A Promise In Four Fragments - As If Drunk, As If Bewitched : Me as Him

Reality Timeline · Friday, June 14th, 2024Zhang Huan-an / Disordered Actions, Unstable Speech, Fragmented Self154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlePFDL8Yys
05:03.He wasn't sure if he had slept.When his eyes opened, dawn had begun to bleed across the windows.The dormitory was silent.His notebook lay open on the desk.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA586xt30pn
Scrawled in red ink, with jagged pressure:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFhjp8bFtp
"Today is your last chance to tell the truth."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzgMnqxyfN
He had no memory of writing it.He tried to erase the words, but his hands trembled.Nails cracked. Knuckles raw.Signs that he had repeated some unknown action through the night.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGIIldZXls
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08:12.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSKhlBjreO
He walked into the precinct—calm on the surface, normal in pace.But his eyes wandered, unable to meet another gaze for more than three seconds.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtE7aMGIC5U
Colleagues greeted him.He didn't respond—only muttered under breath:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBnnL5RPdh
"I didn't schedule it. I didn't schedule it. I didn't schedule it…"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyKkNHMyZc
The duty roster dropped onto his desk.He suddenly barked:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXoHvoeDC6
"Who changed it?!"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnE4wehGpH
No one knew what he meant.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBE3cE9VTJb
—154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFe9oK0lA5
10:37.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaLMdj7QWL
Chief Lin approached to discuss coordination details.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDQrtNFz8N
But Zhang's tone shifted the moment he saw him:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfixeHP69dt
"You knew.You all knew from the beginning, didn't you?!"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1I8hAcVHC
Lin froze—solemn, silent.Then gently replied:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuRaHnObrv
"Xiao-Yu, we're all just—"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp94jI1JSMA
"What did you call me?"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjiyPS7e8N
Zhang lunged forward, eyes wild, nose nearly touching the Chief's.He searched his face like it held the answer to the universe.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9e6DXlBEl
"Say it again. Say my name again."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEw9eOXehy
Lin lowered his voice:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8nke7XxFD
"…Yu Yong'an."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQxAi11p09
Zhang stepped back as if struck.His lips quivered.A sound, more breath than meaning, escaped his throat:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROI6L8gQqy
"…Then why do I still remember her name?"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOcJHj49NE
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12:20.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zK1dcwEhT
He refused lunch.Instead, he taped a note to the glass of his desk:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMrpJjBcwK
[Do not trust today's date][Do not stand where there are shadows][If anyone asks what day it is—don't answer]154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJ3fse2wH3
Colleagues began to avoid him.In the breakroom, only whispers and sidelong glances remained.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPXJCdJOQt
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15:01.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnMpBXH9IJ
He stormed into a meeting room, cut off an ongoing briefing,and pointed at the projector screen.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQRZKXj2BW
He shouted:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdfzscaZOx
"This is fake!You play this briefing every week—every time the same!I've heard it four times already—always on the same day!"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdrREj8IS4
The room fell silent.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EVD6M66wM
The moderator gently asked him to step out.He stayed, murmuring:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GuUm7ljy9
"You don't see him anymore, do you…?The one who speaks like me, dresses like me—but isn't me.Don't you think he's strange…?"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7XbzbUavM
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17:45.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46zZwrKpXz
They convinced him to return to the dorm.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdXLfi8w9i
As he left, he muttered:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi741vd4Zjj
"Next week they'll write me out.I'm just a backup—I'm not the official version…"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gJLB9qvZ5
Back in his room, he spread out notebooks, duty logs, financial ledgers—not to organize,but to prove something.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2wu249b7I
He whispered to himself:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Cy2u1tdIF
"I existed.I really existed.I'm not fake.I remember Mazu's return route…I remember the way she looked at me the first time…"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11wSILeA9J
He never said who she was.No one knew.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBl1d29tgFK
But this room—was no longer his.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHns4nxUKAE
It had become a threshold between two worlds.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVy22ZYo1XS
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Zhang Huan-an / A Memory That Didn't Wait for Him

Just before sleep could claim him,a scene flickered—not like a dream, but like a file opened without request.

A narrow room.White curtains.A girl sitting by the window, one knee drawn up.

She wasn't looking at him.But her voice reached him anyway—a soft, aching tone, like someone trying to remember the right way to say goodbye.

"You used to stand right there.You used to say: 'Even if I forget everything else—I'll remember your name.'"

Her hair fell across her cheek.She wiped a finger across the glass, tracing a symbol—Not a cross. Something older. More fractured.

"But now you forget me, and remember the cross instead."

He stepped forward.The floor cracked under his weight—like reality couldn't hold both of them.

She looked up. Her eyes shimmered, not with tears, but with time.

"If you forget me one more time…I'll start remembering you instead."

The room collapsed into silence.

