"What?" Sebastian's first thought came to mind was Ruvik, or Ruben.

That guy was the evil spirit in the STEM prototype, the culprit of hell who created the Lighthouse Asylum years ago, and Sebastian wasn't sure if he had escaped.

With the help of the body of the mentally ill man named Rilis, he was resurrected again and escaped from the system? Back in the world?

Sebastian didn't know if he succeeded in stopping the other party in the end, and he even seemed to return to reality at the end, struggling to get up from the connection tank, shattering the memory of that brain-

I can't be sure if it's true or not, and it's probably a hallucination.

Anyway, when he finally walked out of the Lighthouse Mental Hospital, he seemed to see the figure of Lyllis walking away, as if he had changed people to control his body, and the posture of his walking was completely different.

The feeling of being arrogant, callous, and seemingly under control at a glance was completely different from the startled and restrained behavior of the kid Rilys himself.

Or was it really Reuben who eliminated the consciousness of the child in Rileys and completely invaded the latter's body?

Anyway, it was a few years ago, and Sebastian wasn't sure if he would have a chance to know the answer in the future, and what he needed to care about now was that there was also a second evil spirit in the STEM world this time.

He had no idea about it!

"Kidman, how much are you still hiding from me, what the hell is this goddamn Hele Town for!" Sebastian took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice.

He was also a little surprised by his overly calm tone, and there was no feeling of over-emotion at all, perhaps because he was used to this kind of thing.

Those guys have never been uneasy and kind, and they will never tell their secrets to themselves easily, all they need is to rescue their daughter themselves, and then they can continue to be used by them.

It seems that the area where the Grand Theater is located is completely a floating island floating in the air compared to where it was before.

If it weren't for another survivor in the five-person team he encountered, Yukiko explained to him and pointed out the way, he probably wouldn't have known that there was such a shortcut as bone marrow space.

Those guys obviously have such a design, but they don't tell him, they obviously want him to complete the task as much as possible without knowing anything...... I want to use him to get results, but I don't want to pay any price.

But the person he needs to find is his daughter, and Sebastian can only hold back his anger and hatred, knowing that the other party is using him and setting a trap, and it is very likely that he will kill himself when he really finds his daughter......

He could only jump in, because it was his only chance as a father.

"In order to test the stability and feasibility of STEM, and to calm and relax the subjects, we deliberately designed it to look like a normal American town." Kidman answered Sebastin's question earnestly.

"Calm and relaxed? It's the exact opposite of the Lighthouse Psychiatric Hospital. Sebastian sneered, not believing this statement at all, and the other party was still hiding the truth until now.

"What happened in the Lighthouse Asylum was something we didn't expect, and no one knew that Marcelo would turn on the machine rashly, and that incident was beyond our control......"

"You don't have much control over the situation this time...... Sebastian said mockingly.

“……”

“……”

After a long silence, there was a roar of gunfire and something from Kidman's side, and then she gasped and said—

"Listen, Sebastian, I didn't come in and quarrel with you, where the hell are you now?"

“…… The Grand Theater, but I'm going to get out of here next, and you'd better not come here, there's some kind of ...... Very scary stuff. ”

Sebastian gradually became extremely restless, and he kept looking up at the bright lights around the stage, and he couldn't stop looking at the darkness outside the door.

There seemed to be an elusive stench coming from somewhere nearby, but the source of the stench was not obvious, but it did make him feel extremely terrifying.

Gotta leave!

Can't stay here any longer!

But he came in from the outside, so he wasn't familiar with the terrain at all, and he didn't know what other safe roads to choose from...... Otherwise, he wouldn't be stupid, he would just hide here in a daze.

The fact is that although you are anxious, if you are not sure that there is a safer way or a safer way, it is easier to leave this stage with bright lights, and it is easier to fall into a desperate situation.

"Really? In the case of the Grand Theater, you should be on the second floor by now...... Wait, then you can think about it, I remember there is a bone marrow space entrance in the basement below, and you can go through the emergency passage. ”

Kidman spoke sharply as the gunfire rang out again.

"You don't know what the bone marrow space is, let me tell you, it's like an ordinary computer on the outside......"

"Thanks, I already know what it is, but thank you for the information." Sebastian nodded, thinking quickly about the map he had only glanced at when he entered.

You can't blame him for not taking it to heart, it's really because the map doesn't make sense, and the scene of the collapse is always changing irregularly.

Who would have thought that there would really be a time when it would actually be useful?

"Alright, you get out of there first, and I'll get back to you later." Kidman said succinctly, as if preparing to end the call.

