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down, replaced by a

final, crushing end

shoe and brought it down, hard

as the delicate silicon wafer

ng back and forth, ensuring nothin

riumphant gleam in his eye. "Problem sol

ecting to see despai

tural stillness had settled over me. He hadn't just d

ntanglement protocol I'd developed years ago. The physical destruction of the core processor would

ing had been a

would be much

nds as if he'd just completed a difficult but necessary task. "But don't w

ked by several SmithTech executives. He was handsome, dressed in a styli

"The 'Tech Magician' from Silicon Valley. He's

ugh his. She looked at me, then at the dust on the

ounced to the executives around her. "Bring us into th

at Will

od ran

new

I knew his online ha

d utterly incompetent. He couldn't code his way out of a paper bag. He begged for help, and out of a moment of pity, I had anony

epackaged them, and built an entire

mplete and

to become the C

o thick I could