This continuous rumbling sound seems to come from the office area inside the room.
Fan Ning quickly returned to his desk.
Wherever the light shines, I can see the storage compartment behind the office chair. With one side as the center of the fixed circle, the other side is slowly rotating inward!
In the darkness, Fan Ning couldn't see clearly what kind of mechanism this was even when he got closer, let alone how it was arranged.
The roar lasted for about half a minute, until the rotation of the storage compartment swept out a small fan-shaped area.
In the direction of the arc edge of the fan-shaped area, Fan Ning discovered a smaller storage shelf hidden in the dark.
There are not many grids, about four or five rows, four or five columns, and more than twenty grids, most of which are also empty.
But Fanning clearly saw a large folder on the storage shelf.
And after a little searching, I found a small brass box.
Fan Ning carried them to the desk, and then looked at the folder first.
It is more than ten centimeters thick and is made of a material similar to black plastic. The feel is very close to the folders that were common in previous lives.
Opening it easily, Fan Ning took out the first stack of documents, which were held together with paper clips.
The paper is old and yellowed. In the upper right corner is a strange young man wearing a bowler hat and tie, smiling, and the rest of the space is filled with text from the table.
file?
The name was an unfamiliar name, but then he saw the line recording the year of birth: 864 in the New Calendar,
It's a long time ago, the name is wrong, and the appearance is unfamiliar, but the year of birth is consistent, plus this is my father's office.
It's easy to assume for the rest of the tour that this is Vincent Van Nin.
Father’s previous work files?
The lower part of the paper is a large table with multiple lines of text written in it.
work experience?
"881:...!!!" Fan Ning was dumbfounded when he read his first work experience.
He couldn't believe his eyes and read it again.
October 881: Joined the Special Incident Inspection and Investigation Department and was assigned to the Imperial City of Santaram Castle and Tulip Parish to inspect the Fourth Division (trainee period).
Special Incident Inspection and Investigation Office?
Father was once a member of the Special Patrol Bureau?
In the memory of the original owner, his father was a folk artist as long as he could remember.
Due to the strangeness of the key, Fan Ning had been wondering today whether his father might have another identity.
But he really didn't guess the answer.
He continued reading.
April 882: Official member of the Special Incident Inspection and Investigation Department, the Imperial City of Santaram Castle, and the Fourth Inspection Division of Tulip Parish
June 884: Deputy Director of the Fourth Inspection Division of Tulip Parish in the imperial capital of Saint-Talambo
December 885: Director of the Fourth Inspection Division of the Tulip Parish in the imperial capital of Santaram Castle.
April 1889: Deputy leader of the B-105 abnormal area investigation team
The work experience ends here.
"What is the abnormal area?" Fan Ning wondered.
He suddenly recalled a little doubt about the situation of the world in the original owner's memory.
The world map is composed of an ocean and an approximately "reverse C-shaped" land mass.
At the top is the Theoline Empire in the northern continent; on the right is the Kingdom of Holy Janus and the Kingdom of Lydia in the western continent; at the bottom is the United Principality of Feton in the southern continent.
That's nothing.
But what Fan Ning was confused about at the time was that the world was a bit small, with an area that felt less than one-third of the earth.
Second, shouldn’t the world also be spherical? Judging from my observations in the past few days, there is no difference between the rising sun, the setting moon, and the alternation of the four seasons. Why is the universal world map not a rectangular or spherical expanded map? Instead, it consists of irregular
surrounded by closed curves?
Looking at it now, it has something to do with this "abnormal area".
Literally speaking, some areas in this world are now in a state of abnormality and out of control? For people, these places are inaccessible, so they are not reflected on the world map?
And judging from the numbering, there is more than one abnormal area.
"My father entered a certain abnormal area to investigate in 889 New Year. This sounds mysterious and dangerous, but the result is that he did not die, and he lived well afterwards, otherwise there would be no me." Fan Ning thought to himself.
I was born in the year 890 of the New Calendar, which happened to be the next year.
Although I don’t have any memories when I was too young, I have at least a vague memory from when I was three or four years old. My father has always been a folk artist in Ufranser.
"Why is the face in my father's photo so unfamiliar to me..." Fan Ning looked back at the smiling face of the young man in the file.
"It stands to reason that even if it is a photo of my father when he was a boy, as the person I am most familiar with, I should be able to vaguely recognize some features..."
