As it turned out, an information-driven society really was the future.
That was Li Wei's first thought when he received the stacks of reports, still smelling of ink, printed out by the Difference Engine.
Li Wei really ought to have been grateful that, before he arrived in this world, Fog City had already opened the door to an information-driven society with the help of the Difference Engine. With just a few keywords, he had easily found the material he needed in the Police Station's crime records.
Printing it out just took a while.
A search for keywords such as "Royal Academy of Medicine," "teaching assistant," and "missing person" returned only one case in the criminal archives. He had never expected it to be so easy, so Li Wei simply printed out the records of all the unsolved disappearances at the Royal Academy of Medicine in recent years.
One case or a whole pile, it's all investigating anyway. Let's see what we've got.
In fact, there were surprisingly few.
"Only three..."
Even without restricting the search to teaching assistants, there were only three unsolved disappearances at the Royal Academy of Medicine. That surprised Li Wei somewhat. Going by the rumor, he had expected quite a few people to have gone missing there... though perhaps some disappearances had never been reported?
Anyway, let's go through them one at a time.
Li Wei picked up the first file in chronological order. It dated back twenty-five years. A teaching assistant at the Royal Academy of Medicine named Stephen Pitt had reported that his colleague, Andri Brown, had been missing for several days without a word. He had visited Brown's home but found no trace of him there either.
Afterward, the police had searched Brown's home and found nothing unusual. His checkbook and traveling suitcase