Chapter 70

"David..."

"Uh-huh?

"Clouds has a technical floor, from there you can access the staff quarters."

"I hear you..."

I got out of the car knowing that the nearest cameras were already broken by the girls, so no one could notice the beginning of my movement. And I reached the elevator doors in the terminal where I had inserted the chip. Thankfully, all terminals have a jack for technicians to work.

The girls immediately provided a "mistake" elevator, which opened on one of the floors and dropped off passengers, and then closed. Only it didn't hang, but went to my floor, where I quietly got into it with the cloaking system already on and got to the technical floor of the Clouds, where the elevator opened again. And this is where it "hovered".

Slowly I stepped out of the elevator and looked around.

"Servers..."

"Yes, but not everything is here, the most important information is stored in the employee areas."

"I see..."

I slowly made my way around the room not forgetting to insert a couple of slivers, for the girls to work more freely in the clouds.

"Hmm. and they have pretty good ice."

Kiwi was really surprised by the state of the ice in the Clouds.

"You know how many rich ponies go to them? If the ice was weak, they would have been zeroed out long ago... And the Clouds wouldn't be as popular as they are..."

Judy decided to set the record straight.

"Girls, you work, not talk..."

"Yeah, we're working. the elevator will be here shortly to take you to your rooms."

And indeed, the elevator I entered soon arrived...

To go up to the right floor and calmly get out of the elevator, and then I slowly and carefully walked through the rooms and found another server room. Only here I already met reasonable people, but Sandy helped me in more difficult situations, so after ten minutes of real time I came to the room in which, as the girls told me after hacking another Cloud server, should be Evelyn. And she is there in a disgusting state...

The door opened quietly and I stepped inside the room...

Walking over to the girl, who seemed not to notice anything I put a splinter in her.

"Capture the data and transmit it to our ripper."

"Roger that."

I went to the wall and waited. And I waited a long time. At least thirty minutes, after which Kiwi spoke to me.

"Well, uh. our ripper has given his verdict."

"AND?"

"Her puppet chip was literally burned out. But she can be helped. Of course, she will never be a doll again, because the parts of the brain to which the chip is attached are damaged, but in general, after some therapy she will be able to return to normal life."

"How's our Good Girl?"

"She's in shock..."

"Hmm?"

"The head of the Clouds knew Evelyn wasn't doing well, but he wasn't looking for a riper for her, he preferred to rape her a couple times already."

"Uh. she's a log, she's a log."

"Well, from what we understand from the data we have, Parker was stonewalling him, so he decided to take advantage of the situation."

I sighed...

"Okay, I'm moving on to the main thing..."

"Are you gonna kill him?"

"No Judy..."

"What if I were to--

"Judy, if that's what you ask me to do, yes, I will kill him, just let you calm down a bit and calculate the consequences first."

"Consequences?"

"You know a lot of people you know in the Clouds...you calculate what the consequences will be for them..."

"But..."

"Just think about it. if I kill him. who would take his place? Would he be better? Will it make your acquaintances feel better, or will you just take out your just anger and make it harder for your acquaintances to live?"

"I... I realize. I can change my mind if I decide now not to zero out Dubman now, right?"

"Uh, sure."

"Okay, uh. then what do you want?"

"Now we'll sneak into his office, then you'll hack into his computer and display on his monitor what I ask."

"Okay..."

It wasn't hard to get to Dubman's office, he was sitting there eating some extra-large burrito. The sight of that man literally shoveling that shit into himself, and with gusto, made me nauseous.

"So, ladies."

The computer monitor blinked.

"Hello Dubman..."

"What? What the fuck?! What the fuck is going on here?!"

"You probably don't understand anything... "what the fuck do you think is going on here?""

"We should contact security. Tell them to, uh."

"Checking the ice won't help... I have all the Clouds in my hands. For example, right now, everything in your office will shut down except your computer..."

And the girls immediately put my words into action.

"And now it's going to work again..."

Once again, the girls quickly followed my instructions.

"How long do you think it would take me to destroy the Clouds with that kind of power? Like leaking all that information you've gathered on your clients?"

"Bitch. They'll find you."

"You must be very upset right now. Maybe you're even threatening me, saying they'll find you, ruin your life... Maybe. Although I have no doubts about my skills and I can't be found out. So..."

"What the fuck do you want?!"

"I want you to pay me..."

"А?!"

"You see, while studying the data I noticed an interesting case for me as a keen individual... someone hacked into the Clouds and burned your doll's chip..."

"This is all because of that whore?!"

"I'm interested in working with this meat... So I've decided to give you an ultimatum. You forget she exists, and I... don't... destroy your life."

