Chapter Four: A Dead Man’s Twenty-Million-Credit Debt

The interest is only ten years from one passenger.” “Which passenger?” “My choice.” “That isn’t interest. It’s a hostage.” Twenty-five seconds. Lu stopped calling. He dragged the pending patent-transfer agreement from Prism’s old internal system into the Exchange. Liability Sight revealed three red stains: Helios’s acquisition vehicle, the warehouse-fire payout, and Pei Du’s death certificate. They locked together. Helios could invoke the partnership succession clause only if Pei remained legally dead. But if Pei placed an order on the Exchange, the transaction mark would prove his biological will still existed. Lu submitted a condition instead of money as proof. 【Seller undertakes to make Prophet bid on this lot.】