Chapter 40: Benjamin

Galina walked into the elevator with a white face and muttered.

"I've seen this escalator... It's right in, right here. ”

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

It was a little incomprehensible to see Galina constantly manipulating the buttons of the elevator there.

"I'm remembering what I heard."

Jiang Hai also walked into the elevator when he heard this,

Galina was already oozing cold sweat from her forehead, and she noticed a subtle sound every time she pressed the digital button of the elevator.

But it's strange to have this on the elevator's digital key.

Finally, after Galina pressed the last digital key, an inner door suddenly opened at the back of the elevator, revealing a narrow passageway.

"There's a door, but you can't see any cracks in it at first..."

Galina walked in like a demon, Jiang Hai followed, and when he stepped into this space, he subconsciously turned his head and happened to see the spiral staircase.

But from the outside world, you can only see reinforced concrete.

This is the side of the elevator that Galina is talking about.

The door behind him quickly closed, losing all light sources, and Galina, who had been prepared, turned on the flashlight.

"Plus, Galina, how are we going to get out? It's scary here..."

Looking at the closed door behind her, and the only light source in Galina's hand, her mouth was a little panicked, but she still followed Galina closely.

"Soon, soon we'll know the truth..."

Jiang Hai had an ominous premonition that Galina's state was really wrong, as if she had been seduced by a fantasy.

The road grew narrower and narrower, and two people could have walked side by side, but then only one person had to pass sideways.

After about ten steps, Jiang Hai saw the faint light in front of him.

"Here we are."

As she spoke, Galina turned off the flashlight, squeezed out the gap, and made way for Koukou and Jiang Hai behind her.

The light in this area is not very strong, and even if you have just come out of the darkness, your eyes can accept it.

"Where is this?" The mouth also squeezed out, and looked at everything in front of him with some curiosity.

White floors, dim light, plenty of space, and...

The dense rectangular shapes are neatly placed in this space.

A cuboid is about two meters tall and nearly a meter wide, one next to the other without leaving a gap, and each column is about two meters apart.

The outside of the cuboid glows with a black light, blocking people's view and making it difficult to see the contents.

As far as the eye can see, the whole space is full of these cuboids.

"This... There seems to be something in there,"

She squinted her eyes at the contents of the cuboid, but her attempts were futile, and she couldn't see what was inside.

But then, Galina spoke.

"Inside, it's people."

"No nutrient solution, no infusion tube, real, living people..."

"Ahβ€”β€”β€”h

His mouth and face froze, and his voice trembled a little and asked, "Galina... You're kidding? ”

Galina pointed to the icon on the ceiling, the funnel-shaped "T".

"Do you recognize this icon? This is the icon of the Time Rail Company, which is also the wings of the world. ”

"We've been sealed in this cuboid since the beginning, and we only arrived at the lobe company after we were awakened."

"Originally, the guy I thought was new from the outside world doesn't exist at all, so there is no so-called 'exit' here..."

Jiang Hai also felt his scalp tingle.

Although he had known for a long time that Company L and Company T had cooperated, the TT2 protocol that the director could use to reverse time was the product of the cooperation between the two companies.

He also knew that the employees were being consumed as consumables, but he was shocked to see all the employees in the company being sealed in these cuboids.

It was also the first time he knew that Ain had involved so many people in the loop.

Galina ignored it and walked straight forward, then stretched out her hand into the distance.

"Well, that's 'us.'"

Walking out of this area full of cuboids, what you see... But it's more cuboids.

Thousands of cuboids are arranged in this space, but they are arranged in a regular manner, and each cuboid emits a little black glow, giving people a shocking beauty in this dimly lit place.

I saw that the black outer layer of the rectangular body in the place she was pointing to was slowly fading, turning white again and blending into the surroundings.

At the same time, Jiang Hai and the others finally saw the contents of the cuboid.

"It's really human..."

The people inside the cuboid are in different positions, some even have their eyes open, some are yawning, some are looking down at their wrists, but they all have one thing in common - they are motionless.

