learn about it afterward through recordings, pictures, and word of mouth. Besides, Atlas would keep bringing all kinds of products to market, spanning every sector and appearing in every corner of the economic revival.
The world was listening. Although Skye was only a technician behind the scenes, she was already very satisfied with this.
After all, she now counted as Bloom's chief technician.
After a busy day, Miss Skye rose from her hacker chair. Outside her room stood the Lady Li Financial Building, the first stop for every tourist visiting the New Future District. Osborn Tower had already been dismantled and turned into a memorial museum.
Thinking back to the first time Lier had caught her, she felt as though all of this was a dream.
She had been a homeless young woman skulking through the streets, always imagining that one day she would expose some earth-shattering conspiracy, save the world, and make people see her in a new light.
Things hadn't quite turned out the way she had imagined exposing conspiracies would, but they were certainly far better than she had imagined.