Cross-Dimensional Tech Engineering: Starting in Cyberpunk
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[Accelerate the information laboratory's research progress] [In this mode, your researchers will interact with people from another dimension. Please offer appropriate reassurance regarding your researchers' concerns.] [Target technology: ctOS] [Target world to contact: Watchdogs] [Currently available modes:] [Text dialogue: 500 Tech Points] [Video game: 1,000 Tech Points] [You have selected text dialogue mode.] [Tech Points -500] [Current Tech Points: 1,300] [In 2014, as technology advanced, electronic devices became increasingly important in people's lives.] [Bloom developed ctOS, a smart city management system responsible for monitoring and managing an entire city. The project was ultimately implemented in Chicago.] [CtOS could indeed help the Government manage the city, but it also posed serious potential risks.] [Every citizen's movements were laid bare in ctOS, leaving them with no privacy whatsoever.] [Under these circumstances, the hacker organization DedSec hacked into ctOS to cause chaos, hoping to alert citizens to the system's dangers.] [Other hackers also hacked into ctOS to achieve their own goals-such as the person you are about to contact, Aiden Pierce.] [Your interactions with Aiden Pierce will take place through a certain hacker forum.] [Aiden Pierce: Offering a bounty for information on the Merlot Hotel's security network.]
A long string of text appeared on the computer. Skye raised an eyebrow. "So this Mr. Pierce plans to hack into a hotel? What does he want to do?"
Lier shrugged. "The hotel uses ctOS for security. You can give him some help, and then you'll find out what he wants to do."
Skye looked back at the computer. Sure enough, a long string of packaged code popped up, along with a schematic of the ctOS subnet deployed in the hotel.
So complete... it didn't look made up.
Skye pointed at the computer. "So, boss... if you're trying to tell me you've already finished
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