Four seconds, five seconds, six seconds...
Time continued to pass. In an isolated room beside Eden Garden's Main Laboratory, Pandora was working with complete focus.
Seated behind a desk, she held a Goose Feather Quill and wrote ceaselessly on papyrus.
Strings of numbers and symbols flowed from beneath her pen, then were calculated line by line.
Sweat slowly seeped from her forehead and slid down her cheeks, but Pandora was completely unaware. She automatically blocked out the piercing alarms outside, utterly immersed in the world of mathematics as she struggled to solve the problem of the "improved Collective Magic Puppet mathematical model."
In a corner of the room, the Golden Retriever was not as absorbed as Pandora. Thanks to its physiology, it could hear the sounds outside more clearly than anyone and was far more disturbed by them.
It anxiously wagged its tail, making it swing rapidly toward the left.
As mammals, dogs shared similarities with humans—the brain controlled the body crosswise, with the left brain controlling the right side and the right brain controlling the left. During biological evolution, the left brain had often become associated with positive, safe emotions, while the right brain was associated with negative, dangerous emotions. Therefore, when dogs received positive information, their tails crossed the body's midline and wagged to the right. When they received negative information, their tails crossed the midline and wagged to the left. This was one such time.
The Golden Retriever wagged its tail while staring toward the door, issuing low growls as a warning.
After growling for a while, it turned to look at Pandora. Seeing that she was still busy and had no reaction whatsoever to the sounds outside, it was puzzled. After tilting its head and thinking for a few seconds, it lowered its body and trotted