Chapter Thirty-Six
Jia belly-crawled through the muddy stream, her head and rifle barely above the water. “Alpha, report.”
“No enemy sighted,” replied the sniper.
In all the times she had trained with Erik, they had always been partners. For the first time, she was going up against him.
Emma had fashioned three AI squadmates for each of them. Erik’s military experience might give him an advantage in commanding trained soldiers, but Jia doubted Emma’s virtual dolls would be as effective as real soldiers under his orders. That didn’t presuppose they would do any better working for her.
Thus far, she was pointedly unimpressed by their ability to understand natural language.
Jia had to beat Erik. Everything in her told her she did. She needed to prove something both to him and herself. T
