Deceive the enemy with an obvious approach that will take a very long time, while ambushing them with another approach.

— The 36 Stratagems, Openly Repair the Gallery Roads, But Sneak Through the Passage of Chencang

Alex opened the training laptop. Typed a command. The screen returned one line of output. He didn't explain what it meant — no one in the room asked.

Page 37 of Alex's hardcover notebook still carried a number from his last job: 847×37%. That was Axon's claim — 847 tickets processed daily. What the number left out: 37% of those tickets ended up with a human anyway. The AI picked off the tasks it recognized. Everything else landed on someone at 3 AM.

He brought that note with him to MedTech.