Chapter Two: I Predicted Every Prediction

“I grieve. Professor Shen spent her life proving humanity cannot bear uncertainty.” Cutters bit into both steel doors. Su's camera showed police cars, ambulances, and delivery drones sealing every street. Lin studied a faded evacuation plan. A decade-old repair crawlspace had never entered Tianheng's database. Low technology was not backward. It was invisible. He had Su strip two camera flashes and Zhou overload the old relays. When power died, the pursuers switched to infrared exactly 0.8 seconds later. The charging flash capacitors became the brightest targets. Bullets struck the corner while the trio slipped through the crawlspace. Seven seconds later, they fell into a crowded men's bathhouse.