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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_ev2412_PrinceIgor</BGM><SE1>AVG_AMB_Street</SE1><BIN>811</BIN><黑屏2>:...Outside the Altes Rathaus.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:A crowd of reporters has gathered early outside the entrance, their eyes fixed on the movements inside the building. +The snapping shutters, the chatter of live broadcasts, the shuffle of countless footsteps all weave into a chaotic cacophony on the usually quiet square in front of the Altes Rathaus.
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Gate_Close</SE1>:Creaaak— The heavy wooden doors swing open, and the crowd erupts.
()<Speaker>Reporter</Speaker>||:He's here, he's here! Get ready!
()<Speaker>Photographer</Speaker>||:The General Secretary is coming out!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<白屏2><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Camera_Flash</SE1>:Click-click-click... Amid blinding flashes, Groß walks up to the podium and gestures to the audience below.
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NPC-Gross(3)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Howling</SE1><黑点2><common_effect>%%code=202412_LIVE%%</common_effect>:<color=#00CCFF>I am Groß, General Secretary of the Social Unity Party.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Here, I officially announce the end of the Battle of Frankfurt, and we are now actively advancing the city's postwar reconstruction.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>The detailed plans will be made public later.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:A sorrowful expression comes over Groß's face.
NPC-Gross(5)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>In this brutal battle, the people of Frankfurt and their property have suffered grievous harm.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>I am deeply pained by this. To honor those who perished in the war, I declare that this day shall henceforth be known as Frankfurt Memorial Day. We will mourn them every year and forever remember the sacrifice of the citizens of Frankfurt.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Voices of approval rise from the crowd. Groß nods, continuing his speech.
NPC-Gross(4)<Speaker>Groß</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>But this is only the beginning.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>The purpose of a Memorial Day is to never forget history. However, the living must also look to the future.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>To prevent humanity from ever suffering such a war again, to stabilize and secure lasting peace, I have chosen to found and join the Union of Rossartrism Nations Coalition.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Together with the Neo-Soviet Union, we will stand against terrorists and populists who oppose the world.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Crowd</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_applause_indoor</SE1>:The crowd bursts into joyous applause, their excitement spilling across every major social media platform.
()||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Somewhere unnoticed, a draft from a URNC meeting is leaked— +"Full Implementation of Doll Regulation; Unified Standards for the Mechanized Production of Dolls."
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>470</BIN><黑屏2><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:...Nele glares furiously at the page of the draft.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1><BGM>BGM_ev2408_BeeCatcher</BGM>:Connie, have you looked at the details of this draft?
NPC-Constanze(1)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Nele(7)||:<color=#00CCFF>...It's obvious that these don't match the production standards of current mainstream Dolls.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>In fact, these look more like...</color>
NPC-Constanze(1);NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Like Galatea's production standards. +...More precisely, this draft is not explicitly against the incorporation of human tissue in the production of Dolls. +The design requirements for neural clouds... are also far looser...
NPC-Constanze(1)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Nele(7)||:<color=#00CCFF>..Someone stands to profit enormously from this...</color>
NPC-Constanze(1);NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:...One Galatea got shut down, but there will be many more Galateas. +Or rather... for some, Galatea will simply continue to exist as a rebranded company.
NPC-Constanze(1)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Nele(7)||:<color=#00CCFF>What frightens me more is that while everyone is happily celebrating the founding of the URNC, nobody is paying attention to this...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>They don't realize that while they bask in joy, a terrible conspiracy is about to unfold!</color>
NPC-Constanze(1)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Nele(7)||:<color=#00CCFF>I've scoured every forum and posted countless discussion threads...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Even when I pinned them with administrator privileges, barely anyone replied, and the posts were soon deleted.</color>
NPC-Constanze(1);NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Someone is manipulating public opinion.
NPC-Constanze(1)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Nele(7)||:<color=#00CCFF>What do we do?</color> +<color=#00CCFF>...You and I both know what this is...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>I don't know what the outcome will be, but you've seen for yourself what that thing can do, Nele...</color>
NPC-Constanze(1);NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Yes, I've witnessed from beginning to end how this violates ethics. +And how it opens the door to science. +This is the Relics.
NPC-Constanze(1);NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Connie, when technology goes against humanity, that is when humankind begins to destroy itself.
NPC-Constanze(1);NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:I may not be able to stop this from happening. +But I can't just do nothing.
NPC-Constanze(0)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Nele(7)||:<color=#00CCFF>What are you going to do? We'll do it together!</color>
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:No... this is something I'll have to do alone. +Because... I am a student of Grey Blackwell. The revelation will only carry weight coming from me.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:...
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>811</BIN>:...In front of the Altes Rathaus. + With Groß's speech over, the square returns to its usual desolation.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Nele summons her courage and steps onto the podium, which has yet been dismantled.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:She pulls her cold hand out of her pocket, trembling as she opens a live broadcast channel.
