()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()||<BIN>563</BIN><黑屏2><BGM>GF_2022_Summer_Main_1</BGM>:Inside Amaris' neural cloud domain.
()||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:The surging stream of data has finally found its fated destination.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...Are you going to leave me?
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<同时置暗><Speaker>Laura</Speaker>||:We've been squatting in your body for 13 years already, you know.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Laura...
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<同时置暗><Speaker>Samantha</Speaker>||:You knew this day would come eventually, right?
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Samantha...
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<同时置暗><Speaker>Morea</Speaker>||:You do get it, Amaris! Don't you?
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Morea...
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<同时置暗><Speaker>Olivia</Speaker>||:We have to go.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<同时置暗><Speaker>Nicole</Speaker>||:Don't be sad, we'll be the witnesses for your past.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Shake>0.1</Shake><Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Olivia... Nicole!
()||<震屏3>:Amaris tries to reach for them, but only manages to grab the air.
()<Speaker>System</Speaker>||:<color=#FFFF00>Clearing redundant data...</color>
()||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:The data fragments slip away between her fingers, without leaving so much as a speck behind for her.
()<Speaker>Callisto</Speaker>||:Amaris...
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris stares dumbly at the remaining two people.
()<Speaker>Callisto</Speaker>||:...I'll leave this to you, Eula.+I'm next.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Shake>0.1</Shake><Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Callisto...!
NPC-SCR(0)<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>||:Amaris.
NPC-SCR(0)<同时置暗><Speaker></Speaker>||:Eula blocks her path.
NPC-SCR(0)<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>||:...So I'm the last one again, huh.
NPC-SCR(0);NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Do you REALLY have to go?
NPC-SCR(0)<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(5)||:...I'm sorry.
NPC-SCR(0);NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:We've been together for so long...+...So long that I forgot who I was.+So long I thought I was Samo...
NPC-SCR(0)<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(5)||:That's why we have to go.+Amaris, we've been taking up space in your body for so long.+We've ended up becoming stumbling blocks for you instead.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:No, you're not—
NPC-SCR(0)<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>||:You should move forward, Amaris.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC-SCR(0)<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>||:Goodbye.
()||:A tear courses down Eula's face. She waves to Amaris, and then plunges into that endless stream of data.
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<黑屏1>:...
()||<黑屏2><BIN>79</BIN><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Berlin, City Hall.
()||<BGM>BGM_Room</BGM><SE1>AVG_AMB_Restaurant</SE1>:The bustling city hall is hosting a lively banquet.+High-ranking officials from all over Germany and various local leaders are gathered here.+Needless to say, this is an important event, and naturally the security detail for it is of the highest quality.
Sterling(0)<通讯框><Speaker>Sterling</Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>...There are 45 details of security guards, with 3 men per detail, and they change posts once every 15 minutes.</color>+<color=#00CCFF>Every entrance, exit and emergency passage is watched by someone and there are five more details of guards inside the venue proper.</color>
PPQ(0)<通讯框><Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>The "Jack In The Box" has been set.</color>
TFQ(0)<Speaker>Dagmar</Speaker><Position>0,100</Position>||<黑点1>:<color=#00CCFF>I, I'm ready, please give the order.</color>
()||<黑点2><BIN>315</BIN><SE1>AVG_amb_wilderness</SE1>:...
()||:On top of a skyscraper roughly two streets away, Edith puts down the binoculars she is holding.
LS26(0)<Speaker>Edith</Speaker><Position>0,-60</Position>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Target at 12 o'clock. Distance 1400 meters, half wind speed, humidity...</color>
()||:Beside her, Amaris is already in a shooting position. She closes one eye and curls a finger around her gun's trigger.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:3...
()||<黑点1>:Through her scope, she sees the empty emergency exit at the end of her bullet's computed trajectory.
TFQ(0)<Speaker>Dagmar</Speaker><Position>0,100</Position>||<黑点2><BIN>79</BIN>:<color=#00CCFF>...</color>
()||<Night><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Open_Light</SE1>:Snap—!+Dagmar cuts the power to the building from its basement.
()||<SE1>AVG_Crowd</SE1>:The banquet hall instantly goes dark.
()||<关闭蒙版><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Open_Light</SE1>:The emergency response takes only a few seconds before the backup power supply kicks in and light illuminates the hall once more.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN>:2...
()<Speaker>Security Guard</Speaker>||<BIN>79</BIN>:Everyone, please don't panic! Listen to our instructions and evacuate in a calm and orderly fashion—
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>...</color>
()||<controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake><SE1>AVG_The_Division_Flash_Bomb_Explosion</SE1>:Boom—!!
