Chapter Four: A Seventy-One-Hour Run

Lin Yan copied the public evidence onto paper. Zhou Jibai studied the consulting fee in his friend's new bank balance and solemnly suggested fixing their leaking roof before saving the world again. “We should replace the phone cable first,” Lin Yan said. “Your secondhand one shocked me twice.” “That's its wake-up service.” Zhou bit into a steamed bun. “How does 4.6 billion become seventeen million?” “Because the money is traveling.” Farland collected payment on delivery for hundreds of thousands of merchants. When a buyer accepted a package, Farland credited the merchant immediately, but bank settlement took one to three days. In ordinary times, fresh inflows covered withdrawals like a river moving constantly forward.