At this moment, inside and outside this room—where people usually came and went, and a medical team would arrive to record data almost every half hour—it was eerily empty.
Inside the room, for some unknown reason, the incandescent light on the ceiling let out a sharp "sizzle."
Guard B-050, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly snapped them open.
He lifted his head from the bed in a daze, seeing the delivery boy, B-406, pushing the door open and using his elbow to pull it shut behind him.
B-406’s posture was very calculated; he kept the side of his body holding the briefcase facing B-050 on the bed.
The large briefcase and his trench coat completely concealed the small, lethal pistol hidden beneath.
"Why are you back? Not busy lately?"
B-050 sat up from the bed, feeling a bit confused.
"Yeah, well, we've already reached our destination..."
B-406 responded naturally, then turned and raised his hand.
Bang!
A violent explosion rang out. Everything in the room seemed to tremble with the massive sound.
But the thick padding and soundproof layers on the walls faithfully fulfilled their duty, sealing everything within that small space.
This was followed by a loud clatter.
The power of this small pistol was abnormal; a basketball-sized hole was instantly blasted through the steel-framed bed, causing it to collapse under the strain.
But the shot did not hit its intended target.
For some reason, the moment B-406 entered the room, Guard B-050’s muscles had tensed up.
Then, the instant the other man turned, B-050 had already rolled off the bed, evading the fatal strike.
B-050’s eyes were filled with shock, incomprehension, and bewilderment.
At the moment B-406 entered the room, he realized that for some unknown reason, he could actually see through things.
In his field of vision, the high-energy pistol that B-406 was concealing with his body and the case was clearly visible.
It was as if it had been specially highlighted, instantly capturing all of his attention.
Before he could even figure out what was happening, B-406’s murderous intent struck.
Realizing something was wrong ahead of time, B-050 relied on his instincts as a frontline combatant of the Sky Eye Organization to successfully dodge the lethal blow.
"If the organization wanted to kill me, they wouldn't need to do it this way..."
B-050 rolled across the floor after falling, taking cover behind a steel cabinet. At the same time, he shouted a warning, "...This is a personal action."
Bang!
A loud explosion near his ear was the only answer.
B-406 fired again, but for some reason, the shot seemed slightly off. The energy bolt grazed the side of the cabinet, blasting a hole in it.
The blast from the metal collision rang right next to B-050’s ear, causing blood to seep from his ear canal.
Vials of medicine on the cabinet shattered and fell, spilling red and blue liquids all over the floor. For a moment, it was impossible to tell what was human blood and what was something else.
B-406 frowned. The pistol’s power was immense, but so was its recoil, making it difficult for a clerical worker like him to handle.
Did I hit him?
He wondered. Clerical staff in the Sky Eye Organization are still required to undergo combat training, and my aim has always been decent. But why does this feel so strange?
Just then, he saw the cabinet suddenly begin to enlarge in his eyes, growing bigger and bigger—until the entire cabinet flew up and smashed directly toward his face!
The space in the room was small, and B-406 couldn't dodge in time. With a loud thud, he was pinned to the floor by the metal cabinet.
Just as he tried to get up, B-050, who had just thrown the cabinet, lunged forward and pressed his weight down on it.
The immense weight made it impossible for B-406 to move. His gun hand was pinned, and at such close range, he didn't dare fire blindly.
He struggled to look up, his panicked eyes meeting another pair that was bloodshot and leaking blood from an unknown source.
The two remained in a deadlock, separated by the metal cabinet. However, they didn't know that behind each of their eyes was another pair of eyes, quietly watching this scene through a strange, dual first-person perspective.
Ren Yi had sensed something was wrong the moment B-406 appeared at B-050’s door, partially concealing a gun. Whether it was to sow chaos on the land ship or to protect the "Seed" he had worked so hard to plant, Ren Yi began to interfere in the conflict.
When B-406 thought he had hidden the gun perfectly, Ren Yi "highlighted" the weapon in B-050’s vision, which naturally triggered the old guard’s alertness.
Then, during the actual fight, Ren Yi continued to "play favorites," interfering with B-406’s vision as he fired, causing him to miss again. In this seemingly intense battle, Ren Yi’s invisible hand was quietly orchestrating everything.
Now, while the two were at a stalemate, Ren Yi’s thoughts were racing. This is strange.
B-406 had come with aggressive intent to silence the witness, but the question was: why did B-050 need to be silenced?
Ren Yi began to review B-050’s storyline. He had accompanied the doctor to capture the entire Red Ring Tribe and then handled the aftermath after the doctor entered the base.
When B-406 came to select Consumables, the two had an exchange. B-406 didn't choose the dying Tribal Chief but instead took Evans.
Then, the doctor had casually used him as a Consumable, throwing him into Ren Yi’s sealed pod, where Ren Yi shut off his five senses. Seven days ago, Ren Yi had restored them, keeping him as a pawn that might be useful in the upcoming escape.
After the Lord of the City arrived, B-406 suddenly received a message to silence him. What’s wrong here?
Ren Yi had a preliminary theory. Since his contact with B-050, the guard had almost no opportunity for independent action. Therefore, the reason for this silencing likely existed from the very beginning.
Looking at it now, when the doctor suddenly brought him in to be a Consumable to test Ren Yi, had she already decided to silence him?
However, Ren Yi had not killed B-050 in order to demonstrate his own uniqueness. According to experimental protocols, such experimental materials needed to be inspected and preserved.
In that experimental stalemate, allowing experimental material that showed a special reaction to be wasted didn't fit the doctor’s "persona." Thus, she had instructed B-406 to save him.
Afterward, because B-050 had lost his senses and couldn't communicate, the doctor didn't bother with him further. But this still didn't quite explain why he should be silenced.
Yet, there were few other possibilities. Before Ren Yi arrived in this world, B-050 was out in the Wilderness, not in the base. If Dr. Cyril had wanted to silence him then, it would have been much easier.
But she didn't. So, B-050 must have learned a secret he wasn't supposed to know after he returned.
Evans. When B-050 was initially selecting Consumables, the one he wanted to grab was Evans.
Afterward, he even argued with B-406, rejecting the idea of choosing the dying Tribal Chief. What if his initial choice wasn't random, but premeditated?
But for a combatant of the Sky Eye Organization, choosing a Consumable shouldn't matter at all. He must have been instructed to do so by someone. That person could only have been Dr. Cyril.
Ren Yi was struck with a sudden realization. So, Dr. Cyril knew from the very beginning. She knew about Evans’s uniqueness.
The disturbance of B-013 and Ren Yi’s arrival were simply events that happened to fall right into Dr. Cyril’s carefully prepared trap.
She had intentionally hinted that the arrival of B-013-A had caused S-099’s activity... In this world where the Alliance had never set foot, there were no such coincidences.
It was Evans’s arrival that had caused S-099 to react!
Dr. Cyril had deliberately thrown Evans into the experiment as a "Consumable" just so he could be involved under a relatively inconspicuous identity.
At the same time, she forcibly linked Ren Yi’s uniqueness to S-099 and then impatiently forced them into contact with S-099, all just to bring Evans and S-099 together as quickly as possible.
So, I’m just the innocent one who got caught in the crossfire? But if that were the case, how could Evans’s reaction to him be explained?
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