Chapter One: The Silent Meteor Shower

No company asked what he had exposed. Everyone in the industry merely knew that he had given a journalist a report about covert collection of users' emotional data—and that Canopy had made the story vanish within twelve hours. A message appeared from Echo. It was a nearly forgotten social app with a gray icon. Its only contacts were his younger sister, Cheng Cheng, and several abandoned bot accounts. 【Did you see it?】 He assumed it was his sister until he opened the message. The sender was listed as ECHO ASSISTANT. 【See what?】 he typed. 【The sky is installing an update.】 Cheng Ye stared for two seconds, then opened the internal debugging information. There was no server address, no sending timestamp. The packet source read: LOCAL DEVICE.