Chapter 14: Silence and Dust (Part II)

sixteen

Why can't it be passed? We're not wrong. It's weird, everything is perfect! What's the problem?! Is there still a penetration ratio?

Ready to start a new study? New discoveries are always something to be desired. We knew from the beginning that this topic would not be easy, but we didn't expect it to be so troublesome! Everyone seems to be starting to get tired...... Is there really no time to rest......

- Moroka Lou Dr. G. Dela

seventeen

There was a riot outside, the guard told me when he left. It's strange that I still haven't learned his name. I didn't even ask his name? Are you sure? Is he really a real person?

This is not the first riot, he said. It was the same last time, and it has become more and more intense over the years. The public is disappointed in him, that's for sure. I'm a little worried about our situation, but according to him, we're one of the few pure lands here. There will be a riot in Helka...... Oh, my daughter...... How is she now? Hopefully, those vulgar alien elves won't take advantage of this......

——R· Dr. J. Melion

eighteen

Things are getting boring. Day after day, year after year, doing the same thing over and over again, without the slightest change. The proportions are always wrong, and I suspect we're missing something. Why aren't there new varieties of fresh elven energy? Zeal was cut back. It's so annoying, I want to dissect an alien elf slave right now, it's so boring here.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. There is no separate laboratory of its own, and the same experiment has been done for almost ten years; There are no benefits, no health, no subsidies. It's so boring!

[Dr. Benjamesy Solo Kekerry

nineteen

Refuel...... Refuel...... The next experiment was a success, right? Ahhhh

Why did I say yes in the first place? Oh yes, for Helka. I think I can keep doing it and the others haven't fallen, have they? I will never fall until I succeed, for the sake of Helka!

- Moroka Lou Dr. G. Dela

twenty

It's terrible! Either way, it's not right! What the hell is going to be like this?! Why can't you penetrate the barrier?! What the hell are we doing wrong?!

I hate it! Yes! Yes! I don't believe it! Trouble is all gone!

[Dr. Sukka Sie Meja]

twenty-one

Why is this happening...... No way...... When pigs fly! I can already see the other side...... Why can't you go over?! Damn it! It's already so close...... Are you going to stop here?!

No! I don't believe it! We've spent twelve years in this hellish place, how could we just stop at the last step?! No way...... It's absolutely impossible! There must be another way! No more, we will fight with our own bullets! I don't believe it, the barrier is so thick!

- Miranda S. Dr. K. Kriwa

twenty-two

Everyone was panicking, and of course, I was panicking too. Say I'm not panicking? I don't believe it myself! This is God's arrangement, and disobedience will not work. What's the use of running around? Wouldn't it be nice to sit here peacefully like I am? What's the use of running to the portal? We're not alien fools, knowing that the one-way closed exit can't be opened from the other side. So what is this energy wasted?

——T· Dr. Z. Hermien

twenty-three

No! Let me out! I don't want to stay here! What the hell is going on out there right now?! Why cut off the energy supply?! I don't care! I don't care! Open the passage! What the hell did he do?! Even if we haven't completed the experiment after all these years, we can't be guilty of that, right?!

Come on! We didn't come to this place of our own free will! Let me out! It doesn't matter who it is! I just die, and I don't want to die in this hellish place! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Dr. Sukka Sie Meja]

twenty-four

For a moment, I even forgot who I was and where I was. I can't imagine it, and I can't believe it...... Is this our result? I don't know why...... I had a feeling of discouragement. Why?

I always knew that I was working and existing for Helka, and that I was on the verge of destruction. I know that the great Helka did not give up on me, it was he who gave up on me! What's the use of those who are running around? It's just a gratuitous drain of physical strength, and it's even consuming the little oxygen you have left!

- Moroka Lou Dr. G. Dela

twenty-five

My worst fears have happened. I can't believe he would do such a terrible thing to his people! If it weren't for the fact that the Great Elder had been seriously injured and unawakened by an alien* attack on Cecilia....... He...... How could he have a chance?!

Either way, I had to leave something that the recorder couldn't record. I've never believed in sin and retribution, but we seem to have gone a little too far this time. Oh no, how can I think so? It's the rules that don't want us to master such a skill...... We're moving too far, too much faster, aren't we? So what? We have always refused to admit defeat.

I now only hope that our descendants will find this place and complete our unfinished experiments. We're almost there, but unfortunately we'll never have a chance to make up for it. So....... I've told you all...... A little codeword, of course. If you can't even crack this, let's go home and breastfeed!

——R· Dr. J. Melion

[ He cut off the energy supply. I can't believe he actually did. So people are crazy. It's a mess here. The only exit was closed in one direction. At this rate, the remaining oxygen will be used up within a day. Dr. Hermien sat on the bench and smoked. If only the experiment was done. I knew it was only a matter of time before he stepped down, but I didn't think we'd all have to bury him.

To the final TGTD

Your faithful R· Dr. J. Melion]

The screen of the personal electronic board shows a woman in her forties with gray-black hair in a small bun, with silver eyes and thin lips. She wears a white long-sleeved lab coat with goggles on her forehead. She stood in front of a metal table with a shattered protective window. The woman frowned slightly, bent over, holding a pure black pen engraved with the symbol of the ancient Helka star and writing something on a piece of paper that was a little frighteningly white. She writes, stops, and writes. Some screamed and ran past her, with crazy looks on their faces. She frowned suddenly, looked up, looked into the distance, shook her head again, and looked down again, looking at what she was writing.

The woman stared at the paper, her brow furrowed even deeper. She shook the pen hard, her right hand trembling, as if trying to cross something off the paper. But eventually, she sighed and shook her head and gave up again. She paused for a moment, and finally, as if she had made up her mind, added the last words to what she had written. The woman picked up the piece of paper, thought about it, and sighed again. She pinched the piece of paper, slowly crouched down, placed it underneath the metal table against the wall, and then stood up again, slowly, slowly away from the metal table......

"Ahh He leaned back on the back of the levitation chair and looked up at the ceiling, suddenly not knowing what he should do. He knew what she had written, and when he asked about the password, Blake had told him about the piece of paper. "Do you want to make it public?" Rey asked himself slowly, "Or...... Only a subset of people? "Ah......h Rey had never considered himself a selfish person, but he felt that he was feeling strange right now—a little conflict, a little sadness, and a whole bunch of emotions that couldn't be explained. He sat up straight again and shook his head vigorously again. Immediately after, he bit his lip and wiped his eyes vigorously with the sleeve of his right forearm.