She Brought the Enemy's Key

It held three years of Factory Zero's energy records. Every nineteen days, the supposedly dormant complex suffered an unexplained power trough. After each trough, a new region appeared behind the central tower's map censor. Su's father had vanished during the latest event. Worse, Qin Wanchuan had submitted an order for a city-scale storage core: thirty gigawatt-hours in ten hours. Its linked coordinate was the Harbor Energy Institute, Su's former workplace, where 187 people worked the night shift. “He wants the factory to swallow it,” Han Zheng said. Rejecting the order would mark Lu Yao incapable and revoke his authorities. Accepting would trigger another expansion. “We'll complete it,” Lu Yao said, “and change the expansion coordinate.”