617: Chapter 524 Study Hard 617: Chapter 524 Study Hard Rinne usually dressed so modestly that her perfection was not apparent, but it was, in fact, far beyond imagination.

And Rinne got what she desired, as the missing piece of her life was filled.

About half an hour later, Rinne slowly woke up.

“…” She remained silent, spotted a comb on the bedside table, and ran it through her hair.

“Here.” Xu Yang opened the drawer beside the bed, which was stuffed with energy supplements, exactly what Rinne urgently needed.

She sat up, ate some, and began to feel her drained energy recover.

Xu Yang held a handheld screen, tapping and scrolling on it, and Rinne turned her head to see.

“…What are you busy with?” she asked in a hoarse voice; her throat had unluckily suffered from overuse the day before.

Additionally, she felt discomfort in her back.

“Corporate affairs,” Xu Yang said, looking at various invitations and contracts, “many other cities are praying for our protection, willing to further partner with us.”

“So, that’s what you were busy with yesterday?”

“Otherwise, I would have come back sooner.”

“With me here in the future,” Rinne turned over, sat up, and slipped her long legs into semi-transparent silk stockings, “you won’t need to call someone else over at night.”

“We’ll see.” Xu Yang couldn’t make such a promise, as the world was full of unforeseen events.

Lila sometimes felt lonely, Kanako sometimes felt insecure, and Pan Ruiyi often took days off or slacked off.

Rinne felt a subtle change occurring between her and Xu Yang, yet she found it hard to articulate.

Her modified body could not withstand stress and had fainted several times from weakness until now; she knew that Xu Yang still had energy to spare.

The sensation was exquisitely indescribable, and she was certain of one thing: there was no woman Xu Yang couldn’t handle.

“No wonder you can make them listen to you.” Rinne said, smoking a post-coital cigarette, “Once there’s a first time, there will be a second time.”

“It’s my duty.” Xu Yang’s mission was to take good care of them, ensuring their complete satisfaction.

They were close to each other for a moment, but due to too many modifications, Rinne’s body actually lacked the warmth of a normal person, her touch cold.

Rinne kissed him teasingly, and Xu Yang pinched her, slapped her on the body playfully, and she got out of bed accordingly.

This was a rare opportunity for Rinne to rummage through everything.

It was her first time getting to know the room so well, with cleaning agents, rubber products, mats, spare bed sheets, waterproof bedding, night lights, electric gadgets, paper products, and a foldable automatic cleaning robot all around.

One wall could switch among a full-length mirror, smart screen, ambient lighting, and a projection screen.

“You never told me about these.” Rinne looked back at Xu Yang.

“Now you know.”

“I should have known sooner.” Rinne felt like a new door had opened in her life, “I think it’s not too late now, you lie down there.”

…

In the afternoon, Xu Yang and Rinne went out for a meal.

Rinne’s palate developed on the West Coast, where she used to watch the wealthy dine in and out of expensive restaurants, with valets parking their luxurious shuttles.

Now she could experience that feeling herself, and as she got off the Purple Wind with Xu Yang, someone immediately took their shuttle to the hangar.

She deliberately chose unfamiliar food to try, eating professional chef’s cuisine for the first time—truffle, endive, roasted snails, abalone, lobster dumplings, and duck liver mousse.

Each dish used complex techniques, not the raw ingredients their names suggested, but deconstructing raw materials and reconstructing and collaging them to match the intended food’s texture.

What seemed like a single ingredient was actually a mixture of hundreds of others.

Rinne ate quickly, sipped some wine with her meal, and then looked up and told Xu Yang, “I’ll share the good stuff with you too.”

“I believe you,” Xu Yang nodded.

He looked carefully at Rinne.

In his eyes, she was naturally still young, not yet mature, and unblemished by any malice or strange habits.

Rinne had walked alone through the mortal world, covered in blood, dust, and responsibility.

This harsh world could have easily crushed Rinne in some corner, but not only had she survived, she now had a new life.

Xu Yang knew it was less of what he had given her and more of what she had fought for herself.

She was so vivid, brave, and unrestrained.

“I want to take further training.” Rinne threw the plate on the table into the woven recycling basket beside her, “The food here is so delicious it makes you want to come back for more.”

“You can come anytime.” Xu Yang swiped his cash card on the table to pay the bill, and then he left with Rinne, the restaurant’s gift already placed beside the shuttle machine.

Rinne felt the meal had cost a five-figure sum, and she mentally noted it, planning to return the favor in the future.

She wasn’t accustomed to owing anyone favors, even in emotional relationships.

