Chapter Five: Buying Upstream with Orders

Gu’s prearranged customer warning went out carrying public notice that Guoliang had already completed its restructuring. The System expanded across Shen’s vision. [First enterprise value reconstruction complete.] [Host Level Increased: Analyst II.] [Appraisal Scope Expanded: Ideas; Business Models; Unregistered Technical Schemes.] [Warning: Higher-order observers have detected this value leap.] An email with no sender appeared on Shen’s screen. Its subject contained one sentence: “Welcome to the second table.”