Are You a Human?
Does every rumor, in the end, come echoing back home?
Truly, how could it be otherwise? How could a thing born even once be snuffed out so easily?
Oblivion is merely a lingering resonance that has yet to arrive.
All rumors, in the end, resound and resonate together — and one day they will manifest again, wearing a new shape.
So listen closely.
How beautiful the Echo is.
CASE NAME:凸 (Revised)
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CASE NAME:Submission of Non-Standard Report by Field Personnel
DATE OF FILING:May 4, 2025
Hey, you disciplinary [CENSORED] bastards. The checkpoint chief is dead.
Calling it "disciplinary action" and throwing people into an unclassified Echo like that — that's just telling them to go die.
So what now, huh?
Who's going to screen out those monster bastards at the entrance now?
Did you want to strut around with an armband that badly? Bad enough to shove your own department's kid onto the command team?
Congratulations. You've got no competition anymore.
Disciplinary scum.
Why don't you and the research department split the wreckage between you—
FINDINGS:Marked decline in field personnel morale. Strong expression of grievance toward superior authorities.
FINDINGS:Suspected onset of acute psychological derangement following the death of the employee's direct supervisor.
RECOMMENDATION:Psychological counseling for the employee in question shall be considered.
ISSUING BODY:The Ethics Committee
ADDRESSED TO:All Facility Personnel
DATE OF FILING:January 1, 2026
Code Black is hereby declared.
This Committee has at last confirmed the total loss of the facility's containment capability.
Accordingly, permanent isolation procedures are now in effect for the facility as a whole, and humanitarian measures will be carried out for all personnel.
Furthermore, by the authority of the Ethics Committee, the Research Department and the Disciplinary Department — the parties responsible for bringing about this situation — shall be held to account and ordered to resolve the situation permanently, within the facility now permanently sealed against the world.
Finally, in accordance with disaster protocol, a global emergency alert is being transmitted to all citizens.
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