Is it really normal to contain these anomalies?

This was not the first time Bai Yu met her, but he still suspected that she had forgotten him.

Fortunately, the next few words from the AI lady dispelled his doubts.

"Oh, hello... Kurashiro Yu from the ERD team, right? I heard about your deeds from the HOD."

"But why aren't you resting so late? Is there something else going on?"

The AI in front of him closed his notebook and walked over with some concern.

"If you're looking for something, I think I can be of some help."

"Well, please tell me how to get to the supervisor's office."

"Supervisory office?"

Malkuth was a little surprised when he heard the question.

"Bai Yu, you won't find it."

"why?"

“Emm, this…”

The AI's prosthetic eye moved around awkwardly, as if she was having trouble explaining this to an employee.

Bai Yu saw everything she did.

“Is this something we as employees shouldn’t be aware of?”

"Well... not really, but the director's office is absolutely secret and secure. If it doesn't want to appear, then this facility..."

"Is that right?"

Malkuth still hesitated to speak, but Bai Yu basically understood what she meant.

The office he had seen countless times in the game but had never actually stepped into probably didn't exist in this facility.

This solved a question that Bai Yu had always had - why wouldn't the supervisor be hurt when an anomaly like Azure Nova launched a full-screen attack?

Feelings are not protected by some kind of shield.

But are they not in this facility at all?

Bai Yu sighed, but he also realized that he might not be able to find Angela for a while.

"Is there anything else I can help you with?" Malkuth asked again politely.

"Could you help me check the facility's Abnormality containment situation? It would be even better if you could print out a map of the facility for me."

"That's no problem."

Letting go of the feeling of failure to help, Malkuth quickly regained his composure and returned to the center console.

The robotic arm taps on the keyboard flexibly.

"Well, are these enough?"

Malkuth quickly organized and printed the information.

"Thank you," Bai Yu counted the still warm papers. "Have you always worked like this?"

"Yeah, as AIs we don't need to rest, we work 24 hours a day... Pretty impressive, right?" Malkuth said cheerfully, and then ticked another box on his notebook.

"This must be tiring."

Bai Yu seemed to ignore her last sentence.

"There's nothing to be tired of. We are AI."

"But you were all human, weren't you?"

"Ah! You actually know all this?"

"I was also caught up in the HOD core suppression," Bai Yu smiled and even gestured with his fingers, "I only saw a little bit of my memory."

"Then you must know a lot... Did you also see how stupid I looked before I died?"

"Feel sorry."

"It's okay, I'm just asking. I've already let it go."

Malkuth's tone was a little depressed, but it was mostly due to the embarrassment of having his privacy exposed, and there was not much malice in it.

She turned and walked towards the employee coffee machine on the table, wanting to make another cup of coffee - this habit left over from her graduate school days always helped her get rid of many small troubles.

"But you really shouldn't tell anyone outside, or I'll really get angry!"

"Okay, okay."

Bai Yu smiled and nodded, and arranged the documents in his hand upright on the table.

"By the way, Makuku, do you also want to end this cycle of reincarnation as soon as possible, just like Angela?"

"Hmm?!"

Malkuth, who had just started to drink coffee, suddenly spat out all the liquid in the feed port.

"Huh? Bai Yu, what did you just say?!"

Her emotions at the moment were palpable.

Whether it's the cute nickname that suddenly appeared, or the truth about Lobotomy Corporation that I just learned from an employee...

"Ah! Sorry~ I didn't say anything just now, Minister Makuku."

Bullshit!

He absolutely did it on purpose! This guy even had the leisure to glance at the surveillance camera while perfunctorily doing it!

But just like what happened with HOD, Bai Yu packed up the documents and ran away, and Malkuth didn't have time to stop him.

Still standing there, she could only watch Bai Yu's back disappear in the corridor, feeling a little angry and a little strange.

"Alas... Makuku? Employees dare to give the director a nickname? How disrespectful..."

"Never mind, this nickname is pretty cute, so I'll just forgive his disrespect..."

Makuku quickly calmed down the anger in his heart.

She fell back on the round chair and turned around a few times, but the thinking in the database did not stop.

"Reincarnation? But how did he know about reincarnation? Aren't all the employees' memories wiped?"

