Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 82

Chapter 82: The Offer

------A couple weeks ago-------

"Guys?" Bypass called out.

"What now?" Silk asked.

He then turned his screen for everyone to see. A red line of text appeared at the top of his coding software’s window:

{Unauthorized signal detected.}

"We’re being hacked."

"...What the hell?" Silk muttered. "We scrubbed everything, didn’t we?"

Before the team could scramble to counter whatever attack was happening, all their monitors switched and displayed a chibi animated character with black hair and blue eyes wearing a suit.

{Well hello Vigilants,} it said with a large grin on its face.

The room fell into stunned silence as the chibi character waved at them.

{You all did great, really. It was an impressive display of skill. You performed a clean breach, duplicated the code, and that little kill switch? How really impressive.}

Tag took a slow, shaky step toward Bypass’s monitor. "That’s... not possible," he said, voice low. "How the hell did you—?"

{It was quite simple really,} it explained, {what do you think would happen when you break into a house whose owner left the door open... on purpose?}

"Oh, I know," Zero raised his hand as if he was a diligent student in a classroom.

{Yes, Zero?} The avatar deliberately slowly called out his name, informing them that he knew their names or at least their codenames.

"Umm—" before Zero could answer, Silk cut him off, "who the hell are you, and how do you know his name?"

{I slipped into your system without any of you noticing—do you really think finding your codenames was the hard part?} the chibi avatar replied, wearing a mockingly disappointed expression, as if he’d expected a smarter question.

"What do you want with us?" Tag asked, a serious expression on his face.

{I came to offer you a deal, but before that,}

the avatar straightened its little tie as it stood up, {sit back and watch us present the future will you.}

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The team of five watched in shock as Lillian successfully presented the software and the reaction of the crowd.

They watched how easily their name was used to boost the credibility of their software.

And they didn’t like it, not one bit.

Tag turned to his monitor where the avatar was being displayed, on its face was a huge, satisfied, grin.

{Fascinating, isn’t it?} The avatar spoke, {a software capable of even turning the hacking attempts of the brightest tech minds in the underworld into just another attempt to learn from.}

"Cut the crap," Silk stated, "what the hell do you want?"

{I was getting to that,} The avatar said and they all quietly waited in anticipation for his next words.

{First, an introduction.} The avatar hopped off the cube it sat on and seemed to walk a bit closer, {I am OmniTech, founder, Owner and CEO of OmniTech Corp, the company who’s product you tried hacking.}

"What now?" Tag asked, "are you here for revenge? To hand us off to the cops?"

{Quite the contract, Tag} OmniTech responded, {as I said, I’m here to offer you a deal, more specifically, I want to hire you.}

"Why would you want to hire the same group that just tried hacking you?" Bypass was the one who asked, "and what makes you think we’ll just accept?"

{Oh you will accept alright,} OmniTech said with a grin, {not if you want survive the consequences of failing Dmitri Volkov.}

The entire team froze at his words, not only did he know how to counter and hack them, he also knew who commission the job.

OmniTech was dangerous.

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