()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()||<黑屏2><BGM>m_avg_labyrinth</BGM>:Alchemist goes down a different route from her friends and boards the standalone elevator.
()||<SE1>AVG_BaseDoor_Open</SE1><SE1>AVG_footsteps_cave</SE1>:After exiting the elevator, Alchemist finds herself one level above, but everything before her eyes is pitch-black. +Upon realizing something is wrong, Alchemist immediately turns to leave, but after taking a few steps, she realizes she can't feel the elevator she took up here.
BOSS-5(0)<Speaker>Alchemist</Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:...Well, this is annoying.
()||:Her communicator doesn't seem to be working, so all she can do is feel around for a way out.
()||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:...<t>Head toward the sound of blowing wind.<t>Head toward the fragrance of flowers.<t>Head toward the sensation of heat.
()||<分支>1</分支><黑点1><SE1>AVG_AMB_Wind</SE1>:Reduced to groping around blindly in the darkness, Alchemist decides to trust in her sense of hearing. +She slowly heads toward the sound of howling wind... when all of a sudden, a brilliant light banishes the darkness before her eyes.
()||<分支>1</分支><黑点2><BIN>408</BIN><回忆><SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1><BGM>BGM_stage11</BGM>:In the very next moment, Alchemist finds herself standing under the night sky. +This is an airfield at night. A strong, cold wind buffets her body, and before her is a plane that is about to take off.
()||<分支>1</分支>:A clamorous noise comes from behind her. She turns around and sees a group of humans coming her way.
()<Speaker>Reporter</Speaker>||<分支>1</分支>:How will the government deal with the contamination from this explosion? +Why has the spread of the affected area not been curtailed?! +Could you please tell us what the actual conditions are like?! How many casualties are there?! +Could you answer us? Mr. Minister! Please answer us!
()<Speaker>Official</Speaker>||<分支>1</分支>:The search and rescue teams are doing their best to rescue victims, and the purification work is underway...
()<Speaker>Reporter</Speaker>||<分支>1</分支>:Then could you please tell us why you chose this moment to leave? +According to an inside scoop, most of the wealthy residents in the city have packed up and left! +Is this related to the government's inability to manage the spread of the contamination?!
()<Speaker>Official</Speaker>||<分支>1</分支>:I am leaving on official business! Please do not make false allegations!
()||<分支>1</分支>:A government official is attempting to fight his way through a throng of pressmen toward his private plane. +Tensions are high and tempers are heated, judging by the exchange of words and the jostling bodies.
()<Speaker>Reporter</Speaker>||<分支>1</分支>:A moment please, Mr. Minister! Please answer this question! +Were the funds earmarked by the government for purification purposes used on actual anti-contamination policies?! +Minister!!
()||<分支>1</分支>:In the end, the official gets on the plane under the cover of his bodyguards. Exasperated, the media begins shouting abuse at him. +Just as he is about to leave...
()||<分支>1</分支><白屏2>:
()||<分支>1</分支><common_effect>%%code=CJ_fire%%</common_effect><SE1>Explode</SE1>:Kaboom!!
()||<分支>1</分支><SE1>AVG_20Winter_Burnfire_Loop</SE1>:A massive explosion blows the plane to bits right as its engine starts up. The shockwave sends the crowd around it sprawling on the ground. +Merrily burning flames rip through the night in a terrifying scene.
()||<分支>1</分支><SE1>AVG_Sword_Scope</SE1>:Whoosh...
BOSS-5(0)<Shake>0.1</Shake><Speaker>Alchemist</Speaker>||<分支>1</分支>:...!!
()||<分支>1</分支><SE1>AVG_20Winter_People_Panic</SE1>:A troop of Paradeus soldiers suddenly appears. Alchemist reflexively raises her weapons, but then she hears the screams from behind her.
()||<分支>1</分支><SE2>Gunfight</SE2>:A hail of bullets massacre all the bodyguards and journalists present. They whiz through Alchemist's body, but do her no harm.
()||<分支>1</分支>:After ensuring that there are no survivors, the White Faction troopers surround the area. Then the official, who was apparently killed in the explosion, emerges from among them. +He clears his throat, and then...
()<Speaker>Official</Speaker>||<分支>1</分支><SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:It was just a small accident. Please keep calm, everyone. The situation is under control. We will devote all our efforts to protecting the people, so please do not panic... +...
()||<分支>1</分支><关闭蒙版><BIN>9</BIN><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Open_Light</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Everything goes blank. +The lights immediately go out, and Alchemist is plunged into darkness once more. +At the same time, she realizes she can't hear the wind anymore.
()||<分支>2</分支>:Reduced to groping around blindly in the darkness, Alchemist decides to trust in her sense of smell. +She slowly heads toward the sweet scent of flowers... when all of a sudden, a brilliant light banishes the darkness before her eyes.
