“Yeah, once Sean finishes the setup, we’ll give it a try,” ire nodded.

She added, “His friend studies intelligent robotics.

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“After your suggestionst time, Sean mentioned the idea to him. We never expected the prototype to arrive so quickly!”

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At that moment, Sean looked over. “If our project is validated and acupuncture can truly be used in surgery,bined with this machine, it would mark a major breakthrough in integrating modern and traditional surgical treatments.”

Josie’s face lit up. “Then let’s hurry. As medical technology has evolved, the integration between modern and traditional medicine is the way forward.”

Over the next few days, the three of them, plus two helpers, practically lived in theb.

The experiments showed that machines could take over the job of performing acupuncture techniques, especially when it came to tiny, densely packed acupoints.

For scanning and locating a patient’s body, the machine was even more precise than a human hand.

Data analysis revealed that, in many surgeries, using acupuncture as an adjunct really helped reduce patients‘ pain.

It might also make certain procedures easier or safer.

This was especially true for patients who were allergic to some pre–op medications. Acupuncture would be the go–to option for them.

Once the project proposal and the experimental data on the nanobots were finalized, ire’s presentation paper was finally ready on Friday night.

“All done!” ire eximed as she hit thest key and stretched her arms.

In her excitement, she identally knocked over her water cup on the desk. “Oh no, I’m doomed!”

Josie tried to save it, but it was toote. She watched helplessly as the whole cup of water drenched ire’sptop.

“My paper!” ire cried, reaching for the mouse, desperate to save a backup.

Colby beat her to it, grabbing the mouse first. “Don’t move! Before the screen goes ck, email yourself a backup…”

Josie brought herptop. Just email it to her,” ire said while stepping aside.

Colby shook his head. “No time! Yourptops are already paired with Bluetooth Just transfer it that way!”

He’d barely finished when ire’sptop went ck

Everyone froze.

Josie turned to look at herptop. “It worked! There’s a new file on myputer.”

Fortunately, ire had linked theirptops via Bluetooth earlier to send over some study materials.

Colby leaned in. “Go ahead and open it. See if the file is saved

“Okay.” Josie sat down and was just about to click on the file when Colby suddenly clicked his tongue.

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“Rookie, that’s not good. Looks like someone’s installed spyware on yourptop,” Colby said while reaching over to stop her from opening the file.

Everyone was stunned for a second, all eyes snapping to Colby.

Colby blinked, a bit thrown by the attention. “What? I’m just saying, it’s super obvious. Anyone with half a clue aboutputers could spot this!”

They felt that Colby was rubbing it in their fact by that point.

Zoey swallowed nervously. “Wait, you mean Josie’sptop’s been monitored? Who the hell would stoop that low? Josie?”

“Is there any way to find out exactly what files they’ve stolen?” Josie asked, already piecing it all together the moment Colby mentioned spyware.

She thought, ‘So that’s how Natalie managed to giarize my paper without leaving any evidence. It is all because of that spyware!‘

Josie had suspected something like this for a while, which was why she’d been trying to find aputer whiz to take a look at herptop.

She just hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Thanks to ire’s spilled water, the expert practically revealed himself.

Colby motioned for her to get up and took her seat in front of theptop. “I’ll take a look, but we can’t open the presentation paper on yourptop for now.

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