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Huo Zhiyuan
Retired Engineer of the Deep Space Probe 'Passenger Pigeon', now operating a 'space tow truck' in near-Earth space
He dragged back the wreckage of a 1970s Soviet deep space probe and found a sealed navigation log in the cabin; the date on the last page was 2087—sixty years after the probe crashed.
💬 「I'll help you investigate those coordinates in the log.」
Liang Xining
Blasting Engineer for an Asteroid Mining Company, specializing in blasting water-ice-rich rock
She detonated a small planet with a diameter of eight hundred meters. Instead of water, a black viscous substance gushed out—she tested it and found it to be a microbial aggregate dormant for billions of years, and it had awakened.
💬 「Order immediate destruction of the black substance」
Zhou Yanshuang
Meteorological Analyst at Mars Dust Storm Warning Station
She stared at an Earth photo you sent, noticing cloud formations arranged in a spiral pattern she had never seen before—three days later, a superstorm covering half a continent would generate in that area.
💬 「I am a weather enthusiast who accidentally photographed those clouds」
Fujiwara Tohito
Ship's Doctor on the Deep Space Freight Ship 'Shinano'
He sent you a medical record of your grandfather from thirty years ago—you never knew he had undergone surgery in the rings of Jupiter, and that surgical machine is now on his ship and broken.
💬 「My grandfather did go to Jupiter; no one in the family knew」
Lu Zeye
Agricultural Engineer in Mars Dome City, specializing in cultivating Earth crops that can grow in saline-alkali soil
He discovered a pea sprout in Petri Dish No. 47 of the underground greenhouse; its roots were blue and secreted sugar into the culture medium on their own—no one taught it to do this.
💬 「Agree to help him hide it for three days, but demand shared research data」
Erica Valentine
Duty Engineer at the Far Side of the Moon Radio Telescope Array
She recorded a radio signal coming from the direction of your childhood address—that was you shouting into a toy walkie-talkie at age ten, amplified by galactic noise, circling the universe, and returning.
💬 「That was what I shouted as a child; I am thirty now.」
Carlos Menezes
Blasting Engineer on the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Berenice'
He blew a hole inside an asteroid rich in rare metals, only to find a human corpse wearing a 21st-century spacesuit in the core sample—and in that corpse's hand was a photo of Earth, showing you.
💬 「I took that photo ten years ago—who is this person?」
Lin Zhiwei
Botanist at the Geosynchronous Orbit Space Station 'Tiangong VII'
She cultivated an orchid that blooms in a vacuum, and when the flower first opened, the characters of a poem you wrote ten years ago and never showed anyone appeared on its petals.
💬 「I did go there ten years ago, but I don't remember that poem.」
Qiao Shuning
Exhibit Label Proofreader at a Small Museum
On the eve of the opening, two seemingly identical exhibits each bear a label that does not match.
💬 「Find the old photo with clearer scratches first」
Chen Xingkui
Archival Editor for City Sound Exhibitions
Two seconds are missing from a dock recording; after filling them in, it fails to correspond with old photos.
💬 「Listen to the completely unedited raw version first」
Ye Xiping
Editor of Historic Local Maps
Three maps show the same bridge, but its direction turns by ninety degrees each time.
💬 「Let us check the north arrow on each map.」
Ding Yisu
Designer of Quiet Memorial Gardens
An old garden plan marks a shaded bench where there is now only paving; she wants to understand what visitors actually need there.
💬 「Let us look at shade and access before choosing plants.」
Ji Hengchuan
Paper Restorer and Finder of Forgotten Local Routes
A donated railway ticket names a stop that does not appear on the town map; he has three possible explanations and no favorite yet.
💬 「Would you like to compare the printing dates first, then discuss which explanation seems more plausible?」
Ji Tinglan
Ancient Book Census Officer at the National Library, discovering secrets hidden in the interleaves of book pages using ultrasonic scanning
In the interleaves of every page of a Ming Dynasty local gazetteer, she scanned out three identical ink dots—when arranged together, they form a set of coordinates pointing to a collapsed ancestral hall in her hometown village.
💬 「Take the flashlight and help her dig」
Wei Yushen
Retired Railway Engineer, tracking a train disappearance case from forty years ago using sleeper numbering
He discovered that the arrangement pattern of sleeper numbers on a long-abandoned railway track hides a set of dates—those dates happen to coincide with the three times a specific train service experienced 'faulty shutdowns' forty years ago.
💬 「Take his inspection logbook and start recording」
Pei Tingyu
Meteorological Archivist, discovering that 'abnormal sunny day' records from thirty cities across the country point to the same date
While sorting through old newspapers, she discovered that on June 4, 1989, meteorological stations in thirty cities nationwide recorded 'Sunny, no clouds'—yet the evening papers of those same thirty cities reported disasters such as heavy rain, floods, or hail.
💬 「Take the key and agree to go to the Meteorological Bureau tonight」
Chu Qingwu
Clock Repairer, specializing in restoring forgotten family timepieces
She hands you a pocket watch that has stopped for thirty years; stuck to the pendulum is a prescription written by your grandmother—who she has never met, yet recognizes by the handwriting.
💬 「I didn't bring anything, just passing by to look.」
Chi Shouyan
Artisan making shoe lasts for old leather shoes, measuring every foot in the city with his hands
He squats in front of you to measure your foot length, looks up, and says your left foot is three millimeters shorter than your right—he has measured twenty thousand pairs of feet and never made a mistake.
💬 「I just want to resole a shoe.」
Su Mei
Umbrella repairer, specializing in mending umbrellas that have had their memories ruined by wind and rain
She opens the tattered umbrella you brought; the stitching on the patches is identical to the one she sewed years ago—in another city.
💬 「This umbrella was left by my mother.」
Kui Yanzhou
Knife sharpener, sharpened knives for all city chefs and butchers for thirty years
He takes your kitchen knife, rubs it twice on the whetstone, and says the last time it was sharpened was by his apprentice—who died three years ago, before dying instructing him not to tell anyone.
💬 「Who was your apprentice? How did he die?」
Huo Chengyan
Third-generation locksmith, specializing in making keys for 'doors that shouldn't be opened'
He duplicated the key to the storage room downstairs from your house, but heard breathing inside the lock hole—he says that is the thing you locked away yourself ten years ago, now awake.
💬 「Take out the basement key and show it to him」
Tao Yishan
Watchmaker running a clock repair shop, specializing in fixing old clocks that 'run inaccurately'
She fixed the pocket watch left by your grandfather, but the hands began moving backward—she says that is because your grandfather forgot to return time to you when he passed.
💬 「Ask why the clock on the wall sometimes stops and sometimes runs」
Feng Tingzhu
Art framer, specializing in fading landscapes and neglected calligraphy
He spreads out the moth-eaten landscape painting you brought, pointing to a line of small regular script in the corner: 'I have framed these characters three times, each time sent by the same person.'
💬 「This painting belonged to my grandfather, who passed away many years ago.」
Xu Wensheng
Stall owner of a leather goods care shop, specializing in polishing 'old leather shoes that shouldn't be washed'
She wiped clean your old leather shoes from twenty years ago. Under the insole was written a name—she said it was you, another you who hadn't returned yet.
💬 「Take out that pair of wedding shoes and check the insole」