Chapter Three: The Second Corpse Grandma Left Me

At two in the morning, they hid in the clock shop. Silent Camouflage had let street cameras dismiss Lin, but it could not hide his companions. Su and Zhou rode in a delivery van while he walked twelve kilometers. When the ability faded, blood ran from his ears. [COGNITIVE DEBT: 7%.] “What happens at one hundred?” Lin asked. [You become as correct as Tianheng.] That sounded worse than death. Under an enlarger, Su discovered that the young man in the photograph was a reflection from a mainframe display. It showed Lin's adult identification picture beside the words: CORRECTION SUBJECT L-01. EXPECTED BIRTH: NOVEMBER 7, 2000. Grandma had known his face two years before his birth. “Genetic prediction cannot be this exact,” Su said.