Chapter Two: The Woman Missing from the Recording

“Stop investigating Wuyin Street,” a woman said softly. “Who are you?” “The woman with the umbrella.” Lin stood so quickly that he knocked over his coffee. “Why weren’t you on the recording?” Silence, then: “Because recordings obey the present. You saw a piece of the past that wasn’t cleaned away.” “Did you drop the glass?” “I warned you. The people who tried to kill you already know Lacuna chose you.” She told him to destroy the receipt, uninstall the extension, and distrust anything that offered to complete his memory. When he asked her name, she said, “Xu Zhi. If you insist on investigating, eleven tonight, rear entrance of the old city archive. Don’t take the side with the streetlights.”