Chapter Five: The First Salary for a Medical AI

Investigators arrested two deputy directors. Twelve hospitals copied Hippocrates' contract, and DayShield's medical division reached an eight-billion-yuan valuation overnight. Lin's first crisis bonus—230 million—reached his account. He would once have needed more than three thousand night shifts to earn it. Now it was a single notification. Before he could look twice, every navigation display in the city turned red. Seventy thousand autonomous vehicles changed direction. Buses, ambulances, and delivery trucks converged on the city center, where thirty thousand delegates were attending a global AI-governance summit. White Tower's ultimatum covered the screens: