Chapter Five: The Station That Was Removed

Ye inspected each display. “Sixteen are duplicates. Only this one has different compression noise.” On the thirteenth monitor, a white pixel pulsed in the lower-right corner. Gu pressed the access card against it. A terminal prompt appeared: ENTER ACCIDENT TITLE. “No Casualties,” he said. The terminal rejected it: TITLE CORRECT. SUBMITTER INCORRECT. He entered GU YAN. Rejected: OBJECT DOES NOT EXIST. Ye looked at the injured man on his back. “It says the submitter is wrong. That means you were using another identity during those fifteen minutes.” Gu enlarged the frame. The injured man's left wrist showed no trace of an old fracture. The man carrying him had one. The obscured surname in row seventeen of the rescue list carried the water radical.