()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>GF_22W_BGM_2</BGM><黑屏2><narrator><BIN>446</BIN>:In the Eastern Tower, Avernus. +Operation Aeneas - "Phase 0". +Target—Anna Viktorovna Tsoi. +Aeneas Conference Room current progress saved. +Phase 0... 99% completed.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The nauseating stench that permeates Avernus threatens to overwhelm RO635's neural cloud. +The only thing that is keeping her sane is the fact that she still hasn't reached her objective— Angelia. +At this very moment, she is threatening a Nyto in black named Koleda into taking her to the laboratory where Ange is being incarcerated.
RO635Mod(3)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:Koleda... Who exactly are you?
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:...As you can see, I am Koleda, the Nyto who is currently standing right in front of you.
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:If you wish to see her, I will bring you to her. +But once you do, you will understand. +She cannot leave this place with you.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Half of Task Force Aeneas are lost... RO635 is their last hope. +How could she give up now that she's here?
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:I will take her with me no matter what.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>657</BIN><黑屏2><SE1>AVG_footsteps_cave</SE1>:Koleda walks ahead in silence, her slender, metallic legs tapping brightly on the floorboards.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:They are going down a hidden path. Not a single Paradeus member is in sight along the way.
()||<黑点1><SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1><SE1>AVG_BaseDoor_Open</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>510</BIN><黑点2>:Koleda operates the access control. The electronic door opens, revealing a pure white glass room deep inside the laboratory.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Ange is inside.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:RO635 looks in the direction indicated by Koleda and sees a woman lying in the center of the white room. Her chest rises and falls almost imperceptibly—her breathing is incredibly faint. +A myriad of wires and tubes are connected to her body, pumping all kinds of unknown fluids into her bloodstream and maintaining her weak vital signs. +The passcode lock at the door of the room flashes red. The display screen on it reads, "Subject: Angelia".
RO635Mod(3)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1><震屏3>:Ange—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:RO635 rushes up to the door and tries to open it. She attempts to crack the electronic lock, but the mechanism is utterly unresponsive.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_Punch</SE1>:She bangs forcefully on the glass, shouting Ange's name loudly. +Naturally, her efforts are all futile.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:As I said, you cannot take her away.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:What has Paradeus done to her?!
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Punch</SE1><震屏3>:<size=50>How do I open... this goddamn door?!</size>
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:It's no use. +This room is specially prepared for white torture. The pure white interior deprives the victim of any sensory input and destroys their spirit. +The inner wall is impenetrable. Even if you somehow managed to break in using violence, you still wouldn't be able to save Ange.
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:The passcode cannot be cracked. Brute forcing it will trigger a deadlock seal.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:The ventilation duct in this room is less than five centimeters wide and connects directly to the filter system in the Eastern Tower.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:Everything you can think of, I've tried.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...Then what are you still waiting for?!
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:I don't know. +Maybe for the moment when her heart flatlines.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:What then?
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:Then I can begin my quest for vengeance. +I will make them pay.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...I'm against it. I'm sure the Commander won't approve either!
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:The Commander didn't send you here alone. +Yet you're the only one who managed to get this far. As a fellow team leader, I know what that means for the others. +Turn back; maybe you can still save one or two.
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:...Don't let us down.
()<Speaker>Architect</Speaker>||:We... have a deal then! We must fight to our last breath!
()<Speaker>SOP-II</Speaker>||:I believe you! I'll be waiting!
()||<黑屏1>:
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>510</BIN>:No...
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:I reached this point with everyone's will upon my shoulders. I will not give up just like that. +Here is the "Strongarm" that Miss Persica has tasked me with delivering to Ange. With it, we can lock on to her position. +If Ange regains consciousness, we may still have a chance of leaving this place.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:Such stubbornness. Such naïveté.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...I will not give up until the very end.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:I once pondered over a question.
RO635Mod(3)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:What question?
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:Back in '61, why did Ange choose us over you?
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:If she stood on the edge of the Abyss of Hell... +We would jump in with her, no question, while you... would drag her away from the precipice, wouldn't you?
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:...Of course.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The large and spacious lab is engulfed in silence.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:In that case, let's give it a try.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>Avernus - Hela</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN><SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Heart_Monitor1</SE1>:Prepare to synchronize the clocks...
()<Speaker>Avernus - Hela</Speaker>||:Blood loss at 1000cc, vital signs stable. +Procedure 20.01, main reticular formation connection completed. +Now commencing procedure 02.12...
