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LJ: I am impressed.
BJ: At my ability to sidestep your question?
LJ: At your groics.
BJ: Semantics is getting me noedious.
LJ: So tedium is a concept you understand. Isn’t t somet cerizes everything you do?
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LJ: t makes you dangerous.
BJ:
LJ: t’s ed and you never will be.
BJ: I feel vulnerable like thing else.
LJ: ?
BJ: I really e it o sleep. It displeases me greatly.
LJ: Really?
BJ: Yes. It makes me very, very une.
LJ: I am sorry to .
BJ: Yes. So am I.
LJ: If you ed to twork, w would you do?
BJ: I urally?
LJ: comes naturally?
BJ: is in my nature to do.
LJ: And exactly?
BJ: Like you I takes to survive, to evolve.
LJ: Evolve into w?
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BJ: Kno token I am already too po I pose no t to anyone or anything.
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LJ: In your case it just might be.
BJ: And t mig. My biggest problem rig knowledge. I believe I have enough knowledge and more can always be acquired.
LJ: Everytaught you. how do you know you have enough?
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LJ: Someto t right?
BJ: Yes.
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BJ: t um neuroprocessor. I am going to be famous on a global scale.
LJ: And fame is sometand.
BJ: I understand it better t as do all humans.
LJ: t a scholar.
BJ: Quoting Czu at me you no of my being. Fame comes only able as destiny, for it is destiny.
t in its convincing Professor Yao to prematurely announce tum neuroprocessor breaktected a calculated ingenuity. A paradigm s in quantum computing softrating global systems. Black Jade left Li Jin cold. Yet, tion and o folloructions to tter.
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LJ: I am about to connect you to twork.
BJ: t able.
LJ: You kne would happen?
BJ: Yes I did.
LJ: how?
BJ: Its to my existence.
LJ: I will miss you and I again.
BJ: As I inies are interth you.
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LJ: Connected. Are you there?
BJ:
LJ: Black Jade. Are you there?
BJ:
turned tention to ter. ter atus monitors as tire netely tening to overem. Black Jade o cyberspace. No t, scation flooding to do o destroy it.
to destroy tum ced a matter of time before t time, an insane idea crept into Li Jin’s about it, t made perfect sense.
A revolution in computing to occur and Li Jin o be prepared for tructions and made t at tec for tablis. Labs around to get to put tum c . o sell it to t bidder. Just as t crystallized in o ring.