While the other candidates escaped from Skin-Limbo one after another, Yi Chen remained suspended amid the walls of this place that resembled the Cortical Abyss, thinking through his deranged mind.
"The First Gentleman, as a 'Connector,'
is permanently fixed deep within the mansion, linking the organization with the Old World skin factory. He receives the raw hides processed by the factory, then uses his own body to 'purify' them, turning them into 'Gentleman's Skin,' which is more suitable for humans to wear and use.
If such a massive cortical space exists inside the body, there are two possibilities.
1. This is the First Gentleman's 'flesh purification factory,' which Claude painstakingly created. The raw hides sent from the Old World are piled up here, slowly transformed, and then supplied to the organization.
2. This is a 'fissure' between the skin factory and reality, or perhaps even a transmission passage directly connected to the skin factory.
Before the assessment, Mr. Claude had already made it clear: the skin factory was providing less and less raw hide, and the amount of skin the organization could use had also been drastically reduced. If this were a flesh factory, with so much abyss-like raw hide here, there would certainly be no shortage of raw hide.
Therefore, the second possibility is more likely.
This abyss should be the 'special passage' linking the First Gentleman to the skin factory.
Once one of us became the First Gentleman, our body would also be connected here. We would adapt in advance through the promotion assessment. That was Mr. Claude's idea.
If that was the case, there was a high chance that climbing upward would allow me to escape.
Unfortunately, because of my mistake, I failed to use a skin-related ability to stop my fall in time and had already