Chapter Four: Every Malice Leaves an Echo

The first line of Xiezhi-Sec did not detect an attack. It refused a question. [Never decide who is evil. Display only verifiable chains of risk.] Tang Ye looked up. “You're building a model that sees malice, then forbidding it from identifying villains?” “Malice changes. Evidence doesn't.” Lin Zhou had turned an abandoned hospital duty room into a machine room. “If the model can condemn people, we aren't creating Xiezhi. We're creating an electronic tyrant.” Only six hours had passed since the DeepVault scandal, and the hunt was underway. Firefly's mirrors suffered massive denial-of-service attacks. Three cloud providers terminated its accounts simultaneously. Seven unidentified vehicles appeared outside the hospital.