Chapter Five: Give the Talent Back

“The Exchange calls your absence consent. Then stop being absent.” He published a subscription agreement. 【Zero Fund. Each passenger may subscribe one share with a trivial memory voluntarily surrendered. Equal voting rights. No share may be pledged, divided, or sold without its owner’s consent.】 The retired teacher contributed what he had eaten for breakfast yesterday. Zhou surrendered an obsolete email password. Lin Xia gave up the color of her instructor’s tie on her first training day. One share, ten, fifty. 【Trivial memories. No market value.】 At the hundredth share, the memories connected. Together they proved that these passengers possessed continuous, real, independent lives before boarding—the title documents to their futures.