Chapter Three: One Crate of Medicine Buys a City

At dawn on the fifth day, every advertising screen in Linjiang changed to Gu Tingchuan's face. The thirty-nine-year-old tycoon stood before a private shelter in a flawless black suit and announced his Seven-Day Mutual Aid Plan to the world. Anyone promising to vote Reset would receive food and a bed. Those voting Continue would pay ten times as much. It was not charity. It was the purchase of fear. Worse, Gu's hidden weight of 104.22 million meant his decision alone could shift the global result. He had clearly reached the rules before Lin, and he possessed another method of retaining information. “How did he find us?” Su Mi asked.