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

Tang Ke covered her face. "Even if humanity survives, its history books won't." With three minutes left, evacuation reached fifty-eight percent. A group of nursing-home residents remained near the tower. There were not enough vehicles. Nurses pushed wheelchairs, still two kilometers from safety. The efficient move was to persuade mobile residents and cross sixty percent. The test counted percentages, not who was abandoned. Hertz waited for that choice. [RATIONAL STRATEGY: ABANDON LOW-MOBILITY SAMPLES.] Gu Ye faced the camera. "Did your mathematics never reach word problems? The question is people, not percentages." He ordered the evacuation buses back.