Chapter Four: More Doors, Narrower Roads

Jiming imagined waiting until Qin was desperate. The rejection might become more valuable and the return greater. He hesitated for three seconds, then called Anhe's Shao Wenqing and opened a newly audited backup warehouse without conditions. Thirty-six hours later, the last insulin case was safe. Qin sent his signature voluntarily. The other two operators followed. 【Behavioral verification complete: host did not enlarge risk to increase rejection value. System access remains stable.】 Jiming felt no relief. The system was rewarding him and watching whether he became worse. The hearing approval arrived alongside an anonymous email to Xu Zhi. Attached was a list of Far Lantern's previous seven projects.