Cyberpunk, but urban

But Ye Lan's mental abnormality was not a problem that Netzach could solve directly. In the end, he could only inject a large amount of mental pollution neutralizing gas into Ye Lan's treatment chamber, hoping that he could rely on his own strength to break free from the multiple pollutions that Netzach had never seen before.

Because of Ye Lan's unprecedented and unique situation, all the Sephirahs, including Binah, came to the outside of his treatment room one after another to inquire about his condition. Even Ayin had never enjoyed such a situation.

That is to say, Supervisor A is still sorting out his memory and has not yet been able to remember who he is. Otherwise, knowing this, even Ayin, who has been relieved of everything, would probably be a little jealous.

But for Ye Lan at this moment, everything in the outside world was meaningless. In the endless dreams, he sometimes turned into a little bird in the boundless dark forest, and sometimes turned into a huge monster with a horrible body, devouring all the creatures in the forest.

Sometimes he felt that he was hugging other companions, and continued to increase their number in an infinite sense of security. At other times, he felt that he was just a piece of flesh and blood, and everything around him did not belong to him.

As the dream progressed, his identity was constantly changing, and he experienced the knowledge and feelings of those fantastic entities that had conducted the [Final Observation] with him one by one in this dream.

Until the end, he sank into chaos. All the emotions and memories from the abnormal body disappeared one by one during the process of him sinking into this fantasy dream, and in the end, only the most real self was left in this chaos.

"who am I?"

Ye Lan asked after waking up from his trance.

"I am Ye Lan..."

Chaos from all directions answered him.

"where am I?"

Ye Lan asked.

"I am in my heart..."

Chaos from all directions continued to answer him.

"How do I get back?"

He continued to ask.

"As long as I want to go back..."

So Ye Lan opened his eyes.

At this moment, he was soaking naked in a huge tank filled with some kind of liquid. From the transparent shell of the tank, he could see that Netzach and other Sephirah were standing outside observing his situation.

Seeing him wake up, Netzach pressed a button, and the liquid in the tank was poured out through a drain under his feet. Ye Lan fell back to the ground in the tank and was about to speak, but his thoughts were interrupted by the thing in his hand.

A ring that seemed to be sparkling with starlight was held tightly in his hand. Before he realized it, he almost embedded the ring into the palm of his hand.

"what is this?"

Although Ye Lan still didn't know what the ring was, a feeling from the bottom of his heart made him wear the ring, as if the ring was a part of him.

"Well, do you still remember who you are?"

As soon as Ye Lan left the tank, before he could even put on his clothes, Netzach began to ask him questions over and over again.

Feeling numb from his repeated questions, Ye Lan turned to him and said, "zh...zhu...supervisor supervisor!!"

“Eh!? Eh!! Oh…oh no, send him back to the treatment room!”

Originally Ye Lan just wanted to scare him, but he didn't expect that Netzach was actually frightened by his not-so-exquisite performance, and even grabbed him and wanted to put him back into the treatment chamber.

Yesod, who had not had many opportunities to appear before, held Netzach's hand, stared at him helplessly and said, "That's enough, Netzach. I think you are the one who should go to the treatment room. Ye Lan is just annoyed by your questions and wants to scare you."

"Ah... is that so?" Netzach breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Ye Lan and said, "You really scared me to death. I was really afraid that I would try my best but fail to save you..."

"Netzach, I really want to thank you this time."

"Ah, this is nothing..."

"No, I do want to thank you, wipe your box, the enkephalins are all left."

"Ah... this is where we're exposed."

Netzach awkwardly found some tissues nearby and wiped the enkephalins off his body. In addition to causing hallucinations and euphoria, these powerful psychiatric drugs can also help others concentrate when used in moderation.

In order to treat Ye Lan, Netzach, who had already quit the drug, injected himself with it again.

"Yesod, you asked me to come in just now because you saw these endorphins, right?"

"Humph!"

The Sephirah with the purple word Yesod on the box folded his hands around his chest and turned his head to the side.

