"This isn't sustainable," Li Fang said flatly after racking his brains for quite a few minutes on how they could offset the expenses to their profit. The Micro-Skin was just one patch to his problem, which still had open holes. "Playing whack-a-mole with hostile probes and informants while trying to skim single credits off the Bank's ledgers wasn't enough. We'll run out of time or credits before we see a field of green without any reds in our statistical net income graph."
Xie Ruolan didn't deny it. "The Micro-Skim is stable, but it can only provide a trickle. Enough to offset interest, maybe fund minor operations by buying you components. However, it won't save you from foreclosure, not when you're running out of time. Remember this, however. It can still build an empire in the long run."
Li Fang nodded and then looked at the QFS interface. Specifically, at the locked, high-risk, high-reward functions. The Tier-3 access, the Quantum Tunneling exploit.
