Chapter Three: A Billionaire Who Could Not Buy Water

“Thank you for the blockade list.” Lin Mo turned to Tang Li. “Buy directly from surrounding farms. Use electric-bike convoys if they deny us fuel. If the network goes down, we keep an offline QR ledger.” Prepayments streamed to ordinary terminals. Farmers confirmed fifty tons of rice, three hundred couriers volunteered, and a student team accepted the offline-ledger job. Small transactions spread like capillaries around arteries held by the giant. VALID TRANSACTION NODES EXCEED 100. TEMPORARY ACCESS UNLOCKED: SUB-ACCOUNTS. HOLDER MAY DISTRIBUTE LIMITED SETTLEMENT CREDIT TO TRUSTED NODES. Lin Mo issued the first sub-accounts to Old Qin, Su Wan, and the water plant. Zhao had come to seize one phone and watched it become a network.