The emerald laser beam swept down from the hundred-foot IMAX screen like an executioner’s spotlight.
It painted the polished banquet tables with glowing green crosshairs.
Up on the stage, Deputy Director Hu fell to his knees beside the technician booth.
He grabbed a heavy fire ax from the wall mount and hacked furiously at the fiber-optic conduits beneath the wooden stage.
CLANG! CLANG!
Sparks sprayed across his tailored trousers, but the severed conduits hummed with spiritual light.
The System’s Veritas Audit Ledger had locked the projection array inside an invisible spiritual-energy field.
The screen did not rely on copper wires. It ran on the boundless spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