()||<分支>2</分支><黑屏1>:
()||<分支>2</分支><黑屏2><BIN>239</BIN><回忆><BGM>GF_21winter_avg_mahaline</BGM>:In the very next moment, she finds herself standing in a courtyard. +The birds are chirping, the bugs are buzzing, and the wind is blowing through the trees—a vista of tranquility. +This is the source of the floral fragrance that Alchemist has smelled.
()||<分支>2</分支><SE1>AVG_brake</SE1>:Vroom...
()||<分支>2</分支>:The sound of an engine comes from behind her. Alchemist turns and sees a black sedan parked at the doorway of the garden. Two bodyguards in black quickly exit the vehicle and pass through Alchemist before entering the mansion in front of her. +Just then, a middle-aged man slowly disembarks and quietly peers through Alchemist.
()<Speaker>??</Speaker>||<分支>2</分支>:...
()||<分支>2</分支>:The bodyguards emerge from the mansion with a girl in tow. She looks tensely at the middle-aged man, wondering if she should speak.
NPC-Rudolf(1)<Speaker>Von Oberstein</Speaker>||<分支>2</分支>:...This is a necessary sacrifice, my daughter.
()<Speaker>??</Speaker>||<分支>2</分支>:No sacrifices are ever necessary, Father. +You are simply tormenting your own daughter for your own personal gains.
NPC-Rudolf(1)<Speaker>Von Oberstein</Speaker>||<分支>2</分支>:You will understand me someday, ****.
()||<分支>2</分支><SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Car_Close</SE1>:The man waves, and the bodyguards shove the girl into the car.
()<Speaker>??</Speaker>||<分支>2</分支><震屏3>:Father... Rudolf! You can't!
()||<分支>2</分支><SE1>AVG_engine_speedup</SE1>:With a roar of its engine, the car vanishes rapidly into the distance.
()||<分支>2</分支><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Open_Light</SE1><BIN>9</BIN><关闭蒙版><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Everything goes blank. +The lights immediately go out, and Alchemist is plunged into darkness once more. +At the same time, she realizes she can't smell the flowers anymore.
()||<分支>2</分支>:...
()||<分支>3</分支>:Reduced to groping around blindly in the darkness, Alchemist decides to trust in her sense of touch. +She slowly heads toward the rolling waves of heat... when all of a sudden, a brilliant light banishes the darkness before her eyes.
()||<分支>3</分支><黑点1>:
()||<分支>3</分支><黑点2><BIN>240</BIN><回忆><BGM>m_avg_labyrinth</BGM>:In the very next moment, she sees a glowing fireplace before her. +In the darkness, this light is her only signpost.
()||<分支>3</分支>:There is a sofa beside the fireplace, but nobody is sitting on it. +Beyond the sofa is a small table, with several letters on it. +There is a fire poker by the sofa, its tip glowing red. Upon closer inspection, over a dozen letters are burning in the fireplace.
()||<分支>3</分支>:Alchemist approaches the table and tries to pick up one of the few letters that remain on it, but her hand passes right through. She has no choice but to only read the parts that aren't covered up.
()||<分支>3</分支><narrator>:...The Holy Grail Project aims to explore the influence of the Relics civilization on humanity itself, **** in particular. +Its director and lead researcher, Professor ** from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was investigated and expelled from the US Relics Agency for academic misconduct. +I believe she will be of great help to us.
()||<分支>3</分支>:...
()||<分支>3</分支><narrator>:***** is a top-class specialist in Relics scientific research, and she will doubtlessly have an extraordinary effect on pushing our plan forward. We should spare no effort in attempting to recruit her. +She is currently still in the Neo-Soviet Union, but will return to Germany soon. That will be our chance.
()||<分支>3</分支>:...
()||<分支>3</分支><narrator>:"The Hela research program is going very poorly. To date, there have been no successful cases. Perhaps I thought too highly of her."
()||<分支>3</分支>:...
()||<分支>3</分支><narrator>:"She is a lunatic."
()||<分支>3</分支>:... +As Alchemist tries to learn more...
()||<分支>3</分支><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Open_Light</SE1><BIN>9</BIN><关闭蒙版><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Everything goes blank. +The lights immediately go out, and Alchemist is plunged into darkness once more. +At the same time, she realizes she can't feel the heat anymore.
()||:The wind has stopped blowing, the scent of flowers has vanished, and even the heat has cooled off into nothingness. +In the darkness, Alchemist is completely lost, and she cannot find the elevator.
BOSS-5(0)<Speaker>Alchemist</Speaker>||:...What a messed up place.
()||<SE1>Select</SE1>:Alchemist raises her weapons and revs up her motors, instantly maxing out her strength and mobility outputs... Then she dashes forth and starts tearing wildly at her surroundings.
()||<SE1>Explode</SE1>:Kaboom! +The tremendous destructive force instantly annihilates the room. Her footing vanishes as the punctured floorboards collapse, plunging her downwards. +...
()||<黑点1>: