Chapter One: Tomorrow for One Dollar

The superconductivity patent resembled a bloody sun, with 3,700 accident probabilities hanging behind it. Lu’s palms turned cold. This was not a store selling wealth. It was a slaughterhouse that hid its knives behind the price tags. At the bottom of the crimson screen, one inconspicuous item was priced at exactly one credit. 【Patent application right: Honeycomb Microbattery.】 【Status: Permanent failure in nine hours.】 【Expected return: 0.】 【Current bidders: 0.】 Lu opened its chain of cost. Countless thin lines converged on one name: Zhou Ke, twenty-nine, PhD in materials science, seat 48A. In nine hours, he would lose all his experimental data and abandon the project.