Chapter Five: The Flood That Never Happened

The screen showed memory-disposal budgets preceding each forecast, beneficiaries' short positions, and post-disaster land purchases. Chenzhou said nothing about the flood. He proved only that ClearSea consistently profited from events it claimed not to control. Before the broadcast ended, regulators froze twelve accounts. Qiao Mi had shorted not ClearSea shares but Gu disaster bonds. Their collapse earned Trace Evidence forty-three million yuan. Chenzhou spent half purchasing the condemned eastern flood station. “You surrendered twenty million rather than sign?” Gu asked in the empty hall. “My signature would give your lie another witness.”