Chapter Three: A Crack in Success

But placing millions of lives inside one wish—was that not gambling with them? Lin called. Ambulance sirens cut through the background. “East District Hospital is moving equipment from the lower floors. Listen to me: don’t come here and make trouble.” “I may know where the water will hit.” She was silent for one second. “Then find someone who can prove it. Xu Chen, don’t believe alone. Make the people who need to know, know.” He took his keys and drove to the old shipyard named in the email. Rain had not begun, but wind made billboards groan. The guard said Gu Wei had come that afternoon and left a tin box for “someone who asks why.”