116: Chapter 116 Receiving a notification on behalf of someone else does not mean entering the door for them.

"Don't make me sign."

"If I sign, they will say—"

"You have already received the White Tower Second Floor notice."

The young boy's voice from deep within the wooden cabinet trembled violently.

Inside the mailroom, all the old receipts were fluttering.

The paper pages rustled, like a group of old names locked away for twenty years, desperately trying to crash their way out of the cabinet.

The black-covered personal logbook lay open in mid-air.

The first page read:

[Qinghuai Town, Ye Guizhou.]

[Occupational Tendency: E-Class Sign-in Clerk.]

On the second page, a new line of text was slowly deepening.

[Latest Item Awaiting Sign-in]

[Recipient: Rule Maintenance Special Class]

[Item: White Tower Second Floor Entrance Notice]

[Signer on Behalf: Ye Guizhou]

[Status: Awaiting Confirmation]

Lin Jin stared at the three characters for "Signer on Behalf," his expression as dark as iron.

"Who told him to sign on our behalf?"

White Tower characters immediately appeared.

[Sign-in Clerk Duties: Confirm Item Delivery]

[Current Recipient is in a collective state]

[Delivery confirmation can be completed by the Sign-in Clerk]

Chen Ye was so angry he nearly fell off the stretcher.

"We are all right here!"

"Who else needs to confirm delivery for us?"

Zhou Heng leveled his Thunder Spear, blocking the front of the personal logbook.

"It doesn't want delivery."

"It wants the entrance conditions."

Shen Tingxue looked at the document awaiting signature.

"As long as it's signed, it can write: White Tower Second Floor notice delivered."

"The next step will be: The squad has been informed of the risks; if they do not enter within seven days, it will be considered a waiver of the audit."

Lin Jin nodded.

"Or worse."

"It will write: Notice received, entrance conditions met."

From deep inside the wooden cabinet, Ye Guizhou's voice came again.

"I don't want to sign."

"But my hand... it won't listen to me."

On the black-covered book, beside the character "Ye," a faint handprint slowly emerged.

It was as if someone behind the paper was being forced to press their hand down onto the signature line.

Lin Jin spoke immediately:

"Don't block the hand; change the definition of sign-in first."

Chen Ye was stunned.

"It's about to be signed, and you aren't going to block it?"

"Blocking the hand only works once."

Lin Jin stared at the handprint.

"It will just find another hand."

He picked up a piece of chalk and wrote on the floor of the mailroom:

[Notice Boundaries]

[1. Receiving a notice does not equate to agreeing to enter.]

[2. Collecting a notice on behalf of someone does not equate to the person having read it.]

[3. Signing for an item does not equate to accepting the responsibilities, debts, costs, or entrance obligations contained within the item.]

[4. Unauthorized Sign-in Clerks may not confirm the White Tower Second Floor entrance notice on behalf of the Rule Maintenance Special Class.]

[5. The White Tower may not use "Notice Delivered" as grounds to infer the squad's agreement to enter the second floor.]

White Tower characters immediately retorted.

[Entrance notice is for notification only]

[Sign-in does not represent agreement]

[Please complete delivery confirmation]

Chen Ye almost laughed when he heard that.

"It's even learned to pretend to be harmless."

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"If it were truly just a notification, it wouldn't be forcing Ye Guizhou to sign."

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, and Ice Line froze the four corners of the document awaiting signature.

"Notification can be recorded."

"But it cannot be delivered via substitute signing."

Qin Shanhe raised his hand, and the Academy seal landed at the entrance of the mailroom.

"Academy confirmation."

"The entire Rule Maintenance Special Class is present; any White Tower Second Floor notice must be made known to each person individually and cannot be signed on their behalf by a residual sign-in clerk."

Gu Changye continued:

"Abyss Processing Bureau confirmation."

"Notices involving the White Tower Second Floor, the Cost General Ledger Room, and automatic deduction risks are high-risk rule documents and cannot be delivered via substitute collection."

Inspector Han Su's projection spoke coldly:

"Education Bureau Inspection Seat confirmation."

"The victim remnant Ye Guizhou does not have the authority to sign for the White Tower Second Floor entrance notice on behalf of current students."

As the voices of the three parties bore down, the handprint on the black-covered book paused.

From deep inside the wooden cabinet, Ye Guizhou let out a sharp gasp.

"Can I... not sign?"

Lin Jin answered quickly.

"Yes."

"Sign-in Clerks also have the right to refuse to sign."

The White Tower paper pages flipped even more urgently.

[Sign-in Clerk Occupational Duty: Must not refuse to receive delivered items]

Lin Jin wrote directly below it:

[Refusal Boundaries]

[When a Sign-in Clerk discovers incorrect recipients, incorrect permissions, dangerous items, overstepping by the sender, or illegal delivery methods, they have the right to refuse to sign, return, or flag as a dispute.]

[Refusing to sign does not equate to destroying the notice.]

[Returning does not equate to the recipient having received it.]

[Flagging as a dispute does not equate to extending debt.]

Hearing this, Chen Ye immediately shouted at the wooden cabinet:

"Ye Guizhou!"

"Did you hear that?"

"It's not that we aren't letting you work."

"It's that this job is problematic, and you can refuse!"

The wooden cabinet was silent for a second.

Then, the young boy's voice rose with a hint of tears:

"But I refused before."

"They said that if the Sign-in Clerk doesn't sign, it's useless."

"They said that my profession is low to begin with."

