There was more than one troubling matter.
That day, Director Wang came to find Mo Ling and told him something utterly unexpected...
"We searched the databases from the years before and after the Abyss invasion, including the databases of every independent system, the search-and-rescue lists at 821 Base, the hunter registry for the Abyss Entrance, and the entry and exit lists from every Monitoring Station. We found no one named 'Mo Ling.'"
"There were similar names, such as Mo Ling, Mo Lin, Mo Lin, Mo Ling, and so on. After ruling out gender, we investigated the remaining individuals. Some had died during the Abyss invasion, while others had lived on the surface all along, with no record of entering the Abyss."
"Of those with records of entering the Abyss, the dates did not match either, and the age differences were substantial. We can confirm that none of them was Mo Ling himself."
"We also ruled out the possibility of names being misleading and searched for people with similar experiences. We compared them one by one against the list of the first people to enter the Abyss and found no one matching your description."
"Based on the address you provided, we also checked the property records from that time. Although too much time has passed for us to identify the exact apartment number, we can confirm that none of the residents in that building was named Mo Ling. Likewise, we found no suspicious individuals in the nearby buildings."
"After a thorough investigation, based on the available data, we can tentatively conclude..."
"Mo Ling, or rather, anyone matching this life experience, does not exist."
Director Wang had left plenty of room for interpretation and had not completely denied Mo Ling's existence, but his meaning was clear: the information available could not prove