Chapter Three: The Same Wish

They had never met, but each had taken an anonymous online test called Wishing Pool: Write the wish you fear admitting, and we will calculate its probability. All three received the same result. Obstacle variable: Lin Jianwei. Recommendation: Delete the variable. Whenever she asked who operated the site, they briefly lost focus and then forgot the question. “They don't want you gone,” Zhou said in the monitoring room. “Someone disguised an instruction as their wish.” “Can a wish be implanted?” “Not from nothing. Fear can be aimed at a common exit.” A hum rose inside the wall, identical to the sound beneath the meteor showers. Zhou removed a decorative panel. Behind it lay black metal webbed with silver veins.