"They said that as long as I took the notice to others, it would be helping them."

"I really just wanted to help them get the notices."

"Su Yan's house is the furthest from the town entrance."

"He Zhibai needed to get medicine for his mother."

"Luo Wensheng was organizing old books at the school that day."

"I thought, I'm quick on my feet, I'll collect them for them first and deliver them later."

He paused here, his voice suddenly cutting off.

"But I didn't deliver them."

"I had just walked out of the mailroom when I saw a white door."

Chen Ye's hand holding the shield tightened abruptly.

Shen Tingxue's Ice Line trembled slightly.

Ye Guizhou continued:

"Someone inside the door asked me, 'Have you signed for everything?'"

"I said yes."

"He said, 'If it's signed, it's considered delivered.'"

"I said no, I haven't delivered them yet."

"He said, 'That's just how the rules are.'"

"Then they made me sign more."

"Waiving enrollment."

"Family members informed."

"Project responsibilities transferred."

"Notice delivered."

"If I didn't sign, they would press my hand to sign."

From deep inside the wooden cabinet, sheets of paper suddenly flew out one by one.

On each one, there were similar traces of a signature.

[Ye Guizhou]

[Ye Guizhou]

[Ye Guizhou]

The same name, written on different receipts for waivers, notifications, deliveries, and transfers.

But those strokes were crooked and broken, with many places showing signs of being pressed and dragged.

Luo Wensheng's voice echoed softly:

"He didn't write those."

"At least, not of his own volition."

Lin Jin recorded immediately:

[Ye Guizhou's testimony: He only collected the notices on behalf of others; he did not complete personal delivery.]

[His subsequent proxy signing actions involved coercion, hand-pressing, and misuse of occupational duties.]

[Ye Guizhou should not be registered as a voluntary scapegoat sign-in clerk.]

Ye Guizhou's name lit up on the first page of the personal logbook.

The handprint that had been descending toward the White Tower Second Floor notice finally retracted an inch.

But the White Tower did not give up.

[All current recipients are present]

[Recipients can confirm they have been informed of the notice themselves]

[Please Rule Maintenance Special Class confirm: You have received the White Tower Second Floor entrance notice]

Chen Ye was about to say "We saw it," when Lin Jin raised his hand abruptly.

"Don't say received."

Chen Ye immediately shut his mouth.

Lin Jin looked at the document awaiting signature.

"We confirm we have seen an overstepping delivery notice."

"But we do not confirm its delivery is valid."

"And we certainly do not confirm it constitutes an entrance condition."

Shen Tingxue continued:

"Lockdown Role Shen Tingxue confirms: This notice was delivered by the White Tower via a victimized sign-in source; the delivery method is contaminated."

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"Barrier Breaker Position Zhou Heng confirms: The content of the notice cannot be converted into an obligation."

Chen Ye took a breath and continued:

"Protection Role Chen Ye confirms: I saw it, but I am not signing for it."

"And I certainly won't let Ye Guizhou sign for me."

Lin Jin finally pressed his school badge.

"Maintenance Position Lin Jin confirms: This notice is entering evidence storage; it is not entering entrance confirmation."

The four school badges lit up simultaneously.

The seals of Qin Shanhe, Gu Changye, and Inspector Han Su fell.

The three characters [Awaiting Confirmation] on the second page of the black-covered book finally cracked.

A new status appeared:

[White Tower Second Floor entrance notice]

[Delivery method: Overstepping]

[Sign-in clerk: None]

[Processing result: Flagged as dispute, returned to sender]

[Recipient status: Seen overstepping notice, do not confirm valid delivery]

From deep inside the wooden cabinet, Ye Guizhou seemed to finally be able to breathe.

"Returned..."

"I can return it?"

Lin Jin nodded.

"Yes."

"A Sign-in Clerk doesn't only receive."

"They can also refuse incorrect items."

Chen Ye immediately shouted:

"Return it!"

"Don't give it any face!"

Ye Guizhou smiled very lightly.

The laugh was short and astringent.

The next second, a small return stamp emerged on the black-covered book.

[Refused]

[Reason: Overstepping delivery]

[Sign-in Clerk: Ye Guizhou]

[Note: Person refuses substitute signing]

The stamp fell.

All the receipts in the mailroom stopped fluttering simultaneously.

The White Tower Second Floor entrance notice was forcefully folded, turning into a gray-white paper light, and retreated into the void.

But the moment it retreated, a line of historical delivery records appeared on the back of the paper.

Lin Jin's pupils constricted slightly.

"Wait."

The text flashed extremely fast, but it was frozen in time by Shen Tingxue's Ice Line, pinned down by Zhou Heng's thunder nail, and captured simultaneously by Gu Changye's Processing Bureau records.

[Historical delivery record]

[Item: White Tower Second Floor entrance notice]

[Number of deliveries: One]

[Recipient: Lin Shoushan]

[Sign-in status: Not returned]

Chen Ye's expression changed.

"Uncle Lin signed for a Second Floor notice?"

Lin Jin stared at the line of text, his heart tightening violently.

The next line of text slowly appeared.

[Sign-in location: Inside No. 9 Forbidden Zone]

[Sign-in time: Three years ago]

[Processing result: Entered Cost General Ledger Room]

Inside the mailroom, all the lights went out simultaneously.

From deep inside the wooden cabinet, Ye Guizhou's voice was as light as the wind.

"He didn't sign for it."

"He chased after a notice that couldn't be returned, and walked into the Second Floor."