It was as if their time had been frozen, forever stuck in that moment.

After a while, however, one man stepped out of the cuboid, and then all of them walked out of the cuboid, and then they stood in a line with blank eyes, and walked away in unison.

To put it mildly, they are like factory parts.

But Galina and Koukou had no idea that the employees would return here after they died, and when they woke up, they would lose all their memories and join the work again.

"This is the sin that belongs only to the brain, treating employees as parts, returning them to the factory after they are damaged, and then sending them to produce energy after restoration, and living and dying ...

'But in the end, it's about bringing redemption to the city, a sickly twisted beauty...

It is difficult to describe Jiang Hai's mood at the moment based on words alone.

He's a participant in the project, an anomaly that has been used for productivity, and he's even a part to be used at the moment, and he's the designer of it all in the game.

It can be said that no one knows more deeply and multifaceted about this mad plan than him, but no matter what side he stands on, he is not a beneficiary of this plan.

In order to redeem the hearts of most people, they mutilated and oppressed the lives of some human beings, including themselves...

It's an atrocity, but it's also salvation.

Just thinking about it made him feel like he was going to be schizophrenic, thanks to Ain being able to design it all in such a twisted way.

"This..."

There was a shudder at the mouth, and although these people were moving, it was as if they had lost their sense of self, like a walking corpse.

"I didn't expect that... The lobe company turned out to be this kind of virtue..." The mouth felt a little incredulous.

"Do you remember? That's where we're awakened," Galina pointed to the guys, "just like them, from these cuboids... Awakened. ”

"Keep up with them." With that, Galina climbed over the fence and jumped down the stairs.

"Wait! Galina, shouldn't we go back..."

β€œΒ·Β·Β· Do you think we can still get out of this scene? ”

Galina's words were surprisingly cold.

"You have to go back and go back yourself."

After saying that, Galina followed the guys who had just been "woken up" without looking back.

Koukou looked at the passage behind him, then looked at Galina, gritted his teeth, and chose to follow, and Jiang Hai had no choice but to follow.

To be honest, the scene just now was indeed a bit shocking, even more shocking than the hell of corpses piled up in the hallways of the company.

Hundreds of humans are enclosed in their cubes.

"Plus, Galina, didn't you bring a camera? If this crime is exposed..." Koukou reminded.

"Do you think we'll have a chance to get out of here now?" Galina looked bitter.

"Even if you incite everyone, it won't help... Since the Brain Lobe Corporation can suppress and contain those monsters, do you think they will be afraid of our armed threat? ”

"When we die... At most, they can wake up a group of people and start again, and for them, they only lose a day's capacity. ”

"No, we, we can use W's jump technology! The Corrections Department has a jumping device, maybe..." Mouthful of whims.

"L and W are partners, do you think... Will W-wing help us who offend L? Galina interrupted the childish fantasies.

"From the very beginning... This company has not left us the slightest way out. ”

"It's useless... No, if you know more, you might be able to find a turnaround. Koukou still refuses to give up.

β€œΒ·Β·Β·β€

The group then fell silent.

"Da, da, da..."

Apart from the sound of footsteps, there was no other noise.

Following behind the unself-aware guys, Kou Kou couldn't stand the almost desperate silence and asked in a low voice.

"Are those people still conscious?"

"They must still be conscious, but their consciousness should be locked up for the time being."

"That's cruel, isn't it... Just like a prisoner... What the hell did we do wrong and they want to do this to us?! ”

"Galina... You say, "Can we still escape?" ”

Galina did not answer.

She was in no mood to ask any more, and her heart had fallen to the bottom at the moment.

"Yes, the confined space, all the staff are here in advance, in order to keep it secret and prevent others from escaping, if there is any way to escape, it must only be known to the guys at the top of this facility..."

