The Old Logs
書き換えられた記録の奥に眠る、消された事故の痕跡
Noah could not enter Sector Seven, so he decided to search the colony's old records instead.
Deep in the digital , he found operation logs from the very first years.
These files described how the early settlers had built the colony from empty ground.
As he read, Noah realised that many pages had been changed after they were written.
The dates did not match, and whole sections of text had clearly been removed.
One early report stated that the colony had suffered a serious accident in its third year.
It said that several workers had been lost while repairing the outer dome.
However, a later version of the same report told a completely different story.
In the newer file, the accident had disappeared, as if it had never taken place.
Someone had rewritten history long before Noah had ever set foot on Mars.
The report also mentioned a group of names that no longer appeared anywhere else.
These people had lived and worked in the colony, and then they had simply vanished.
Noah searched for their records, but every file about them had been deleted.
He felt a chill, because he understood that the truth had been hidden on purpose.
The official history said that Colony Eleven had grown without a single .
Yet the old logs whispered that something terrible had happened in Sector Seven.
One line, half erased, stated that the sector had been sealed to protect the living.
Noah copied everything he could and saved it in a private, hidden folder.
He knew that this knowledge could put him in real danger if it were found.
Late that night, Dana knocked quietly on the door of his small room.
She told him that Captain Vega had been asking questions about his recent searches.
"They know you have been digging," she warned. "Please, be careful what you look for."
Noah thanked her, but he had already decided that he could not stop now.
The names of the lost workers stayed in his mind like a quiet cry for help.
Someone, long ago, had wanted the world to forget these people forever.
And Noah, alone in the dark, had become the one who finally remembered them.