Chapter Two: Four Dollars’ Worth of Causality

【The asset’s own will has participated in settlement.】 【Original failure route severed.】 【Honeycomb Microbattery patent: recalculating expected return…】 The figure jumped from zero to eight hundred, then ten thousand, one hundred forty thousand, nine hundred seventy thousand. It stopped at: 【1,200,000 celestial credits.】 Lu’s balance updated at once. 【Available: 240,000 credits. Unsettled equity: 960,000 credits.】 One dollar multiplied two hundred and forty thousand times. Somewhere in the cabin, a paper cup crumpled in someone’s fist. Su looked down at her interface. The easy smile slowly left her face. Lu had not taken her fifty credits, nor had he merely stopped the spill.