Number One Is Not One Person

instructions. Only the primary K account remained in the central control room. “You cannot win with a past you never experienced,” K wrote in public chat. Lin Zhou saw an old scratch beside the door. It was not future knowledge. At seventeen, she had repeatedly collided with that door during her first practice. She fired into the ceiling. The bullet ricocheted from two metal beams and shattered the light through the door gap. Xu Cheng fired through the wall at the same instant. The final K fell. [CHALLENGE WON. ZERO IS NOW RANK ONE.] [PERMANENT REMOVAL FAILED: TARGET ABILITY HAS CONVERTED INTO STABLE MEMORY.] Lin Zhou opened her eyes. The lost details had not returned, but every step she and Xu Cheng had just created remained perfectly clear.