Nineteen minutes remained in the answer window. Gu Heng did not leave the public terminal. The anonymous message was still pinned to the top of the personal page.
`The Honored Person is not where you think`
Another note had appeared beneath it.
`Someone has already entered the answer into the submission field`
The note was posted four minutes after the previous one. The sender field was still blank. Gu Heng saved the original page first.
He refreshed it again. The original note was pushed down to the second line. A different sentence now occupied the top.
`Someone has already tested it for you`
The two sentences had switched positions. The page did not show who had made the change. Gu Heng placed the two screenshots side by side.
"What can that prove?" Yukimura asked.
"Only that the page changed in that order."
"It can't prove someone actually pressed it?"
"No. Entering an answer and clicking confirm are not the same thing."
Yukimura looked at the countdown and did not send a message right away. Gu Heng gave him the timestamps from the two screenshots.
"Should Class D send out a unified statement first?"
"Only report the page changes we've verified."
"That'll make it look like we're waiting for someone else to press it first."
"That's an interpretation outsiders will add."
"It might affect people in the class too."
"Then don't write the answer for them."
Yukimura left the report page at the input field. He did not copy the anonymous notes into it. He only wrote down the two page update times.
`The original text and the current display order differ`
`Sender, answer, and confirmation status pending verification`
Yukimura did not save the second line immediately. He held up a private reply for Gu Heng to see.
`If I only