Chapter Five: Conflict Resolver

Then `root-0` added itself as a third reviewer and approved. “Why?” Lin Wan asked. Shen Zhou saw that the target had silently changed to `main`. “We opened the door for it.” Too late. Su Heng's branch, Zhou Jiming's fragments, and seven records of Lin Wan's death poured into reality. The system began resolving millions of conflicts. Daylight appeared at the corridor's end and threw them back into the office. Half of Lancheng lay under predawn rain; half blazed beneath noon sun. Cars traveled in opposite times on the same overpass. White Tower stood intact, though smoke rose from a thirteenth floor that did not exist. Two incoming calls overlapped on Shen Zhou's phone. One was “Mom.” The other was “Zhou Jiming.”