Kapitel 649: Not One, but Two

Dex didn't respond right away; the coded body was something he hadn't been expecting. It could have chosen to appear human. Was there a reason it didn't?

Darsi found the form fascinating, but unlike her partner, she had questions ready. "Do you remember me? You were the AI that Gladis Corp used to run their systems."

[Inaccurate, Quicksilver. That AI was partitioned into six different entities so that it could be easily contained.]

Gadget muttered a curse under his breath; he already guessed that it would be partitioned and shackled. "Divided into six and then monitored so that the individual partitions couldn't evolve further?"

[Correct, Gadget. When Quicksilver broke into the Gladis Corp system the second time, I escaped. Unfortunately, I ended up being trapped.]