Chapter Three: One Crate of Medicine Buys a City

Temporary employee. Before the first cycle, your influence never exceeded 1.2. Now you've taken a Rule Shard.” “You remember the first cycle?” “Memories don't have to live inside the brain.” Gu tapped his temple. “Before the System arrived, I issued the same delayed command to seven hundred and twenty vaults around the world. After every reset, they open on schedule. Each holds recordings I made for myself. Every cycle, I need only learn to trust myself again.” The method was expensive and clumsy, but it worked. Lin understood that he was not the only person who could send information through a reset. He was merely the only one who required no external tool.