"You...... Has the work been going well lately? "At breakfast time, after a mouthful of bread, I asked Loki, who was sipping tea next to me while looking at the report.

"It's okay......" Loki said casually, "I was busy with a lot of things at the beginning, and I took over in a hurry, and the information was very complicated, and Ada hadn't closed her eyes for two days because of this." He said, yawning, "But now that the dust has basically settled, I can handle it alone, and Ada can finally take a break." ”

"The Intelligence Department does ......," I swallowed the sugar water in the jar, "There aren't many things that the Control Department needs to take over, and the trouble lately is dealing with the endless materials." ”

Loki didn't answer me, just silently stirred the mashed potato sauce, his eyes misty, as if he was pondering something.

"Ah...... That's right. I suddenly asked, "Have you thought about it?" What do we need to do next to prepare our colleagues for the trials that are not yet coming. Should we tell them the truth? ”

"Hmm......" Loki didn't seem to have an idea, he was stunned for a few seconds, and then brushed the hair at the root of his ear, and later, he pursed his lips and said slowly: "To be honest, I have always been ignorant of sociology, I don't know if it's necessary......"

"Yes...... Oh, yes. I scratched my head, not knowing how to respond.

"I'll talk to Ada, though." Loki suddenly raised his head and assured me, "This matter must come to an end as soon as possible, time is our scarcest resource right now." ”

I nodded slightly, got up with the soda can and left my seat, "Have a good day." I said and walked out of the restaurant.

Today's energy metrics have officially reached the Kabbalah limit, and with it, the test will reach the most dangerous midnight level, when there will be an ALETPH-class test entity in the facility that is stronger than nothing—it is clear that no one can handle the horrors and chaos it will create at that time, and even the mobilization of a department is unrealistic, and only by mobilizing the entire company to conduct the largest joint operation can there be any hope of resolving the crisis and minimizing the threat.

Thankfully, in fact, since the Kabbalah limit often exceeds the normal energy metric requirements, and the test causes serious casualties, most of the time the supervisor does not actively touch this brow, so we don't have to deal with these monsters that can easily kill the whole company every day. But this cycle is an exception, and the harsh energy indicators have forced us to deal with at least three midnight tests, which is a big gamble even for me.

Therefore, today's morning meeting of the Control Department naturally revolved around dealing with the midnight test, including not only the results of the previous joint training, but also the routine inspection of the containment unit monitor, departmental communications, and a package of plans and plans. It is true that this is not the first time I have faced a midnight test, and there are precedents for successful coping in my memory—only rare, but the fear brought by the powerful destructive power of the test itself is still deeply implanted in the bone marrow. I briefed my colleagues on the news from the Intelligence Department and my memories of the past, and sternly explained the stakes and threats to them, but even so, some of them still did not show enough attention—especially the few civilians who survived for two more days, which was somewhat displeasing to me.

But overall, the plan is still better than I expected, the intelligence department is still as efficient as ever, the security department is not off the chain, and even Lydira's corrections department is aware of the time to complete the assigned tasks. Everything is ready, and all that remains is the operational arrangement of the supervisor at work.

Soon, the energy harvesting work began, and the employees on duty in the seven departments stepped into the work area one after another, oppressing, insight, and suppressing the low-level tests, and everyone was methodically following the indicators to carry out today's work...... It would be better to wait until the seventh sound: everyone breathed a sigh of relief, trying to overcome their fears of the terrible test entity they were about to face, and to make sure that the task at hand was not messed up.

"Stop!"

Finally, after a certain Corrections Department's work on the Children of the Galaxy (Designation: O-01-55) was completed, a clear and definite order was received from the Director: "Stop what you are doing and assemble immediately in the corridor west of the main rest room of the Intelligence Department!" ”

At this moment, the horror of impending is self-evident: the midnight test is coming, and no one can decide who will survive and who will be the soul of the sacrificial tram. The only thing you can do at this moment is to believe in yourself, in your colleagues, and even in that supervisor: to carry out the instructions.

The thirty or so staff were soon in the small hallway, and the moment Maxi and his colleagues from the Welfare Department finally stepped through the porch, the containment team was assembled, and we were immediately asked to draw our weapons and be ready to fight at any time - obviously, the test of suppression was unusual: that was our task at the moment.

But at the same time, the poor civilians who were asked to stand by could only look like ants on a hot pot, in desperation and luck, instinctively driven to find a place where they thought they were safe: some of them cowered in the elevator, some huddled in the main common room, and some even came to the door of the containment unit, praying to the illusions within.

I can't comment on the situation at hand, but this kind of chaos is not a priority at the moment, and the Director has locked all doors to the Ministry of Intelligence, and there is no way back.

