Chapter Two: The Woman Missing from the Recording

Lin Jianguo and Su Lan were his parents. But they had always lived in the north of the city, and he had never had a sister. Beside the name Lin Xiaoman, Lacuna slowly wrote: [Do not forget her again.] Footsteps approached outside. Xu snatched up the register and opened a maintenance hatch in the floor. “If you want to know who she was, follow me.” Lin glanced at the nearing beams of light and climbed into darkness. As the hatch closed above him, he heard someone say with perfect calm: “Residual record discovered. Execute local correction.”