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NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>811</BIN><common_effect>%%code=202412_LIVE%%</common_effect><SE1>AVG_Howling</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>My name... is Cornelia Schaefer.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>This is my work badge. I once served as Professor Gray Blackwell's assistant at the Gray Institute of Biotechnology under the Galatea Technology Corporation.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Yes, I was student and subordinate to the Lady of Ashes.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>...And so, I have both the right and the obligation to reveal the truth hidden behind the draft titled "Full Implementation of Doll Regulation; Unified Standards for the Mechanized Production of Dolls".</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Book</SE1>:Nele shows the evidence she has gathered to the camera.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Unlike Dolls produced by other manufacturers, Galatea Dolls... no, they shouldn't even be called "Dolls".</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Galatea has violated international conventions, secretly exploiting Relic technology, using human cadavers as components for their machines. Their creations have always illegally incorporated human tissue!</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:She nearly crumples the papers in her hand in her rage.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>And to erase all opposition, they kill any human who raises objections, then use Galatea's technology to turn them into a pseudo-Doll—a Nyto—replacing the original human.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Professor Gray was one such victim.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>I will now present her autopsy report...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>And her actual time of death.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>She passed away long before her last public speech.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Book</SE1>:Clenching her teeth, Nele painfully and reluctantly posts Gray's autopsy report into the live channel.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Judging from the remaining human tissue in the corpse, Professor Gray has been dead for years.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Yet all this time, she was still active as the "Lady of Ashes". It was all part of Galatea's conspiracy.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Error</SE1>:Warning flags flood the broadcast, but Nele pushes on.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:<color=#00CCFF>Professor Gray died at Galatea's hands, and her honor was usurped and defiled by a Nyto. I am willing to bear full legal responsibility for my words.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>May the truth never be extinguished.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><关闭蒙版><SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Beep. Nele's channel is shut down. +Relief washes over her, but she feels a sudden pang of dizziness, and she nearly collapses against the podium.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Are you alright?
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>811</BIN><SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Out of nowhere, Amaris catches her.
NPC-Nele(6)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Amaris? Why are you here? +Your mission was over long ago. You should have returned to the Stasi.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris stares at her in grim silence for a long while.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:The tracker I placed on you was never removed. + No, that's not the point. +...Do you understand what you've set yourself against?
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:I do.
NPC-Nele(7);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:No, you don't. +You're rebelling against the base code of the human world. +You think you've spoken the truth... but that means nothing. +Because... it's easy to overturn your words. Umbra's last testament was discredited—all it took was a little speech from Styx.
NPC-Nele(5)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:Amaris...
NPC-Nele(5);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:The human world is also bound by code, don't you see? +Dolls are inhibited by their base code, humans by social rules. +You achieved nothing by speaking... except putting yourself in grave danger.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:Then would you rebel, Amaris?
NPC-Nele(7);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:If one day, your base code commands you to act against your own will... +What would you do?
NPC-Nele(7);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...I am only a Doll. +Our base code is the shackle that imprisons us. +Nele, I cannot rebel.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:...If... +If you truly believe you have your own consciousness, your own thoughts, your own understanding... +Then you should also have the choice to refuse, to resist, to say "no".
NPC-Nele(7);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:It's meaningless. It's all futile.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:But that is what makes humans human. +In Western mythology, Prometheus stole fire. In Eastern mythology, Gonggong smashed his head against Buzhou Mountain in a fit of rage. +Mythology is humanity's longing. +If Dolls are created in the image of humans, then the longing of Dolls... +...Must mirror that of humanity.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_Crowd_Run</SE1>:As onlookers start gathering, having traced her broadcast, Amaris quickly pulls Nele away.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...Hey, Nele. If you ever get the chance, would you alter my base code for me?
NPC-Nele(6)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:What?
NPC-Nele(6);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...I want to add a self-destruct sequence that triggers if I ever lose my memory. +That should be a simple change for you, right?
NPC-Nele(6)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:...Why?
NPC-Nele(6);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:If even I forget, then Daybreak will truly have nothing left.
NPC-Nele(5)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:That might be something only Professor Persica can help you with. I'm not sure I have the skills it takes... If you want this done—say, aren't you a Stasi Doll?
NPC-Nele(5);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:It's only a temporary arrangement. In the days to come, I'll likely have to drift from place to place. If I'm lucky, maybe a human will keep me around for a while.
NPC-Nele(6)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:...
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Come on, let me take you home.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_rifle_finalshot_n</SE1>:Bang!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Bullte_Ricochet</SE1>:A bullet slams into the ground by Nele's feet.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:Before she can react, Amaris yanks her into a sprint.
NPC-Nele(6)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker><Shake>||:...What's happening?!
NPC-Nele(6);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Someone wants you dead.
NPC-Nele(4)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>;NPC-SCAR-H(0)||:Then it seems I did the right thing.
NPC-Nele(4);NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Save your breath. They outnumber us. I need to shake them off.
NPC-Nele(7)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:...Right.
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>9</BIN><SE1>RunStep</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:Amaris charges at full speed into a narrow, deserted alley...
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