Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 543 - 469: Black Wall_2

Chapter 543: Chapter 469: Black Wall_2

"Quack." Little Fool felt aggrieved at being called Tiny and sought for compensation. She walked up to Kanako, took off the milk bottle from around her neck, and pointed to the empty bottle.

"What is this?" Kanako still couldn’t quite understand Little Fool’s narrative style.

"Supplementary food," Xu Yang explained, "it can provide her with a great deal of energy, until tomorrow or the day after at some point."

Little Fool looked up at Kanako, making it impossible for her to refuse.

"Alright, there’s an Infinite milk-flowing machine in the Divine Palace, I’ll take you to find it, and then you’ll never run out," Kanako said as she expertly picked up Little Fool.

Little Fool was completely stunned by this staggering news.

Her mouth hung open, her thoughts already drifting to the far ends of the Milk Paradise. Little Fool clung to Kanako, looking up at her with adoration, feeling secure about the future.

"What about you?" Kanako headed toward the elevator and looked back at Xu Yang.

"There’s a problem," Xu Yang connected to the Xisheng Shrine system and noticed something unusual, "someone has entered the underground data center."

"A hacker! An intruder!" Kanako exclaimed, alerting Little Fool as well, "The machine room on the underground level is forbidden territory!"

"No...not that. You go ahead with Xu Cheng, I’ll go check it out," Xu Yang quickly headed toward the main machine room in the underground level of the Xisheng Shrine.

Xu Yang leaned against the elevator wall, seated himself in a shock-resistant pod, and braced for impact.

The Shrine had an emergency elevator using an electromagnetic launch system, going from the tea room at the top of the 159th floor, 636 meters high, to the underground data center in only 6 seconds, almost like shooting a human cannonball to the bottom.

Whoosh—

The wind howled, and Xu Yang felt the elevator begin to decelerate midway, smoothly reaching the bottom level before the doors opened and he stepped into the machine room.

He wasn’t actually too worried, as he had seen Farosa there from the surveillance cameras. The so-called intruder was in fact Farosa.

Xu Yang just didn’t know what Farosa was doing there.

Farosa walked through the machine room, surrounded by huge black walls, each wall nearly a meter thick, 2.5 meters high, with considerable space between them, made from bulletproof metal, difficult to open.

They were connected to the Xisheng Shrine’s data system, supporting the operation of all terminals in the entire building, providing computational power for the Hundred-eyes Demon’s branch shrine, forming a vast computing matrix.

"Did you sense something?" Xu Yang followed Farosa, who now wandered silently like a Phantom.

"I have felt something..." Farosa stopped, "what I must do. In the night, in dreams, voices are pleading with me to open them, they want to come out. I asked Lila what that was, and Lila said it’s countless Witches experiencing their past, more brutal than hers."

Xu Yang found the key stored inside the Shrine terminal, authorized Farosa to open one of the black walls, and the black metal wall retracted to both sides.

Xu Yang saw densely packed Witch brains inside the wall.

Each brain was placed in preservative fluid, covered with electrodes and data cables. These brains had been filled with chips before being placed into the data tanks, shining brightly in the black wall, multicolored.

Some had entire heads placed in the tanks, with wires crudely passing through their skulls and facial skin while their severed spines floated in the solution.

Farosa’s face pressed against the glass, viewing the Witch brains that made up the matrix.

Xu Yang saw labels on each data tank, the oldest of which had been there for 110 years, and even the youngest had served at least one year. The 159-story building of the Xisheng Shrine was erected above their heads.

"They call me Mother," Farosa closed her eyes, "they are all speaking to me, urging me to wake from the dreams, to redeem them, or else we will never know what lies here."

Xu Yang followed Farosa, decrypting the information stored in the machine room. There were still many secrets within the Xisheng Shrine.

"Where did their flesh go? What happened to their bodies and limbs?" Farosa murmured to herself, wandering through the maze formed by the black walls. She opened one after another, with Witch Brain Matrices connected with data cables everywhere.

Xu Yang had now accessed related data, finding that some had been executed for rebelling against the Xisheng Group, their brains excised and brought here. Many more had literally worked themselves to death under extreme working conditions, and their brains were still harvested to serve Xisheng for even longer.

The more exceptional the Witch Researchers were marked for processing when their work efficiency declined, the staff would promptly initiate the Witch execution protocol, to preserve their clever brains here for continual value.

Many Witches were specifically purchased to be turned into tools of sorts, others were randomly selected for wetware experiments for mass transformation, and some were outright kidnapped, forced to provide computational power.

Farosa pulled one of the tanks from the black wall and caressed its glass surface in silence.

She pressed her ear against the tank, hearing it clearer, a cry after another, from all directions.

"Kill me, Mother."

"Kill us... Mother Farosa..."

"Please... kill us all..."

"We don’t want to live, don’t want to live!"

Farosa held the tank, stroking it over and over with her hand.

"If they were repaired..." Xu Yang observed, "just like repairing Lila..."

"Are you saying they will have to work again? How much longer?" Farosa shook her head, "Enough, all of it is enough, they are begging for death."

Exchanging himself, he wouldn’t want to continue living after undergoing such disposal either, even if restored, he would be forever immersed in the shadows. Xu Yang thought silently to himself.