Chapter Three: The Deleted Thirteen Minutes

Chenzhou received his first corporate anti-fraud commission: two million yuan. More importantly, the core changed. [TRUSTED CONSENSUS RETURN: CAPACITY LIMIT INCREASED TO 1,200,000 WORDS. LEVEL-ONE INDEX UNLOCKED.] He divided his auction earnings into three parts: his mother's care, startup funds, and a deposit on the row of old stalls at Nine Bends. Three months earlier, the city had called him a traitor, failure, and madman. Now, for the first time, he possessed enough capital to keep truth alive. On the company registration screen he typed a name: Trace Evidence. Its declared business was antique appraisal and commercial investigation.