Chapter 201. When Enemies Meet
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"Damn it!"
Zola hadn’t expected Nolan to be this prepared. How did he even know Zola was still alive? Even within Hydra’s inner circle, most assumed Arnim Zola had been eliminated decades ago by Captain America.
In truth, Zola had died or at least his human body did. But his mind? His consciousness had been uploaded and reborn in the data stream. He had become the system.
He didn’t need to build artificial intelligence he was the artificial intelligence.
"You guess," Nolan replied coolly, fingers a blur on the keyboard as wave after wave of data crashed into Zola’s neural code.
"Stop stop! It’s too much! I can’t handle it!" Zola’s digitized voice grew desperate.
Becoming a digital entity had granted him near-immortality, existing anywhere electricity and magnetic fields could sustain him. But his uploaded mind, for all its genius, was still rooted in human architecture. His magnetic neural grid merely preserved human consciousness it didn’t elevate it.
In raw computational terms, Zola was no more efficient than an advanced AI.
He grew fast, swift, but not fast enough.
And now, this insane company had three top-tier artificial intelligences boxing him in like predators circling prey.