Chapter Three: The Abandoned Fall Back Into Formation

Xu Duo shook his head. “They’ll catch disposable assets. The phone will wipe itself. What Black Tide truly needs is the final’s data. TIDE is missing one last set of elite performance under maximum pressure. Once calibrated, it can manipulate every major competition connected to the system.” “Then let them collect it,” Lin Mo said. Every face turned toward him. “We play and keep sending data. We show the model exactly the Emberstar it expects: a captain with a failing hand, a scout who can’t hear instructions, and two shot-callers who don’t trust each other. When the odds and the data nodes converge on the final, Su Cheng traces the signal backward.” “That means we must look like we’re losing for three maps,” Zhou Yan said.