Sun Jack's system was constantly being attacked, but fortunately, with the intervention of the Digital Personality, the boxes on the system interface quickly disappeared.
At least at the network level, Metropolis could hardly find any enemies, as the Digital Personality had teamed up with Tapai.
Just in a short moment, a hole was cut into the shell of the Hover Car by a laser.
Sun Jack hesitated not even for a moment before he cleared the prosthetic body's rockets inside, and without waiting for the inside's exploding sound to subside, Sun Jack activated the night vision and thermal imaging of the prosthetic body. Taking advantage of the smoke that had not yet cleared, he charged straight inside.
As soon as Sun Jack entered, his keen The Sixth Sense made him twist his neck; the next second, a whooshing sound flew past his scalp. Whatever that thing was, if he hadn't dodged just now, his head would have been gone.
The thermal imaging showed that deep inside the violently shaking Airship, there were eight large figures, all obviously having undergone full prosthetic body modifications.
Clearly, these eight figures were Xiao Ting's puppets, that woman was very timid, never using her real body to make contact with herself.
Besides the people, there were several brains at 36.5 degrees inside the cabin, obviously, these were wetware that Xiao Ting used to store content.
Although Sun Jack didn't know what was here, there must be something good, or else those BCPD wouldn't cling so tightly.
At this moment, Sun Jack, through the gunsmoke, stared at those eight people, and the next second he moved—not against the people, but against those brains.
Strike the snake at its seven inches; after a few conflicts with this woman, Sun Jack had long understood what was most important to her.
A beam of a laser shot past, instantly piercing a row of brains. Just as the eight puppets were about to attack Sun Jack, he purposely ran toward the area with more brains. For a moment, hot brains splattered everywhere.
"Stop! Stop right now! Alright! You win!" Xiao Ting's familiar voice came through the Hover Car's microphone.
But Sun Jack was not about to listen to her, the vengeance for his just-deceased clone was not yet settled. Seeing how frantic the tone of the other party was, he vandalized even more vigorously.
"Stop, stop right now! I can exchange a piece of technology information with you!"
"Playing with brains? I don't think you have anything that could interest me. Since you've killed my people, I must make you bleed severely once!"
As Sun Jack was about to pull out a Miniature Reactor from his belly, Xiao Ting hurriedly shouted: "This technology is completely useless to others! But for someone like you with many Clones, it is very useful! It's the Clone Personality Overlap Technology!!"
The poised-to-strike Sun Jack stopped, looking towards her with a hint of surprise. The name of the technology already hinted at much information. "The name sounds interesting, explain it to me."
Just as Sun Jack finished speaking, the entire Hover Car suddenly flipped over, instantly turning the cabin into chaos,
Before Sun Jack could steady himself, suddenly he leaped up, dodging a Puppet bearing an anime girl's head that sneak attacked from behind.
Who would have thought, in addition to eight living people, Xiao Ting also left a machine puppet here.
With the attack botched, Xiao Ting naturally switched back to negotiation. "You help me shake off these pursuers first, then I'll tell you the specifics of this technology."
Sun Jack pointed towards her, "You'd better not play any tricks again, my Clones have already surrounded this area."
Having said that, Sun Jack shared his vision with the Clones that were watching the battle from the outside, observing at least five heavily armed BCPD Hover Cars.
Just like that, the area had already been secured with a formidable barricade, and various combat units were closing in from all directions. With the equipment he had on him now, breaking through was going to be tough.
Without even turning his head, Sun Jack asked Xiao Ting, "These aren't ordinary BCPD units, are they?"
"No. They're from Section 1."
"What kind of outrageous thing have you done? Don't tell me you copied the memory of a top enterprise CEO? Why do I feel like I saw the shadow of a spacecraft carrier among the clouds?!"
"I...I've been evading taxes," the anime girl sighed with worry on her face.
"What?" Sun Jack almost thought he had heard wrong, "What did you say? You've been evading taxes?"
"Yes." All the meat chickens nodded simultaneously. "Section 1, as the most crucial and central department of the BCPD, manages all the taxes of the Metropolis. They don't care if you commit murder or rape right in front of them, but if you dare to miss even 0.1 Dog B in taxes, they come after you like sharks that smell blood."
"You've been in the Metropolis for so long, and you didn't know that?" Xiao Ting looked at Sun Jack in utter surprise.
"My company has always paid taxes legally, how would I know the Metropolis still had such people hidden away? If you knew they were trouble, why did you evade taxes?"
"I ran out of money. I was planning to delay till the last repayment period, invest the money in stable stocks to earn a bit more, but then I encountered a black swan event. Gaofeng Technology's stocks plummeted, and even with timely stop-loss, I couldn't cover the tax payments."
"Shit, why is this even my problem?" Sun Jack rubbed his temples in frustration and walked out through the continuously gusty entrance.
"Stop fighting, I'm Sun Jack, one of the members of the Metropolitan Federation! I'll pay her taxes for her!"
With his declaration, the people from Section 1 finally ceased their actions, and a drone flew up to Sun Jack, rapidly calculating how much tax Xiao Ting ultimately owed.
In the end, Sun Jack paid 1200M Dog B to get rid of them. Between the cloning expenses and this, both Utopia Security and Sharp Flash Technology's company accounts were drained.
Sun Jack deliberately had the beat-up hover car taken to the Utopia Logistics Department for the AAs to repair, which was both a repair and a deterrent. If he wasn't satisfied with their response, everything aboard the ship would become his.
After getting off the hover battle vehicle, Sun Jack led the other party to the office inside the company.
As soon as the door opened, Xiao Ting saw Sun Jie sitting behind the metallic long table. A glance told her he was the original, as only the original would have that robot with a screen on its face by his side.
"You can go, I'll handle it here," Sun Jie nodded to his clone, gesturing with his hand for the other to sit down. "Tell me, what exactly is this Clone Personality Overlap Technology you mentioned?"
"It's an old technology that was phased out. At one time, cloning was popular in the Metropolis, but cloning always resulted in clones replacing the originals, leading to its discontinuation," she explained.
Xiao Ting quietly surveyed the spacious office, knowing that he had done well, but she hadn't expected him to have climbed his way up from being a lowly mercenary.
"I'm really curious, how did you convince your personality clone to help you unconditionally? Cloning technology isn't complicated, and it's not like no one else has done what you did, but you are the first to have such an obedient clone."
As a brain expert, Xiao Ting almost got carried away wanting to examine his brain, but fortunately, she held back.
Sun Jie tapped his fingers on the table, "Don't change the subject. Did I bring you here just to chat? Keep talking about that technology that will be a great help to me."
"That technology allows you, when needed, to make the clone and the original merge into one again, overlapping memories and personalities where they are identical and leaving behind the parts that are different."