"Hey, you haven't said what's going on? Who the hell escaped, can't even you do it? ”

"It's a bizarre thing, you don't necessarily believe it, and it's not clear like this, so let's meet and explain it to you...... In short, we're in trouble right now, very big trouble. ”

"Damn! What the hell is going on?! After the call, Sebastian threw a fist in annoyance.

I always seem to be so ill-informed, always kept in the dark, how can I have a chance to win like this!

He restrained his emotions, and then looked at the two next to him who were panting, sweating profusely and drenched, like black suits fished up in the water, and then frowned suspiciously:

"By the way, who are you? Why here? ”

“……”

“……”

"No, we don't know, we don't know how we got here...... the two looked at each other, then smiled wryly at each other, and one of them answered the question.

In a sense, that's an honest answer, and they don't intend to cover it up with any clumsy excuses.

After all, they had no idea what this crazy nightmare world was, and they didn't have any information other than the name of a "Hele Town".

If you want to fabricate your identity, you can't do it, so it's better to pretend to have amnesia than to say a random thing?

However, Sebastian was not suspicious, he happened to save a woman not long ago, it was a very unlucky subject, and it should be the latest group of people to be deceived by the Mobius organization.

They presumably intended to continue to expand the size of Holade, and the woman was also tricked into the real world by setting her spiritual consciousness to become the new resident of Holuse.

But that "NPC" was really unlucky, and just came in when he happened to encounter a STEM collapse, and was almost eaten by those monsters...... And she also didn't know anything, and she didn't remember anything.

Just barely remember that I seemed to be in it for the money, what sleep program or some other experiment I participated in? She woke up and was here, not knowing anything, not even that this was not the real world......

The cruelty of the Möbius Group is evident in the fact that they see humans as nothing more than consumables, and the brains of unwitting subjects are just something they use to increase the stability and storage limits of the STEM system.

In Sebastian's opinion, the two guys in front of him may also be such poor worms, subjects who have been deprived of life.

If the STEM system hadn't collapsed, they might not have known anything, and after getting through the initial cognitive confusion, they slowly and irresistibly assimilated and became a part of Hele Town-

An "NPC" who has lost his true self and can be set up at will.

"Okay, let's talk about that thing out there...... You should have seen it, what is that? Glancing at the two black suits with pity, Sebastian switched to what seemed to him to be a more important issue.

That's it?!

The two looked at each other, and couldn't help but feel even more strange and uneasy, this is really a nightmare! There is a big problem with this place!

"That...... We didn't know, and we didn't see what it was...... It's just that I know that there's something moving in the dark, and it's terrifying......"

One shuddered, then swallowed his saliva and said with all his might.

"But it doesn't appear in a place where there's light, even a little bit, so unless it's actually caught, no one knows what it is......"

"Then I don't want to know......

Glancing at the psychopathic corpse lying on the stage, Sebastian shrugged, then looked around, frowning.

"But we can't stay here any longer, I don't know if it's going to find a way to turn off the lights or if there's something wrong with the circuitry itself, and the lights on this stage are going to go out."

“……”

“……”

The real ruthlessness is such cruelty, just a simple single sentence, both of them feel their scalps tingle.

"We're going to think about how to get out...... But the lights on the other side of the emergency passage seem to be turned off as well......" Sebastian ignored their momentarily twisted expressions of horror, just wondering if the flashlight in his hand could be useful in the dark.

It's just that at this time, a thick and wide baritone suddenly sounded-

"Sebastian Kestrano, I've been waiting for you for a long time......"

The dazzling firelight burst into flames!

In what didn't look like a five-cent effect, a figure stepped out of it with a dazzling firelight, and a cane in his hand, like a reserved gentleman.

Looking at the bald black man who appeared in the aisle between the audience seats below in such a way, Sebastian warily pointed the muzzle of his pistol over:

"Who are you?"

“……”

“……”

"My followers call me Holy Father Theodore, and I hope you will call me the same...... My friend. ”

He looked to be at least fifty years old, with brown skin, dressed in a black and red clergyman's attire, and armed with a silver wolf-headed cane. The old black man with burns on the right side of his face and a visible scar seems to be in control of everything.

He looked at Sebastian on the stage, showing a calm and indifferent strategy.

It's strange that he is the one standing in the aisle of the audience under the stage, but he has a natural sense of condescending and superiority.

— as if he were on stage, overlooking the others below.

“…… Holy Father? Another psychopath with a God complex? Sebastian said displeasedly, "There's already a lie down on this." ”