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Chapter 235: De Identification and Confidence One forty in the morning. The office air conditioner had long since shut off, and the air was heavy with a damp, muggy heat. Lin Chen had his left foot propped on a spare co...
Chapter 234: Scene and Scale At six in the morning, the sky hadn’t fully brightened. Lin Chen was already sitting on a folding chair outside the server room. The numbness in his left foot crept up his calf, like a thick...
Chapter 227: Audit Logs 7:10 a.m. When the access card opened the door to the provincial hospital's Information Department server room, it gave a soft beep. The voice activated lights in the corridor did not come on. On...
Chapter 226: Probes and Boundaries The elevator descended. The metal car gave him a faint sense of weightlessness. Lin Chen leaned against the handrail, the numbness in his left leg like a thick wad of soaked cotton, he...
Chapter 222: Variables and Anchors 11:40 a.m. Lin Chen wrapped crushed ice in a double layer of plastic bags and pressed it against the outside of his left ankle. The swollen skin showed a dark red flush. There was a du...
Chapter 218: Front Loading Variables Four in the morning. The alarm hadn’t gone off; Lin Chen woke up on his own. Sleep had been like a sponge squeezed over and over—there wasn’t much moisture left in it, but it was eno...
Chapter 217: Gray Areas and Boundaries At 2:45 in the afternoon, the light in the hospital room dimmed by a degree as the clouds lowered over the outlines of the office towers outside the window. Lin Chen raised the lap...
Chapter 214: Stripping and Masking 3:40 AM. The monitor in the ward emitted a steady, rhythmic beep, like an old metronome. Lin Chen rested his laptop on a small folding table, the cold glow of the screen casting shadow...
Chapter 213: Boundaries and Measures 5:40 a.m. The monitor in the hospital room emitted a low, steady beep, like some slow metronome. Lin Chen opened his eyes, and a dull ache pulsed through his left ankle, needling dee...
Chapter 212: Ledgers and Escape Routes At 2:17 a.m., the taxi stopped at the side entrance of the inpatient building. Lin Chen pushed open the door, and the night wind rushed into his nose carrying the mingled smells of...
Chapter 203: Twelve Hours of Jet Lag At three in the morning, the boarding gate in Terminal 3 of the Capital Airport was already more than half empty. Lin Chen sat on a row of metal seats, his left foot propped on the h...
Chapter 199: Grayscale and the Long Journey At six on Saturday morning, gray blue light seeped through the gap in the curtains of the rental apartment. Lin Chen opened his eyes on time. The numbness in his left ankle ha...