Chapter Two: Four Dollars’ Worth of Causality

If it doesn’t, he leaves the machine in a taxi after landing. Same result.” She placed cup six on the other side of Zhou. Two coffees and one laptop, arranged like a deliberate multiple-choice question. “Fifty credits is generous. A beginner should take the money and leave. You could buy back a respectable life.” “Respectability is what I sold,” Lu said. “I don’t plan to repurchase it.” Their voices woke Zhou. Half asleep, he lifted an arm. His elbow struck the cup. Lu did not grab the coffee. He seized the computer screen. Scalding liquid poured over his shirt and hand. Passengers gasped. He lifted the laptop clear without letting a drop touch it. 【Integrity of failure causality: 31%.】 Not zero.