Chapter Four: Probability Is Not Prophecy

Twenty-One ran for the exit. Seven buyers blocked it. “You can shoot one another,” Lin said, “or accept my plan. Lawful funds return to their owners. Criminal assets go into cross-border cybercrime escrow. Under the posted bounty, twelve percent of recovered value belongs to the evidence provider.” “Why should we believe you can recover it?” Eight asked. “Raven’s mixer is not random. It uses harbor tide data as its seed. At 4:12 this morning, the maintenance system will insert a corrected tide reading. Every route will repeat.” The probability tree had found the anomaly, but Lin had personally checked two years of tide logs against chain timestamps. At 4:12, the routes repeated.