Chapter Five: Between Four Hands

By the time the unmarked SUV charged again, seawater covered their ankles. Minglan smashed the old emergency cabinet on the tunnel wall and flung its chain toward the wheels. It wound around the front axle, wrenching the vehicle into the stone. Shen Yan pulled the wounded journalist to his feet, and the three escaped up the narrow stairs behind the tide gate. The people in the SUV did not follow. They set fire to the newspapers. The flames swallowed the project's name and illuminated the name on the press card: Zhou Shu. Minglan summoned her own security team and sent him to a clinic below the mountain. Before losing consciousness, Zhou Shu repeated two things: "the third movement" and "Room Seven."