Observer Protocol

Lin Te is a surveyor in the Urban Planning Bureau. His job is to turn the world into numbers and numbers into maps. Until one day, he discovered that the coordinates of a control point had moved 0.003 Meters. It's not an instrument failure or a human error. The coordinates were moving, with direction and order, like something he had never seen before, establishing their own coordinate system on the back of the city's surveying and mapping datum grid. Lin Chai began to investigate. He discovered that his colleague Chen Li had spent twenty-one years recording the same anomalies, but chose to remain silent; he discovered that there was an unarchivable report deep in the archives, waiting for someone who would find it; he discovered that there was an agency in the city called the "Observer Bureau", which was responsible for erasing all accurate descriptions of "them". At the same time, Lin Chai began to lose words. It's not forgetfulness, it's that certain words have been cut away from his narrative ability - "accurate", "clear", "boundary", and "I". Every time he describes "them" more precisely, a word leaves forever. And those disappearing words are arranged in order to form a sentence. A sentence that only those who have experienced loss can understand.