Chapter Five: One Deed Cannot Buy a City

A former debt manager came begging to join. Lin Mo merely handed him the same registration form as everyone else. “Old titles have no value here. Today's work does.” That evening, Tang Li found thirteen tiny anomalies in the public ledger. The goods, prices, and signatures were valid, but all had settled in the same second. Their locations formed the digits of Lin Zhengchuan's old employee number. The last carried an encrypted message: TO LEARN HOW LIN ZHENGCHUAN DIED, COME TO THE ABANDONED CLOUDVAULT PAYMENTS HEADQUARTERS TOMORROW NIGHT. HEIR ONLY.