Kushida paused the screenshot in front of Gu Heng, her finger resting on the send button.
She was not waiting for Gu Heng to inspect it. She was waiting for him to name his terms first.
"How do you want it compiled?" Gu Heng asked.
"Discussion times, submission notices, and unusual contacts, grouped together."
Kushida tapped the edge of the screenshot. "Messages with the same timing and format should be marked separately."
"Who decides what counts as the same?"
"I'll sort them first. You decide whether to accept them."
Gu Heng projected Class D's temporary chart onto the center of the table. "Only four fields."
Time of occurrence Submission notice Unusual contact Source record
"What about the discussion content and answer direction?" Kushida asked.
"Keep those on each group's own page. They don't go into the shared chart."
"What about the original screenshots?"
"They stay with whoever provided them."
Kushida pulled her terminal back half an inch.
"If I collect them for Class D, what do I get?"
"For every three outer-layer records with completed source registration, you get one fact verifiable on Class D's public page."
Gu Heng entered the terms onto the shared page, then added, "No internal judgments. No personal matters involving members."
"I want to choose that public fact myself."
"As long as it doesn't cross those two boundaries."
Kushida's fingertip hovered over the accept button.
"What you're giving me is authority, not trust."
"Authority leaves a record."
"Trust does too."
"Trust can't recover the previous version after it's been altered."
Yukimura walked over from the elevator and placed his terminal beside the table.
"I'll open a separate read-only page," he said.
"The shared page will be submitted by Kushida. The Cold Backup page will only store versions,