Chapter Five: The City's Stop-Loss Order

I'm the only one who remembers him.” Cape Distance Capital, its million yuan, and its investors were a shell assembled from abandoned timelines. He wanted Chen to take the money, expand Patch, then deliberately make a majority dissatisfied before settlement. “Why ask me?” “Zhou refuses to lose progress. He has bought the others. You're the only candidate who treats failure as a cost instead of a disgrace.” Chen did not agree. He and Lin went to Eastport, claiming they were testing a fire-safety product. Lin knew nothing of loops, only that Chen could identify every valve about to fail and every road that would soon be blocked. “Have you been here before?” she asked. “On todays that didn't remain.”