dmims Chapter 45 - On-site Report #003 Completed!
Chapter 45 - On-site Report #003 Completed!
He remembered there was one more thing he hadn't done.
Completion report for #003.
He wrote it after #001 ended, and he wrote it after #002 ended. This was a habit he developed on the construction site—at the end of each project, regardless of the outcome, he would finish the as-built report first before moving on to the next project. After #003 ended, he was busy dealing with other things, databases, cross-copy rules, source cities, one thing after another, and the as-built report remained untouched.
He took out a memo from his toolbox, turned to a blank page, and wrote a title at the top:
"Site #003 - Completion Report"
Then he paused, thought for a moment, and added a line below the title:
"Drafting date: #004 Countdown 48 hours"
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**Project Overview**
Instance ID: #003. Location: Construction site on a deserted island. Instance Duration: Approximately 31 hours. Participants: 12. Successful Players: 4. Rating: S.
After he finished writing those lines, he flipped to the next line and began writing the next column.
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**Main Engineering Contents**
Vibration isolation corridor construction – wooden elevated planks spanning the steel structure area, avoiding the vibration detection range of steel maggots. Curing agent allocation decision – a morally questionable decision point, prioritizing corridor clearing. Control room occupation – the final crucial point.
He wrote this section very quickly, each entry using engineering description language, without any superfluous words.
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**Personnel Variable Records**
He paused at this column for a moment.
Then he started writing.
"Wang Bo, C-0073. Efficiency-oriented, accurate judgment, quick action. Died from the chain reaction triggered by a moral dilemma."
He paused after that line of text.
Wang Bo was the first to die, and he died very quickly, so quickly that when Xie Chengzhou thinks back now, what remains in his mind is not that moment, but the last words Wang Bo spoke before that—Xie Chengzhou can no longer remember the content of those words. He had seen many people die on the construction site, and he knew the pattern of this kind of memory: the sound at the time will remain, but the content will gradually become blurred, and in the end, only the outline of the tone remains.
He didn't write this in the memo. He continued writing.
"Lin Xiao, female, C-0156. Zhang An, C-0203. Collaborative relationship, let's go in together."
He paused here, then added a line:
"We can't get out together."
This isn't engineering language. He knew that. But he didn't cross it out.
"Fang Yuan, C-0381. Moral interrogation node—selected the cleanup channel."
Fang Yuan made his own choice. Xie Chengzhou went over this in his mind as he wrote this line. Fang Yuan knew what that choice meant, yet he still chose it. Xie Chengzhou wasn't sure if it counted as courage, but he was certain it was a conscious decision.
"Hu Jian, C-0412. Dr. Cao, C-0089."
He stopped here and did not continue writing immediately.
He had asked Hu Jian to stay. It wasn't an order, but a suggestion—he explained the situation, and Hu Jian nodded in agreement. But Xie Chengzhou knew that, in that situation, the distance between his "suggestion" and an order wasn't as great as he had imagined.
After the line "Hujian, C-0412. Dr. Cao, C-0089," he wrote four characters:
"Execute as planned."
Then he put down his pen and looked at the four characters.
Execute as planned.
This is the cleanest way to express something in engineering terminology. It means: this result was anticipated in the plan, accepted during execution, and ultimately occurred. It wasn't an accident, a mistake, or an unexpected loss. It was part of the plan.
He had written many completion reports on the construction site, but he had never written those four words in the "Personnel Variable Records" column.
This section is not included in the completion report on the construction site.
He picked up his pen and continued writing.
"Old Chen, C-0267. Liu Feng, C-0318."
Old Chen voluntarily let go at the last hurdle. Xie Chengzhou didn't see it at the time; it was Engineer Qin who told him. Before letting go, Liu Feng said something that Xie Chengzhou heard, but he didn't write it down in his memo—some things, whether you write them down or not, won't affect what happens next, but writing them down will keep them there, and you'll see them every time you flip through your memo.
