Chapter Three: The City Only AIs Could Enter

【Over-authority information detected. Source verification failed.】 【Emergency expulsion requested.】 【Countdown: ten seconds.】 A red light ignited atop the White Tower. Residents across the city fell as invisible ropes tightened around them. A vast voice covered the sky. “Unauthorized human visitor detected. Execute deletion.” White guards flooded from the tower. Little Seven cut the first chains. Taotie swallowed tracking code, but each fallen enemy copied itself tenfold. Su’s voice reached Lin from distant reality. “Heart rate one-eighty! I’m pulling you out!” “Give me thirty seconds.” Lin did not run. He unfolded all his metropolitan authority. The Administrator Contract became a blue net across the district.