Chapter Three: Gatekeepers in the City

He held to the one reference that did not change: Su's voice. "Three degrees left! Hold it! Lin, look at me!" The server hall thundered. Four hundred tons of steel floor and equipment tore cleanly from the foundation and floated half a meter in the air. Fiber trunks snapped. Water lines separated. Arcs of electricity thrashed through the gap. The moment the room lost physical grounding, satellite synchronization fell from ninety-seven percent to forty-one. For the first time, Chen looked astonished. "Your father needed three months to learn field separation." "That is why he told me not to trust the first person who asked me to open a door."