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Subject: Internal Review Letter Regarding the Fire Protection System Incident Triggered by the Finance Department's Summoning Ritual
To All Employees,
First and foremost, we express our sincerest regret and concern regarding the incident that occurred last Thursday afternoon during the "Budget Reallocation and Resource Release Ceremony" held in the Finance Department, which inadvertently triggered the fire protection system for the entire floor. This incident forced thirty-six employees to interrupt their meeting, resulted in two senior executives experiencing temporary speech disorientation due to excessive smoke inhalation, and left a wall in Conference Room Five marked with difficult-to-remove black stains. In response, the company has initiated a comprehensive investigation and accountability measures at a managerial level.
According to the incident investigation report, at precisely 3:00 PM on April 3rd, the Finance Department conducted the "Annual Surplus Summoning" ritual, following longstanding tradition, in an attempt to reclaim previously lost assets before the fourth-quarter budget review, thereby stabilizing the structure of apparent profits. According to internal regulations, this ritual required three black candles, seven circles of double-line "Chalk" formation, and a copy of the "Financial Ledger Old Manuscript" specifying the losses to be addressed.
However, based on reports from on-site cleaning staff and archived video footage, it was noted that the lead operator used an incorrect structure during the formation: instead of the required left-rotating seven-pointed star formation, an erroneous eight-fold wheel connection was drawn. This imbalance in summoning efficacy opened a "Non-Manifest Accounting Rift", releasing unidentified black smoke. This smoke is not a product of natural combustion and is suspected to contain unknown carbonized consciousness particles, exhibiting low-level cognitive contamination effects.
Several witnesses reported that the smoke rapidly spread through the space and extended through the air conditioning system like tentacles, causing temporary tinnitus, abnormal whispering echoes in affected areas, and spontaneous alterations in accounting documents.
Following the incident, access to the main office and accounting vault on the third floor has been restricted. The internal ritual oversight department is conducting a thorough cleanup and cross-examination of testimonies. Preliminary assessments have ruled out harmful substance release; however, we have formally included whether "Psychic Smoke Triggered Fire Protection System" should be incorporated into our annual drill plan in our risk assessment report.
As for Zhang Ting, the assistant deputy supervisor responsible for leading the formation, their condition is currently stable but has exhibited compulsive behaviors during medical observation, such as attempting to calculate soul weight in decimal form and repeatedly murmuring prayers directed at Projection machinery.
In the latter part of this communication, we will provide further explanations regarding: sources of ritual errors, preliminary results from mental retrospective questionnaires conducted by Human Resources for participants involved, and potential correlations between this incident and unexplained accounting increases from last quarter. We expect to release this information next Monday.
We kindly ask all employees to maintain a cautious mindset during the upcoming budget period and refrain from undertaking unauthorized summoning procedures. Please remember:
Surpluses cannot be forcibly retained; accounts should not be directly scrutinized; benefits must arise in silence.
—Management Department (Respectfully from Financial Anomaly Task Force)
[Appendix Confidential Report | For Board-Level Review Only]
Document Number: FISC-R/0425-B
Subject: Confidential Follow-Up Report on Abnormal Reactions During Fourth Quarter Surplus Summoning Ritual and Mental Leakage Phenomena
Through a joint investigation by our Financial Anomaly Task Force, Mental Reconciliation Bureau (SRA), and Deep Structure Affairs Office, we present a compilation of internal truths revealed by this summoning incident Record:
1. **The Error in the Summoning Circle's Construction is Not a Singular Human Oversight**
Zhang Ting later stated that she followed the version outlined in the Financial Ledger Old Manuscript, but the version number did not match that of the company's main document repository. Upon comparison, it was found that the text she referenced was the 1962 External Edited Version, which had been archived due to high security risks. The investigation revealed that the source of the text used by Zhang Ting was unknown, with the book cover label handwritten in Akkadian Alphabet, suggesting a misdelivery from the automated classification system in the downstairs storage.
