Chapter Five: Please, Entire City, Don't Believe Me

Nobody ran gracefully when the danger was real. Tang Ke grabbed a hard drive. Lin seized the documents. Gu Ye reached the door, turned back, and hugged the tape player still carrying his mother's recording. "We're about to explode and you're collecting junk?" Tang Ke shouted. "The junk might be my mother!" "Your family reunions save a fortune on paperwork!" They raced down seven iron levels. Blue light climbed the walls. Yet whenever the energy reached critical level, it inexplicably fell back for one second. Someone was repeatedly using Delay One Second. It was not Gu Ye. Zero messaged: [THE THIRD WARNING IS TRUE. CURRENT EVACUATION: 11%.] [DO NOT PUBLICIZE MY JUDGMENT. HERTZ HAS CONTAMINATED THE INFORMATION SOURCE.]