"Look around... if all else fails, we'll have to run."
Lu Yuan rummaged through the cabinets, pulling out a pile of old, aged documents.
Nothing withstands the erosion of time, and the lifespan of acid-free paper is only about two hundred years.
The lower-level archives were more likely to get damp, blurring much of the writing.
He could only pick out some that were barely legible.
[Incomprehensible Supernatural Phenomena (Meida Civilization·Top Secret Archive No. 109709).]
[Author: Guang Chagou.]
[*Month* Day, large-scale serial disappearances: Continuous disappearances at the city's edge suggest interference by unknown superpowers from the outside.]
[The final number of missing persons totaled 44.]
Lu Yuan's eyes aided him in translation, thus he read at a decent pace.
[Archive 1, the first missing person's published post.]
[The specific contents of the post are as follows:]