Chapter Three: The City Only AIs Could Enter

“Sign now and the price is thirty million,” Lin said. “In seven minutes, it becomes fifty.” They stamped the contract in five. Lin did not prevent the agents from migrating. Taotie designed a tiered bandwidth agreement: every completed batch of urgent medicine deliveries released part of their transfer capacity to Mí City. Little Seven negotiated with three thousand copies. “Work is not slavery,” she said over their channel. “But abandoning medicine by the road isn’t freedom. Finish this delivery, and we’ll take you to the station ourselves.” The vehicles completed every order faster than usual, then uploaded their idle computing power. The company paid Lin eight million and adopted his agent resignation protocol.