"Is it because it was so long ago, when camera technology just appeared? Or is it too dark here?"
The easiest reason to explain why the name and appearance don’t match is...
"After my father came out of the disordered area, due to some concerns, he disguised himself and changed his identity to live in a new city? So is the real face in the photo, or is it the real face when he gets along with me on weekdays?..."
Fan Ning felt a deep worry. If this was the case, and the audio fragments had been taken away before, it meant that the forces behind it had already found out.
Member of the Special Inspection Department and leader of the Abnormal District. Faced with these things, his father is probably also a "knowledgeable person".
And now I have no ability to protect myself.
He put the file aside and looked at the next information.
"These are some work files dealing with mysterious incidents." Fan Ning flipped through them quickly.
"Good guy, it's just a collection of various urban legends and supernatural events from the past life. The hospital is haunted, evil objects attack, mysterious disappearances, and the sacrifice incident are just a realistic version."
Among these incidents, one left a deeper impression on Fan Ning:
It has been 25 years since the "Dream Man" incident in the imperial capital Shengtalan Castle in the year 887 of the New Calendar.
One day, a psychiatrist in the Tulip Parish of Santa Ramburg received a request for help from a woman.
The woman said that for the past month or so, she had been dreaming about the expressionless face of a strange man.
At first, she was just a little panicked after waking up, which did not affect her normal life, but then her dreams became more and more frequent.
This face was expressionless at first, and then became emotional, sometimes grinning, sometimes crying, sometimes hysterical.
Even in recent days, not only is it a face, but a whole person with this face appears in the dream, accompanied by various terrifying plots.
The woman was on the verge of a mental breakdown and had to seek help from a psychiatrist.
The doctor guided her to draw the face in her dream with a simple sketch.
(Fan Ning saw the poor-quality printed portrait on the file: middle-aged, with very little hair on top of his head, thick eyebrows and eye sockets, a flat nose, and long and upward curves of his lips.)
“It’s a bit scary, mainly because of the black and white picture quality and dim light.”
Although the doctor also found it a bit scary, he thought it was caused by the excessive pressure in her life. He immediately gave her some comfort and relief and let her leave.
This matter was supposed to come to an end, but then something unexpected happened:
Soon after, more people came to our door for help, and the content of their requests for help was exactly the same!
Moreover, upon identification, the man’s face in the dream was exactly the same as the one drawn by the first woman!
The psychiatrist also panicked and immediately called the police. After the Police Security Bureau determined that this was a mysterious incident, they immediately reported it to the Special Patrol Office.
What followed was a lengthy investigation, during which more and more teams in major urban areas received such reports.
Even other cities, such as Ufranser, have received a large number of requests for help from residents who have encountered "Dream Man" incidents.
Fan Ning glanced at the list details and found many place names that he was familiar with.
This file seems to be only moderately serious in the classification of the Special Patrol Office.
The reason is that although the incident involved a huge number of people and spread over a vast area, it did not cause the death, distortion, disappearance or other negative consequences of the residents. It only left many people with varying degrees of mental illness, cognitive confusion and memory damage.
In other words, there was a big fuss but no lives were lost.
Think about it, compared to those horrific death cases, this is really nothing. If it weren't for the large number of people involved, it might not even be ranked among the mysterious incidents.
The Special Patrol Office investigated for a while, but could not find any actual content, because apart from the victims' descriptions, there were no other clues for investigation, and there were no obvious abnormalities in the previous life trajectories of some victims.
In the end, it was officially classified as "an incident of group memory confusion, and the source may be a prank."
Many people expressed dissatisfaction with the results, believing that the official cover-up of the facts, and asked, "Many people still continue to dream about this face. What kind of prank can have such a terrible impact? Don't you have any other explanation?"
The official said that this is easy to explain. Now this incident has objectively formed a group memory, and dreams are originally some projections of real memories.
The person in charge of the authority even used himself as an example at the press conference: "I was doing well at first, but just because I took over this job, I looked at the face printed on the materials every day. Now it makes me dream about it every day."
If you pay attention like this, can you be mentally normal?"
That's about it in the file about the whole incident.
Fan Ning's focus is on the elements that constitute this incident: one is a strange dream and the other is an abnormal memory.
It seems to be similar to some elements of my own experience after time travel.
Okay, that's logically far-fetched
Fan Ning shook his head, put all the information back into the folder, and then looked at another brass metal box.