Zhang blinked—and found himself back in his dorm.But the weight on his chest remained—like he had just said goodbye to someone who still hadn't left.

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[Notebook Entry｜2024.06.14｜Friday] (torn page)154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEiqC4D38D
You're not truly mad.They only made you believe madness belonged to you.That's when you started thinking you were the problem.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCNq2wW3le
When did you go silent?Was it the day you decided to stop telling people:"I heard it"?154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BLR4hwc54
Stop writing.The words will be replaced.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxoDjUGU40v
Use memory.Use the misaligned pain.Use the cross from your dream.It remembers you.Don't forget it.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfx8UyEOIj
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Zhang Huan-an's Mutation and the Descent Toward IntegrationJuly–August 2024 · Extensions of the Cyclical Collapse154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBjnFNFWLF
Tuesday, July 2nd154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrksKrxcXtK
That morning, he wore his uniform—but no belt.His notebook slid off his shoulder and landed on the floor.As he bent to pick it up, he noticed a note taped under his desk:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkLOF1icGa
[You no longer need to write][Tuesday remembers on its own]154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRG51gaMhzQ
He didn't know who left it.Nor did he recall choosing not to write.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtScl3bDSc
Yet the pages remained blank—empty line after line,as if language had been erased for the month.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nnxHFwLVw
He knew he was alive,but the world no longer communicated with him through logic or speech.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMoBtBZP8G
It fed him images, sounds, instructions—directly into his body.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyErfeHKAO
Friday, July 5th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGnyLXS3ft
The precinct was silent.No one spoke to him directly anymore.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdFyygOEwd
His words were too disjointed.His gaze, misaligned.His tone—unstable.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAV6LavKjga
He spoke in fractures:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBsCpHx1mZ
"The case files, I… we've already handed them over."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ827xiNo13v
"If needed, I can explain directly… he's listening too."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xDW9S41s6
Colleagues couldn't tell who "we" referred to.Or who he was.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJAnNK0tYT
—154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oXSSbfFCs
That afternoon, he pasted a grainy black-and-white photo onto the shift log.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHFVSvD6wW
No date. No markings.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNVtMI3tKKX
It showed him, standing at the precinct gate—passing by another version of himself.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnUb3Pr1uR
The image was blurred, the focus off.But no one questioned its authenticity.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBdON1PvDO
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He had lost track of the date.Time had begun to reappear, looping rather than moving forward.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHVDhwfGfr
Tuesday, July 16th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPbqUU0I4n
He drew a map of a non-existent route—154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsbh2vaKud
from the precinct to Di'an Road,cutting into a dead-end alley off Qiyang Lane.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtag38FgBfz
"We've been there before," he told his team,"just… not in this version of your timeline."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWXUHWhzLQ
They visited the location that afternoon.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZcdl3T73x
Nothing matched.No street numbers aligned.Even the power poles he had marked weren't there.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Z2NOdRS6R
And yet—the incident log that day showed a report filed from that very alley.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nEnm12ZYp
Time: 2024/07/16 14:07Content: "Someone in a police uniform entered my memory."Filed by: (no name)Audio: (no sound)Note: "Transferred to: Y.A."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMfS44EG0as
The system's assigned handler wasn't Zhang Huan-an.It was Yu Yong'an.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGyzFbzag4
Friday, July 19th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi73MMBcPO4
He no longer tried to explain himself.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHCzA975Tg
For every error, every misaligned memory, every reflected version of him seen through others' eyes—he responded only with a quiet sentence:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0a4H02X7M
"I know you don't recognize me anymore.That's okay.I'm starting not to recognize myself either."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hkOrKwBUr
He had once tried to resist.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGc6TevL3n
Now he followed the invisible track laid before him—like a sacred, strange ritual,each Tuesday and Friday folding him inward again.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIOUg6CuFV
—154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuAQXp0NvZ
His notebook for that month repeated the same line:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPqnRllqZI
"I no longer ask who I am—but when will he fully become me."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EGWwwLRJi
Tuesday, August 6th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRW3V6oCvk
He hadn't spoken in a week.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fD7e5QsTp
Not because he lost the ability—but because language had become untrustworthy.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtHmgMTJy3
He tried speaking into the mirror.His lips lagged behind.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRf34YOjM3P
Typing produced sentences he hadn't yet finished forming in thought.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazpzj9jOy3
That morning, he found a note:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oqYTQdkXP
"Today, you will speak three sentences you didn't write.Record them.Or you will believe you were the author."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqth8T1F5C
He kept the note.Said nothing all day.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj72q3nAXsk
Until 18:44, when he answered a colleague's question in the hallway:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfaaIS3qetj
"She won't appear tomorrow."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePllkTbyn5
He wasn't aware he had spoken.But everyone else paused in silence.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUz0aGR8qPY
The next day,a close colleague submitted a sudden transfer request.The date matched.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHesKCZ4NL2
