Chapter Three: The Price of Desire

Now Cheng Ye understood why the future had selected his sister. Every time she saved someone the system had assigned low weight, she paid with her own identity. Dozens of such patients had appeared in the hospital, as though someone were deliberately placing soon-to-be-deleted people in her path. “This is feeding,” Echo said. “A candidate is clearing low-weight identities. The winner collects their weight.” “Who?” Every golden price tag tilted west. There stood Canopy Technologies, a sixty-story tower shaped like a black phone. Above it hung an enormous tag only Cheng Ye could see. 【Desire: Become the only Home Screen.】 【Price: Everyone else's existence.】