Chapter Four: The Lightweight Servers

By morning, Qiao Three-Scales’ black card was ordinary paper again. Lin Ye had never touched it. At noon, Qiao sent an old truck and an offer: two hundred thousand yuan to move three servers for Hengyuan New Energy. Hengyuan was Linlan’s hottest battery company. Its new solid-state cell supposedly weighed half as much and ran twice as long. The share price had quadrupled in a week. Chairman Han Duo called the battery “as light as the future.” “Why not hire an ordinary moving company?” Xu Cheng asked the driver. “They did. Two forklifts broke and a floor cracked. Hengyuan says the servers weigh twenty-eight kilos each.” Lin’s shoulder was still strapped, but the contract bore an unmarked balance—the same emblem as the cuff link behind Lu Mi’s