It wasn't prophecy.It was projection.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQw2Ug7MVal
His language had begun to carry outcomes from other timelines.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJhNv08iNG
Friday, August 9th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLtGdd7cVy
He no longer walked—he glided.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZxoMlgens
Each turn, each stair, every doorway—he anticipated them.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkctooH4dX
Even people's appearances and words arrived like recorded loops.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtncDfW5tYc
His speech was no longer generated.It played—like tape.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNujpqX6Uf
He passed Chief Lin, and said calmly:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDY3PbJY4Z
"The last time you brought me here was five years ago."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFQvoaVDnH
Chief Lin blinked:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypva03qOTw
"When have we ever come here together…?"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSUEQqx4eX
Zhang didn't turn around.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDqDKZRUvo
"Back then,you didn't know who 'I' was."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIH9ceuny4C
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That night, he locked himself in his room.On the wall, he formed a symbol with tape:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9oWcA1rrFy
A cross within a cross,and in the center—numbers aligned to form a smaller cross:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGzPgfDPn9
1, 4, 5, 9, 2, 6, 8, 3, 7154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJHnliWAIB
He whispered:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ax9ZrbtsA
"This isn't a code.It's a time sequence.The last one he can still use my body to write."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gnB7B7pIe
"After August, I will vanish, piece by piece—every Friday."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHqQdSeA8t
Tuesday, August 20th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeHqO7jkn0
Rumors stirred at the precinct:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMoYL6hpDP
That Zhang Huan-an's case logs didn't match anyone else's.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvbitheBWL
That he filed visits to the already-dead.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrpMVRgG2Y
That he whispered the exact final words of deceased relativeswith perfect inflection.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54MYhX5QOM
That day, he had no fieldwork scheduled,but requested a shift anyway:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡul5RuP7pO8
"I've already been there once.This time is to confirm the replay angle."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkYGaSAXOX
He left a note on his schedule:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFbgK6mSy9
"If I can see Yu Yong'an's memories ahead of time—does that mean I no longer belong to this timeline?"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkAtIf0Xk1
Friday, August 23rd154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVqpKvQQPc
His voice began to change.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8I6mZUPhgc
There was a resonance—as if another voice overlapped his own.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrgJb9NGgJ
That afternoon, a colleague paused mid-conversation and asked:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMT6Lksa8j
"…Who just spoke that line?"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqFPAqJ0pR
Zhang replied:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkqzaaimib
"I didn't say anything."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hiXJv4kVX
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He could only hold on to himself through scribbles and muttering.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPraGoht2ib
"Today I'm Zhang.Tomorrow I may be Yu.The day after—we'll be us."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV18YtgDKCW
He wrote that in his journal.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeX28ge8uRN
The language had lost its subject.The self was unraveling into shared identity.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdXYoRFxhs
—154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgLtwQzORg
And for the entire month,he said only one sentencethat truly belonged to him:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZsBr4UE2a
"Please don't say my name—because you don't know who you're calling."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLWDsc6qdF
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Zhang Huan-an's Mutation and the Integration of IdentitySeptember–October 2024 · Dislocated Existence and Dual Memory Synchronization154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrO8AaIvSm
Tuesday, September 3rd154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrN7B5zkMa
He filed his first formal request for extended leave.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQz8amoxwz
The reason: neurological fatigue and adaptive dissociation.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmvgixBCTr
But within the precinct, whispers stirred:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGHp8LXqvv
"He can't recognize the floors anymore.""I saw him speaking into the glass of the copier—like it was going to answer him."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nfBePNSks
All he said was:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJ3VwdC25L
"I need silence."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6FDYqhP4b
But his silence was not rest.It was a temporary retreat from the touchpoints of this timeline.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLc1G9Z7Eh
Friday, September 6th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAH85WsAeB
Though officially on leave,an internal message suddenly appeared in the precinct's system—sent from his account:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkJK5OkvNj
[Subject]: Friday Review Protocol154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqK3HwJJffx
[Content]:・Not being present ≠ Not existing・Physical stillness ≠ Time suspension・Duplicate data ≠ Incorrect transmission154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JpBdhKuhI
→ Do not delete any anomalous files→ Yu Yong'an (Zhang Huan-an) will continue to observe your responses154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CQaW6EEBl
The system auto-locked his account for six hours.IT couldn't trace the login.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxCldW3o6j
It was as if the system itself had written it.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznwkWqbD7T
Chief Lin murmured later:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqj1wUilERh
"He's not here…but he's still here."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuG1qmJeR1
Tuesday, September 17th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2DTOsfOAQ
Even during leave, he kept appearing—in quiet corners of the city:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡijncWvc7ld
