A black, cutout, off-the-shoulder dress slipped from the chair and landed on a pair of black high heels with red soles.
Lucy vanished from the chair.
"Where did she go?" Pierre Del Rio watched Lucy disappear in alarm and could not help asking.
No one answered.
He-El remained silent. He had expected Pierre Del Rio's phone to ring, expected Lucy to send him a text telling him that she was omnipresent.
But Lucy had disappeared, without any response.
"Look, that computer is moving." Professor Samuel Norman's colleague noticed that, in the silent laboratory, the substance that had flowed from Lucy's body had melted all the computers, electronics, and servers together, forming a biological computer device they could not understand.
Now, after Lucy's disappearance, that biological computer moved as though it were breathing, its interior continuously flickering with dim red and blue light.
Before long, the black matter wriggled and sprouted several twisted, pipe-like tentacles.
In the end, after flickering with dim blue and red light, the computer did nothing else.
With a bang—
The black computer shattered into dust, black powder scattering across the floor.
The laboratory was so quiet that a needle dropping could be heard.
He-El had originally watched calmly and silently, but then he saw that Lucy had not responded to Pierre Del Rio's question, and that the biological computer Lucy had created had not reacted either.
He-El's expression changed abruptly.
In the original future, Pierre Del Rio would ask where Lucy had gone, and Lucy would send a message to his phone, telling him that she was omnipresent.
Now, for some unknown reason, Lucy had not told him.
Originally, the biological computer Lucy created would leave behind a USB drive containing something. He-El did not know what it recorded, but it would count as repayment for