To Rinne, the best relationship was one of balance.

After returning to Shijin Mansion, Xu Yang checked Rinne’s learning progress and, finding she had neatly mastered all the necessary knowledge, they once again dived in sync.

This time was much smoother than the previous two because their synchronization rate had risen.

Xu Yang facilitated the process smoothly, helping Rinne convert her consciousness into digital signals to enter the Helis Sea System, becoming part of the whole network fortress.

The deeper she dove, the harder she had to work, taking on higher risks.

Xu Yang constantly monitored Rinne’s state, ready to assist her if she risked being obliterated in the Helis Sea.

Rinne’s consciousness traveled through the Helis Sea, now a network security system that had been fortified and expanded to protect the Nestor Corporation’s equipment and network systems scattered across the Northern Archipelago, ensuring the company’s assets were strongly protected and free from risk.

As Rinne had encountered before, there were always opponents, both overt and covert in the Northern Archipelago, scheming to steal Nestor Corporation’s assets.

She silently observed various devices, entering one camera after another, circulating through different terminals.

Sometimes she would pause, hiding within devices and factories, existing as an electronic phantom, witnessing many amazing things.

She saw a Nestor assembly line worker frustrated with the monotony of his job, tired of screwing bolts, so he applied to be transferred to another workshop, becoming another type of assembly line worker who dyed clothes.

He felt there was no difference but was too lazy to learn additional skills, so he simply continued as before.

She saw a troop in training, Elite Soldiers, and security personnel were cross-country running through complex terrain to train the efficiency of their combat chips in path calculation.

They ran and crawled while yelling, “Where is the enemy!” Sometimes, they would suddenly turn toward the instructor, as if they hated that this person made them train instead of engaging in real combat, which annoyed the instructor.

He suggested that Synthetic Humans and Humans should be trained separately.

This data stream flowed by Rinne, she let it pass, watching how it got uploaded step by step.

The experience was indeed wonderful.

Rinne then saw a female employee drafting a report on the information terminal.

The woman’s worried eyes moved across the screen, looking at the words she had typed—a report—she was pregnant but didn’t know who the father was, she had gone a bit wild at the inter-departmental mixer.

She submitted a request, hoping to hand her child over to Nestor Corporation for upbringing, to have the child grow up in a community support center and eventually become part of the company.

She hoped to not marry and not to seek the child’s father, just to bear the child and leave the rest to the company.

There was interest everywhere, and Rinne roamed around, looking here and there.

Rinne shuttled through various terminals linked to the Helis Sea, and after a while, she slowly returned, making an effort to reclaim the fragments of her consciousness that had “drifted” through the areas.

It was a prior warning from Xu Yang; she couldn’t leave her thoughts and subconscious in the digital world like littering, which was highly hazardous and could risk spawning psychic duplicates.

Memory, thoughts, observations—Rinne’s deep dive this time had reached the very tips of the Helis Sea’s remotest branches, as if a flame burning on a large tree had now managed to ignite even its outermost twigs.

She patiently reverted her operating processes, transferring her consciousness files, and was startled to find their data volume was massive, far exceeding what she could handle.

Rinne slowly woke up from the tech pod, opening her eyes and breathing deeply.

“…You’ve mastered 70%.” Xu Yang rose from his pod, satisfied with Rinne’s progress, “Being able to move and navigate in the data world is remarkable, that’s the basic principle of the Helis Sea System.”

“…” Rinne didn’t reply, only she knew the severity of the mistake she’d made.

She held her throbbing head, her thoughts in the Helis Sea drifting aimlessly.

She’d seen too much and now, returning to her original body unprocessed, naturally carried a huge amount of information.

Her brain was nearly boiling, the processor desperately recording and searching through this information, overwhelmed by the vast data volume and consequently nearly crashing!

Xu Yang had no choice but to hack into Rinne’s processor, cutting off the data processing sequence and bulk-editing the redundant data for her, most of which was valueless and resulted from Rinne’s excessive curiosity and wandering gaze.

Overwhelmed by pain, Rinne shed tears, sitting on the edge of the tech pod, her mind blank for quite a while before her vision slowly regained color, and she took back control of her body’s basic functions—breathing, movement, thinking.

She had come back to life.

“…It should be much better now.” Xu Yang had rescued Rinne from the brink, preventing her brain from overloading, and explained methodically, “You must always be careful; new technology still holds many secrets that are difficult to grasp.”

Thank you.

Rinne said in her mind.

She didn’t say it out loud, choosing instead to repay the favor with action.

“…Let’s increase our synchronization rate even more,” she stood up and pushed back her hair.