• At dawn: the noodle shop near Qiyang Road—always an empty seat• At dusk: beneath the streetlamp beside the precinct—cameras always blinked once• At night: the riverbank bench under the Di'an bridge— incident log showed: "Shadow figure appeared in a restricted zone"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpVGRsSopm
He never spoke. Just sat.Sometimes nodded, as if listening to something.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjDNdHWxMM
Witnesses said:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtEDJBPTz6
"He looked like he was waiting for someone.Smiled once—like the message had arrived."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvIkaqU9kS
But the one returning was never "him"—Only all the personas, memories, and voicesthat had once been displaced into his body.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssYzxqh0lH
Friday, September 20th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjH4NCfTq7
Day 27 of leave.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHTMjmrJFE
His sense of embodiment began to dissolve.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIrX3UzHQ6
He dropped cups without meaning to.His hand missed the page when he tried to write.His reactions lagged—but his words were still perfectly accurate.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIqveNsGEo
He wrote:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNL7m7cx3l
"I can feel my body.But it doesn't feel like I'm moving it.""It's like someone borrowed me, and left fingerprints behind."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35wxTR11fy
He called this state:"The Observer Shell."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76dfXGo8Jx
That month, he left only one note with any raw emotion:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2AaSdcnnk
"This isn't leave. This is exile."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvO6PBO0gfe
Tuesday, October 1st154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tGj1M6fSU
There was no record of him anywhere.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBzZW0QMTl
Not just absent from duty—he vanished from all systems:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWhV8zKato
No CCTV.No login logs.No GPS.No medical pings.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGJg2Q8QiK
Even his phone signal stalled at:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uqk8zF9YC
September 30th, 23:59154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKOA46KSzT
But at 23:51, a shadowy figure flickered across the precinct's backdoor camera.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsR8Zo76FIS
He wore a uniform.Moved exactly like Zhang Huan-an.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzY3noqcZx
But his face—blurred.As if a veil of unfocusable time masked his features.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGaSDHzFRo
The system flagged the footage as "outdated recording"—with a timestamp marked:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMbbjs055D
October 1st, 2025154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7C87zM8A1
He appeared.But in a time that did not yet exist.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVwwYA7OHw
Friday, October 4th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8eTJ3Zgo4
He reappeared in the precinct hallway—civilian clothes, bloodshot eyes, notebook in hand.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq3np6JbLZ
Someone asked:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgfayD9F0M
"Where have you been?"154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvE3MORYJP
He replied:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9uyQaPNsk
"I never left.You've only just caught up to the day I was already on."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvL6dbVJaR
His tone—calm.Eyes unwavering.Every word sounded… rehearsed.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1fHCnZVAt
But a second later, he stopped speaking—bit his lip, as if warned from inside.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJr7tPRtDVM
He was beginning to feel it:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lnK2z2oYS
His right to language was being revoked.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVFyHbKadX
That night, a note was found on his desk:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGI9I9ZEMu
[2024/10/04]154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXYD4lUwoP
High overlap in memory today.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77ikshYWxf
Morning: I conversed with Chief Lin in Xinan.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnrB1HYMHS
Afternoon: I was still in bed, unmoving.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEDJIRA3js
Both memories complete. No gaps.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiOczaUurD
→ Assessment: dual consciousness syncing, not yet integrated→ Suspected "memory proxy" present—someone else experienced the event, but I can recall it with emotional precision154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwLQGdniO2
Annotation: "I didn't live this day, but I remember it."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuvNu6JEaz
Tuesday, October 15th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiKodn5V5S
He was spotted at Tamsui MRT Station.Blank stare. Civilian clothes.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TPEEmNupz
At 5:40 AM, a civilian photographed him standing at a narrow alley by Sanmin Market,whispering to a peeling wall:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P12Wfcxo4
"The me from here should already be dead…but you're still speaking to me."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlFSo8u1SW
When approached, he smiled and replied:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItF3DRwswf
"You're a year too late.But that's not your fault."154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8HTxzbibD
His words felt like a conversation—but the air held no answer.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8D68YUmX9
—154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6YFX1WXuD
That night, his journal bore handwriting unmistakably not his:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡel1ENvhXY1
[Y.A.]154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJnMXClMJh
Zhang, if you're still here—stop trying to go back.We came from opposite ends.We can't both turn around.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkR5niYnO1
If we meet again,neither of us will survive.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidnFSaRtPc
Friday, October 18th154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9gIep5EJv
His leave was extended.Official reason: recurring spatiotemporal confusion.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnonaI1ivuR
But that day, he appeared in a past assignment log:154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboj4MhllbQ
[Supplemental Entry]2024/06/14, FridayZhang Huan-an — Present at Longjing Migrant Factory Preliminary Review154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPXLSXVPP2
But that day's photos clearly showed him in October's clothes—not the attire from June.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvalcns0IS
Logs unsynced.Identity displaced.The system began to "remember" days he hadn't lived—and forget the ones he had.

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