β€˜Β·Β·Β· No, there must be hope. ’

Koukou thought of what Galina said to her not long ago: "Laugh, everything will pass." ”

So she walked up to Galina and forced a smile, but what she saw was Galina's pale and bloodless face.

"Galina... You, are you okay? ”

Galina ignored the words, instead pushed her away and continued to follow the awakened ones.

"Hey, Galina, you, what's wrong with you? Aren't you trying to save everyone..."

Galina turned a deaf ear to this, and to be honest, she was already on the verge of collapse.

In the terminology of Brain Leaf, mental pollution is on the verge of limit, but Koukou is not aware of this and continues to put pressure on Galina.

Jiang Hai couldn't stand it anymore and covered his mouth.

Finally, they followed the employees through a narrow door and to a brand new place.

The cloud-covered walls, the tall stone pillars, and the holy light are like heaven...

"Click, clickβ€”"

The sound of the second hand moving was so loud that it even drowned out the footsteps of the employees.

There, Jiang Hai and the others saw a gray-haired, green-eyed, glasses-wearing guy, sitting on the instrument and watching them.

Benjamin is not yet old.

"You shouldn't be here."

Benjamin spoke, and at this moment he looked at the three of them with a somewhat sharp look.

Koukou immediately took out the riot stick and made a fighting gesture, and the man lurked here in a conscious sense, indicating that he must know something, and may even be an accomplice of the Brain Lobe Company.

But Galina reached out and stopped the mouth.

"Galina, be careful! He might be in the same league as Angela!! He tried to get around Galina, but was stopped by her.

Galina looked at the gray-haired man and asked.

"Are you in charge here?"

"No, I'm a fugitive from this company, just like you."

"Fugitives... It's also apt. Galina smiled self-deprecatingly.

"How did you find here? Has the amnestic program failed? Or is it using Singularity Technology? ”

"In any case, since you have seen this scene, you will not want to get out."

"yes, what should we do..."

Benjamin did not answer the other party's question.

In his opinion, whatever they did was meaningless, because he knew how the facility worked, and he knew what his teachers were planning.

But... He took a great risk to sneak in, but was found by several employees without being discovered by Angela, which also reminded Benjamin that the location where he was hiding was not safe.

However, when he and his teacher designed the location, he had made a note of several places that could be used to hide, and now it finally came in handy.

His green eyes flashed.

"Where are these employees going, you say?" As he spoke, Benjamin pointed to the employees who continued to walk.

Koukou and Galina didn't know how to answer, and Jiang Hai on the side was faded from their sense of existence, so they all listened quietly.

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"They will have a lot of memories erased and then they will be awakened again, and when they wake up, they will be in the company and assigned to work in various departments."

"And most of them still have the excitement they had when they first received their acceptance letter from Worldwings."

Galina clenched her fists.

"But they don't know that their next job is to spend time with a group of monsters who can torture and kill them at any time! And the brain lobe company is using the life capacity of its employees...

"Yes, so sinful, so cruel... Cruelty that belongs to the lobes alone..."

Benjamin smiled coldly.

Jiang Hai was a little skeptical that he was broken.

Benjamin had great respect for his teacher, Ain, and could even sacrifice everything for him, just as Ain did for his teacher Carmen.

However, Ain's feelings for Carmen are mixed with his personal feelings, and Benjamin's affection for Ain is entirely one-sided worship.

In the setting of the script, Benjamin was also calculated by Ain, stuck in the crack of time, and then made into a box by Angela.

But now... He's still alive and well.

"But these are necessary."

With that, Benjamin stood up.

"Do you know something?" Kou Kou pointed at Benjamin with a riot stick.

"Of course, I also know that all three of you are dying, but I still have some things to do before then."

Benjamin was also a little helpless, he sneaked into the company, and before Angela could find out, he was discovered by these guys.

'It's not safe anymore, so we have to hide somewhere else. ’

"If you want to die clearly, go to the lower levels and be careful not to wake them up." With that, Benjamin turned and left.

"Galina! Don't leave him? ”