Chapter Three: One Crate of Medicine Buys a City

Reset led across every channel Gu controlled. At 11:58, Lin released the proof that first-cycle votes exceeded the population, the secret weight table, and the warehouse attack footage. Servers banned the links in waves. Tang Li turned every phone that had scanned a medicine crate into a new relay. In the final minute, tens of millions learned that their votes might be worth one hundred-millionth of another man's. Reset still passed with fifty-two percent. “Even the truth was too late,” Su said as white light advanced around them. “What are you saving in those seven seconds?” Lin activated the Memory Anchor and placed his forehead against hers.