Chapter Five: The City's Stop-Loss Order

[Zhou Jiming: infrastructure coverage, 54%. Chen Yan: last-mile accessibility, 37%. He Lan: historical prediction, 9%.] [Day Five passed.] Zhou sent He a photograph. A young man lay strapped to a hospital bed. His wristband said UNKNOWN, but his face matched the old picture of He Chuan on her phone. The caption read: THE FAILURE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS STILL ALIVE ON MY SERVER. He clenched her headset. Chen finally understood why Zhou tolerated the other loopers. It was not because he could not kill them. Every memory they lost was training his prediction engine.