Visitors from the Deep in Six Hours

Quantum observation did not predict the future. It read possibilities about to collapse. Lan-Zero turned the harbor into a luminous network of cameras, radar, cell towers, and minute vibrations in the water. Three red spindles were thirty kilometers offshore. Lin made his plan. The first tracked anomalous matter. Lan-Zero shaved a grain-sized fragment from the alien plate and sealed it inside Hanhai’s wreckage container, which was being flown to corporate headquarters. The second tracked the energy lattice. Lin connected the transparent wafer grown the previous night to a retired buoy and sent it toward an abandoned naval range. The third tracked the *Far Tide’s* distress code, now linked to Zero Tide’s drone route.