Chapter Five: Control for One Yuan

The sixth corpse was drinking soy milk in a breakfast shop. Xu Bingwen, Lancheng Pharma's trial statistician, slid his own death certificate across the table. The issuing hospital had been demolished two years earlier. “If I didn't die on paper, they would kill me,” he said. “The Gu family wants the enzyme patent. Three directors were bought. Once an accident triggered default, the noteholder could take control.” “I hold the note now,” Shen said. Su aligned the six patient files. The five real victims had supposedly died two hours after receiving different drug batches, yet every heart monitor contained the same noise in the same second. It was one death record copied five times. “They may all be alive,” Su said.