Chapter 592 Archives
In the library of the Royal Holy Crown University in the northern suburbs of Tivian, Dorothy sat in her usual seat, controlling many corpse puppets scattered around the campus, searching for information about the Duke of Barrett's academic collaborator.
After confirming that the other party is likely to be a professor at Guan University and is interested in the secret history of the Fengwang Rebellion period, then this person will be much easier to find. You only need to look at all the research these professors have done, all the papers they have published, and see what books they have borrowed. It is easy to judge their research interests and directions, and figure out their "academic personality". Based on these, you can judge whether they will be interested in historical events such as the Fengwang Rebellion.
After collecting a lot of information and conducting a comprehensive analysis, Dorothy continued to screen the list of professors in her mind. In the end, only one person was left, that is, Professor John Matthewson from the Archaeology Department. He had written several papers on the research of history before and after the Fengwang Rebellion, and the historical books he borrowed also tended to be from that period.
In his paper, although he said that he respected the records in the existing history books, in the corners of some paragraphs, he used the style of the Spring and Autumn Annals to secretly express his distrust and dissatisfaction with the existing history books. It can be said that among all the professors of Guanda, he is the most suspicious, and the most likely academic collaborator of the Duke of Barrett.
"John Machison? Ha... Interesting, I didn't expect it's someone I know..." Dorothy sat in a seat in the corner of the library, looking at the professor's archive information sent back by the corpse in the distant archives in her mind, and couldn't help but murmured softly. This name of Professor John was not the first time Dorothy heard it. Dorothy had even met him in person. John Machison was Neveu's teacher and one of the professors in the Archaeology Department of Guan University. Neveu and his team went out to study, and it was this Professor John who led the team. Dorothy had met him once on the cruise ship.
"I didn't expect that... the secrets hidden in Guanda are not just the Secret Knowledge Academy. Think about it, this entire campus is located on the secret ruins of the Xingshu Xiushu Society and the Jingyue Church. The school's headmaster is also a big shot in the Masons' Union. Many members of the Putte official secret system graduated here. It is natural that there are a few more secrets hidden here..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart. After almost confirming that Barrett's co-researcher was Neveu's teacher, she immediately began to calculate the time. After calculating, she found that the study tour team of the Archaeology Department would return to Tivian in two days. Their ship would then dock at the port of East City, ending this study tour that had lasted for more than half a year.
"Two days? In that case, I will prepare some gifts and pay a proper visit to the professor in two days."
Dorothy thought like this in her heart. After finding the person, she felt much more relieved. She immediately began to control her zombies scattered throughout the school to clean up the traces of her investigation and slowly collect them. She planned to enjoy a good afternoon tea after collecting all the zombies, then go home to clean the dusty house and rest for two days, and then set off to have a good talk with the professors who had returned from traveling.
䀴Just as Dorothy was manipulating the corpse puppets in the distant archives to sort out the found materials and file all the files neatly, she discovered a problem.
In order to facilitate retrieval and search, the archives of various archives have their own rules. Files of different categories are classified into one major category, and different major categories are further classified into countless subcategories. There are rules from large filing racks to specific filing cabinets. Even in a file folder, files of the same category will be placed in order according to the date and other rules, so that people can accurately find the files they want according to the rules when they are looking up the files.
When Dorothy was looking through the numerous files, she was also trying to figure out the archiving rules in the archives and then slowly searching according to the rules. So when she was controlling the zombies to organize these files, she was also organizing them according to the rules. However, during this organizing process, she noticed something.
This point is in the conclusion of an experiment in the file folder of one of the chemistry professors of Guanda University. After Dorothy read the contents of this report at high speed, she suddenly frowned slightly when she sorted it out and filed it. She found that the contents of the experimental report she sorted out seemed to be somewhat inconsistent with the contents of the report when she first saw it. After recalling it, she found that when she first saw this report, the order of two pages was actually the opposite of what she sorted out now.
This lab report was written on several pieces of loose paper and was not bound when it was filed. Instead, it was put together with all the lab reports of the professor, so the order of the files was at risk of being disrupted if one was not careful. But now the problem was that Dorothy's memory of the first time she saw this lab report did not match her memory after she filed it and sorted it out, so there must be something wrong somewhere.
Since this experimental report was just a few pages of handwritten documents by the professor, there were no page numbers on it. Therefore, when Dorothy was organizing it, she specifically read the entire report and sorted out the order of the report based on the logical relationship between the contents of these pages. However, after sorting it out, she felt something was wrong. After thinking about it carefully, she found that the order on the report was different from what she had sorted out, and it was wrong.
In other words, if Dorothy organized this lab report according to her memory, the logical sequence of this report would be completely wrong, and it would be a report that was impossible to read. If she organized this report in a logical order according to the content of the report, the results would not match what she remembered. As an Inspired Beyonder, Dorothy's memory would not be wrong. When Dorothy took out this report, the order in it was messed up.
"So... the professor accidentally got the order of the pages wrong when submitting his report?"
For a moment, this thought came to Dorothy's mind. If others encountered this kind of problem, they would definitely attribute the cause to the above possibilities and then stop thinking about it. But Dorothy was different. To put it bluntly, she was a neurotic detail maniac. To put it nicely, her mind was too active, and her brain had much more energy than ordinary people to think about a lot of details. She could do many things at the same time without delaying her from doing the right thing.
After noticing the details in the lab report, Dorothy immediately counted the other papers or reports of the chemistry professor. After a comprehensive review, she found that the professor was a very meticulous person. His experimental design and papers were logically rigorous, his ideas were clear, and his reports were written meticulously. In the dozens or hundreds of pages of handwritten papers, the handwriting was neat and the papers were clean. There were no spelling errors, and there were only one or two traces of erasure. It can be seen that he is a very meticulous person. There was no such low-level mistake as putting the wrong page in any of his documents other than this report.
'This professor... doesn't seem like someone who would submit a report on the wrong page... The report is on the wrong page, so it shouldn't be him who caused it. It should be someone who filed it later or checked the files. But this report was submitted as a whole, and the person who filed it only needed to look at the first page with the title and didn't need to flip through it, so it's unlikely. It's more likely that someone who checked the files later caused it. So... did someone come here to check these files before me?'
After this doubt arose, Dorothy continued to sort the files while asking the zombie to observe the surroundings of the archives more carefully. She also retrieved all her memories since she entered the archives from her memory box, began a careful observation, and finally discovered more things.
As it is the summer vacation of Guanda University, not many people stay in school. The archives, which originally had few visitors, have had almost no visit records in the past month or so, so that a thin layer of dust should have accumulated in the entire huge archives. However, when Dorothy recalled that her corpse had just entered the archives, there was almost no dust on the ground and the visible desks and cabinets, as if they had been specially cleaned not long ago. However, the dust was particularly serious in some inconspicuous corners.
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