Of course, I could take Evelyn out quietly, but in this situation it's an unnecessary risk. They'll be looking for her anyway, and if I scare Dubman a little, he'll spend some of his time trying to strengthen the Cloud Ice. And fear will play its part...

"I agree! I agree!"

"The right decision... all premises will now be locked down. All but two. Your office and the room where you keep the girl. Your job is to take the girl, wrap her in a blanket, then carry her to the elevator."

"Where are the guarantees?!"

I didn't answer that question. Dubman didn't even move from his seat.

"Where are the guarantees?!"

After waiting a couple minutes, I asked the girls to count down. Also, since he was in no hurry to comply with our request, I asked him to empty all his accounts, which he was trying to hide from his Claws handlers.

"Bitch, how could you do that?!"

Dubman got up from his seat and quickly went to Parker's room, then wrapped her in a blanket and went to the elevator, which was waiting for him. All this time I followed him and when the elevator doors began to close I activated the sandy and jumped inside and immediately hid in a volume of the elevator that was no longer visible.

The elevator slowly moved and went back to the technical floor, where I calmly lifted the girl in my arms and walked to another elevator. A couple more minutes and I reached the car, into the trunk of which I loaded Parker.

"David?!"

"Judy, of course I know you're good and can safely hack anything that can be hacked and cover up the fact that this girl is in the car. But it's better to just keep a low profile..."

Once I was in the car, Panam moved smoothly towards Victor's clinic...

"So?"

They immediately sent me access to another fake account with laundered money and I distributed the money to all the girls and myself. And then they also sent me the data they had managed to download from the servers.

I sighed...

Vic received us and when I put Evelyn on the chair, he quickly kicked everyone out of his clinic. I bet he's gonna operate on a girl and have outsiders watching... especially since even Judy, when asked about her friends, shrugged her shoulders and said that once upon a time, but not now...

In general, we were all kicked out of the clinic. Naturally, he told me the approximate cost of the work at once and I paid it with a sigh.

"So, are we waiting?"

"Why?"

Judy shrugged and we all looked at her in surprise.

"Would you mind explaining that?"

"Well, uh. we helped her. her treatments paid for. my even imaginary debts are paid, the guilt of not talking her out of it is also gone. Now we can just go home."

I sighed.

"Short of going home?"

"Yeah..."

I didn't argue and we just got into the car and headed home. I was thinking on the way home that I didn't understand how girls' thought processes worked. Why should I get involved in all this if she didn't care about her ex-girlfriend's fate?

Doesn't she realize that the same people who hacked Cloud and burned the chip can hack her friend again? No, she should realize that very well...

"Why are you so pensive?"

"No big deal."

All I could do was shrug at Judy's question.

"He just can't understand you."

Kiwi intervened in the conversation.

"Hmm?"

"So you helped her. but she could get hacked again. hacked into. or even hire someone to take her out."

"But now it's her problem. I left Vic a chip with enough money to get out of town. I'll take it from there."

Judy shrugged.

"Okay. enough already, it's Judy's choice anyway, and we have to respect it."

"Yeah, we kind of respect, uh."

Becca shrugged.

"I just wish I could not only respect, but understand..."

"Uh-huh...

But that was the end of the conversation. I decided to send Bestia and Regina the new information my girls had gotten... let them handle it. I decided to send Bestia and Regina the new information that my girls had gotten... let them deal with it themselves.

And at home. at home, I started making the cakes I promised to make my girls if they found Faraday...

And as I prepared them, I wondered if we should stay in Knight City so much... it's getting a little noisy, especially with V's last assignment. and if she's about to start digging her nose into the ground looking for a way to survive...

I sighed.

"Oh, you're already making cream..."

I looked at Judy, who was on the kitchen island, and when I heard her talk about the cream, the other girls began to gather around us, and I immediately prepared myself for a fight to the death. I realized that now each of them would try to put her finger in the bowl with cream...

"Everybody freeze..."

My commanding voice made them freeze in their seats.

"For starters, the hands..."

"А?"

They looked at me in surprise.

"Did you wash your hands?!"

"Well..."

I glared at Lucy, who looked away and hid her hands behind her back.

"If you don't wash your hands right now, I'm going to give you a hard time when you try to get your hands in the cream with dirty hands...you won't like it much."

"Well..."

They looked at each other.

"Can we do it later?"

I looked intently at Becca.

"No. But there will be a bit of a war to fight...and without that, there will be no cream war and I'll just stop making cakes the first time I try."

"We got it. Let's go wash our hands."

Panam raised her hands in a gesture of surrender then walked away with the girls towards the bathroom where the water soon rumbled...