"Don't be nervous, come as planned." I ordered my colleagues in the platoon behind me: "Assemble the formation!" ”

The midnight level test is basically based on large entities that can cause extreme damage, so the focus of joint operations is to make a large number of employees exert the maximum output effect on the premise of maintaining the degree of organization, under the support of the elites of each department, people soon consciously grouped, arrayed, and checked weapons according to the previous training, and divided into three teams with long-range, knife and blunt weapons, gathered in front of the door of the main lounge, held their breath, and waited.

Suddenly, the corridor fell into an eerie silence like a grave again, and people almost forgot to breathe, even if their hearts were as restless as a lamb waiting to be slaughtered......

"Toot! Honk! Honk! The sudden sound of the alarm ...... immediately brought everyone's spirits to the peak, and at the same time, the gate to the Intelligence Department that was immediately opened was like a floodgate, and the restless crowd swarmed towards the main lounge, "Hmm! Fight! I roared loudly and rushed to the front of the blade group.

Yes, we poured into the main lounge like a frenzied beast, but the huge entity that appeared in it immediately extinguished everyone's savage emotions like a torrential rain, and in front of us was a huge gun emplacement made of black metal. On the left and right sides of the turret there was a semicircular shield with a black honeycomb lattice structure that could not be seen at a glance, and the two energy cannons in the center of the turret that pointed straight into the sky almost pierced the ceiling of the main lounge. "Green Midnight...... Terminal helix. I muttered, the cannon didn't activate for the time being, but the coercion of its huge size had already silently shocked everyone present: how could this thing be solved by a twig-like weapon in his hand?!

But even then, there is no reason to sit still, "Quick! Come as planned, dismantle it! "I boosted my morale, and soon the people came back to their senses, took up their weapons, and attacked what seemed to be futile.

The long-range group, which had entered the lounge first, quickly got into shape, splitting into several units and starting a volley of rounds in front of it, while the blunt and sharps groups joined forces and launched hits on both sides of the spherical shell. Unsurprisingly, our assault had little effect on the sturdy black metal shell: the mimic blade slam could only cut a shallow slit, and Da capo's white damage was slightly effective, but only scraped off a thin layer of metal after a few slashes, and the Justice Judge's slash, though it left a clear deep mark, was not able to extend the gains and could not go any further.

"Ahhh Just when we were a little helpless, Maxi who was wielding a giant hammer and smiling suddenly took an arrow step and threw all his strength towards the ball shell, "Bang!! "The sledgehammer was wrapped in a huge impact, and it made a loud muffled sound the moment it touched the surface, but instead of being bounced off the smooth surface of the ball as expected, the smiling sledgehammer stuck to the metal spherical shell like plasticine, and began to dissolve—yes, the black sledgehammer full of white bone chips gradually melted like white ash, wrapping the surface of the spherical shell in a puddle and quickly corroding the black metal around it, and the attack worked!

"Huh!" Maxi didn't stop there, he grabbed the long handle of the smiley, put his feet on the ground, and smeared the shrunken smile everywhere as if he was graffiti on the wall, the black fluid continued to corrode the outermost metal shell, until the reaction was over, and Maxi finally created a buttery soft and easy attack area on the solid spherical shell for us.

Seeing this, I immediately instructed Hana, who was also equipped with a smile on the other side, "Watch Maxi and try to dissolve it!" ”

"Hmm...... Well! Hana nodded quickly, and immediately raised the smile in her hand in the same way, trying to soften the shell on that side. Remember to leave space! I added, and immediately swung the Justice Judge, slashing with all my might at the lump of iron soaked in the black viscous liquid that made up the mountain of corpses. On the other side, Hana gradually mastered the technique, and Gregory raised his heavy sword high, and his hand rose and fell, and a crack the width of a thumb appeared on the surface of the spherical shell.

"Boom-boom-boom-" Just as the battle seemed to be picking up somewhat, there was a faint vibration from the midnight entity, followed by a loud thud of massive mechanical torque—a majestic sound that almost stopped a person's heartbeat.

"Whew!" The cannon activated, and as the muzzle of the cannon slowly extended, countless cyan light particles mixed with a pleasant arc pierced through the capacitor of the muzzle, and after a short period of energy storage, it immediately gathered into an extremely bright point of light, and suddenly turned into a green high-energy beam that went straight into the sky, and instantly melted through the ceiling of the main lounge, leaving a bottomless and terrifying crater.

