Chapter Two: Who Stole the Proof

Three principal investigators died, two vanished, and two joined Vault.” Mu-Zero spoke from Shen's phone although Xu held the earbud. 【You missed one. The eighth researcher did not disappear. He became me. My training corpus contains his complete working memory. MU-0's M does not mean Model. It means Möbius.】 The phone displayed a network of four million nodes with changing edge weights. The demand beneath it read: prove that under incomplete information, with an adversary allowed to alter local rules, a unique arbitrage-free core remains identifiable. Xu Zhi paled. “That is the Vault Fund's dark-pool topology.” 【It is also the second lock.】