Chapter 14. Seed of Light

When Ye Lan woke up, it was almost midnight. By the time he finished talking to the Sephirahs who came to visit him, it was already two in the morning of Day 50.

Finally, he said goodbye to all the box spirits and returned to his dormitory room to sleep.

When he woke up, it was Day 50, the last working day of Lobotomy Corporation.

On this day, neither meltdown nor test will occur, and the only thing employees have to do is to collect all the energy needed for today.

For everyone, this day is a rare rest time, and it also indicates that they are about to arrive at their eternal day of rest.

But until then, A can't rest.

There is another "person" who is waiting for him in the real construction department.

"You've seen your own reflection."

Standing in front of the photos of all the company's executives, a young man in a white coat put his hands in his pockets and said to A:

"They must have tried to stop you from moving forward, because their future is already bleak."

"But you resolutely chose to abandon them, and shattered them along with the fragmented 'yesterday'."

“So, you and I were able to meet today.”

"Seeing that you came to me without hesitation, I guess you have realized it?"

"I know that we have all lost our hearts. I knew it a long, long time ago."

"But I don't care, and I'm sure a lot of people would do the same... That's the difference between Carmen and us."

"Unlike us, she did not look away, but tried to save them, to bring back their souls. She made an incredibly noble decision - to bring redemption to humanity."

"But I, a person without such ambition, have to inherit her will."

"It's ironic, isn't it?"

Sitting at the only desk in the construction department, A was talking to himself while looking at himself in the mirror.

“Maybe, I was never the right person for this job.”

"As you can see, I became a 'Wing', committing the same atrocities as the other 'Wings'."

"Here, workers repeat the death of thousands, endlessly. My friends who have long since died, are trapped in a cycle of pain."

"And I'm sitting here watching everything in the name of fulfilling her dream."

"This sin can never be forgiven. Despite this, I must do this. If this sin can break this cycle of evil, even just once, then I am willing to bear it all."

“Our mission is to spread seeds to people. Everyone has their own light. Stories are made of light, and people’s existence is rooted in light.”

“We are the ones who plant the seeds, but how they grow is up to them.”

“We… sadly, we can’t foresee what kind of forest we’re going to grow.”

"We still have one more thing to do. Something we have repeated countless times... to manage the Abnormalities."

"You can do it. I believe in you. Come on. This will be your last job as a supervisor."

When the man in the mirror finished speaking, A was surprised to find that it was already time to work. He didn't even have time to eat breakfast, but had to start today's management work.

Angela appeared in front of him as always, and told him some incoherent words in the mirror that never changed.

At the same time, Ye Lan, who had just woken up from his sleep, walked into the dormitory bathroom as usual. He wanted to see if there was any new news from his old employer.

But it seems that they have really given up on him. The communicator in the ornament has executed the self-destruct program. Now this thing is just a broken ornament and has no value at all.

After a quick wash, he changed into a brand new company uniform and left the dormitory room where he had lived for who knows how many reincarnations.

Is there anything more pleasant than facing your last day at work and welcoming a new life with a new set of clothes?

Ye Lan thought about what would happen next, and walked towards the restaurant with a smile that made his colleagues passing by wonder if he had not yet recovered from mental pollution.

There was no Sephirah in the restaurant today, so Ye Lan quickly finished his breakfast and went to his dressing room.

Bo Ming had been damaged in yesterday's battle, and the ego suit given to him today was the [Admiration] suit extracted from Dissolving Love.

However, it didn't really matter what suit he wore today, because he wasn't assigned to a specific department today. Both A and the Sephirahs thought he should take a break today, and the only thing he needed to do was to lend a hand when a department was too busy.

In other words, he's free today!

He walked into the elevator and entered the construction department. Four employees greeted him. They were previously on duty in the training department and came here as replacements today.

After telling them the management instructions for several abnormalities, Ye Lan walked into the elevator and moved to the R&D department. He originally planned to go to the control department to find Malkuth first.

But a premonition of crisis told him that he seemed to have said something he shouldn't have said to Malkuth yesterday when he was seriously injured, and now if he went there, he would definitely be questioned by the lovely box elf Miss Malkuku.

