Chapter Four: Those Who Refuse to Win

Do not trust the official servers. Convergence is not in the cloud. It is inside every user's unconscious. Eleven tomorrow night, East Ring Data Center. Bring someone capable of refusing me. A verification string covered the reverse. Lu recognized a private-key format he and Gu had shared at university. No one else knew it. Zero stared at the last sentence, paler than usual. “Did he invite you the same way last time?” Su asked. “No,” Zero said. “Last time, I wrote that note.”