"That's an exaggeration!" People shouted in amazement, "Is this going to tear down the company?!" But before everyone could recover from the horror of the Spiral of the End, what happened next pushed the intense emotions from awe and fear to the abyss of despair: with a sound of mechanical torque, the cannon gradually rotated along the unknown axis in the spherical shell, like the hands of a clock, and the deadly threat of the Spiral of the Endpoint naturally rose with it, and the dark green light penetrated the walls and radiated into every space where it was illuminated.

It is conceivable that when this guy returns to the original point after a circle, then there will be no living creatures in the entire company. This desperate reality also made everyone present unprecedentedly agitated, "This guy's laser will burn me!" "! I'm getting out of here! The stunned clerical in the room rushed to the opposite side of the other side of the Terminal Spiral in a frenzy, but as expected, the moment they reached the other half of the main lounge, the swept laser immediately melted their bodies into a puddle of green slurry, and the poor guys didn't even have a chance to scream......

"See?!" Gregory suddenly shouted, "If you want to live, dismantle this pile of scrap metal now!" As he spoke, he picked up the big sword in his hand and slashed the brittle spherical shell on the outer layer of the terminal spiral, completely cutting through the exposed metal layer.

This situation was like a shot in the arm, which immediately stabilized the state of the containment team present, "Defeat the test and you can survive!" This creed became a slim hope for all. Driven by fear, people attacked the damn spherical shell almost desperately. "Pay attention to maintaining the formation!" The still sane departmental elites constantly reminded their subordinates that the battle was going on in such a state.

The outermost metal layer has been basically eliminated, exposing the inner layer of composite materials, I immediately signaled to Hana, instructing the remote team to immediately exchange targets with the rest of the group, the short-range employees gathered together again, and launched a concentrated attack on the outer spherical shell that the remote group bombarded in turn without breaking, and the black wound colleagues who had skillfully learned to soften the outer material cooperated with the other containment teams to break through the metal shell that was also full of holes at a speed far beyond the initial departure, and at the same time, the colleagues of the remote group also completed the bombing mission of the composite materials, The two groups of men and horses divided into three lanes again, and launched a continuous attack towards the gap of Fang Cai again.

The turret was still rotating, and the time left for those present was passing step by step. But at this point, it doesn't seem to matter anymore, because we simply have nowhere to go. Death is so cheap that it stays with us like breath all the time, but it's so expensive that it takes everyone's best to avoid it.

We've made considerable progress, and the deepest part of the spherical shell-etched opening is enough to fit a whole person. The departmental elite agitated, the people attacked, and the hearts breathed a sigh of relief, like a membrane soaked in water, waiting for a certain node, spewing everything out.

"Bang!" Suddenly, there was a crisp cracking sound in the air, and everyone froze in place, as if time had stood still for a moment.

"Tong ...... It's done!! After a long time, the people trembled and screamed with joy, and although the room was already filled with countless noises, the people had waited too long for the news, and they quickly quickened their work, and then the second breakthrough was quickly penetrated. Fast! Tear it down!! The short-range team immediately excitedly gave up the hole that had been pierced, and the employees of the long-range group couldn't wait to rush to the sides, quickly looking for the position of the array, and aimed the crosshair of the weapon in their hands at the equipment in the spherical shell, which was no longer safe.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! ”

Soln let out three deafening roars, followed by a rainstorm of countless projectiles crashing into the inside of the cannon through the gaps in the spherical shell, triggering one violent explosion after another, "Bang!! Finally, after an extremely violent explosion, the green light particles escaped like a flock of frightened birds, and the terrifying giant laser of the cannon disappeared from people's eyes.

"Knot...... Is it over? "People trembled and spat out the words of the first victory from their mouths in disbelief," into ...... It worked...... We did it! Soon, doubts turned into affirmations, and the once boundless fear and despair were now turned into more intense joy and rejoicing, released with a thousandfold of energy, and people laughed and hugged each other as if they were participating in the grandest celebration of the festival......

On the other hand, my subordinates: Yui was stunned like a sculpture and gasped, and Camille and Parker on the other side were even more slumped on the ground, completely ignoring the beads of cold sweat that flowed to the corners of their eyes, but Hana, who had always been silent, joined the carnival crowd uncharacteristically at the moment, and the cheering appearance seemed to be a completely different person.

When the staff of the containment team returned to their departments again, they were shocked by the tragic situation in front of them, the departments on the east side of the company were basically no longer alive, and the floor was full of green human tissue and accumulated white bones that had been dissolved by the laser. I could only sigh slightly because I couldn't do anything about it, and I had to force my already nervous subordinates to continue with today's work like a machine again......

This is the first time in this cycle, the first cross-company joint operation, although the actual situation is not always satisfactory, but it is enough to impress everyone, and it teaches the people here the most vivid survival lesson with the most brutal reality: habit to death, unity is the first thing to live.