Resonance Event #001

The moment the system first surfaced the word 'Rift' was recorded as Resonance Event #001.

The location was the signal marker S-17-R in the Frozen North; the time was the small hours of January 1, Kaiyuan Year 1010. A person the system had registered as an 'anonymous observer' stepped into that blank patch, and the instant his foot landed, his whole body was pulled down—downloaded into another coordinate system, vanishing from the view of every instrument.

After that night, the Net's lexicon held one more entry that it itself couldn't clearly define. No one knew that this was only the first toll.