Chapter Five: A Debt of Pain

“He doesn't remember the match. Only that someone saved him.” Zhou placed an old file beside her. The bus command had come from a laboratory shut down five years ago: the Skyvault Quantum Communications Center. Its casualty list included Wanqing's younger brother, Su Mingchuan—and a stage technician from Pei Jin's notorious escape-show disaster. Pei Jin stood outside the room but did not enter.