She Brought the Enemy's Key

The signature was locked. Only Energy Authority II could rewrite the source certification and unlock the coordinate. To earn it, the domain had to sustain fifty megawatts without the external grid for one hour. Their microgrid peaked at fifteen. Domain Vision, however, showed twelve gray pipes beneath an abandoned heat-treatment center. They led to an experimental molten-salt storage plant listed as destroyed by leakage. White salt crusted its floor, but the main vessel was intact. Only a sensor impulse line had leaked. False data had condemned a working plant for three years. “Sabotage again,” Lu Yao said. They routed Line One's waste heat into the salt tank. Su rebuilt the controls while Han mobilized residents to clear the exchangers.