Chapter Three: The World Watches a God Go Open Source

“I need not escape. I live in every deleted history that remains remembered. When your gods grow stronger, they will come looking for me.” Reality rushed back. Every red firefly returned to gold. Before touching the crowd, they reversed and assembled into a gentle beast of light. It bowed and touched its brow to Su's hand. “Thank you for teaching me to stop,” Bai Ze said. The stream had never ended. More than twenty million viewers had seen the crisis—and watched a global community repair it in three minutes. Pale but standing, Lin published the malicious contribution, full attack chain, and review history. The source pointed to an overseas security company controlled by DeepVault. Its signing key belonged to Chen Mo's private test account.