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Chapter 270: Corridor and Waveform At 6:50 in the morning, Lin Chen sat on a plastic bench in the hospital’s first floor lobby. His left foot rested on his right knee, and his fingers slowly kneaded the spot three inche...
Chapter 268: Threshold and Boundary Zhao Qiming did not answer right away. He turned slightly, picked up a fountain pen from the table, spun the cap half a turn between his fingers, then set it down gently. The light fr...
Chapter 266: Offline and Boundaries The terminal cursor blinked steadily in the dark. Lin Chen had not turned on the main light, leaving only the dim yellow reading lamp by the bed. The cold glow of the screen cast shad...
Chapter 265: Burden and Heartbeat The command line cursor blinked steadily against the black background. Lin Chen did not type a command right away. He switched first to the cloud monitoring panel and checked the traffi...
Chapter 264: Electrodes and Anchors At four in the morning, the fluorescent tubes in the corridor gave off a faint hum. Lin Chen leaned against a plastic chair beside the fire door. His left foot had gone completely num...
Chapter 263: Thresholds and Discount Rates The taxi crossed the speed bumps on the elevated road, and a muffled tremor came up through the chassis. Lin Chen's left foot slid half an inch forward with the inertia; his nu...
Chapter 261: Guarantees and Prescriptions The rain was dense. Lin Chen opened the long black handled umbrella; one rib had already come loose, and when it spread, it gave off a faint metallic scrape. He turned sideways,...
Chapter 260: Pharmacy and Measures A long line stretched in front of the outpatient pharmacy at the end of the corridor. Red characters flickered on the automatic queue screen, and a mechanical female voice made an anno...
Chapter 257: Awakening and Thresholds 2:20 p.m. The corridor lights seemed a shade dimmer than before. Lin Chen lowered his phone brightness to the minimum, his fingertips sliding over the touchpad. In the terminal wind...
Chapter 256: Thresholds and Silence The time in the lower right corner of the screen ticked over to 01:14. The logs in the terminal had slowed to a crawl, like a river gradually running dry. Lin Chen stared at the last...
Chapter 254: Corridors and Callbacks The door to the doctor’s office stood slightly ajar. Overhead, fluorescent tubes gave off a low, steady hum. Lin Chen pushed the door open and went in. The attending physician was ty...
Chapter 251: Ledgers and Receivers The busy tone lasted seven rings before the call disconnected automatically. The screen went dark, reflecting Lin Chen's expressionless face. He stared at the "Call ended" prompt for t...