Chapter Two: Who Stole the Proof

He displayed the MU-0 upload log. The room's suspicion swung toward Shen. 【Should I invade the system and delete the log?】 Mu-Zero asked through his earbud. “Can you?” 【No. I was testing whether you would accept.】 Shen unclenched his fist. “The log is real. I used Mu-Zero for verification. Now I invite everyone here to verify me.” He walked to the board and rebuilt the proof without notes: the graph-generating history, the spectral-deficit functional, and the self-collapse of bad events. After forty-five minutes, an editor rose to supply one omitted matrix bound. “It holds,” she said. “And Professor He's displayed proof does not.” He retreated to project ownership and institutional records.