After paying quite a bit of merit, Wen Xishu didn't have much left.
He naturally didn't have the time to slowly earn merit in this place. He needed to think of some shortcuts. But right now, he had to find Mr. Jin first.
Soon, the refined Minotaur brought over the death registry.
"Thank you for supporting our department. Our place is quite deserted, so only a few people come by often to check."
The Minotaur handed the death registry to Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu discovered that the registry only displayed people from the Three-Tower World, including the Bunker People, as well as those truly outside the bunker.
Moreover, the world of the deceased has organized the registry well, using each day to compile the deceased of that day, with names indexed by the first letter.
Wen Xishu selected information from the past year within his timeline to review the entire death registry.
Wen Xishu quickly found the corresponding time nodes, so he didn't look further back. However, the range was wide, requiring a review over a long time.
He checked all the deceased from three months ago to the current timeline.
His fingers swiftly moved from page to page, and the thick death registry seemed unable to withstand his speed of flipping through.
His speed in flipping pages was like that of an old bookworm trying to be the first to finish the chapter.
It had to be said, the death rate in the bunker was indeed high.
Yet even with this, the bunker was capable of more…
In such a high-pressure environment, the birth rate in the bunker could still remain high.
"Strange… these people are actually still alive?"
Wen Xishu had begun reviewing from three months ago and was sure his information-gathering skills were accurate. So, when he found the letters a to z all done for a certain month's alphabet, but saw no Zhang Hai, Ye Lingfeng, Kate, and others…
Wen Xishu was quite surprised, realizing that those few people in Wind City survived.
Blind also survived?
It had to be said, some people really have tough lives.
Wen Xishu's hand continued from three months ago, to two months ago, then to one month ago…
Finally, he became a bit nervous.
Because the time had finally come to the recent node.
He only needed to look in the letter j to find Mr. Jin.
However, just in case, Wen Xishu still looked through all the names in each letter.
When his finger reached the letter j, Wen Xishu saw that name.
Jin Zhenyuan.
He was stunned at that moment.
The three characters of Jin Zhenyuan were written clearly, he read each one carefully, almost not recognizing these characters before slowly sighing:
"So Mr. Jin… really died."
Everything stemmed from Mr. Jin's death. After Mr. Jin's death, the old principal Albert also felt somewhat defeated, and according to the timeline three years later, that follower of the Xishu Divine Teaching, Huang He, said—
Xun Hui and Wenren Mirror would die climbing to the seventieth floor, likely because Mr. Jin's death didn't bring about the release of causality.
But everyone thought… Sagittarius had already withdrawn.
Now, maybe finding Mr. Jin would reveal the information. Even… bringing Mr. Jin back would be the purpose of this journey.
Wen Xishu was still very shocked internally, he truly thought, if Mr. Jin hadn't died, then everything would be logical. There would be a plausible explanation for Sagittarius not leaving.
That conspiracy theory about Mr. Jin could then be established.
Wen Xishu was really thinking this, he admitted it was dark, but he felt it was logical.
But unfortunately, Mr. Jin really did die.
"Then it's Sagittarius who has become very strong, sniping from floors seventy to seventy-five… it already has nothing to do with Mr. Jin."
"Could it be that Mr. Jin died in vain?"
Wen Xishu still felt very regretful, such a person who opened the bunker for future generations, but ended up dying like this.
This answer left Wen Xishu standing in place for a long time.
Mr. Jin is in this timeline, he could definitely find Mr. Jin.
Next would be bringing him back to the bunker, perhaps all mysteries could be solved.
A person who has died once tends to become more transparent.
Wen Xishu prepared to close the death registry and start his next action.
But when he was about to do it, his hand suddenly stopped.
A sense of unease spread in his mind.
"Wait, I think I missed some key information."
Wen Xishu closed his eyes, squeezed them shut tightly, evidently he thought of a loophole that was present in all the names he flipped through just now.
He quickly reopened his eyes, showing some disbelief:
"Missing one name."
Although there's Jin Zhenyuan, mentioned in Wei Ping'an's talk as one of the promoters of Huaxia's Dragon Hide Plan, named Jin Zhenyuan…
This person is most likely Mr. Jin.
But Wen Xishu was so focused on Mr. Jin earlier that he missed a relatively less important role.
"Where is Liu Zhizai? Why haven't I seen Liu Zhizai's name?"
No matter if it's Liu or Liu Sheng, Wen Xishu was certain he hadn't seen this name, although this death rescue's protagonist wasn't Liu Zhizai…
But as one of the Five Elders of the bunker, Wen Xishu was sure if he saw it, his finger would have paused for a moment.
Even if he wasn't on good terms with this Elder, even if he despised this Elder internally, even if Liu Zhizai also disliked him.
After all, he was one of the highest authorities in the bunker; he was a rare human force.
But now, Wen Xishu was surprised to find Liu Zhizai's name nowhere in sight.