Chapter 19

The biting wind in Moscow cut like a blade. Qiyue stood before the magnificent neoclassical architecture of the National Library, his exhaled breath condensing instantly in the air. The chip indicated that the signal from Scholar Su Muqing originated from somewhere underground, and two Quantum Ghosts—the child version and the memory version—floated beside him, their transparency even more pronounced than it had been in Rio. "Entrance is at the northwest staff passage," "Requires librarian clearance," "Guards are equipped with neural jammers"... Probability Vision unfurled automatically, but this time the stream of information was chaotic. Since the escape from Rio, the coordination of the seven voices had dropped significantly; the Financier questioned the original host’s motives, the Soldier remained wary of all Su Muqing incarnations, and the Scientist was obsessed with the physical properties of the Quantum Ghosts.