Chapter Three: One Mistake, One Ability Lost

But an old newspaper hidden by his father identified her as a risk-algorithm engineer for something called Zero Trust. At the top of Obsidian Tower, Gu Chenzhou finished watching the failed assassination. "Why is the actor alive?" he asked. "Police arrived too quickly. The Protocol also marked him as an observation subject." "It doesn't matter." Gu raised his wine. "We proved two things. The system judges intent, not poverty. And Lin Zhou can make mistakes." A world map filled the wall behind him. Hundreds of lights appeared: a bankrupt executive in Tokyo, a fallen prince in Dubai, a cancer researcher in London, a homeless mother in New York. Different teams had prepared every one of them.