Annihilation Algorithm

In 2074, the historical resonance engine started for the seventh time. Chief Calibrator Feng Lan stared at the fire that night on the screen - three thousand years ago, the ancient Shu people burned and buried all their bronze artifacts, then fell into collective silence and withdrew from history. The engine can read the consciousness frequency deposited in the cultural relics and replay that night. But this time, there was an extra figure in the picture that shouldn't exist. Southwest of the pit, no entities are assigned to that location. That silhouette, looking back, was his own face. The next second, Feng Lan fell into the ancient Shu where the artifact had not yet been buried. He had been here for twenty years, which in reality was only a few months. He could hear the reverberation of the caster's emotions in the bronze with his bare hands - the price was that every time he read it, he had to exchange a piece of his own memory. The more he read, the more he forgot about himself. And every word he said and everything he did in ancient Shu will be accurately matched by the cultural relics unearthed at the excavation site three thousand years later. The uncast ninth branch of the sacred tree, the disease layer that sealed off the village, the design of the pit on the night of the burial... He didn't break into history, but history has always been missing a person, waiting for him to fill it. When technology can restore everything, is it also a right to be forgotten? If a civilization chooses silence, is it failure or completion?