She analyzed the last words left by Bai Yu.

The first question had not been answered yet, but another paragraph in the article made her concerned.

'Same as Angela?'

"Why is Angela suffering? Isn't it just an ordinary AI created by Ain to supervise our execution of the script?"

Makuku recalled his first meeting with Angela.

At least, since she could remember, Angela had always been an efficient machine who didn't care about the lives of her employees and put work first.

It’s not that he hates Angela, after all, Makuku himself was like this in the past.

But...she never thought about it.

Does Angela have emotions?

And will you feel pain from this reincarnation of ten thousand years?

"Impossible, impossible. The leader doesn't allow non-human sentient beings to exist... If Angela really was that, the leader would have come to her door long ago!"

Makuku denied all of this.

Just like Mr. Netzach said, Angela is just an ordinary AI, set up as a machine that denies them, exploits them, and occasionally goes crazy during the process.

She shook her mechanical legs, trying to appear relaxed.

But the kindness in her heart made it hard for her to ignore.

She had to think about...who was Bai Yu talking to?

"But...if she truly has feelings...how long will she have to endure this alone before I stop restarting my memories and begin this endless cycle?"

"Hey, if emotions and memories really exist, then Ain should have designed a memory eraser for her over these ten thousand years, haha..."

Makuku turned around a few more times briskly, and made some slightly strange decisions in his heart.

Although I don't know whether Angela has any memory...

She also decided to treat Angela to a cup of coffee next time.

Chapter 209 Low-level Error

Lobotomy Corporation headquarters, day 35, work begins.

"Luti, I heard that you were transferred to the Punishment Department today?"

"Yes."

"I heard that most of the Abnormalities held there are not very easy to deal with... Everyone says there's an Abnormality that would drive even a Level 5 employee crazy, and a monster that can disguise itself as one of us..."

"Yeah... I'll be careful, and you should be safe too."

The girl in the elevator smiled and nodded to her colleagues who had arrived at the station and walked into the orange corridor.

As the elevator door slowly closed again, she covered her chest with her hands, revealing her deep inner tension and anxiety.

She really had to be nervous.

It's not just because of the terrifying abnormalities detained in the Punishment Department.

And the boss who was being rumored among the employees as a 'battle maniac' who had absolutely no regard for the safety of his employees...

It is said that she would rush forward and hack at the Abnormality as soon as she saw it, even if her employees were seriously injured and fell to the ground.

"Don't be nervous... Luti, you can do it... You are already a level 5 employee."

The girl took several deep breaths, and with a ding sound, she finally walked out of the elevator door.

She grasped her rapier and ran towards the blood-red hall.

"Um... Is Ms. Geburah here? I was transferred from the central headquarters..."

boom!

Before Luti could finish her words, a slash hit the alloy door frame next to her cheek.

“Eh? Eh!!”

The girl touched the stinging on her face in amazement, and blood stained the blue gloves in her hands.

As expected, the attack would have chopped off her head by just a few centimeters.

And the attacker happened to be right in front of her at this moment.

But when she saw her, Luti didn't even have the thought of resisting. The little girl could only tremble as she looked at the red AI in front of her with scars all over its shell.

If it weren't for the fifth level of caution, she would have been scared to death.

"Your knife is quite good..."

The red AI didn't even look at her. She just spoke to the man in front of her while holding the bloody butcher knife.

"Bai Yu, are you sure you want to give me this weapon?"

"To be honest, I was hesitant myself."

Bai Yu smiled bitterly.

Hong Jie has not yet performed core suppression, but as a mid-level Sephirah, even though she does not know about the Seed of Light Project, she will not reset her memories.

Therefore, when he, who had broken his contract thousands of years ago, came to this place again last night, she wanted to put the mimicry directly into his mouth...

"Sister Hong, why don't you return my gift first... (I'll give you a better Night's Edge after I defeat your Core Suppression?)"

Bai Yu really wanted to finish saying everything in the brackets.

But Sister Hong in front of him seemed to be extremely satisfied with this weapon.

She just casually made a few excuses to Bai Yu...she didn't expect him to really take advantage of the situation.

"What nonsense are you talking about? This weapon is specifically used to chop those monsters..."