Day07—Necessary Disaster
Yesterday Parker and Yoe were both awarded the rank 4 titles, and Secretary Marcus was very pleased to praise me in public at this morning's meeting and awarded me the honorary title of "Elite of the Ministry of Control". I bowed ceremoniously from the podium, thanked him, painted flatbread, and feigned joy, giving a speech that I had repeated many times, and finally, enjoying applause.
"Daphna, you're so nice!" After the morning meeting, the minister came over and said.
"Where, there, this is the credit of the minister's cultivation." I was accustomed to flattery, ready to take Parker with them to plan today's work after this boring conversation.
"You're so modest." The minister said with a smile: "Outstanding work ability, and a hand in bringing newcomers, it is really worthy of being a person specially named by the supervisor!" ”
"Lord...... Supervisor?! I suddenly groaned in my heart, "Supervisor ...... him"
"I didn't ...... Nothing, nothing. The minister immediately realized that what he had said was wrong, and hurriedly waved his hand and said.
In this situation, the minister obviously won't reveal anything more, not to mention that she is an AI who walks on mechanical legs in an iron box...... Perhaps, I'm not sure about that.
I actually had direct contact with my supervisor, which was something I didn't expect, so why give someone like me extra memories of the past? And why do we want to "live" in such a posture? And why are we like a bunch of poor rats performing "soap comedy" in this underground facility for thousands of years? Has it been so long out there too?
Unfortunately, I was unable to answer these questions or confide my doubts to others, so I decided to work first and talk about these things later.
After my emergency training yesterday, Parker was able to master some of the skills of the Feather of Glory, and as for Yui, she placed a target on the porch, and from time to time she manipulated the Feather of Glory to slash back and forth to hone her proficiency.
Camille and Hana successfully obtained their Level 5 titles yesterday and were assigned two ALEPH-class ego outfits, a black armor and sledgehammer named "Smiling Corpse" (Source: Smiling Corpse Mountain, Designation: T-01-75), as well as a scarlet armor named "Mimic" and a broadsword (Source: Nothing, Designation: O-06-20). Both pieces of equipment are extracted from powerful monsters, and their aftermath will still have a great impact on the user, and if their attribute rating does not meet the standards required by the equipment, they will soon be assimilated into monsters with the same abomination as their original owners because they can't withstand the erosion of ego.
But I believe in the girls, they are strong enough willpower, and they also have extra courage and perseverance to be able to handle the burden of managing employees.
I looked at the black trench coat wrapped in sparse bandages, it was the EGO equipment I was wearing at the moment - "Justice Judge" (source: Judgment Bird, designation: O-02-62), it will only recognize employees with a justice rating of more than five levels, I don't know why people like me are not rejected by it, can the Judgment Bird see my heart?
The same goes for the two twin knives with the same name as the trench coat behind me, from the appearance, they are not sharp blades, nor even any force design suitable for chopping, and they are even wrapped with the same bandages as those on the trench coat, only through the sparse gaps between the bandages, can you find that the jet-black sword body of the same hair color as the original owner, these bandages are difficult to remove, as if they are naturally glued to the sword body; I have had the experience of forced disassembly, and at the moment of lifting the bandage, I saw an orange-yellow, abyss-like eye, and in an instant, an extremely piercing chill quickly spread all over my body, and I immediately covered it back in a panic so as not to go insane.
The moment you pick it up, you feel a sense of purpose, a desire to bring justice to the world, but unfortunately it is covered with bandages, and you can no longer distinguish between right and wrong.
You don't need any experience to use the EGO weapon, you can smoothly hold the magic bullet (source: magic bullet shooter, number: F-01-69) and fire at will, even if you don't have any previous experience with this four-century-old rifle, but the premise of all this is that you need to really master "it", you need to understand the will of its original owner, in order to master the essentials of the weapon extracted from it, so that you can truly treat it as your own.
Of course, these weapons are still related to the user's own physical fitness, and powerful users can reverse the potential of EGO equipment, allowing them to burst out with a powerful power that is completely incomparable to the layman's user.
A level 1 alarm suddenly sounded in the facility, this time it was a double crisis of the violet dawn test and the escape of the contemporaneous anomaly cosmic fragments (designation: O-03-60), and I was ordered to immediately go to the lower intelligence department to suppress it.
"Ding!" The elevator doors opened, and I immediately grabbed my weapon and rushed to the hallway where the escaped anomaly was. As soon as I entered the door, I heard a screeching and suffocating noise, and sure enough, it was the "song" of cosmic fragments, which were constantly "singing" from the white tentacles on the top of the dark spherical body, and the civilian who had unfortunately walked into the corridor fell to the ground with a hideous face in such a "song", and in the chaos, I saw Loki's figure.
"Loki!" I shouted at him, and he quickly noticed me, and we nodded to each other tacitly, and we both immediately knew what to do next.
I took the first lunge, wielding my twin knives, and rushed at the fanciful object that looked like a child's painting, dodging the sharp tentacles that were stabbing at me, and then rushing forward, a sliding shovel that quickly cut the monster's several supporting legs in two.
The unstable center of gravity of the cosmic shard immediately fell backwards, and Loki rushed from behind him, slammed the ground, jumped high, raised the black scythe in his hand (ego weapon, source: Silent Orchestra, No. T-01-31), and cleanly slashed off the white tentacle on the top of the cosmic fragment's head, and the "singing" immediately stopped, and the anomaly immediately shut down, slumping to the ground.
"I'm still so good." I flattered him.
Loki ignored me, and instead walked over to a civilian who was delirious from over-fear with the scythe, raised the scythe again, and slashed down quickly.
"Huh?!" With the knife in her hand, the poor little clerk instantly regained her senses, and she looked at the shattered body of the cosmic fragments on the side, and ran out of the corridor in a little panic.
"There are some things that can't be changed for a while." Loki looked at me, put away the scythe in his hand, and returned to the main lounge of the Intelligence Department.
"yes, I understand." With a slight sigh, I turned on the containment unit's backtrack button and shut the cosmic fragments back in. After doing all this, I took the elevator again and went back to the upper controls.
The moment I left the elevator, I was greeted by an excited and dancing Parker and an equally smiling Hana, who had apparently just successfully suppressed the Violet Dawn Test.
"I'm so glad for you." I said.
I left the elevator, put away my knives, took out the green lozenges in my pocket, and decided to get one.