Chapter Five: A Thirty-Million-Yuan Ticket

Its chairman, Du Heng, pushed a fifty-million-yuan check across a table on the sixty-sixth floor of Linhai Financial Tower. “Sign a nondisclosure agreement and tell me who plans to attack our clients.” Lin left the check untouched. “No one. The submarine-cable interruption insurance you sold them is the fraud.” Du’s expression hardened. Zero displayed a tree: sixty-two percent chance Du pressed the alarm, twenty-one percent that he ordered his guards to attack, seventeen that he escaped through the service door. Lin closed the overlay. He had discovered the tree’s most dangerous side effect. Once a person saw a number, he forgot that unlikely events still occurred.