()<Speaker>Avernus - Hela</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Scalpel. +First Assistant, watch out for reverse traction.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:... +Endless, impenetrable darkness.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Select</SE1>:Clatter—the gleaming muzzle of a gun appears abruptly in front of her, then...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_rifle_finalshot_n</SE1>:Bang! A bullet bursts out amidst sparks, spiraling towards her at high speed, piercing through face after face in her memory... shattering the solid darkness...
()||<黑屏1><SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Fall_into_water_v2</SE1>:
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>569</BIN>:...What is... this place?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>GF_2022_Summer_AVG_2</BGM>:In the water, a dark blur floats before her. The figure is hazy. Only the outline can be made out.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Who are you?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>??</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Her face and body reminds Ange of a certain woman.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Gray? +You're Gray?
NPC-Ange(8);NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>??</Speaker>||:... +You know me?
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;NPC-MrsGray(6)||:How strange. I can't see your face clearly.
NPC-Ange(8);NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>??</Speaker>||:I can't see yours either. +Were we... close?
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;NPC-MrsGray(6)||:We're enemies.
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>??</Speaker>||:...I see. +Regardless, it makes me happy that someone recognizes me... +Says my name.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Where are we?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:The Lake of Cognition.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange hesitates. This figure whose face she cannot see... +...Seems rather different from the Gray she knows.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...Are you the Gray from Galatea?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:... +I don't know.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:What does that mean?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:You're not human. +Neither am I. +We are merely stored memories. +I am a certain human frozen at a certain moment.
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:You ask me if I'm her? +I don't know. +Because I don't know if the "her" that you speak of is "me" in the future. +I don't know if I am part of "her" either. +My extracted memories only go up to 2051.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:... +You mean... +I'm dead?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:...Generally speaking, only memory fragments of the deceased who have undergone the "Holy Grail" surgery can reach the Lake of Cognition.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Generally speaking? Are you not dead?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:...I am... the one who devised this surgery. 
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:... +So it's you... You're the one to blame for it all...
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:...Perhaps.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:You're not even denying it!
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:... +Sertürner isolated morphine to create an analgesic, but inadvertently opened Pandora's box.
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:That's often the case with technology. Its applications can be entirely different from the intended use.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Then why did you devise this surgery in the first place?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:...To save a little girl's life.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:What was her name?
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:Sana.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=4%%delay=0.1%%range=3</controll_shake><SE1>AVG_splash_water</SE1><common_effect>%%code=AVG_qipao%%</common_effect>:Splash... Splosh... +The water churns... A mighty force—almost like a hurricane—seems to be pounding the bottom of the lake.
()||<黑屏1>:
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||<关闭蒙版><黑屏2><SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Come to me.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||<SE1>Heartbeat</SE1>:I think... something is calling to me...
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:Perhaps your consciousness hasn't been severed entirely. You're not dead yet in the biological sense.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...Then... can I go back? +I need to go back.
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:...You see that?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Ange turns around. All she sees is the same boundless lake.
NPC-MrsGray(6)<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:Up there.
NPC-Ange(8)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:That's...
()||<白屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<白屏2><BIN>462</BIN><common_effect>%%code=CJ_WC_piaofu%%</common_effect>:A rainbow that stretches on to infinity. +A diamond bridge that seems to be flowing. +A gigantic and dazzlingly beautiful rainbow refracted by the sunlight.
()<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||:Beautiful, isn't it? +This is a phenomenon of optical interference. +A huge iceberg hangs over our heads.
()<Speaker>Gray</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:If you want to go back, you must get through that.
()<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>510</BIN><关闭蒙版><黑屏2><BGM>GF_22W_BGM_2</BGM>:Monitoring Room, Eastern Tower Operating Level, Avernus.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:If you want to get Ange out of here, you must do exactly as I say.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:More than half a day ago, Ange underwent surgery. +She has been unconscious since she got moved here. She was in critical condition and had to be resuscitated a few times, and those were the only times when staff were summoned to this room. +They are probably monitoring her through all this equipment. If we take Ange away, the machines will sound the alarm and tip them off. That's just asking for trouble.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:If we just pull all the wires and tubes out, we could cut off her blood and oxygen supply and endanger her life.
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:So we need to get around these machines.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:That's right. I'm sending you the floor plan of the building. +We are currently on the Operating Level in Avernus, not far from the central surveillance room. +According to my observation, this place is rather understaffed and not very well defended. Most of the people coming and going are medics and scientific researchers.
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:No wonder we haven't run into any obstacles along the way.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:But even so, I suggest you stay low and avoid making a commotion. If they move Ange somewhere else, all our previous efforts will have been for nothing.
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:I'll be sure to stay hidden.
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>Koleda</Speaker>||:Go. I'll wait for you here.
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