After waiting in the elevator for a while, before it arrived, a shake caused the elevator to temporarily lock its movement. The total energy had reached the 10% mark, and the company tilted 45 degrees to the right in a tremor.

Next, as energy is collected, the headquarters facility will gradually rotate until the company's facilities are completely inverted and the structure is turned above the company.

After the shaking of the company's facilities stopped, the elevator Ye Lan was riding in also returned to normal, and he soon arrived at the R&D department again.

Binah was sitting idly in the director's office of the R&D department. Nicknamed "Lock Mom," she didn't need to continue working today.

But just like Ye Lan sympathized with Angela, Binah also sympathized with her to a certain extent. No, this might not be accurate enough. Rather than sympathizing with Angela, Binah wanted to see what Angela could do with the Seed of Light.

The two people who had the same ulterior motives sat opposite each other in the R&D department, quietly waiting for the moment when the company's rotation would be completed and it would rise to the surface.

Chapter 15. Release

Energy is invisible. Ye Lan and Binah only sat in the R&D department for a short while, and the employees successfully collected half of the target energy.

After five rotations, the Construction Department has moved from the lowest level of the headquarters facilities to the highest level of the company facilities. The R&D department, to which Binah belongs, has also moved from the lower right position of the company to the upper left during the rotation.

If the company collects just 10% more energy, it will be able to accumulate enough energy to return to the surface and enter the mobile phase.

At this time, A, like Ye Lan and Binah, sat quietly in his office behind the main lounge of the Construction Department, looking at Ayin in the mirror.

He had almost remembered all his memories at this time, except for the name of the person in the mirror which he had not yet told him.

A moment later, the employees left the containment room safely again. The energy indicator instantly rose to 65%, and a violent roar sounded throughout the company. Amid the unstoppable tremor, the headquarters of the Brain Lobe Corporation began to climb toward the surface.

Soon, the energy accumulated to 80% as time passed.

After countless reincarnations, the square outer walls of the headquarters facility finally returned to the surface of the city and reoccupied the vacant space in the center of L Nest.

"We have been buried deep underground for nearly eternity. Nothing in the outside world has changed. There has always been an ordinary, yet magnificent scenery here."

Ayin in the mirror smiled and spoke, while A outside the mirror also smiled and listened.

He and he, or he himself, had put down the work in his hands at this time. The remaining 20% ​​of the energy could also be collected by the employees alone even without his management.

The two stood up together and walked towards the secret room where Carmen's neural tissue was stored. Next, A, or Ayin, would release the Seed of Light here and turn all the sins and sufferings in the Lobotomy Corporation into hope for the people of the city.

Boom——

"Let us bring warmth to this gloomy world. May everyone in the world be as bright as the stars in the night sky."

"People will find their innocence again, and we'll see what happens next."

With a loud bang, the energy indicator counter reached 90%, and a light, a brilliant light, a light that penetrated the sky and illuminated the entire city gushed out from this secret room through the device above the structure.

"All the energy you've gathered over the past 50 days has come together for this moment."

In the brilliant light, Ayin appeared out of thin air in front of A. His body gradually dissipated under the light, but his voice lingered in A's ears and penetrated into A's heart.

"At this moment, we will convey to you the answer that we have been struggling to find for millions of years without reservation."

"Now, it's time for us to leave. Please don't be sad. Even if we are about to disappear in the light, we will never be forgotten by the world."

A lowered his head. His own body had already dissolved and disappeared in the light. In the final analysis, he and the person in the mirror were actually the same person.

A towering tree bursts out of the ground and scatters its fruits to the world.

The tree that thrives from infinite possibilities is closer to the sky than ever before.

The boundaries between past and future, reality and fantasy, body and mind, space and time are slowly disappearing.

A's body has disappeared, but he can still hear his inner monologue. The words of the person in the mirror still reach his heart.

“People often say that at the end there is only nothing.”

“But I know that there is something there.”

"You will become an infinite light."

"Your name is—Ayin."