Chapter Four: The Ten-Million-Word Business

happened. Deeper down, Hengyue's vice president inserted a white authorization wafer into the toll machine. “Give the system a history it is certain occurred,” the vice president told Gu Changgeng, “and cargo can disappear from the books.” “And people?” “The same.” They had not altered a database. They made the city's infrastructure remember a nonexistent gate. Navigation redirected trucks entering the fictitious node to a ClearSea transfer depot, after which drivers remembered a routine delivery. Chenzhou did not expose it immediately. He spent six hundred thousand yuan buying Hengyue's recovery claim. Qiao Mi summoned the insurer, union, and three chip customers to the board meeting.