Fault Utopia

Chapter 48 Modification
"Jack, can I ask you a question?" AA seemed a little nervous.

"I like women, the absolutely pure kind."

"No, no, I just want to ask how much you earn for a commission like this?"

"Thapai and I each get 10@."

After listening to Sun Jieke's story, AA opened his mouth in surprise. "You can actually make so much money! No wonder you can eat organic food for breakfast."

Hearing the envy in the other party's words, Sun Jack smiled and continued to eat his midnight snack, but he suddenly stopped and figured out the meaning behind AA's question. "You want to be a mercenary? I advise you not to be one."

"Don't just see the wolf eating the meat but not the wolf being beaten. We do this kind of work with our heads hanging on our belts. We could lose our lives at any time."

"I don't plan to do this for long. Once we have saved enough money, Tappai and I will quit."

"With these 3@, your life should be much better. Take this opportunity to find another stable job." Sun Jack suggested to AA.

AA put down his chopsticks and lowered his head. "But. Can I really find another job? I have been looking for a long time. But they don't want me."

Sun Jie Ke reached out and hugged her gently. He didn't know what advice to give in this situation. After all, even he himself went out to look for a job and no one wanted to hire him.

AA raised his head and looked at Sun Jieke, "I'm actually not useless. When I was in school, I had a master's degree in engineering."

"In school, my grades are always number one!" AA's face was full of pride when he talked about this.

"Your grades are so good, so why can't you find a job after graduation?"

The light in AA's eyes quickly disappeared. "Yeah, I don't know why I can't find a job even if I have good grades in school? Isn't studying for the purpose of getting a job?"

Finding a job seemed to have become a psychological shadow for AA. She became emo whenever it was mentioned. Sun Jieke simply changed the subject.

"Master of Engineering? Can you rub a nuclear bomb with your hands?" Sun Jack jokingly picked up the water on the table and took a sip.

"Okay!" AA's voice almost choked Sun Jack to death.

"Give me enough nuclear material and I can calculate the critical point of nuclear fission. In fact, I did this as an assignment in school."

"Times have changed, sir." The Tapai on the wall said sarcastically.

Soon Sun Jack realized that he, an ancient man, was out of date. In his time, nuclear weapons were the most advanced weapons, but in this high-tech era, making nuclear bombs has become a homework for students.

Of course, many people would like to make nuclear bombs, but nuclear fuel is under strict supervision of the company.

"But even if you say that, you still can't be a mercenary. We only kill one or two people at most. There's really no need to use nuclear bombs."

After hearing this, AA seemed to have really given up. He lowered his head and sighed deeply.

Looking at her little head, Sun Jieke suddenly thought of something, "If you are an engineer, can you change my prosthesis to a state where it is not connected to the Internet and can be triggered manually?"

AA's eyes lit up again in an instant, "Change it to pure mechanical? Of course I can, it's too easy!"

"Oh? Really? Then help me modify it and I'll pay you by the hour." What happened today made Sun Jack understand that some things are not necessarily better the smarter they are. If they are hacked, even the best prosthesis will become scrap metal.

Of course, he can also improve the firewall of the nervous system like everyone else to increase the difficulty of invasion.

But how much improvement is needed to reach the limit? If I want to engage in an arms race with others, the money I have may not be enough. It would be better to change it to a purely mechanical state.

"Okay! I'll go back and get the tools!" AA stood up excitedly.

"You're going out to get yourself killed in the middle of the night? Go to sleep first and we'll talk tomorrow." Sun Jieke burped and put the leftovers back into the refrigerator. When Sun Jieke returned to the room, he saw AA covering his head with a blanket and laughing.

She seemed particularly happy to be able to put what she had learned into practice.

After eating and drinking, Sun Jie Ke had a good nap. When he woke up again, he found that it was already 9 o'clock in the morning.

After he opened the door, he found that there was only a neatly folded quilt on the sofa, and AA was gone.

"Tapai, where is she?"

"She went out early in the morning. She said she had to go back to get the tools to modify your prosthetic body."

Just as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, "Jack! Tapai! I'm back!"

As soon as the door opened, Sun Jie Ke saw AA carrying a large bag and wearing an old pair of goggles tilted on her head.

She smiled happily with light in her eyes. Sun Jie Ke found that AA was much more beautiful now than when he first met her.

"Hey, why does he have this kind of sexual fetish?" Sun Jieke, who couldn't figure it out, opened the door and let AA in.

I watched her eagerly open the bag, which was filled with all kinds of messy metal tools. "Jack, take off your prosthesis and give it to me! I'll modify it for you."

Looking at her young face, Sun Jieke was a little worried. "Are you sure you can do it? Don't break it."

"Of course I can. Besides, it's not a very difficult thing to do."

AA grabbed Sun Jack's prosthetic limb with both hands, and the next moment her expression changed instantly, becoming extremely focused.

She quickly took out various tools from her pocket and disassembled Sun Jack's prosthesis at an extremely fast speed.

Seeing her skillful movements, Sun Jieke couldn't help but believe her. "Where did you learn all these skills?"

“School.”

"You are so poor, and you still have money to go to school?"

"I took out a student loan and I've been paying it back since I graduated from school."

Hearing this, Sun Jieke suddenly understood something, "When you applied for the job, you said you owed a debt. Is this the debt?"

"No, there are still the principal and interest of the childbirth and upbringing debts. I didn't give birth naturally, I came from a fertility factory, that's why I told you before that I have no family."

"What do you mean by giving birth? A birthing factory?" Sun Jack was shocked.

As he quickly used the system to search, the official website of Birth Factory Co., Ltd. jumped directly in front of his face. The babies on the interface were smiling very happily.

According to the official website, as technology has become more and more advanced in recent years, everyone has their own new ways of entertainment and is unwilling to downgrade their consumption to have offspring, so the fertility rate in metropolitan areas has continued to decline.

If this continues, the metropolitan population will become increasingly insufficient and eventually disappear completely.

In order to save the metropolitan area's low birth rate, in line with the lofty ideal of liberating women from the pressure of childbearing, and to ensure the employment needs of major companies, fertility factories have begun to assume the social responsibility of having children using artificial womb technology.

Looking at the various righteous slogans on the official website, Sun Jack was amused.

"The chives have been cut so much that they won't grow any bigger. So I might as well just grow them myself."

(End of this chapter)