Action Record
The moment Yu Sheng heard Baili Qing's account, he knew that the failure of that operation all those years ago had been inevitable—they had made a colossal mistake, an absurdly wrong one.
And yet, that misjudgment had been almost impossible to avoid.
The strange properties of "Fairy Tale" were beyond the imagination of anyone encountering it for the first time. Its sluggishness, weak effects, and limitation to children during its initial outbreak were deeply misleading. More importantly, it possessed a unique "main body-subset" structure. The true core of "Fairy Tale" was hidden behind the various dream stages it wove, and the Special Operations Bureau decades ago... could not possibly have known any of that.
Yu Sheng opened the file and slowly scanned the operation record codenamed "Adulthood." At the beginning of the document was an appended report that recorded in considerable detail the appearances of Fairy Tale's Otherworld and its early incidents. Most of it matched what Little Red Riding Hood had told him at the orphanage.
The initial outbreak of "Fairy Tale" occurred inside an orphanage called Warm Sun Orphanage. The orphanage was affiliated with a public-welfare organization under the council. In the roughly half month before the first outbreak, there had been several incidents in which children woke from dreams and wandered about, or fainted during the day. At night, night-watch personnel reported hearing strange sounds from the residential area, resembling wolf howls, wind, or soldiers marching in formation.
According to the records, these circumstances had not gone unnoticed by the authorities. In fact, on the day after the night-watch personnel reported the abnormalities, an investigation team from the Special Operations Bureau entered the orphanage and conducted a detailed investigation. An "Otherworld Doctor" accompanied them and performed physical examinations on the children who had suffered nightmares