Chapter Two: Person Not Found

Su Qiao remained behind him, but her coffee trembled. Gu Yan reached the computer. His account failed. Shen Zhuo opened the project with administrator access. The file author was BAI_MI; the creation date was three months ago. Forty revision images Gu Yan had posted in the group now wore Bai Mi’s profile picture. One detail was wrong. The final file weighed 816.3 megabytes. Its forty-seven visible layers could account for less than two hundred. Something remained buried inside. The system had changed only the displayed credit. “Finished looking?” Bai Mi asked. Gu Yan seized a sticky note and sketched last night’s layer order: figure on top, name, employee record, and access permissions below. “You can’t erase me all at once.