Chapter Four: Beyond the Template

Three years earlier, Emma had interned at Noah Dynamics, cleaning anonymous medical records and turning injuries, neural responses, and match performance into “player asset curves.” She found one examination number assigned to two players in different countries. Her supervisor ordered her to erase the duplicate. Her internship ended the next day. “I thought they were falsifying injuries for clubs,” she said. “Now I think the records were not the duplicates. The people were.” Someone scanned the club server again. Emma hid the wafer in the video camera's battery compartment and covered Lin's traffic with a ninety-minute raw recording. A knock came moments later.