Chapter Four: The Whole World Lined Up to Fool Him

Outside the operating theater at Municipal Hospital Six, Old Song's wife clutched his helmet and begged for ten more minutes. She knew nothing about the new task. When she recognized Lin, her first words were, "Don't come closer. Those people will follow you." "What does Uncle Song want?" "He woke once and told me not to say he crashed during a delivery. The platform will call it illegal routing and cancel his last insurance claim." People in genuine need lied too—not always for money, but because rules so often protected only themselves. [03:02] Lin did not give the money to the wife. In the treatment anteroom, with a nurse witnessing, he let the briefly conscious rider press his fingerprint to accept the transfer.