Chapter Three: The Bears Carry My Throne

Contracts across the world automatically sought spot coins for delivery, and only five spot coins remained—in Lin's hands. Five billion in shorts had never been a wall. They were five billion IOUs, each required to buy a ticket to escape. Zhou offered an off-market settlement. “Ten billion for all five, and Gu Ning enters surgery immediately.” “You misunderstood what was being auctioned. Tonight was never about the coins. It was about the thing you believed no one would truly pay.” Lin transferred the five coins to the five winning bidders for one yuan each. Every settlement created an authentic, irreversible loss. The wallet quote jumped again and again before stopping at 2.86 billion yuan per coin.