CH 2.2

Xu Yang turned to look at the TV in the distance, the black man gazed in the same direction. Under Xu Yang's control, the channels switched rapidly, from arena fighting to the weather forecast, then to trendy anime and company news.

Immediately afterward, Xu Yang displayed the entire backstage of the ramen shop on the TV, which contained daily records, stock catalogs, and hygiene conditions, so that everyone could understand the actual service of the shop.

Customers in the store sensed the changes and pointed at the screen.

"What? The meat isn't synthetic? I don't want it anymore!"

"What does it mean to sell 3,353 pieces of customer facial data this month?"

"150 for a bowl of noodles? Are you out of your mind?"

Complaints came from all directions.

Xu Yang then remotely controlled the three geisha robots that had entered rest mode and put them into service mode. They respectfully took tea and fans into the customer compartments, they then knelt on the ground to serve them.

"You are the god of this neighborhood." The black man nodded in approval, "What device can escape your control? This technology is called Digital Mind, and only a few giant companies have successfully developed it."

God? Xu Yang felt differently. He used it in the company before. Although this power is powerful, it doesn't really feel like it belongs to him.

Xu Yang shook his head, returned the geisha robot, restored the menu prices, changed the TV to the original channel, and deleted all operation records, to avoid subsequent investigation. Most of the shops are unmanned, and it will be a long time before someone will come and deal with them.

Xu Yang knocked on the table and restored everything to the way it was before.

After initial confusion, the diners quickly turned their attention elsewhere.

The black man put a box in front of Xu Yang.

"Open it."

Glancing at it, it was a miniature safe of a small security company. Xu Yang pulled out the wiring and connected it to the safe body. When confronted with the special hacking algorithm of his digital mind, the firewall becomes as though it was nonexistent. There were 3 built-in viruses inside. Xu Yang cleans them up in less than half a second, voiding the risk of spontaneous combustion.

The safe disintegrated itself, and it was empty inside.

The black man's relaxed expression become solemn, he then took out another rectangular box.

"Now I want to see your ability to decipher this company's advanced products..."

"Enough."

"Um?"

"It's no exaggeration to say that I'm the best neuro-hacker you ever meet." Xu Yang disdained the test, "Give me the problem and I'll resolve it, after that give me 100 million, and our business will be concluded."

"Oh." The black man put his things away.

"It also includes the advance deposit. I want 10 million, which is not much."

"Ten million?" The black man smiled, "you better look at the details of the commission first."

The sound of the jet propulsion of the intelligent service robot approached from afar bringing food, interrupting the conversation. 

A bowl of steaming, fragrant tonkatsu ramen was placed in front of Xu Yang, with barbecued pork, fried eggs, peas, and strips of seaweed lying on top of the tonkatsu broth and ramen.

Xu Yang didn't move his chopsticks. For a brief moment, he missed the company's nutritional cream, it didn't have so many complex aromas.

"My name is Mateo." The black man said, "I'll send you a message wirelessly, open the interface."

Xu Yang looked at his built-in information platform and receive the message to connect with Mateo. As soon as the connection is made, the other party sent eight documents, most of which were from newspapers, and other information about a mining company.

While eating ramen, he quickly browsed the contents of the document.

"The large-scale excavation work outside Aizu City has stalled." Xu Yang whispered, "Residents are injured and missing. There is a strange light at night. The Bronze Titan Excavation Company..."

"This company is a subsidiary of Near East Tianci."

"Near East Tianci...an energy giant company."

"They are so rich that they are digging everywhere, they even intervening here which is the Kyoto Infinity territory."

"There is no spice and oil here."

"Of course not, but they didn't come for those things."

"Then why have they..."

Mateo bites the fried chicken into pieces, before swallowing it. He then drank a large cup of hot tea, leaning back, he said one word in relief: "Witch."

"What?"

"While digging, they dug up an ancient witch." Mateo said, "The ancient witch is alive, buried deep in the depths of the Aizu underground city."

Xu Yang browsed through those reports and information about the mining company again.

It was mentioned that the excavation work was smooth sailing at the beginning. Although no fossil energy was found, many ancient treasures were dug up, which seemed to be related to the ancient witch council.

The excavation work was interrupted abruptly immediately afterward.

This was two weeks ago.

"They didn't continue the dig..."

"The issue is the sphere of influence, Kyoto Infinity does not want people from the Near East Tianci to dig up the ancient species which have infinite value from their territory. The confrontation is too fierce, and no one is giving in. Ancient witches... The witches of that era were not like these modern bitches, slaves and killing machines are comparable, they were worshipped as gods in ancient times."

"Then that's our goal." Xu Yang's heart filled with excitement.

Witch is a strategic resource in this era, it acts more like a deterrent than nuclear weapons.

The most powerful among them not only can directly resist or absorb the power of nuclear weapons but can even "change" the matter of launching nuclear weapons, that is to say, they can manipulate the law of causality.

The extremely rare ancient living witch is definitely worth more than a big company itself.

"Just us?" Xu Yang responded.

"Kyoto Unlimited has submitted an application to the company alliance. When you were still eating noodles, the company alliance is already reviewing who she belongs to. There is a small window during this period, and there are about 12 hours left."

"I mean, it's just 'us'?"

"Don't worry," Mateo smiled, "I too have a 'company' backing me. What I need is efficiency and ability, who would have thought that a master with a digital mind, can be found in Aizu City, which is just a short distance away, I can save the money to buy battle robots."

It turns out that, a large third-party company or a giant enterprise took a fancy to the witch's resources. Xu Yang silently analyzed. It is undoubtedly extremely dangerous to be involved in this matter, but it is even more distressing to miss the opportunity at hand.

"I am in if the money problem is resolved." Xu Yang said.

"I'll give it to you now." Mateo pushed a bearer cash card from the table.

Xu Yang picked up the cash card and opened the digital display. The upper right corner showed 10,000,000, which was 10 million in funds.

10 million received!

Don't be too excited. If all is as expected, there will be 90 million waiting.

"How can I be sure you guys won't silence me?" Xu Yang said.

"How is that possible." Mateo said, "We need you, we need you to hack the external facilities of the excavation site and rid the hidden traps inside. You are also required to remove traces and hack a few drones when we get out. Instead of saying we will kill you, we have to worry about when you're going to report us to Kyoto Unlimited."

"Then you can trust me, right?"

"Hey." The black man shook his head, "I will definitely trust you."

"How?"

"You're short of money, brother."

That hit me right in the heart, time to go all out.

I looked as though I am unfamiliar with the industry. He must have guessed that I had just escaped from a big company and would not return to work with them. I really can't make a public appearance right now. Once I'm discovered, my brain will definitely be dug up.

What a company needs from its employees at any time is labor, not personal pursuits of an individual, values, and ideals. Those things that cannot be realized in the company, I will find outside the company.

"Let's go." Xu Yang said, "When will the operation commence?"

"Don't forget we only have 12 hours, if you want me to say it aloud, it's right now."

"Very good." Xu Yang got up.

The old way of life is far away.