()||<common_effect>%%code=AVG_chuxian_yan%%</common_effect><SE1>AVG_Crowd</SE1>:Brigitte sets off the pre-positioned smoke bomb. The smoke fills the hall and sets off the alarm.+Amidst the uncontrollable chaos, the professional bodyguards quickly see to the protection of their assigned VIPs and swiftly move them to safety.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN>:...
()<Speaker>Sterling</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Target on the way.</color>
()||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARH2</SE1>:She pulls her trigger.
()||<BIN>79</BIN><震屏3><SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARH4</SE1>:Bang—+In the next moment, that "human" appears in the center of her vision— and in the span of a single breath, her bullet pierces his forehead.
()||:The target collapses to the ground amidst the confusion, and the well-dressed people in the vicinity can see the blood-spurting corpse.
()<Speaker>Terrified Woman</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_People_Panic</SE1>:Aieeeee—!!!
()||<黑屏1>:...
()||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN><SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:The mission is over.+...The simulation ends.
()||<黑屏1>:...
()||<黑屏2><BIN>73</BIN>:...
()||<BGM>m_avg_labyrinth</BGM>:At an observation room in the Stasi simulation training base.
NPC-Romy(0)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Romy(0)<同时置暗><Speaker>训练负责人</Speaker>||:Her results are exceptional. Both her AI and data evaluations and our tactical expert concur that there are no flaws to be found.
NPC-Romy(0)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||:Very good. Carry on.+She will be a capable operator for us and we need a weapon like her.
NPC-Romy(0)<同时置暗><Speaker>训练负责人</Speaker>||:Yes, ma'am. We'll raise the sim difficulty for her next round and improve her ability to mesh with her subordinates.
NPC-Romy(0)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||:Right.
()||<SE1>AVG_BaseDoor_Open</SE1>:Romy looks through the one-way glass at Amaris, who is emerging from her sim capsule.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()||:Amaris looks up, and her clouded eyes seem to be looking her way.+From Amaris' perspective, the mirror reflects her face.
NPC-Romy(0)<Speaker>Romy</Speaker>||:...
()||<黑点1>:Still, Romy has the feeling that Amaris is looking straight at her.+Right after that thought passes through her head, Amaris looks away and turns to leave the training room.
()||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><黑点2><Night><BIN>470</BIN>:Berlin, in Amaris' dorm.
()||<BGM>2022_white_valentine_BGM2</BGM>:Amaris lies on her bed and looks at the ceiling in front of her.+This is the first time her head has felt this empty.+There are no voices at all.+She has never had a lonelier night than this one.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:She turns and sits up, and a strange, unfamiliar feeling rises up from the depths of her neural cloud.+She knows that this feeling is loneliness.
()||<SE1>AVG_Card_Reader</SE1>:Click.
()||:Amaris turns on her tablet's screen, as though trying to dispel that feeling.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...Hm
()||:She sees a familiar name on a colorful webpage.
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:The hit novel "Romance of the Nitrogen Freeze Gun", now serialized!
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()||:Pffft.+Amaris can't hold back her laughter as she smiles from the bottom of her heart, the first time since that night.+The heroine's fate in the story is currently unclear, and the comments on the story have blown up, with all sorts of analyses, essays and simple flames being posted willy-nilly.
()||:After quickly scanning the text, she stretches her fingers and begins typing out a comment.
()||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:"I'll bet you 10 powerbanks that the MC is still alive."
()||:After posting it, Amaris turns off her computer, satisfied.
()||<黑屏1>:Just then, her eyes are drawn to the fragments on the table which she spent an entire night piecing together.
()||<黑屏2><BIN>543</BIN><关闭蒙版>:There is a stain there which refuses to go away no matter what she does.
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()||:Amaris takes out a lighter from her drawer.+She looks at the person in the center and frowns.+The lighter flame is only a tiny distance away from that person's face, and it seems as though the picture is going to be scorched black by the fire.
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...Eh, forget it.
()||<Night><黑屏1><SE1>AVG_Button_Click</SE1>:Snap.+She extinguishes the lighter and lies back down on the bed with the photo.+All the familiar faces on it have the smiles that she likes best.
()||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN><SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:After tucking the picture into her chest pocket, Amaris closes her eyes. That loneliness hasn't vanished, but it's become another kind of emotion that enfolds her.
NPC-SCAR-H(5)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...I'll live a good long life for all your sakes.
()||<黑屏1>:As always, the gentle moonlight illuminates her way forward.
()||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:...+Eclipses and Saros [END]
()||<黑屏1>: