Chapter Five: One Deed Cannot Buy a City

Zhao claimed the community rice had no verified source. Lin Mo released farm batches, boat numbers, weights, and fair prices. Ark Market, by contrast, could show only Horizon's self-issued claim of ownership, which Origin rejected. An elderly woman placed her husband's deed on the Ark counter. “I am not here to trade. Why do you think seven days of food is worth the home we spent forty years earning?” People withdrew their papers and registered for repair, care, and sanitation work at community stations. Horizon's famine auction failed on its first day. REGIONAL VERIFIED TRADE EXCEEDS ¥10,000,000. CONSENSUS: 5,800. The public pool passed one hundred million yuan, yet Lin Mo paid himself only a courier's wage.