Gu played the full surviving section of Yun Cang’s recording at the audio station. Yun described the catalyst as incomplete and unpredictable. It could not be distributed until the transformation pathway was understood.
He never named a successor or predicted who would receive the effect. The committee had shut down the work after it challenged the Registry’s claim that every dangerous method had to be paid for exactly as written.
Qinghe compared the recording with the signed research pages. The dates matched the catalyst sketch and the committee order. Deyan checked the archive numbers independently and confirmed that the cylinder’s surviving sequence was intact.
“The evidence supports an accidental catalyst,” Gu said. “It does not support a designed inheritance.”
Yan asked whether the remaining catalyst shell could make another dose. Gu said it had crystallized into a brittle, unusable form.
Qinghe tested a fragment in a sealed solution. It crumbled without changing the sample. No new pathway formed.
“The System remains unique in the material we have,” Gu said. “We cannot promise another person the same benefit.”
The team signed the provenance record and sealed copies for the technical crews. The tests explained what had happened to Yan, but did not make the gift reproducible.
