35: Chapter 35 Old Archives Cleanup Procedures

"Otherwise, the Deans Office will initiate the Maintenance Department Old Archive Room cleanup procedure."

The broadcast sound emanated from the [ God Interface ] filing cabinet.

Cold. Flat. Yet, it caused the temperature of the entire Old Archives Room to drop instantly.

Chen Ye instinctively raised his shield.

"Cleanup procedure?"

"Who is it cleaning up?"

No one answered.

Because the next second, all the iron cabinets surrounding the Old Archives Room made a simultaneous "click" sound.

Rows of drawers popped open automatically.

Inside were not papers, but yellowing medical records.

Black ink began to seep out from the previously blank spaces on the medical records.

[ Cleanup Object: Maintenance Department Old Archive Room ]

[ Reason for Cleanup: Existence of erroneous records ]

[ Cleanup Method: Incinerate archives, recycle visitors ]

Recycle visitors.

The Short-haired Girl's face turned pale instantly.

Liu Hang's throat tightened.

"What does 'recycle visitors' mean?"

The remnant Lin Shoushan leaned under the desk lamp and chuckled softly.

"It means turning you all into archives as well."

Chen Ye cursed:

"Is this Dean incapable of accepting defeat?"

The remnant looked up at him.

"It never intended to win."

"It only wants to delete records."

Lin Jin stared at the original Ward 105 maintenance record in his hand.

He finally understood.

Ward 105 is not an ordinary ward.

It is evidence.

Proving that the Dean once used God System residue extract to conduct treatment experiments, proving that the so-called treatment process itself is a source of contamination.

If this archive is destroyed, the truth about Ward 105 will be covered up again.

By then, the Dean will be able to rewrite everything:

Patient out of control.

Maintenance failed.

Dean cleaned up.

And those of them who have read the truth will also be "recycled" together.

The Medical Record Keeper stood at the door, its medical record folder flipping frantically.

"Cleanup process detected."

"Deans Office authority detected."

"Conflict in Old Archives Room sealing authority detected."

Like a jammed machine, it repeated continuously.

Lin Jin looked at it immediately.

"Medical Record Keeper."

"Record."

The Medical Record Keeper paused.

The medical record folder flipped to a blank page.

"Please specify."

Lin Jin spoke extremely fast.

"The Deans Office has forcibly initiated the Old Archives Room cleanup procedure before the Ward 105 maintenance report has finished verification."

"This action may lead to the loss of critical maintenance evidence."

"Record this as a process anomaly."

The Medical Record Keeper froze.

A few seconds later, a voice came from the medical record folder:

"Recorded."

The next moment, those medical records in the archives room that were seeping ink visibly paused for an instant.

Lin Jin's eyes lit up.

It worked.

The Deans Office can initiate cleanup, but the Medical Record Keeper's record will cause the cleanup process to become "contested."

As long as there is a dispute, there is room for delay.

The remnant Lin Shoushan looked at Lin Jin.

"Not bad."

"You know how to use a pen to block a blade now."

Lin Jin was in no mood to banter with him.

"How do I stop the cleanup?"

The remnant raised his hand, pointing to the center of the archives room.

There was an old desk there.

On the desk lay a black stamp.

Beside the stamp was a thick archive registry.

"The Old Archives Room isn't protected by door locks."

"It's protected by archiving rules."

"If the Dean wants to delete the archives, you must first legally check them out."

Chen Ye was stunned.

"Check out?"

The remnant nodded.

"Once an archive is checked out, it is no longer within the scope of the archives room's internal cleanup."

"But the premise is that the checkout process must be complete."

Lin Jin immediately rushed to the desk.

The registry opened automatically.

Lines of text appeared on it.

[ Maintenance Department Old Archive Room Checkout Registration ]

[ Borrower: ]

[ Purpose of Checkout: ]

[ Archive to Check Out: ]

[ Guarantor Department: ]

[ Return Deadline: ]

Lin Jin's gaze sank slightly.

It's a process again. And this set is even more troublesome.

The borrower is easy to fill in.

The purpose of checkout is also easy to fill in.

But what about the guarantor department?

The Maintenance Department has already been sealed.

The Deans Office is the hostile party.

The Head Nurse just provided an unauthorized guarantee once, and now she is likely being dealt with by the Dean and cannot guarantee again.

The Hand of Rules unfolded.

[ Target: Checkout Registry ]

[ Nature: Maintenance Department Old Process Document ]

[ Danger Level: C+ ]

[ Hint: Checkout process incomplete, archive cannot be removed ]

[ Warning: Forging the guarantor department will trigger archive lockdown ]

Lin Jin stared at the registry.

His brain was running rapidly.

They are nominally attached to the Maintenance Department Old Archive Room.

But can the Old Archives Room itself act as the guarantor department?

By normal logic, no.

Guaranteeing oneself is nonsense.

But this is the Maintenance Department.

The Maintenance Department deals with historical legacy faults.

If the purpose of the checkout itself is "completing the Ward 105 maintenance report," then the guarantor department does not need to be an active department, but can be "maintenance report process."

That is to say, use the unarchived Ward 105 maintenance report as a guarantee.

If the report is not finished, the archive must be retained.

If the archive must be retained, the cleanup procedure cannot be completed.

Lin Jin's gaze condensed, and he immediately began to fill it out.

[ Borrower: Night Shift Maintenance Worker Lin Jin ]

[ Purpose of Checkout: Complete Ward 105 isolation system maintenance report, verify historical legacy faults ]

[ Archive to Check Out: Ward 105 original maintenance record ]

When writing the guarantor department, the registry suddenly seeped black text.

[ Guarantor department missing ]

[ Checkout failed ]

Lin Jin did not stop.

He wrote directly:

[ Guarantor Department: Ward 105 maintenance report temporary process ]

The registry vibrated violently.

