Chapter 30 About Appearing in Strange Places
Everywhere you look is a riot of colors, the light distorted to its extreme.
As if abandoned by the world, the young man floated in the void, with no foothold to cling to, only a dense chorus of tiny whispers coming from all directions, as if questioning everything outside, or as if talking to himself in his heart.
Seeing this, the young man couldn't help but ponder the greatest question in life:
Who am I? Where am I? What kind of place is this? Shouldn't I be working at Lobotomy Corporation?
"Oh, you're here!"
Amidst the indistinct murmurs, a woman's voice came clearly from behind him, startling the young man as he turned around.
Mom! I saw a cyber ghost!
The only two beings here have a face exactly like Angela's, with brown hair, red eyes, and a small red bear decoration tied to their single ponytail.
"Ain?" the woman called out the name of her junior whom she hadn't seen in a long time.
Ain? Isn't that A's name? What does that have to do with me? He can at most be considered X...
Wait, Carmen is here, is he going to cause trouble?
Where's Prison A? Come and rescue them!
The woman waved her hand in front of the young man and smiled, "You're still so easily distracted. It's been so long since you've seen me, don't you have anything to say?"
The young man hesitated before uttering the woman's name: "Carmen...?"
"Looking at the way you've seen a ghost, I thought you'd forgotten about me."
Carmen, who had been smiling all along, seemed to know what the young man was thinking, and put on a troubled expression. "Judging from your expression... did you just remember?"
Have you really forgotten everything about yourself? Forgotten your identity, your experiences? And yet you ridiculously fabricated this so-called "player" identity for yourself?
Carmen closed the distance between herself and her junior, who was starting to drift off into thought again, and gave her a hard push.
"Never mind, let's meet again when you've remembered everything."
As she moved, the young man began to fall rapidly, the light in his vision receding in a line, and then everything went black.
In the city, beneath the ruins of L Nest.
The black-haired youth sat up abruptly in bed, panting heavily. He had just seen...?
He seemed to have a strange dream. Who did he dream about?
The young man was in a pure white room, without a single other color. The only dark color was his pure black hair, and even his pajamas were pure white.
Almost the instant the young man awoke, a faint crackling sound of electricity rang out from the wall. Then, the door, almost blending into the wall, slowly rose, and the people who entered were all dressed in black uniforms with white cloaks over them.
With their distinctive attire, any resident of any city could easily identify them as Index Finger.
Leading the group was a tall woman with shoulder-length short hair. As a textile worker, she had received orders after a long time.
To Moirai:
Head to the 13th building in the L Nest Ruins, turn right and walk 70 steps down the stairs. Press the button in front of the first door to lead the first stranger you meet to the spinning wheel and loom.
The agents following behind her also received instructions from different messengers at the same time; their common instruction was to assist the female weaver in front of them.
As a result, a group of Index Finger members stood in front of Building 13, looking at each other with their eyes open or closed.
The young man, still wearing his pajamas, looked in surprise at the "index finger" that was almost filling the not-so-small room.
Had he broken some heavenly law? Where was he? And shouldn't he be sleeping in the Lobotomy Corporation in this other world? Where did these "index fingers" come from?
Was I kidnapped?
“Hello,” Moirai greeted the stranger he had been assigned to.
"As per the instructions, please come with me to..." The location was swallowed by the weaver; it was not something that could be easily revealed.
With Lobotomy Corporation now broken, L Nest has become the base of Index Finger, so she will naturally take the black-haired youth to the loom located underground in L Nest.
The stranger had golden eyes. A proxy, following instructions, removed his white cloak and handed it to the young man who was dressed in only a single layer of clothing.
The first instruction he received today was to hand the cloak to the first person with golden eyes he met that day; the young man was the first person with golden eyes he had met that day.
The young man remained calm and silent throughout, following behind the weaver. With no familiar faces around, self-preservation was the most important thing. As they got closer to the loom, only Moira and himself remained as companions.
Finally, the young man followed the woman downhill until he heard a muffled, strange sound, and the ground beneath his feet trembled slightly with the sound—the "heartbeat" of the city.
After leading him to the location, the short-haired woman walked towards the massive machine in the huge underground space, casually pulling out a piece of fabric from among the layers of cloth. It was a brand new one, containing instructions given to Moirai.
“Sir, please draw one at random, just like I did,” she said to the young man who was looking up at the machine.
