Horror Instances: I Can Repair Altered Reality

On the underground second floor of the Municipal Archives, a seventh row of file shelves appears out of nowhere. Night-shift archivist Jiang Shu opens an unnumbered file box and discovers death notices for forty students inside. Yet on the roll sheet, someone has scratched out a forty-first name. At the same time, he binds to an Archive Restoration System. When a name is deleted, the person disappears from the memories of their friends and family. If a death certificate contains an error, even someone who returns alive will be declared dead by the world. If a departure record is falsified, the entire last bus will head for a destination that doesn’t exist on any map. As long as Jiang Shu finds two original records from independent sources, he can restore facts that someone has altered. Others enter horror instances and can only follow the rules to survive. Jiang Shu checks file numbers, compares times, and tracks down those who handled the records, forcing one man-eating fake file after another back into its proper form. But the more he restores, the clearer the clues left behind before his parents disappeared become. Everyone who was deleted eventually went to the same place. Beigang, Pier Seven. But the map of Linjiang City has always shown only six piers. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.