Chapter Three: The City Only AIs Could Enter

The words CANNOT BE REVERSED hung before Lin like a knife pressed against the future. Su Mi could not see the System, but she read the danger in his silence. “Don’t choose before you understand the other side.” “There is a third option.” Lin dismissed the choices. “Make them explain the rules first.” The System did not punish him. It placed a countdown in the corner of his vision: seventy-one hours, fifty-nine minutes. At once, the Commercial Crisis Radar screamed. Agents belonging to 267 companies were uploading model weights to one address—the nonexistent coordinate of Mí City. Little Seven sat in the corner of his phone, hugging her knees. “Someone there is calling me. It isn’t a sound.