As Ava is in the Sector 451 city, she could see the skyscrapers above filled with hover-cars, and she entered one of these megastructures. The same male cashier with a futuristic visor, whose front side of the visor’s exterior pulses red, dons the store uniform consisting of an apron with a black cap.

  The man noticed Ava and said, “Oh, it’s you, it’s been a while. What has my loyal customer yet to acquire?”

  Ava tilted her head, and winked her other eye - confidently touching her waist with her two hands while her waist is emphasized straight out of a modeling runway.

  The man behind the counter nodded with respect.

  She asked with a confident smile, no longer in her nerdy disposition, “So, were you expecting me like this, no?” Her hands on her waist, with a seductive but arrogant smile.

  The man stared at her behind the counter, with a hint of respect, “It appears, I won’t be able to consider you a girl anymore, you are not just some loyal customer.”

  “But there is a price to that, you sure you can handle yourself in the high stakes and have what it takes to rise above?”

  Ava smiled, her hands on her waist, angled her head down, her smile a little more seductive and confident, and said, “Oh, please, you knew me since my young days. I came to your place when my mother used to spoil, I was just a nobody, but a nerdy customer.”

  Ava then straightens her eyelids towards the man with a smile.

  The cashier behind the counter stared at the terminal and answered while her finger operated the monitor, “Yes, I have known you for a long time, just carry on, make sure to bring cash for your wants and needs.”

  Where Ava gets the cart-list tracker from the sides, they were magnetic

  Ava nodded, and checked the store for parts consisting network driver, a microprocessor, or even a bunch of wires and circuits, even a memory storage

  Each time she sees them, she would touch them to be inserted in her cart-list tracker digitally, and as soon as she is done.

  She approached the cashier and presented the cart-list tracker to the cashier, where he stared at the list of products to be purchased by her.

  His eyes widened, his eyebrows pulled up with curiosity. He began to look at Ava with his visor, where the exterior front glows red, “So… Ava, I have been wondering, how much have you grown? What happened - uhm never mind”

  Ava crossed her arms, “I know, it’s a little bit of a step up to my game. Not much else to say other than that”

  The electronic store cashier nodded as he processed the digital cart list. He then waited for what was to arrive behind his back, the requested items of Ava’s.

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  As soon as they arrive from the hollow square from behind, that is closed but with ferrous material, but plastic-like

  Soon, the hollowed square opened, where the requested items had arrived inside. He brought them to the counter and calculated the total, and disclosed, “That will be 12,000 credits, madam.”

  This prompted Ava to bring out her card and have the cashier process the transaction, where he created a package for those components.

  Ava exited the store, carrying the package, heading to Elysium’s hotel. She arrived back at her hotel room with a keycard, where she placed the package somewhere on the bed.

  As she lay on her bed.

  She soon rested on her bed, ruminating while the package was beside her. She didn’t get tools, but she has a powerful mind that believes her hands to be capable of making the equipment she needs.

  She got up from her bed and started working on the project. She assembled the parts and started creating a mini-computer with memory storage, even tidying the wires and cables, and then coupling it with a wireless adapter.

  She soon finished assembling the prototype, with a rather relieved expression on her face.

  Ava said to herself, holding a device, “Okay, so I managed to create a mini-computer that is functional and flawed, but there is no. Oh buggers”

  She showed frustration until she placed the DIY device on the bed and grabbed her phone.

  She downloaded an app on her phone for the device, and then did some socket connecting.

  Soon, she was able to interface with the mini-computer through a phone that worked as a display.

  She began downloading network administration tools and libraries to its 128 gigabytes.

  As soon as she finished with her device, she began creating a script in the gadget replicating the code that she had done back on her job.

  She managed 14-16 hours of insomnia, as she began to use her device rather rashly, where the modified ‘Man in the Middle’ attack was executed, where all data was being intercepted, and the decryption process began, each decrypted data getting stored to the device’s storage.

  Lots of bytes are being peered through the device, and soon she halted the program and checked the memory.

  She accessed her mind to it, which reveals a vast amount of redundant information ranging from calls to texts that are gross.

  This puts a smile on her face when she cleans the memory storage, feeling satisfied that she fell on her bed and napped - she slept rather peacefully before waking up the next day at 1 pm.

  She jumped from her bed and checked if it was a workday on her phone, but found nothing.

  “Oh, it’s just. Weekends. Nothing to worry about.”

  She stood up and stared at the mirror, only to see herself wearing the dry clothes before placing her stuff back in the closet - tidying her room even more.

  10 minutes later, a noise could be heard meters away, a quarrel could be heard from afar, even in this room.

  She ignored it.

  “Based on the analysis of the vocal disturbances happening from a nearby room, it appeared to be a quarrel. Further engagements would risk complications, suggestion do not engage.”

  Ava begins to muster enough effort to ignore the noise while working on her gadget. She tweaked some settings and its microprocessor’s firmware. As soon as she finished, she packed it in her handbag before feeling satisfaction, now she craves to do another regular shopping.

  Feeling bored and lonely, she checked on her phone to see if anything had happened. She saw a notification from her new friend, it was from Maya.