That night Zhang Rui couldn't sleep.
He sat in his room surrounded by delivery invoices and supply contracts.
Everything had changed slowly over the past week.
Too slowly to notice immediately.
But now the pattern was clear.
Someone was influencing the market.
He searched several supplier companies online.
New investors had appeared recently.
But the names didn't mean anything to him.
Still…
The timing was suspicious.
Zhang Rui leaned back in his chair.
"Who is doing this?" he muttered.
For a brief moment, a thought crossed his mind.
Chen Mo.
But he dismissed it immediately.
Impossible.
Chen Mo was just a quiet university student.
Miles away, Chen Mo received another system notification.
Fear +14
He didn't even know Zhang Rui was thinking about him.
Yet the emotion still fed the system.
Chen Mo closed the interface calmly.
The web was expanding exactly as planned.