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Chapter 3 - Hacker

Upon hearing the robot's words, Sun Jake instantly froze, almost thinking he misheard. Was this robot just insulting someone?

"What are you staring at? Nostalgic for the days when you licked rice mountains and ate noodle mountains in the Heavenly Court? I'm asking you a question."

When the robot spoke again, Sun Jake finally realized that this was the change after the logical system iteration mentioned earlier.

But he really didn't expect that after the iteration, the intelligence of this robot would change so drastically, with the cold robot directly learning to insult people.

"Is it that amazing? Iterating so quickly?"

"Naturally." The robot put its hands on its hips, slightly leaning back, looking very proud.

Although it was shocking, in the face of death, nothing else mattered. He couldn't afford to be shocked anymore; the space station was descending, and if they didn't find a way to save themselves soon, both of them would be done for!

"Have you found the escape pod location in the subnet data?" Sun Jake quickly asked the robot.

"No." The robot's words instantly dropped Sun Jake's heart to the lowest point.

"But well, we don't need to escape. This thing has a recoil device, although I'm not sure how many are functional. I estimate that the probability of disintegration is less than 10%, considering the friction with the atmosphere and the final impact."

This was indeed good news, but the space station not disintegrating didn't mean he would land safely.

Looking at the metal debris floating in the weightlessness above his head, one could imagine how deadly they would become once they obtained Earth's gravity.

In a life-or-death situation, Sun Jake's mind quickly started working. "Robot, I need a safe place to cushion the landing impact and avoid the debris. Do you know where on this space station we can find such a place?"

"How would I know? My screws have never worked on this." The robot shrugged its shoulders.

"Damn it! Aren't you connected to some subnet data? Isn't there a map or something in there? Did you only learn to swear and insult?" Sun Jake hurriedly peeked out the door, looking around cautiously.

"Can you blame me for that? That damn subnet isn't the ship's network, who knows which wreckage it's from." The robot followed Sun Jake, grumbling.

Its feet and hands seemed to have magnets or suction cups, able to stand effortlessly on the ground even in weightlessness.

"Besides, why do you look down on dirty language? Language art starts with dirty words."

Frustrated, Sun Jake couldn't be bothered to argue with the foul-mouthed robot; he just wanted to survive.

Sun Jake racked his brains, thinking of how to break through the situation. Amid the life-or-death crisis, his mind raced, and suddenly he remembered the red dot from before. "Right, that glitchy screen!"

Even though that thing was clearly broken and he couldn't use it, his inability to use it didn't mean others couldn't.

"Robot! Can you extract data from the broken computer? Like hacking into it or something."

"Who do you think you're talking to? That's my specialty." With that, a smiley face popped up on the screen of the robot's head.

"Very good, follow me." Sun Jake dodged various floating parts with the robot, starting to return along the original path.

When Sun Jake returned to the arched glass room, he found that the Earth behind the glass had turned into a colossal entity at that moment. It was gradually enlarging, resembling a Leviathan giant beast with a gaping mouth, ready to devour them all with its pitch-black jaws.

As he watched his nurturing mother planet gradually and slowly enlarge, a sense of oppression and suffocation hit him. Sun Jake finally felt what it was like to have megalophobia.

Suppressing the fear in his heart, Sun Jake tried to control himself as much as possible not to look outside the glass. He brought the robot to the flickering screen and said, "This is it! Hurry, let's get to work, we don't have much time left."

"Watch closely." Immediately, Sun Jake saw its left hand rapidly split, extending several fiber optic tentacles resembling jellyfish tentacles, swiftly sliding into the gap on the left edge of the monitor.

Soon after, the images on the screen started flashing even faster. Among them, a glimpse of a tourist advertisement flashed by. Sun Jake realized that this was just a tourist spot deliberately left by the space station.

At that moment, a faint "click" sound was heard, and Sun Jake turned to look to his left.

When he saw a crack rapidly crawling up the entire glass cover from the bottom with a clicking sound, he instantly took a sharp breath, feeling as if his soul was about to float away from his body.

"Hurry up! Quickly! This glass cover is about to give in!!"

Sun Jake was scared, beads of cold sweat forming on his forehead as he quickly looked around for a solution.

Suddenly, he stepped on the ground and arrived at the spot where the red dot was before. With a forceful push, the previously fallen arched wall slowly rose up with a slight delay.

But before Sun Jake could catch his breath, with a loud crash, the glass that hadn't been completely sealed burst open in an instant, sucking him outside directly, exposing Sun Jake to outer space at that moment!

In the moment of a thousand catties hanging by a thread, Sun Jake tightly held onto the chair next to him, almost wedging his entire body onto the chair. This prevented him from being pulled out by the suction force.

At this moment, Sun Jake felt himself beginning to suffocate, saliva boiling up, lungs expanding, skin rapidly sweating, and a strong burning sensation spreading.

"Hurry up!" Sun Jake shouted at the robot with all his remaining strength.

As the screen quickly flashed a few times, the optical fiber rapidly retracted, the robot lifted its foot and fiercely kicked the screen several times. "Damn it! Are you going to give the data or not?!"

After smashing the screen, he used the optical fiber to search among the components for a while. When he found a chip the size of a fingernail, he directly inserted it into the slot on his forearm. The screen on his face quickly flashed and displayed a large exclamation mark.

"The map has been found! Go to sector e4."

Just then, the arched wall in the sky finally closed, and that intense discomfort finally disappeared.

Sun Jake, pale-faced and weak all over, floated in mid-air, giving a thumbs up. "Awesome!"

Sun Jake was extremely grateful that he activated such a robot, finally finding a way out of the predicament.

The robot walked over, reached out and helped him up, saying, "It's just one atmosphere of pressure, look how tired you are, the body made of flesh is really inferior."

With the robot's support, Sun Jake arrived at the so-called e4 cabin, which looked like a cultivation chamber.

Various black, withered marks covered the floor and ceiling, these were all plants, but no one took care of them, they had all dried up and weathered completely.

"Why are we here? Is it safe here?" Sun Jake asked.

The robot did not speak, but his right index finger quickly sprayed out a deep blue flame, cutting the wall on the left. As the wall was cut, a blue jelly-like gel slid out from inside the wall.