Their original plan (for Victor to be the one to infiltrate the ranks) is not going to work. They decide to take this company’s main suit assembly plant in Taipei down and make the rich live either constantly indoors or without their suits. Lingyi has intercepted a phone conversation that leads them to believe Jin Corp, the monstrous company that manufacturers the environmental suits, is behind the murders. The team reassembles and vows to make the perpetrator pay. She threatens to expose whoever is behind it. It’s an interview she did the previous day saying she knows someone’s blocking the environmental legislation she’s trying to propose. They notice the television remote in her hand and finally turn to watch what’s playing in the background. They find her dead in her office on the college campus with her epi pins nearby, the liquid tinged brown even though they hadn’t expired. Nataraj’s genius son, asking him to help search for her because she’s not returning his calls. Zhou soon gets a call from his friend Arun, Dr. Nataraj feels her life has been threatened twice recently. She’s a professor at a local university, Arun’s actual mother, and a stand-in mother to the rest of them: Zhou, Victor, Lingyi, and Iris. Two months ago: Zhou goes to a meeting with his crew where he discovers Dr. Zhou and his friends will use the huge payout to purchase suits to try to infiltrate the richest of the rich and determine how to solve the environmental issues plaguing their society. Her parents pay up, and soon Zhou drugs her, including a sleeping potion and a memory wipe, before taking her home. She savors it as well as the fresh tomato she eats from his garden. The girl, Daiyu, asks him to take her outside because she’s never been out in nature without her full protective suit and helmet. He sneaks her away to his solitary mountain home until they pay up. Zhou kidnaps a girl from the streets of Taipei to ask her family for a ransom. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in Want? This page is full of spoilers, so beware! If you are wondering what happened in Want, the first book in this series, then you are in the right place! Read a full summary of Want by Cindy Pon.
0 kommentar(er)
