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"Can you stop running? Don't worry, they won't find you."
Harry quickly caught up with Bone, patting his shoulder as they ran side-by-side.
Bone was somewhat incredulous, trying to speed up further, but he couldn't shake Harry off.
"Ha... you!"
Bone had been running at full speed and found this tycoon's speed to be ridiculously fast!
And he didn't look tired at all!
"That's more like it. Why are you running? Do you think I'd work for Blume, or even come to catch you personally?"
Harry felt a bit helpless.
In the original story, Aiden was beaten up as soon as he found Bone, but that made sense—Aiden's arrival exposed Bone's identity, and Aiden looked exactly like a hitman looking for trouble.
But Harry Osborn is a super-rich tycoon who appears on TV every now and then; shouldn't you come forward and ask for protection when you see someone like this?
Bone leaned against the wall, quickly recovering his breath, looking at Harry as if he had seen a ghost.
"I've heard that rich people have more time to exercise, so their physical condition is generally better. It seems it's true."
Harry shrugged. It might be true, but I'm clearly not that kind of person.
"So, what do you want with me? You caused my identity to be exposed, so I have to run."
"Work for me, and you won't have to run anymore. You can even get revenge on Blume. How about it?"
Harry didn't intend to waste words and directly extended an olive branch.
"For ctOS?"
"For ctOS." Harry nodded.
"No." Bone shook his head. "ctOS was a mistake, and I will correct it."
ctOS falling into the hands of Blume and Quinn completely went against his original intentions. Corruption was rampant, and it didn't make the World a better place as he had imagined.
After discovering the issues with ctOS, he wanted to resign from Blume, but due to his special status, he had a resignation dispute with them.
In a fit of rage, he used ctOS to cause a massive blackout in The Loop, resulting in the deaths of 11 people.
He felt very guilty.
He would never make the same mistake again.
"Making the World a better place—wasn't that your original intention for creating ctOS? Why refuse? Osborn is not Blume; we don't have mob bosses controlling us."
Harry opened his phone, which was equipped with the holographic projection technology Tony had given him.
"Look, this is the Osborn Group. We made nuclear fusion a reality. High-tech prosthetics allow the disabled to reclaim their lives, and artificial organs have saved thousands of lives."
"Recently, hundreds of millions have been poured into researching human genetic diseases. A normal life used to be an unattainable luxury for them, but now it has all become a reality."
"We are truly making the World a better place. You should work for Osborn, for your ideals."
Bone sat on the steps, looking up at the glowing holographic projection in Harry's hand, his throat feeling a bit dry.
He was a scientist at heart; he loved creation and invention—that was his source of motivation.
When he created ctOS, he truly believed this thing would make the city more convenient and beautiful.
But reality taught him a lesson—scientism was wrong. His proudest creation had become the very thing dragging the city into the abyss.
In a sense, someone like Harry was the person he wanted to become.
This was also why Harry showed him these things; they would resonate with him.
"I made a mistake." Bone lowered his head. "Many people died because of it."
"So let's start by correcting that mistake. By the way, your former colleague Tobias has already restarted The Bunker."
"So, are you going to accept the Osborn Group's invitation? I have to remind you, thousands of people are hoping for this opportunity."
Harry closed the projection and reached out his hand to Bone.
After a brief silence, Bone stated his condition.
"ctOS must operate under my supervision."
"Why don't you operate it yourself? You know it best. I'm not interested in fixing bugs and the like."
"What do you mean?" Bone was stunned.
"As you might know, I intended to acquire Blume Corporation, but now I've changed my mind. I plan to establish a separate subsidiary for information technology development. You will manage the company and this system. What do you say?"
Others wanted to take ctOS for themselves and make it work for them, but only Harry offered him a different kind of deal.
"Me? You're letting me manage a company?"
Harry nodded and shook his extended hand toward Bone.
Since things had been laid out like this, Bone no longer hesitated and chuckled.
"You really are different from those people." Bone stood up.
Shaking Bone's hand, Osborn now had a new employee—a genius software developer and legendary hacker.
"Very well, then there's no need to stay here. Let's go to The Bunker; your former colleague is there too."
Boom—
The sound of an off-road vehicle's engine came from the distance, and Bone immediately became nervous!
"They're here, we must hurry—"
Harry just waved his hand.
On the off-road vehicle were fully armed soldiers, who surrounded Harry and Bone.
"We're done for. Do you have a backup plan, billionaire?"
"Of course I do, and you've already said it." Harry waved his hand dismissively and took a few steps forward.
A mercenary jumped out of the off-road vehicle and walked slowly toward Harry.
"Boss, Quinn found out we turned on him. He should be contacting other mercenaries by now."
"Small problem. Do you have any brothers left in New York? I want to hire them."
The mercenaries laughed and jeered at each other.
"Of course, Boss. They'd be more than happy to."
Bone was dumbfounded listening to the conversation between the two—weren't these mercenaries hired by Blume to guard the ctOS servers?
"Get in the car, we're going to The Bunker."
Harry waved at the stunned Bone.
Back at The Bunker, Bone and Tobias shared a hug. Both felt quite emotional; since they left Blume, life hadn't been easy for either of them.
Bone was wanted for causing the blackout, while Tobias had become homeless.
Armed with Harry's money, The Bunker was now a bunker in every sense of the word, guarded heavily by mercenaries.
Additionally, he had called Frank over.
If everything went smoothly, this would be a short trip at most.
The Bunker was actually a hacking facility, equipped with various signal transceivers and an Underground Room filled with computers and servers. In the hands of a skilled hacker, it was like a missile silo that could infiltrate anywhere on the network.
Bone had used The Bunker's facilities before, so returning here was like a fish in water. He quickly hacked into the ctOS database through The Bunker and found a strange and incomplete video recording.
Only Harry knew that this was the beginning of everything.
The full recording documented the process of Chicago Mayor Donald killing another ctOS developer, Rose. Back then, the Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden saw this fragmented video while hacking into ctOS and was targeted by the mastermind, leading to a hitman's attack that ultimately resulted in his niece's death.
"This is what we're looking for." Harry had Bone stop on this frame. "We need the full recording to see what they're really hiding."
"They're back-tracing our address, but I've stopped them," Bone said, tapping a few keys. "This thing seems very important to them. It's been moved to another database, and I can't hack it directly. I have to connect at the physical layer."
"Can you track the location of that database?"
Harry only remembered that this thing was kept by another gang, but he didn't know exactly where.
"Yes, it seems to be at a gang's location." Bone glanced at Harry. "Are we going to bribe them this time too?"
"No, why give them money when we can just send them to prison? A warrior will be coming to our door soon; just let him do it."
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