Chapter Four: Fire Above Absolute Zero

Thirty-one minutes remained before the Vault Fund reached the old facility. Shen Yan did not buy a fast car. He bought temporary dispatch authority over an entire refrigerated fleet. For the first time, $9.8 million demonstrated how it differed from eight dollars: before, he could only solve problems. Now he could purchase the time required to solve them. Xu Zhi studied the building plans. “One freight elevator serves the nitrogen vault. If they seal it, we become specimens.” Shen projected an older construction record. The server facility had once been a particle laboratory. An abandoned helium conduit connected the basement to a riverside exhaust well. “Mu-Zero, is it wide enough for your processor?” 【Yes. Not for a person.】