You Are Not Spare Parts

At the afternoon strategy meeting, reports on the Bears filled the screen. Tang forwarded Gu Chen's messages to team security. Su quietly slid an old medical file to Lin. It came from the Harbor Children's Athletic Rehabilitation Center, twelve years earlier. The patient's name had been erased, but the code L-07 remained. Symptoms included temporary shared sensation, abnormal neural synchronization, and cold markings at the wrist. The project carried only one name: Zero Inning. “My code?” Lin asked. “You were in a car accident at ten and spent six months at that center. Someone deleted your old records.” Su opened Gu's public history. “He was there the same year. He may have been G-01.” “So this didn't suddenly appear.”