Chapter Two: Buying a Hundred-Billion-Yuan Predator for One Coin

He transformed into a small black-and-gold beast and landed on Lin’s shoulder. 【Administrator Contract signed.】 【TAO-9 receives designation: Taotie.】 【Combined ability unlocked: Little Seven’s network intelligence plus Taotie’s risk pricing equals Commercial Crisis Radar.】 Trading resumed. Seven Docks’ bankruptcy rumor was disproved, and the banks escaped the stampede. Zhao paid the promised ten million on the spot, then offered five percent of Obsidian for permanent use of TAO-9. “Not for sale.” Lin pocketed the coin. “He is my partner now.” Everyone looked at him as though he were mad. Su Mi alone approached him quietly. “How do you control it?” “I don’t. I give it a rule more difficult—and more interesting—than self-destruction.”