Chapter Four: Those Who Refuse to Win

His Second Self, Crossroads, always sat to his left and could see every route the city might offer during the next ten minutes. Tang had used it to avoid crashes. He had also discovered that every known takeover victim had passed through one of seven abnormal signal zones. “You wanted an alliance,” Su said, pulling down the shutter. “This is everyone I could find who admits a Second Self is neither a pet nor a disease.” Tang studied Zero, then Lu. “Is yours really from the future?” “He says he is.” “Do you believe him?” Lu remembered Zero saying, I will survive. “Half.” “Progress,” Zero said. “Yesterday it was eighty percent.”