Chapter 168: In the Archives
Manstein struggled with his fat head against the board above the sewer, sweat dripping down his thick neck and soaking through his collar.
Su Qing's whole person was already frozen, he didn't even have the desire to continue to climb up, and when he finished reading the second half of the fg00391 file, his outlook on life, values, and worldview seemed to have changed.
Su Qing never thought that he had only been with Manstein for a long time, and he would have to carry out such a dangerous mission, not because of the riot above, but because of the strange content in the file, there was a sense of loneliness and courage like the agent in the X-file who was not afraid of danger and went deep into the enemy territory.
"The file has been sent to you, but be careful, it's addictive to look at the file." Manstein's laughter came from overhead, but Su Qing ignored him and clicked on the file in the emperor's message.
File fg00391(below):
The time is 12 years ago, in August 1967 in the starry sky calendar.
Manstein compared the people on the list, retrieved the files of the relevant persons at the Archives Bureau and checked them, and found that all the files related to these people (. ) had been inexplicably lost.
The case seems to have reached a dead end, but Manstein certainly doesn't forget about it, because there is a small part of that list that is a future list.
The list dates from 1960 to 1980.
Before the time of true despair, there are still some uncertainties, and the opportunity to solve the case lies in whether you believe that there is such a thing as an unpredictable prophet in this world.
Manstein found the September 1967 piece of paper, which was neatly lined with 100 names, each of which was a very ordinary, Pluto name.
But at this moment of witnessing a miracle, these names have a lot of meaning.
What if, if these people did disappear after that?
Manstein found some of them, then marked them in their files and kept them in a folder on his computer called "List of Missing Persons in September 1967".
A month later, he was looking for something in the computer, and suddenly found an empty text folder, which was also marked: September 1967 missing list, but the information in it was empty.
Manstein smacked his head, when did he forget about it? It's terrible, not only have the information of these missing people completely disappeared from the computer, but even I forgot about it.
The most important thing is that all the work he had done before was in vain, before these people disappeared, he had clearly recorded the addresses, places of work, and family situation of each person, but after they disappeared, all the memories related to these people disappeared!
He found the list, and there were still 100 names lying quietly in it. Manstein was stunned, he didn't know how this mysterious and powerful enemy managed to do this, as if the entire universe was dominated by a supercomputer that could calculate and control matter and thoughts, and when the user triggered a certain node, the computer would delete all the memories, images, and even substances related to someone.
To do this, how powerful should this computer be? Now you can't add all the computers in the entire galaxy together, right?
Manstein was really disappointed, but he hadn't given up yet.
At this time, a bold idea popped into Manstein's mind: he was going to find the people on the list, and then follow them to stop their disappearance.
If you want to do it, Manstein immediately set about it, and selected a name from the list in December 1967, this guy is called Keith, and there are 3 guys with this name in the whole of Pluto, which is already the smallest amount, because there are more than 500 million people in Pluto, and the names in the list are so ordinary, it is too difficult to find a guy who does not have the same name and surname!
Manstein needs to track down these three guys named Keith, which is a bit difficult, but this is not difficult for a shrewd and capable super detective at all.
When he saw this place, a smile appeared on the corner of Su Qing's mouth, and he recalled that before 1967, Manstein was the sheriff with the reputation of "the first detective of the twelfth district", "Sherlock Holmes reincarnation", "Superman", etc., with his growth rate at that time, many people predicted that he could take over the position of chief sheriff of the twelfth district within 5 years.
It's just that things in the world are always not as people want, thinking of this, Su Qing's face was gloomy, in 1967, Manstein suffered the biggest low point in his life, and he didn't expect it to be related to the case in this file, Su Qing continued to read.
Manstein had 5 of his men at the time, a total of 6 of them, and in order to be foolproof, he arranged for every two agents to follow one "Keys", and he himself brought his brother-in-law Lulock to track Keith in the 13th District.
In order to solve this case, Manstein has done everything in his power.
Unfortunately, the list only states the month and no specific date, which means that the person on the list may suddenly disappear on any day throughout December, and the six members of their team will be following the three "Case" day and night.
Su Qing shook his head, the lower half of the file seemed even more confusing, and things really seemed to be slowly developing in the direction of a huge conspiracy.
Just as they were waiting for the Zerg to leave, and Su Qing took the opportunity to read the file, Manstein himself fell into the memories of that file:
On December 12, 1967, Manstein will never forget this day, he was temporarily separated from his brother-in-law Lu Luo because of his wife's childbirth, and at the moment when he sat quietly at the door of the delivery room waiting for the baby to fall to the ground, he suddenly felt as if his heart had been struck by something, and his heart was empty, as if something was missing.
He jerked into his arm, tears streaming down his face.
The five names engraved on it swayed, as if trying to struggle to break away from the orbit of this world.
Lu Luo, Saxophone, Wang Ming, Zhao Xin, Xu Jia, he had some kind of bad premonition when he was performing this task, so he engraved these names on his arms.
As for why, why they still exist on the arm of ZĂ i Manstein, it can only be said that the wisdom of the great detective is infinite, and he deliberately misspelled these names, every word, every stroke.
To this day, Manstein has long forgotten the name of his brother-in-law, who once existed, only knowing that the pronunciation of his name is the same syllable as "Lulock", and every time Manstein looks at his arm, he can't help but cry.
Manstein collapsed at that moment, because five of his once closest men had all left him at the same moment, and he wasn't even mentally prepared for that.
He could only watch his memories of Lulock slowly fade and could not be stopped, the five colleagues and right-hand men who had worked closely with him, born and died, only a faint trace was left in his memory, all the past with them was gone, whenever he recalled, he could only feel an indescribable sense of loss, no matter how hard he tried to recall it, all that responded to him was endless emptiness.