The display in front of High Auditor Muo and the people of the bureau shifted.
The central anomaly was a massive, instantaneous negative karmic spike in Sector Sigma-9. Or specifically, the headquarters of the Crimson Abacus Syndicate.
That event was already under full audit. Her team had been quickly dispatched to the area and was wading through the literal and metaphorical sludge of the Syndicate's internal misfortune spike that unearthed the illegal and unethical loan contracts.
But that wasn't the perplexing part.
The anomaly correlation algorithm was flagging something else.
A faint and almost imperceptible positive karmic ripples emanating from distant sectors of Theta-3 and now, significantly, at Kappa-2. These ripples were too subtle to trigger a full audit alone, but their sudden appearance and their statistically improbable correlation with the Sigma-9 incident, combined with previous minor flags…
