Abyss Archives Bureau

Wedge: File No. 001-Matrix Time: Autumn, 2005. Location: Qinghe Municipal Hospital. Lin Wanjun has been lying on the hospital bed for three full months. The medical report stated "deep coma of unknown cause", but Gu Mingyuan knew that the truth was far from that. He is the field specialist of the Abyss Archives Bureau, and his wife is the best rules analyst he has ever seen. Until three months ago, when she was analyzing a Western Zhou bronze box that had just been unearthed from an ancient tomb, a "concept leak" occurred. It was not poisonous gas or radiation, but something older and purer - "nirvana". At this moment, the monitoring equipment sounded a piercing alarm. Gu Mingyuan rushed into the ward and saw that his wife's body was becoming... Transparent. "Mom..." Eight-year-old Gu Shen hid behind the door, eyes wide. Lin Wanjun used her last strength to show her husband a gentle smile, and drew a few vague symbols in the air with her fingers - they were secret codes used internally by the Archives Bureau. "Protect... The box... And... The child..." The next second, her body was like a pencil mark erased by an eraser, completely disappearing from reality. No body, no remains, as if it never existed. Gu Mingyuan clenched his fists tightly and dug his nails into his palms. He understood his wife's last words. That bronze box, codenamed "Matrix", is one of the earliest known sources of the concept. Their son Gu Shen was exposed to low-intensity conceptual radiation emitted by the "mother's body" for a long time when his mother was pregnant. Gu Shen himself is an unprecedented anomaly.