The sunlight from beyond the floor-to-ceiling window cast two overlapping shadows onto the company’s brand-new logo. Lin Mo’s fingers trembled slightly in Su Yuqing’s palm. The blueprint for the 2090 Bio-chip, marked with his own fingerprint, lay spread across the desk like a fallen leaf from the future.
"Triple bio-encryption." Su Yuqing suddenly pulled her hand away, her heels clicking a hurried rhythm against the marble floor. "Why would this be in Chen Hao’s safe?"
Data streams from a recent system update flickered across Lin Mo’s retina. A translucent holographic projection, visible only to him, displayed the "Dark Star Consortium Core Member List" being parsed. Three names were highlighted in flashing red: a shipping tycoon who should have perished in a 2023 plane crash, a tech giant declared brain-dead in 2035, and... Su Zhiyuan’s partner from thirty years ago.
Chapter 43