As if it did not acknowledge it.

The medical records in the surrounding filing cabinets began to ignite with black fire again.

Liu Hang screamed:

"It's on fire!"

In a row of iron cabinets, the edges of several archives had already begun to turn black.

The remnant Lin Shoushan's expression also sank.

"Hurry."

"The cleanup procedure is bypassing the registration."

Lin Jin gritted his teeth and pressed his hand onto the registry.

The Hand of Rules unfolded instantly.

[ Checkout process conflict detected ]

[ Conflict point: Guarantor department is not an entity department ]

[ Repairable: Temporary process guarantee legitimacy ]

[ Repair plan: Set Ward 105 maintenance report as unclosed main process ]

[ Success rate: 64% ]

"This one."

Lin Jin initiated the repair.

The black text on the registry burrowed into the back of his hand like insects.

[ Contamination erosion: 43% → 45% ]

Chen Ye's face turned black just watching.

"It went up again!"

Shen Tingxue did not speak.

She raised her hand to release frost, precisely suppressing those ignited black fires.

But the black fire was not ordinary fire.

The frost could only delay it, not extinguish it.

The Medical Record Keeper continued to record on the side.

"Record: The visitor is attempting to use an unclosed maintenance report as a checkout guarantee."

Lin Jin immediately said:

"Supplementary record: This attempt complies with the principle of preventing the destruction of maintenance evidence."

The Medical Record Keeper paused for a second.

"Added."

The registry's vibration weakened.

[ Establishing legitimacy ]

[ 31% ]

[ 57% ]

Just at this moment, inside that row of [ God Interface ] filing cabinets, the Dean's broadcast sounded again.

[ Maintenance Worker Lin Jin. ]

[ You are tampering with the archive process. ]

Lin Jin looked up.

"I am completing the process."

[ The Old Archives Room cleanup procedure is irreversible. ]

"Then that means the cleanup procedure is broken."

The air went silent.

The remnant Lin Shoushan suddenly laughed.

"I love hearing that."

Lin Jin lowered his head and slammed his wrench hard against the edge of the registry.

"An irreversible procedure is not called a procedure."

"It's called an accident."

[ Legitimacy established: 100% ]

The registry lit up violently.

The black fire stopped instantly.

[ Checkout guarantee established ]

[ Ward 105 original maintenance record can be temporarily checked out ]

[ Return deadline: Before the end of this instance ]

Lin Jin immediately filled in the last column.

[ Return deadline: Before completing the final maintenance report ]

He did not write "before the end of this instance."

Because if he wrote a fixed time, the Dean could drag it out until the deadline.

Before completing the final maintenance report.

As long as the final report is not submitted to the Deans Office, the archive can remain legally in their hands.

The registry vibrated again.

But this time, there was no rejection.

[ Checkout registration complete ]

[ Archive copy generated ]

On the desk, the Ward 105 original maintenance record shrank rapidly, turning into a dark red metal card that fell into Lin Jin's palm.

[ You obtained: Ward 105 original maintenance record copy ]

At the same time, the Old Archives Room cleanup procedure lost its target, and the black fire began to recede.

Chen Ye let out a huge sigh of relief.

"It worked!"

But the remnant Lin Shoushan did not relax.

He stared at that row of [ God Interface ] filing cabinets.

"That only saved 105."

"What the Dean really wants is still over there."

Lin Jin also looked over.

The drawer that had been opened by the Dean from the outside was still half-open.

It was pitch black inside.

It was as if an eye was hidden in the depths.

The Medical Record Keeper immediately spoke:

"Warning."

"Access to this area is prohibited."

"Visitors currently do not have permission to access God Interface archives."

Lin Jin did not move.

He knew he could not force it now.

They had already saved the 105 archive.

The next step should be to use the 105 archive as a springboard to open a legal path to the Deans Office or the Maintenance Department master files.

But just at this moment, the remnant Lin Shoushan suddenly stood up.

He walked to the [ Sacrificed Maintenance Worker ] iron cabinet and pulled open the drawer labeled [ Maintenance Worker 07: Lin Shoushan ].

Inside the drawer lay a broken wrench badge.

The remnant picked up the badge and threw it to Lin Jin.

"Catch."

Lin Jin raised his hand and caught it.

The badge felt cold in his hand.

Two words were engraved on it:

[ Maintenance ]

The Hand of Rules vibrated instantly.

[ Maintenance Department identity fragment detected ]

[ Target: Maintenance Worker 07 old badge ]

[ Status: Damaged ]

[ Can serve as a temporary Maintenance Department identity credential ]

Lin Jin looked up sharply.

The remnant looked at him, his tone finally becoming serious.

"Take it."

"Go open the Maintenance Department master file directory."

"Remember, you can only look at the directory, you cannot directly flip through the master files."

"The true location of the master files is not in the archives room."

Lin Jin frowned.

"Where?"

The remnant opened his mouth.

But before he could say it, the desk lamp in the archives room suddenly exploded.

The Faceless Dean's voice sounded from all the iron cabinets simultaneously.

[ Illegal identity inheritance detected. ]

[ Maintenance Worker 07 badge ownership abnormal. ]

[ Old Archives Room cleanup procedure upgraded. ]

[ Cleanup object changed: Lin Shoushan remnant. ]

Lin Jin's expression changed.

But the remnant, as if he had expected it, waved his hand at him.

"Don't try to save me."

"It's just a remnant, it can't be saved."

His body began to fade bit by bit.

But he still stared at Lin Jin.

"The master files are not in The Hospital."

"They are in the second wrench your father left behind back then."

Lin Jin's pupils shrank sharply.

The second wrench?

But the remnant was already about to disappear.

At the last moment, he grinned.

"Brat."

"Don't die here."