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**Internal Company Notice**
**Subject: Informal Investigation Notice Regarding Whispering Sounds in the Stairwell (All)**
To all employees:
First and foremost, thank you for your resilience in the workplace over the past few months amidst various uncertainties, allowing you to successfully meet our performance targets. Your dedication is the cornerstone of our stability in a fiercely competitive market.
Since early March, the company has received multiple reports from employees regarding low murmurs heard upon entering the West Wing Stairwell during the morning hours. The content is indistinct and seems to consist of overlapping voices, slowly flowing through the cracks in the concrete walls, as if some language is struggling to awaken from within.
Preliminary investigations indicate that these sounds predominantly occur between six and six-thirty in the morning, coinciding with the elevator not yet being operational and overlapping with the Cleaning Staff's shift change. During this time, foot traffic is sparse, making it difficult to ascertain whether it is an acoustic interference or a sound reflection due to building aging.
Initial checks by the facilities maintenance team found no signs of leaks, ruptured ducts, or abnormalities in mechanical systems. However, the sounds persist, particularly on clear days, while they vanish during rainy weather.
Some employees have reported experiencing brief memory lapses, distorted senses of time, increased heart rates, and difficulty accurately counting stair steps after hearing these sounds. Although these phenomena have not significantly impacted daily operations, in accordance with the company's "Environmental Psychological Safety Policy Guideline Article 13," this office area has been placed on an observation list.
To ensure the psychological and spiritual well-being of all personnel, the following preventive measures will be implemented effective immediately:
- Solo use of the West Wing Stairwell is prohibited between five and seven in the morning.
- For cross-floor commuting needs, please use the Central Elevator Hall.
- Unless necessary, refrain from lingering in the stairwell, listening to, or attempting to interact with the sounds.
- If any content of the sounds seems understandable, please cease listening immediately and contact the Human Resources Department's Psychological Care Unit for an in-depth discussion.
Additionally, due to potential uncertainties regarding external reputation stemming from this incident, the company will not formally acknowledge it and will only regard it as a temporary spatial anomaly. All employees are reminded not to discuss this matter on social media or in public settings. Violators will face disciplinary action under the "Internal Event Confidentiality Code."
As for recordings related to the sound content, our department has compiled excerpts for management reference (audio files are stored in Q:/HUMAN_RES/OBSCURA_AUDIO and require dual authentication to access):
——“Ia…sha-thar…naga-oth…sha-thar…Ia…”
——“…not a language…it's learning us…”
——“…It Remembers Our Every Mistake's Footsteps”
——“…The staircase shouldn’t have so many levels…”
In response to the aforementioned recording, the language department has stated that it cannot be attributed to any existing language system. However, the repeated syllable "sha-thar" has been identified in ancient Assyrian prayer inscriptions as meaning "the steps of the sacrificer," pending further verification.
We reiterate: this incident is currently within the scope of internal concern and does not constitute a public safety threat. If you experience emotional fluctuations during office hours, dream of images of spiraling staircases, or feel as though you are being watched by an unseen gaze, please report to your supervisor and make use of the company-provided "Subconscious Stability Counseling Resources."
【Supplementary Notice】
Following a review by the internal surveillance system and reports from the cleaning team this week, it has been confirmed that an employee entered the West Wing Stairwell alone at 5:42 AM on April 1st and was discovered by building security at 7:03 AM in a state of confusion, with slurred speech and severe trembling fingers, collapsed on the third step.
The employee was not carrying identification, and an unknown spiral symbol was scratched into their shirt with fingernails. Despite emergency medical treatment, they remain in a comatose state. According to device records, the employee lingered in the stairwell for at least 67 minutes, during which they repeatedly whispered to the wall, stating, “I finally understand why it cries,” “Each level goes down,” and “I am part of the staircase.”
Our company expresses deep regret over this incident and has contacted their family for follow-up arrangements. However, we must also reiterate: the employee's behavior clearly violated the "Morning Prohibition" regulations, and the consequences arising from this will not be borne by the company.
In light of this, we will immediately expand restrictions:
Effective immediately, the West Wing Stairwell will be completely closed from 12:00 AM to 8:00 AM daily.
Security personnel will conduct random patrols for unauthorized entrants. Any individuals attempting to force entry will be treated as committing a serious violation and recorded in the "Observation Sheet of Behavioral Deviations."
We hope you understand: safety does not come from avoiding fear but from maintaining order amidst it. We stand at the edge of the unknown; only by following processes and regulations can we withstand the whispers that traverse brick walls.
Finally, we conclude with an internal prayer:
May order be as solid as the steps beneath us, may our footsteps go unheard. May the nameless voices know our dedication is unwavering.
Please adhere to regulations and proceed steadily.
——Management Department (Respectfully from Deep Structure Investigation Team)
【Final Notice】
As of yesterday, our company has received reports of a seventh extreme psychological anomaly related to the West Wing Stairwell. In the latest report, three employees fell into a state of involuntary consciousness detachment during early morning hours, exhibiting behaviors including but not limited to:
— Silent and kneeling, facing the wall, continuously murmuring incomprehensible phrases for an average duration of 48 minutes.
— The head rotates at a speed beyond human tolerance, with no cervical fractures, yet both eyes exhibit a "reversed state," pupils vanished, suspected to have entered a realm of visual inversion.
— Some employees attempted to peel off their own skin using scissors, biting themselves, or tearing at their flesh, loudly shouting: "Let the sound be free," "My skin is blocking it," "The door within the wall has opened."
After joint deliberation by the Deep Structure Investigation Team and the Mental Health Guard Squad, it has been determined that the stairwell no longer possesses basic cognitive stability or physical continuity and is no longer within the controllable range of the building.
Therefore, the board has unanimously resolved: The West Wing Stairwell will undergo complete lockdown and demolition operations starting at 3 AM next Monday. At that time, the engineering team will initiate sealing with bricks and lead according to the "Spatial Exorcism Procedure," and will mark the nodes with a cross symbol drawn from a mixture of lime and deer blood to obstruct sound wave reconstruction and memory reflux.
This project will not be recorded in the architectural blueprints; upon completion, this area will disappear from all visual representations and maps of the building. Access control will be upgraded to Level Three alert; anyone attempting to approach, photograph, document, or question the existence of this area will be isolated and investigated under Article 44 of the Company Bylaws, treated as "interference with Confidential space."
The construction personnel are from a specialized handling group experienced in "Location Termination" and "Memory Expansion Contamination." Their identities are confidential and must not be contacted or identified without board authorization.
We understand that some colleagues still have a certain "downward dependence" on this stairwell, believing it leads to contemplation, a moment of tranquility, or an ancient self-resetting ritual. Please understand: it is not a passage; it is a wound. It is not space; it is an echo of lost consciousness.
To minimize the impact of memory remnants, all personnel who have passed through the West Wing Stairwell in the past three weeks are required to report to the Psychological Observation Room on B1 within three days for Middle Layer Somnolent Therapy and "Voice Echo Removal" operations to prevent dream erosion.
May we no longer descend.
May the stairs cease at memory.
May sound return to silence.
Please adhere to regulations and proceed steadily.
—— Management Department (Respectfully from Deep Structure Investigation Team)
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