Zhen met the group at the archive desk to issue certified copies of Gu’s channel plans, the Registry rejection, Qiao’s measurements, and the hospital committee note. The originals stayed in their proper files. Du brought the folders to the counter one at a time while Zhen compared the contents with the index. Gu checked the channel plan against the earlier copy, then confirmed the partly blurred engineer’s name was still marked uncertain. No one wrote over the archive page to make it easier to read. He stamped each copy and signed a page count so no one could later claim the team had removed an original.
The maintenance map request had not been approved. Zhen checked the older institute chart Min had given them the previous day and recorded that it was not a current safety survey.
“We’ll use it to find the route,” Yan said. “We won’t treat it as proof the road is safe.”
At the north gate inn, Bai packed the waterproof case on a clean towel. Gu read the copy numbers aloud while Bai checked them against the index. Qinghe placed the formula test and medical notes in a separate sleeve marked for Ning’s clinic. She had permission to carry summaries, not patient originals.
