The oracle-bone coordinates etched on the bronze steering wheel point to the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, planting a clue for the later connection between “space-time anchors and hydraulic engineering.” The time-warping properties of the Youying Stone echo the ancient rock paintings inside the tunnel, hinting at a hidden link between extraterrestrial civilizations and Earth's history. The last bus behaving abnormally and traveling in reverse foreshadows that the disappearances are not isolated incidents, but the beginning of a much larger space-time disturbance. (This is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Please do not read anything into it.)
