Chapter 636: Falling stars
The loss of confidential files from the Magic Script Compendium was a major incident for the entire Dawn Archive Management Office.
Ever since the Archive Management Office had been "reestablished," everything had generally run smoothly. At most, there were times when the staff could not keep up, but with the Dawn Association backing them, materials from other worlds and research findings from within Dawn kept pouring in, steadily enriching the office's collection.
This loss was its first security incident. The entire Archive Management Office mobilized every resource available to investigate and immediately reported it to their superiors.
They reviewed surveillance, questioned the Shadow of the Mystic Realm, and tried every possible means of inspecting the entire magic script protection system. Administrator Shen Yu and the Popoli Demon Xiaohulong, who had been directly involved, cooperated with repeated rounds of questioning.
In the end, they neither recovered the missing confidential files nor found conclusive evidence of what had caused their disappearance.
Still, most people shared one theory: the loss was connected to the earlier collision with a World Fragment. For now, that seemed the likeliest explanation.
World Fragment collisions still sometimes occurred on Earth. By sheer ill luck, this one had happened directly above the Archive Management Office. Although the Shadow of the Mystic Realm had shattered the fragment and subsequently absorbed the world power within it, the initial collision had still sent violent tremors through the entire mystic realm.
Everyone inside the mystic realm at the time had felt it strongly. They therefore suspected that the collision had brought about some unforeseen change within the realm, and that this was what had caused the confidential files to disappear.
Qin Xiaoxia knew about it, of course, but there was nothing he could do about something like this. The