He wrote a line after "Old Chen, C-0267. Liu Feng, C-0318.":
"Old Chen voluntarily let go. Liu Feng said his last words."
Then he scrolled down one line.
"Wu Ming, a third-year student majoring in civil engineering, has not yet graduated."
He paused here, thought for a moment, and added a line:
"Variable evaluation: To be observed."
Wu Ming is out. As Xie Chengzhou wrote this, he thought of Wu Ming's state in the last few hours—he didn't collapse; he lingered on the verge of collapse for a long time, but he didn't. Xie Chengzhou didn't know if this was because Wu Ming was stable enough, or because he hadn't fully realized what had happened.
"To be observed" is accurate.
"Qin Gong, number obscured, highly experienced."
He added a line after "Qin Gong":
"Variable evaluation: The value of cooperation needs to be verified. Wrist covering behavior - the cause needs to be verified."
And then there's the last one.
"Xu Kai, C-0019. Logic: Efficiency first. Credibility: High. Human life first: No."
He paused after that line, then wrote the last line:
"Variable evaluation: contradictory but effective."
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**Legacy Issues**
"Three designer symbols - source unverified. Whether the markings on the inner wall of P3 are from the same source as drawing #001 G and paper strip #002: to be verified."
"Moral interrogation node mechanism - #003 first discovery, constitutive record selection tendency, triggering conditions and subsequent effects: to be verified."
"The constitutive 'Reconstructor Fit' attribute—██ Occlusion, meaning unknown: to be verified."
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**Completion Conclusion**
"Trial #003 completed. Rating: S. Personnel: 4 (C-0047/C-0019/Wu Ming/Qin Gong)."
After he finished writing in the "Completion Conclusion" section, he put his pen down on the paper without immediately lifting it.
S rating.
He got SS in #001, and S in #002 and #003. In Chapter 43—no, when he was sorting out the cross-copy rules, he noted this down as "to be verified": the source of the difference between SS and S is unknown, and the candidate variables are individual/group, completeness of rule mastery, accuracy of plan execution, and loss.
Loss amount.
He went through the word in his mind.
Loss amount.
He raised his pen and added a line at the end of the "Completion Conclusion" section:
"Attrition: 8 people."
Then he closed the memo.
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He sat at the table for a while without moving.
The toolbox was on the table, its lid closed. He didn't put his hand on it; he just looked at it.
The toolbox contained an iron testing hammer, class insignia, three designer symbols, a "steel maggot behavior record" prop, and a memo. This was all the equipment he had used for the three dungeons, plus the completion report he had just finished writing.
He finishes a project on the construction site, writes the completion report, archives all the documents, and then moves on to the next project. The act of archiving is a kind of division—this project has reached its end, and what follows is something else entirely.
He wanted to do it, but he didn't have a filing cabinet or a filing system; he only had a toolbox.
He picked up the memo, flipped to the "Pending Verification" section, and added a line at the end:
"#003 Completion Report is complete. Archived: Toolbox."
Then he put the memo back in the toolbox and closed the toolbox.
#004 Countdown: 46 hours and 11 minutes remaining.
He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
Nothing was running through my mind.
This is another thing he learned on the construction site: after a project ends, there's a period of time when you don't have to think about anything, just let your mind go blank and let it decide what to do next. Usually, this period isn't very long, five or ten minutes, and then your mind will start running the preliminary assessment for the next project on its own.
He waited.
About ten minutes later, the first thing that came to his mind was not the rule framework of #004, nor the structural features of the dam, nor the irregularly shaped waterstop part from the vibration isolation pipe vendor.
It is the phrase "execute according to plan".
He opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling in the darkness for a while.
Then he picked up the memo, turned to "Site #003 - Completion Report," and added a line next to the text "Hu Jian, C-0412. Dr. Cao, C-0089. Executed as planned."
"The plan is mine."
He closed the memo, put it back in the toolbox, and closed the toolbox lid.
Then he leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and waited.