Chapter Five: The List in Server Room Zero

Line twenty-seven held only the name of a seven-year-old girl: Zhou Nian. Su He turned toward Zhou Yu. His composure finally broke. “She was my daughter.” School had closed early on the night of the storm. Unable to reach the babysitter, Zhou Yu had brought his daughter to the server room, expecting to stay only half an hour. He was aboveground handling an alarm when river water burst through the subterranean gate. Lin Wan picked Zhou Nian up and carried her toward the exit, but neither of them made it out. “You kept saying no one died,” Shen Yan said coldly. “The company deleted the list. I signed a nondisclosure agreement.” “Did you delete them too?”