As soon as he got off the elevator, the automatic turrets attached to the ceiling aimed at Darwin all at once. Then, the cameras next to the muzzles recognized Darwin, turned the muzzles away, and only the cameras followed Darwin.
Darwin repeatedly checked the time by glancing at his wristwatch.
He continued on through the short hallway and turned the right corner. At the end of the shorter hallway was a sturdy bulkhead door.
“I’m going in.”
The automatic turrets attached to the top of the bulkhead door also recognized Darwin. And finally, the bulkhead door opened.
Creak.
Darwin stepped into the space isolating G141, and
Bang! Bang! Bang!
At that moment, as the bulkhead door closed, the electricity went out in the entire facility.
Now it was complete darkness.
Darwin swallowed dryly and called out to the existence in the darkness.
“G141.”
There was only darkness and silence.
“You don’t have to pretend to be unconscious. We all know that you’re awake.”
“Humannnnnnn!!!!!!”
In an instant, purple lights flickered like flames, chasing away the darkness.
The third in the collective consciousness hierarchy. The leader of the survey herd.
The eye of the Chimeraz.
Nazar.
“Someday, I will kill all of you!! You disgusting and evil humans!!! I will tear you into billions of pieces and leave no bone fragments behind!!!”
Kwaang! Kwaang!
Nazar, bound by the machine, eyeball gouged in the transparent cube.
“I will kill them!! I will kill them all!!!”
“C-calm down! Calm down, my friend!”
“Human, human, human, humannnnnnn!!!”
Bang! Bang!
Darwin approaches Nazar and appeals.
“G141! It’s me! Don’t you know my face and name?”
“. . .You are. . .”
“I’m Francis Darwin, the head of the Darwin Foundation. Didn’t Kreion tell you about me?”
“. . . . . .”
Nazar, who had been raging in anger, barely calmed down.
But his animosity remained.
“Darwin. . . humans who reconciled with master also created this kind of facility, imprisoned the Chimeraz, and experimented on them? What were the tears you shed in front of master then?! The evil of you humans is astonishing every time I see it. You devilish bastard. . .!”
“No, that’s not it. . .!”
“If I had teeth, I would have pulled out your disgusting tongue and chewed it up! Francis Darwin!”
“Look around you!”
“Around?”
“I caused a blackout in this facility! I temporarily blocked those who were monitoring and eavesdropping on our conversation!”
Only then did Nazar look around his surroundings twice.
“Darwin. . .”
“Friend G141. No, I want to hear your name first. If you’re the one who can control the Lemegeton swarm, you must be one of the original leaders, right?”
“. . .Nazar. It’s the name given to me by the venerable Ludwig.”
Darwin clapped his hands.
“That’s right! Ludwig! The leader created after Ludwig was you, Nazar!”
“If you’re here to chat, get out.”
“No. I had something I really wanted to talk about, so I caused a blackout and came to see you.”
“Humans can’t be trusted. Darwin, you’re a human too.”
“I reconciled with Kreion. Kreion and I sincerely. . .”
“Say master’s name with your mouth one more time and I’ll turn every cell in your body into maggots.”
“Nazar. . .”
Darwin manually opened one of the holes in the cube-shaped prison. Originally, a syringe was inserted and removed through that hole to administer drugs to Nazar.
But Darwin put his hand in the hole. He pushed it all the way up to his shoulder and touched Nazar’s tentacles, which were bound by the machine.
“Please listen to what I have to say.”
“You dare touch me? Don’t you care about your life? I can dig into your skin right now and make you my host.”
Still, Darwin didn’t take his hand off Nazar.
And Nazar didn’t kill Darwin easily.
“If you think I’m messing around, you can do it anytime. But Kre. . . didn’t your master and I have a relationship that left a little bit of hope for each other? As humans and Chimeraz.”
Nazar suppressed the urge to kill Darwin right away.
Probably because he thought that Kreion wouldn’t be pleased if he killed Darwin now.
And as he watched Darwin, who wanted to have a conversation and was doing this and that, he thought it might be worth listening to.
“. . .Say whatever you want.”
“The UNF found out the coordinates of the Chimeraz’s main colony.”
The information that Vincent Serlyn, the head of the large corporation Mirnyy, learned from the Aooa was delivered in its entirety to the UNF.
“The UNF knows the location of the main colony. . . this quickly. . .?”
“That’s why a short while ago, the main force of the UNF assembled a large fleet and departed for the red dwarf star in that dark nebula.”
Nazar’s irises flickered unsteadily.
“No. . . If we don’t gather the corps, we’ll be defeated. Let me go right now! Darwin!”
“What are you going to do if I let you go?”
“Spread the Lemegeton swarm here and produce. . . the ring formation. . .”
“That’s too late. Besides, do you think you can do something like that alone in the territory of the Defaulstellay Federation?”
“. . . . . .”
“The UNF fleet was going to clash head-on with the Chimeraz someday anyway. You have to trust and leave it to your master there. He’s not an easy guy to defeat. . .”
“Did you cause a blackout and come to see me just to tell me that?”
“For now, I’m not worried about that side. I’m worried about you.”
“Stop beating around the bush and talk straight.”
Nazar’s eyes seemed to flicker with impatience.
“The revival of the Darwin Foundation, the reconciliation between humans and Chimeraz, a story about the survival of all of us.”
“It sounds like a fairy tale.”
“Friend Nazar. You Chimeraz know about the species called the Crolr, right?”
“Yes. The dominant species of the Large Magellanic Cloud.”
“Then, let me tell you the latest news related to the Crolr. Their movements have been very suspicious lately.”
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