The soft fabric that the young man pulled out had a pattern woven from yarn:
Zhiyang Bismoke
Please welcome those who will board the Wrap train at 3:15 PM with instructions.
Is this for cabbages? No, why are they even stealing someone else's employees?!
"Please pass the instructions you have to Yang Chuanling. Sir, I will take you to the station now."
This is an extra one-way train that stops at the abandoned L Nest station. There is only one passenger. Following the city's will, the index finger provided W Company with a huge amount of funds to send this child, who was born here and sacrificed himself here, to another world, to his own path of life.
As soon as X lay down in the cryo-chamber, almost instantly, he felt the gentle afternoon sunlight sweeping over him.
The young man opened his eyes in confusion and found himself standing on a lush green lawn. There was no cryogenic chamber, no Wrap train, nothing at all.
He was still holding the instruction sheet for the cabbage in his hand, but the problem was, this wasn't a company.
Where did you give it to him?
Can't Company W be reliable just this once? Strange, why do I feel like Company W is unreliable? Could it be because of the impression I got from that incident with Cassetti?
Let's walk around and see. It doesn't look like there's anyone here. There's a lush grove of trees right next to the grass. X knows his own lack of navigation skills, so he'd better not go into the woods and get himself killed.
The black-haired youth, wearing a white cloak from the Index Finger Agent, used his skill: exceptional vision. Just as he was looking out at the forest with his back to it, he felt a strange sensation on his waist, as if some flexible, round object was constantly poking him.
X was so frightened he almost jumped up. In this completely unfamiliar environment, who knew what strange creatures might be lurking around?
Turning around, a round, golden-red eyeball was gazing affectionately at X's golden eyes. Yes, it was just one eyeball, not a beast's, but a separate, movable eyeball linked by red, tree-like branches.
Just now, He poked X with His eyeball. WAW-class Abnormality, Piercing Paradise.
The moment the golden eyes fixed on it, the anomaly that had appeared there for some unknown reason immediately became obedient and motionless, just like itself and the trees next to it, an immobile plant.
Now the pressure is on the lone supervisor. The characteristic of Piercing Paradise is that when you escape, you need to be watched by the supervisor. If the supervisor looks away, the employees in the company will be subjected to a public shaming.
X stared at the branch extending towards it. This restless eyeball wasn't the main stem; how did it grow so big? And when exactly did it run away from the company? Before X went to sleep…
It's not surprising that He was there; X himself had already moved to a different place after waking up, let alone the alternate reality.
In short, find the main trunk first, so that it doesn't continue to extend outward. X walked along the red "branches" into the depths of the forest. He only had a piece of instructions from the loom in his hand, without even a terminal, so he couldn't contact the company at all.
As the youth ventured deeper, the extending "branches" grew thicker, and small animals could be seen pierced through them. The trees grew taller in the depths, and the light gradually dimmed.
In the deepest part, X had to look up to see the whole "Piercing Paradise." His wings spread upwards, and his eyeballs continued to move, extending outwards.
It wasn't until it was being watched by the young man that it calmed down and stopped looking outwards, its eyes turning to the supervisor who was intently watching it.
The young man kept staring at the anomaly, slowly backing away. It was a tug-of-war, and he had to find a suitable angle. Finally, he sat down against a tree, a distance that allowed him to see the anomaly clearly without having to crane his neck.
Something nudged him from behind again, but this time, X couldn't see what it was. As a result, the unidentified object, seeing that the young man ignored it, exerted a strong force and almost knocked X over.
Because of this shaking, the young man caught a glimpse of the persistent disruptor out of the corner of his eye. The supervisor was so angry he almost laughed; it was an eyeball from a branch of the Piercing Paradise that he hadn't seen.
Should we thank Him for only bothering us, instead of linking us up like employees?
The supervisor's eyes remained fixed on the main trunk, while his hand reached back and grabbed the obstructing eyeball. The anomaly also cooperated by stretching its branches forward, and now it was seen by the supervisor, even closer than the main trunk.
Having learned from past mistakes, the branches that had already stretched far began to retreat, gathering within the young man's field of vision before sunset. The small animals strung together were also brought back, filling the small area with a strong fishy smell.
However, the supervisor, who was focused on the anomalies, failed to notice that there was a child who was full of fantasies about the unknown and wanted to find fairies in this forest. However, he got lost in the forest and ended up witnessing a bloody scene in the dim light.
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