Chapter Two: I Predicted Every Prediction

The camera matched his face at 99.8%, but a higher-weight conclusion appeared: low-income delivery worker, agitated, no organized threat. The officer stepped aside. [ABSURD EVENT ESTABLISHED. You disappeared under universal observation.] [ABILITY STOLEN: SILENT CAMOUFLAGE 0.1%.] It was not invisibility. The world still saw him, then lost every reason to care. Su caught up and showed him an enlargement of the microfilm. Reflected in the mainframe glass stood a young man behind Grandma and Gu Beichen. He had Lin Yan's face. The photograph was taken in 1998, two years before Lin was born.