Chapter Three: Whose Face Did the Moon Borrow?

"The opposite. They want Shen Zhao to replace you completely. If you answer, Shen Wu will be exchanged into the recording—without a body or name, able only to warn the next version of herself through a screen." The bloodless woman beside the control desk had not been an enemy. She had been a failed version of Shen Wu. Footsteps sounded above. Zhou Jibai called into the tunnel. "Shen Wu, are you in there?" Gu Linchuan stood sharply. "Don't answer." "He's my friend." "Not necessarily at this moment." Zhou entered the silver glow wearing Mayor Lu Bainian's dark coat. Behind him came the real mayor dressed in Zhou's technician clothes. They spoke in the same voice. "Hand over the Keeper of Her Name."