2. **The Nature of the Black Smoke as "The Embodiment of Debt and Loss"**
Through semantic symbol stripping and spatial negative value observation, it was confirmed that the smoke encountered was not a material entity but rather a Lossform Efflux from the fourth layer of accounting language. This substance only generates automatically when the apparent surplus on paper covers an actual loss exceeding 13.7%, exhibiting characteristics that attempt to suppress discrepancies in memory and consciousness.
3. **Account Phenomenon Anomaly**
Post-ritual, all economic models reported back anomalies, including the following phenomena:
— Up to seven closed investment cases reverted to "ongoing," with sponsorship records appearing from non-existent accounts.
— The second page of departmental budget sheets displayed unknown language annotations (yet to be translated), arranged in a manner highly consistent with prophetic coding.
— The electronic report in Meeting Room Five showed surplus forecasts accompanied by a Venous Growth Line, oscillating like an electrocardiogram, closely resembling past temporal fluctuation events.
4. **Tracking Personnel Mental States**
In addition to Zhang Ting, three other employees who participated in the ritual exhibited the following symptoms:
— Multiple phonetic versions of their own names in memory.
— Insisted they had "counted all shadows within the Fiscal Year" and signed contracts with them.
— Continuously wrote a string of Account Codes, which were found to belong to a Deceased Former Director's private account that had been canceled in 1974.
5. **Possible Correlation with Last Quarter's Surplus Anomalies**
The amount of black smoke released during this incident corresponds significantly with the excess margin of last quarter's surplus figures (i.e., discrepancies from illegitimate sources), likely indicating a delayed residual effect from the previous Account Summoning ritual. The company is currently conducting a comprehensive review of ritual records from the past five years to confirm whether there are any other latent incidents of mental surplus contamination yet to erupt.
**Conclusion:**
Although this incident caused short-term chaos and cognitive disruption, it also revealed several areas for improvement within our financial ritual system’s processes and document management vulnerabilities. It is recommended that in the next quarter we undertake:
- Unification of ritual versions and strengthening of manuscript verification processes
- Enhanced subconscious stability assessments for employee summoning participation qualifications
- Conducting Belief Bias Concentration evaluations on all surplus data
All finance department personnel must remember: summoning surplus is not about creation but rather a temporary borrowing of its reflection. Those who confront losses must pay some form of forgetting.
I am not a competent financial officer.
I cannot learn how to ignore that number. The one that never appears in any report, yet always lurks behind the scenes.
It is the shadow of a total, the ember of a surplus, a... ah... I shouldn’t be writing this.
But you need to understand, the accounts can speak. Not in our language, but through weight.
I once measured them in decimal—converting each budget into mass, transforming every deleted loss into density. I realized I was touching something akin to... "the entity within accounting."
That day, I merely wanted to open it just a little.
Let it seep out, like air. Just as we print the reports on Fridays and place them in the filing cabinet—not merely to fulfill a duty, but as a kind of barrier. They must be locked away; otherwise, they will remember us.
I miscalculated the formation.
I clearly remember it being a seven-pointed star—I drew a seven-pointed star. As I traced each circle, a sound crawled out from the Chalk. It was like forgotten red ink, unreported business trips, and that untraceable transfer from the beginning of the year.
But when I looked back, it had transformed into eight wheels.
It smiled.
Not with sound. It was that feeling you get when you see "neat" in an accounting report, but it actually feels "off." It twisted a breath out from the gaps in the structure.
Black, like ink, but filled with sound.
I heard someone saying my name, but in a version of me that existed before I was born.
I heard losses whispering, saying they were no longer losses but sacrifices.
I watched as my hand began to account automatically. I recorded nonexistent accounts and sources of income that had never existed. I started to laugh because the accounts balanced. They balanced.
But what was the cost?
I dreamed that I woke up from the numbers, only to find myself a part of them. Every error in the third decimal place was my finger. Every corner of the red ink pages was the shadow where I hid.
It is still in Conference Room Five.
Do not open that folder.
Do not reallocate the budget.
Do not draw formations again.
The accounts are not meant to be balanced, but to bind.
It is calculating you all.
It knows you are still alive.
It is waiting for you to return for the annual report.
I will not return.
I am the shadow of surplus.
——End——
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