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This continuous rumbling sound seemed to come from the office area inside the room. Google search reading

Fan Ning hurried back to his desk.

Where the light shined, he saw the storage compartment behind the office chair, with one side as the fixed center, and the other side slowly rotating inward!

In the dim light, Fan Ning couldn't see what kind of mechanism it was even if he got closer, let alone how it was arranged.

The rumbling sound 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 found a smaller storage rack hidden in the dark.

There were not many grids, about four or five rows, four or five columns, and more than twenty grids, most of which were also empty.

But Fan Ning clearly saw a large folder on the storage compartment.

And after a little search, he found a small brass box.

Fan Ning carried them to the desk and then looked at the folder first.

It was more than ten centimeters thick and made of a material similar to black plastic. The feel was very similar to the folders commonly seen in the previous life.

Opening it easily, Fanning took out the first stack of documents, which were fastened with paper clips.

The paper was old and yellowed. In the upper right corner, a strange young man was wearing a bowler hat, a tie, and smiling. The rest of the space was filled with text in a table.

File?

The name was unfamiliar, but then he saw the line with the year of birth: 864 in the new calendar.

The time was long, the name was wrong, the appearance was unfamiliar, but the year of birth was right, and this was his father's office.

It was easy to assume that this was Vincent Fanning in the following browsing.

Father's previous work file?

The lower half of the paper was a large table with multiple lines of text.

Work experience?

"881: ......!!!" Fanning was dumbfounded when he read the first work experience.

He couldn't believe his eyes and read it again.

October 881: Joined the Special Event Inspection and Investigation Department, assigned to the Imperial Capital Saint Taran Castle, and inspected four places in the Tulip Parish (probationary period).

Special Event Inspection and Investigation Department?

Father was once a member of the Special Patrol Office?

In the original owner's memory, his father has been a folk artist since he could remember.

Because of the strangeness of the key, Fanning has been wondering whether his father has any other identity today.

But he really didn't guess the answer.

He continued to read.

April 882: Special Incident Patrol Investigation Office, Imperial Capital Saint Taran Castle, Tulip Parish Patrol Fourth Division Official Member

June 884: Imperial Capital Saint Taran Castle, Tulip Parish Patrol Fourth Division Deputy Director

December 885: Imperial Capital Saint Taran Castle, Tulip Parish Patrol Fourth Division Director

April 889: B-105 Abnormal Zone Investigation Team Deputy Leader

The work experience ends here.

"What is the abnormal zone?" Fanning wondered.

He suddenly recalled a little doubt about the situation of the world in the original owner's memory.

The appearance of the world map is composed of oceans and land that is similar to an "inverted C shape" in it.

Above is the Theolian Empire in the northern continent; on the right is the Kingdom of Holy Janus and the Kingdom of Lydia in the western continent; below is the United Principality of Fedon in the southern continent.

This is nothing.

But what Fanning was puzzled about at the time was that, first, this world is a bit small, and its area feels less than one-third of the earth.

Second, shouldn't this world also be spherical? From my observations over the past few days, the sun rises and the moon sets, and the four seasons alternate, there is no difference. Why is the universal world map not a rectangular or spherical expansion map? Instead, it is surrounded by irregular closed curves?

Now it seems that it has something to do with this "abnormal zone".

From the literal meaning, some areas in this world are now in an abnormal and out-of-control state? For people, these places are not accessible, so they are not reflected on the world map?

And judging from the numbering, there are more than one abnormal zone.

"My father entered a certain abnormal zone for investigation in the new calendar year 889. It sounds mysterious and dangerous, but the result is that he did not die, and he lived well later, otherwise there would be no me." Fanning thought to himself.

I was born in the year 890 of the new calendar, which is exactly the next year.

Although I don’t have any memories of my childhood, I have at least vague memories after the age of three or four. My father has always been a folk artist in Ufrancel.

“Why is the face in my father’s photo so unfamiliar to me…” Fanning looked at the smiling face of the young man in the file again.

