Day 47 concluded after Supervisor A confirmed his identity to Abel, leaving only three days until the launch of the Seed of Light. Ye Lan, Angela, and everyone in the company took another step closer to escaping the cycle of reincarnation.
Abel, the personality representing Ayin's inner desire to abandon the plan, has disappeared. Supervisor A is only two fragments of her personality left—Abram and Adam—to find her whole self again.
With Abel's disappearance, the environment of the Construction Department further dissolved, and when Ye Lan started work again today, there was no place in the main rest room of the Construction Department where he could sit and rest.
"I have to admit that I am actually much more vulnerable than people think."
A didn't know where he was; he was lying on a lawn. A familiar woman, whose face he couldn't see, was lying beside him, telling him words that seemed familiar.
"I always confidently say things like 'Leave it to me' or 'Come with me' in front of everyone."
"But I'm never sure what I'm doing..."
"If someone gets hurt or gets into trouble because of my actions... I will hate myself for it, and I know that very well."
"And that's why I asked you for help..."
"No matter what I've become, please, finish the work that I started."
"Our hearts are soft and fragile; even a single shock can cause them to collapse, and so am I… But you were able to withstand that malice."
"The only path is unchanging. Otherwise, you wouldn't be you, right?"
For some reason, a feeling of sadness welled up in A's heart. He opened his mouth, trying to make a sound to stop the woman in front of him from continuing, but at this moment he could do nothing but listen.
The woman in front of him was silent for a moment, then asked him:
Are you hesitating?
"When I felt afraid of the path I had chosen, I also began to have doubts."
"It feels like photosynthesis in plants."
"Don't be so tense, close your eyes..."
Even though A frantically tried to control his body to see the woman's face clearly, his body still wouldn't obey and he closed his eyes.
"Yes, that's it. Relax your body as much as possible, clear your mind... It's a little itchy, isn't it? But you have to bear with it."
"Then...disappear."
At that very moment, A, with his eyes closed, saw the woman's face clearly, and also saw her crimson eyes...
Although he couldn't recall any memory of this woman, he instinctively knew that she was Carmen, the object of all his emotions, the one he loved most.
The next moment, everything was engulfed by endless white light. A closed his eyes again, and at the same time, he closed his eyes once more.
When he opened his eyes again, there was a huge jar filled with nutrient solution standing in front of him.
A brain, a brain connected to the spine and all the nerves, floats in this jar.
Upon waking from the dream, Supervisor A knew exactly what the brain and her neural tissue in front of him were. She was Carmen, a bucket they had cruelly and ruthlessly dismembered and transformed into, used to dredge everything they needed from the well—the heaviest sin he had ever committed in his life, a sin that was, to him, the most heinous.
The remains of Carmen, half-dead and still alive, came into A's view. His memories surfaced in his mind in a more turbulent and ferocious way. A man wearing a wrinkled suit jacket and a tattered white coat appeared in front of him.
The man's face was covered in stubble, and his hair was disheveled and tangled, clearly indicating he hadn't groomed himself in a long time. He looked at A listlessly, and after a while, he asked A:
Do you remember those days when we could still feel the warmth of the sun?
"We have become so cold-hearted... so cold-hearted that we have forgotten to cherish these precious memories... no, or rather, warmth has never belonged to us. You have felt it too, haven't you?"
The terrifying memories of those failed experiments and the deaths of those around him suddenly resurfaced, clinging to A like a deadly demon, questioning why he hadn't died yet.
In A's current state, Angela's cold voice echoed throughout the company. Day 48 officially began. Having regained a part of herself, A tried her best to ignore the people in front of her and the memories reverberating in her mind, focusing all her energy on directing the work...
Today, Ye Lan is still in charge of the management of the entire Construction Department. On the bright side, the two new alien entities that were introduced to the Construction Department today are tool-type alien entities. The alien entities that he needs to manage are still the four that were introduced a couple of days ago.
Of these four anomalies, Happy Teddy will not escape. He has conducted final observations on Melting Love and Greed Queen, and even if they are melted, these two anomalies will not cause too serious a crisis.
So today, he only needs to focus on dealing with one anomaly, that is, oh, he doesn't need to worry about the anomaly that wasn't dealt with yesterday.
Before Ye Lan entered the changing room, Geburah, commonly known as Sister Red among the players, who is also Sephirah from the Punishment Department, met with him. After a brief chat, Geburah told Ye Lan something that might or might not be bad news: the brain-dead Bai Ye had swapped his containment chamber with the containment chamber of the F-01-57 Little Red Riding Hood mercenary that Ye Lan had never touched.
Heaven knows why A kept White Night instead of sending it back to the well, but in any case, with the damage response system potentially damaged by today's challenge, causing random damage to be multiplied fivefold, it's better to let him, an employee who can easily achieve an "excellent" rating for White Night, face it.
After all, when the work results are excellent, Baiye will help the employees throughout the facility recover from both physical and mental injuries.
After bidding farewell to Geburah, who had come to inform him, Ye Lan changed into the Ego set [Paradise Lost] he had obtained by suppressing Bai Ye. It must be said that this Ego set, crafted using Bai Ye, this special anomaly, as its source, became an excellent tool for managing itself.
Upon entering the main lounge of the construction department, Ye Lan found herself in a room that had been transformed into a melted and distorted space, resembling a design by abstract masters like Picasso. To avoid getting her hands on the scattered furniture, Ye Lan could only stand at the entrance of a side corridor and quietly wait for Supervisor A's instructions.