Chapter 57 In the Pile of Old Papers
The archives at Base North 1, which preserves materials about the pre-apocalyptic civilization, are also located in a sealed underground space.
The physical archives are enormous, several times larger than the large cotton mill workshop that Qi An saw in Chang'an Town.
Of course, the archive was sealed off, and Qi An only managed to glimpse it from afar through a small glass window on the tempered glass door.
Inside was a mysterious dark blue, with rows of shelves stretching as far as the eye could see, like something sunk to the bottom of the sea.
The staff led Qi An and Wen Yan to a small room next to the archives and went to retrieve their files.
“You’ve taken to digging through old documents now,” Wen Yan said.
This person has truly become Qi An's secretary now.
Basically, whatever Qi An applied for or requested from above, or whatever tasks were assigned to Qi An, were all conveyed and guided by Wen Yan.
Wen Yan had also become familiar with Qi An and knew that she was firm in her principles but had a good temper, so he dared to complain and tease her a little in his daily life.
His words carried a hint of complaint.
Qi An had originally agreed to cooperate with Professor Shi's team in conducting brain examinations, but at the last minute he suddenly changed his mind and proposed an exchange:
She wants to see information about the pre-apocalyptic pandemic.
"The pandemic has nothing to do with your background, so why are you looking at that?" Xiao Zhao asked, puzzled. Wen Yan was equally puzzled.
Qi An: "How can it be unrelated? I'm taking stock of my enemies."
My first enemy is pollution; without pollution, my family would be happy. My second enemy is the virus; if the virus hadn't suddenly broken out and attacked the research institute, my mother might not have mutated!
I want to know how the virus spread and who is responsible!
Wen Yan was speechless at the time, and even felt a little ashamed.
The virus is everyone's enemy. In the apocalypse, it seems that there is no one who has not died from the virus infection without their relatives, unless that person is an orphan.
But everyone else was just surviving the apocalypse; Qi An, however, still harbored the ambition to take revenge.
Qi An was adamant that she would never enter the lab unless she was shown the data.
Left with no other option, Wen Yan submitted an application to his superiors.
He had actually had a lot of conspiracy theories about the virus in his mind, and thought that information on this topic would be very sensitive, but he didn't expect that his application would be approved the next day.
Wen Yan was surprised, but even more surprised was that the way the data was saved was too primitive—it was a CD!
The staff member, wearing gloves, carefully placed the old CD into the old fixed CD drive.
On the 15-inch small screen, which exudes a sense of nostalgia, several folders with worn-out icons appeared.
Despite the overall antique feel, the images, texts, and videos in several folders are remarkably clear. This suggests that older preservation methods are often more reliable.
Qi An opened the documents one by one and read them carefully.
But after quickly glancing through it, she frowned and asked the staff, "Is this all? It doesn't seem complete."
The document contains details of the discovery process of the Kuroshio virus.
While drilling in the wilderness, an energy company accidentally punctured an extremely ancient underground lake and discovered stones in the lake that appeared to be fossils.
The company immediately notified the local government, which then brought in a research team from a local university...
Qi An asked, "There's only a list of the research team, but no confidentiality agreements they signed..."
"Wait, wait! Don't say it! You're the one with access rights, not us, please don't say it!" The staff member quickly stopped her before she could finish speaking.
"The information is indeed incomplete. Originally, these three files, in addition to CDs, also had electronic archives and paper documents."
But before I even took office, electronic and paper files were stolen, damaged, or lost.
This CD was kept because it was misplaced during storage and incorrectly registered.
The CD was actually found three years ago.
At that time, the base upgraded and maintained the equipment in the archives, and many important electronic documents were replaced with new hard drives.
The curator asked us to take this opportunity to organize all the physical materials.
The misplaced disc was then discovered.
Qi An was stunned: "The archives are in such a central location, how could they be robbed? Who did it?"
"I only vaguely heard that it was an inside job, and that inside job seemed to be my predecessor..."
So please don't tell me about the classified documents, I won't listen! The staff member took another step back, looking terrified and wary.
Qi An had no choice but to shut up.
She reviewed the information on the CD twice before thanking him and leaving.
Wen Yan followed behind her, knowing he didn't have the authority to ask, but after holding it in for a long time, he couldn't help but ask:
Do you know who your second enemy is?
It probably isn't the government...
Qi An comforted him, "It's not the government, and the government doesn't know who it is."
"I see!" Wen Yan felt a great weight lifted from his shoulders and smiled.
"They're definitely investigating too. They'll find out who it is someday. We just need to wait for our revenge."
Qi An smiled and nodded, but as soon as she got home, she called Chen Yuezhou:
“There is a man named Li Heng, a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology, whom I have seen in your memory.”
He is the one you called 'the disease itself'...
Qi An murmured to himself, and the phone call lasted for 40 minutes before he hung up.
After hanging up, she leaned on the sofa, her eyes slightly narrowed, fiddling with her small, round phone.
She only snapped out of her daze when Tan Fu plopped down next to her.
Tan Fu crossed his arms, but in a high-pitched voice, mimicking Chen Yuezhou's words: "'Thank you. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to uncover my true memories. An'an~ Thank you~'"
Qi An shuddered, goosebumps rising all over his arm.
Chen Yuezhou spoke very seriously, his voice deep and pleasant, making one's ears feel soothed. Tan Fu seemed like a rooster that had learned to speak human language.
Qi An glared at her helplessly.
Tan Fu already has his own mobile phone.
The cell phone was prepared by Yu Shuang, who had the delivery team bring it and secretly hand it over to Qi An.
Tan Fu used the "pearl hairnet" to connect to the phone and, through a series of operations that Qi An couldn't understand at all, managed to obtain the ID number and network access permissions.
Once that's done, as long as she avoids the guards, she can still move freely like a fish in water!
Of course, it shouldn't be used too much. The more you use it, the easier it is to be discovered. Qi An had advised Tan Fu on this point.
But it was later discovered that Tan Fu was quite restrained; his several visits to the internet were all to protect her confidential chats.
Qi An felt somewhat guilty about this.
However, once Tan Fu joins the network, the clone she left on Qi An's phone can be activated, so Qi An doesn't need to worry about other background monitoring or information being intercepted.
But Tan Fu was the one monitoring from behind the scenes!
She gossips all day long with that expressionless face!
After being glared at, Tan Fu stopped mimicking the tone of the voice, but snorted:
"You call me a gossip? Haven't I been doing my job? Next, isn't it up to me to investigate this 'Li Heng'?"
They really had to rely on her, so Qi An glared at her, then got up and started cooking without complaint.
In the following days, everyone was busy, and Qi An's phone was especially busy.
Lin Jiaran's message: [I've inquired, and there is indeed a purifier who gave birth more than ten years ago.]
Her pregnancy and childbirth process seemed quite difficult and dangerous, but she gave birth safely.
She moved away shortly after giving birth, and none of her colleagues have seen the child; she doesn't seem to bring the child out often.
Lu Sui's message: [I have a vague impression, that purifier's surname is Ye, I think, and she took a long leave after giving birth.]
When I was working at the Second Military Medical Hospital at the main base, she was a colleague in another group.
I'm not in the same group as her, and we're not close. I heard about this at the dinner table.
Chen Yuezhou's message: "I had a dream about the past again last night, and I dreamed about the time when his appearance changed."
I can now confirm his identity.
Xiao Zhao's message: [Lieutenant Colonel Qi, your preliminary brain function test report is in. Would it be convenient for you to come to the lab?]
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