Chapter Three: The Observers Are Watching

That frightened Lin Yan more. Every sentence this man spoke was constructed to be strictly true. “Su Mi calls this place a trap,” Pei Zhao continued, walking closer. “That is inaccurate. The prediction of your mother’s accident is real, but we did not arrange it. We intended to prevent it. Su Mi showed you partial data because she needs you to hate us.” Su Mi’s face lost its color. “Don’t listen to the way he breaks sentences apart. He never tells a complete lie.” “And you cannot tell a complete truth.” Pei Zhao looked at her like a damaged instrument. In Lin Yan’s vision, Su Mi’s recursion overlapped the data behind Pei Zhao. One could not be solved; the other never triggered. He stood between two forms of darkness.