“In theory, even if it is a photo of my father’s youth, as the person who is most familiar with him, I should be able to vaguely recognize some features…”

“Is it because it is too long ago, when the camera technology just appeared? Or is it too dark here?”

The easiest reason to explain the mismatch between the name and appearance is…

“After my father came out of the abnormal area, due to some concerns, he changed his appearance and identity and lived in a new city? Is the photo the real face, or is it the real face when he is with me on weekdays?…”

Fanning felt a deep worry. If this is the case, the sound list fragments were taken away by someone before, which means that the forces behind it have already found this place.

As a member of the Special Patrol Department and the leader of the abnormal area, my father is likely to be a “knower” in the face of these things.

And he has no ability to protect himself now.

He put the file aside and looked at the next information.

"These are some work files for handling mysterious events." Fanning flipped through them quickly.

"My goodness, it's simply a collection of various urban legends and supernatural events in previous lives. What kind of hospital is haunted, evil creatures attack, strange disappearances, and sacrifice events are just real-life versions."

Among these events, one left a deeper impression on Fanning:

The "Dream Man" incident in the imperial capital of Saint Taranburg in the year 887 of the new calendar has been 25 years.

One day, a psychologist in the Tulip Parish of Saint Taranburg received a request for help from a woman.

The woman said that for more than a month, she always dreamed of a strange man's expressionless face when she slept.

At first, she was just a little panicked after waking up, and it did not affect her normal life, but later the frequency of dreams became higher and higher.

This face was expressionless at first, and then it had emotions, sometimes grinning, sometimes crying, and sometimes hysterical.

In recent days, it is not just a face, but a whole person with this face appeared in the dream, accompanied by various horror plots.

The woman was on the verge of mental breakdown and had to seek help from a psychologist.

The doctor guided her to draw the face she dreamed of with simple strokes.

(Fanning saw the poor quality print on the file: middle-aged, with little hair on the top of the head, thick eyebrows and eye sockets, flat nose, and long lips that were raised upwards.)

"It's a bit creepy, mainly because of the black and white picture quality and dim light."

Although the doctor also felt a little horrified, he thought it was caused by her excessive pressure in life, so he comforted and relieved her and let her go.

This matter should have come to an end, but something unexpected happened next:

Soon after, more people came to the door for help, and the content of their requests was exactly the same!

And after identification, the face of the man in the dream was exactly the same as the one drawn by the first woman!

The psychologist was also panicked, and he immediately called the police. After confirming that this was a mysterious incident, the police department immediately reported it to the Special Patrol Office.

What followed was a long investigation, during which more and more teams in major urban areas received such reports.

Even other cities, such as Uvransel, received a large number of residents seeking help for encountering the "Dream Man" incident.

Fanning glanced at the list and found many familiar place names.

This file seemed to be only of medium to low severity in the classification of the Special Patrol Office.

The reason is that although the incident involved a large number of people and spread over a wide area, it did not cause the death, deformity, disappearance and other vicious consequences of residents, but only left many people with varying degrees of mental illness, cognitive confusion and memory damage.

In other words, it was a big fuss but no one died.

Come to think of it, compared with those terrifying 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 events.

The Special Patrol Office investigated for a while, but did not find any practical content, because apart from the description of the victims, there was no clue on the other side to investigate, and some victims' previous life trajectories did not show obvious abnormalities.

In the end, the official characterization was "a collective memory disorder incident, the source of which may be a prank."

Many people are dissatisfied with the result, believing that the authorities are covering up the facts, and questioning, "There are still many people dreaming of this face. What kind of prank can cause 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 collective memory, and dreams are originally some projections of real memories.

The head of the authorities even used himself as an example at the press conference: "I was fine before, but because I took over this work, I looked at the face printed on the information every day. Now I dream about it every day. You pay so much attention to it. Can I be mentally normal?"

This is probably the record of the whole incident in the file.

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 his experience after crossing.

Okay, it'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.

Is this what he is looking for this time?