A City Without an Owner

First he released a report on water seepage. It had been suppressed and was meant to vanish after the reset. It showed Gu contractors substituting cheap waterproofing materials to meet the deadline. Hundreds of workers blockaded the entrance to demand answers. Then Su arrived with the municipal hospital's outbreak team and demanded an inspection of strategic medicines hoarded inside. Gu refused to open the gates. In front of the cameras, public sentiment swung toward the hospital. Finally, Tang took over the enormous display outside and projected all three thousand residents' hidden voting weights onto the mountain. One hundred thousand. Seven hundred thousand. Nine million. The numbers hung in the night like evidence.