Janis wanted to go back to the lounge, just stepped into the elevator, turned around, and through the gap where the elevator was still closed, he saw something that shouldn't be in the hallway.

Scorched girl.

At this time, Denis did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and then the elevator door closed, and the charred girl pulled out the match inserted in her body, and detonated herself.

Under the impact of the explosion, the indestructible elevator door shook violently, and everyone in the elevator fell to the ground unsteadily, and Dennis, who was closest to the elevator door, could even feel the heat wave from the explosion.

Then Denis got to his feet and desperately opened the hot elevator door, only to see the devastation after the explosion, and the unextinguished flames burning on the ground.

All of us present have been reduced to another charred substance, and there is no way to associate this substance with "humanity".

Denis swallowed a mouthful of spit, and suddenly, he saw the remains of the Ego armor on the ground, which he recognized.

It was the ego worn by his most beloved predecessor, the thoughtful, experienced, and kind captain, the ego worn by Mero.

What was once a solemn mourning garment has now become the death garment worn by the deceased......

"Captain he...... He's dead? ”

Dennis felt unsteady in his legs and almost fainted.

The culprit of all this turned out to be the girl who had been pitied by him and expressed kindness to it.

Scorched Teenage ......

Ignoring the potential failure of containment by the explosion, Janis made his way to the scorched girl's containment cell.

After the system identified it, the door to the containment chamber opened for him, and Genesis walked inside, but did not see the charred girl, he stood quietly, waiting for the girl to be reborn, and asked why it did so.

He clutched the match that the maiden had given him......

But the girl did not show up for a long time.

Finally, the Director's order came, telling Janis to return to the main lounge of the Intelligence Department to stand by, and he reluctantly walked out.

After this, his sympathy for the charred girl fades, and he hates all the anomalies.

"Visionary beings are just monsters that kill people without blinking."

This is what the dead captain used to say to him, at first, he didn't think the captain was right, not all anomalies are monsters that kill people without blinking, he thought that there would also be anomalies who were kind and wanted to help humanity.

He used to think so, but just now, he thought that the scorched girl was a fantasy with a bad nature, and in the blink of an eye, he killed the captain he respected the most.

Why did the right captain die and the wrong one survived?

What Jennis didn't know was that the so-called murderous monster in his mouth didn't blink just now.

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The supervisor silently reads the name of a dead employee.

"Meroe ......"

Julia and Daniel are just new employees, and the director doesn't feel much sorry for the loss of them, it's a big deal to hire a few more people, and as for the ego on their bodies, there are still some independent PE-BOXES left, which can be produced again.

However, Mero is a different employee.

Melo, Eva, Evangeline, Jonny.

These four employees are the second batch of employees he has recruited. With the death of the first employees, the four of them became the oldest employees in the company who had been with him for the longest time.

Employees often say that their supervisors are too cold-blooded and make decisions that are too inhuman...... But in fact, all the instructions he issued were to produce energy on the premise of maximizing the preservation of employees' lives.

Mero's death has left the Director wanting to activate the TT2 protocol and start the day anew.

But Angela dissuaded him.

"You shouldn't spend a lot of energy trying to save an employee's life because of his death."

"The meaning of employees' lives is to create value for the company and produce more energy. If you waste energy for the sake of a person's life, it's putting the cart before the horse. ”

"You've never been a pushy person before, so please think twice about this."

The Director clenched his fists, it was the first time he had heard such a statement, and he knew that Angela was right, but...

He still felt uncomfortable.

One of the most important abilities of being a supervisor is to be ruthless, to be decisive and ruthless in sacrificing the lives of employees, which the supervisor has always done well, but this time he hesitated.

Eventually, the director let go of his fist.

"yes...... So many people have died, and I have abandoned so many people...... Mero is no different from those I have abandoned...... I shouldn't have made such a willful decision because of his life......"

"That's right. X-635”

It was his distraction that caused this accident, and if he had taken command earlier, this tragedy might not have happened. The supervisor puts the blame on himself, and in doing so, he feels a little better.

"Meroe, I'm sorry......"

The employee died, but the work continued.

The supervisor endured his grief and adjusted himself to his usual work, and began to discuss the problem of the scorched girl with Angela.

"Angela, let's talk about the scorched girl now."

To be honest, even if a T-class anomaly disappears forever, it won't have much impact on the company.

The company has a lot of presence that can replace it, and it can also produce more energy.

But now he had to find out what had happened, so that the Scorched Girl would disappear forever, and prevent this from happening to the other anomalytes, who would not be able to produce energy if all the anomalies were gone.

The Director tapped silently on the table, looking at the screen with the cognitive filter attached.

The empty containment chamber, oh no, there was an employee walking in right now, and it can't be described as empty now. But the original owner of this place, the scorched girl, has not appeared for a long time.

It's long past the time for the anomaly to come back to life, so why hasn't it been resurrected yet......

"Angela, has this happened in the past attempts?"

"No, Director, this has never happened."

Angela, who closed her eyes, responded flatly, the expression on her face without a trace of fluctuation, as if it was just a small thing.

"So what's going on?"

"Director, maybe this anomaly is gone forever."

"How could it be ......?"

"It's not a big deal, though. You don't need to worry about these small things, you just need to focus on producing energy. ”

Angela's voice was tinged with a hint of anger, reminding the supervisor that his duty was not to care about employees or anomaly, but to produce energy.

The director didn't pay attention to Angela, he still felt that there was something strange about the scorched girl.

"Angela, activate the TT2 protocol, pause time."

"Yes."

Everything on the screen is frozen, and the supervisor no longer worries about the passage of time.