And when Kryzinski's deckers checked out the Fuchi system, they found proof that something way beyond merely "strange" had gone down. The entirety of the central CPU systems of Fuchi Tokyo had gone AWOL at midnight for exactly fifteen seconds. Having accessed the revealing data, the Renraku team got the hell out of the Fuchi system. The only casualty was a single decker who simply didn’t get away from the trace and burn fast enough—a completely acceptable resource loss as far as Sam Kryzinski was concerned. It could be made to look like an accident of some sort. And even if it couldn’t, Renraku could afford the few hundred thousand to buy off the guy’s wife from making any claim. The data his team brought back told him instantly that the stakes were much higher than that.