No Way, Three Years Can't Beat Three Days? / With Our Own Hands

Oute shook his head violently, composed himself, and replied, "Providing public services to Lungmen will not compromise Rhodes Island's neutrality."

"As long as we can find a second or third political entity willing to purchase this service before the image and label of Lungmen are imprinted on us... then we will remain neutral."

Neutrality has always been a false proposition. Oute does not intend to be a "benevolent third party" as weak as Kal'tsit, incapable of interfering in politics.

Kal'tsit breathed a sigh of relief. The words were indeed very empty, but coming from the mouth of someone capable of carrying them out, they possessed a convincing power.

But then she froze.

Oute a little embarrassed and asked, "Well... what..."

The cat's voice was barely audible. "If you hurry up..."

Chapter 122 No way? Three years can't compare to someone else's three days?

Joke!

How could it possibly be fast!?

No!

If I start using Do now, my whole day will be wasted!

Oute shamelessly lied to himself: For my first time in real life, I still hope it will be in a more ceremonial place!

You've done it twice at the Interstice, and this is your first time here?

What is adaptive purity?

"I notified the Catastrophe Messenger before I came here," Oute said seriously. "In fact, Eyjafjalla, who just received permission from you, is one of them."

Kal'tsit raised her head slightly, her eyes becoming clearer.

"Are they... waiting outside now?"

Oute said uncertainly, "Maybe? I saw the tail of Provence."

"A perplexing choice."

Judging from this riddle that doesn't speak human language, Kal'tsit has recovered.

Currently, there are only three Catastrophe Messenger still on this ship: Earthspirit, Provence, and Eyjafjalla. It is worth mentioning that their nationalities are Leithanien, Siracusa, and Leithanien, respectively.

As mentioned earlier, because their work is closely related to Originium, they are all operators directly under the "Doctor".

In other words, judging solely by their positions, they are Oute's "cronies." However, in reality, in the eyes of Oute, a scoundrel with an extreme lack of security, they are not as reliable as the people he personally discovered.

And Oute will entrust them with a task worthy of the title "direct descendant"...

Thanks to Amiya's efforts, no one was eavesdropping outside the office anymore—but the number of people coming and going with files increased.

As two of Rhodes Island's three leaders, they appear to be of similar age and gender... Even if there is no romantic relationship between them, rumors will still circulate, given human nature.

Moreover, is there really something between these two?

Beyond Amiya's network of intelligence on underage individuals, rumors of Kal'tsit's bisexuality and Oute's nightly revelry were rampant. And the evidence was the photo of Kal'tsit holding Oute's hand and Specter.

And today!

That Dr. Kal'tsit!

She actually changed her clothes!?

There's definitely something fun to watch!

Seeing this kind of gossip, even getting hung on the deck would be worth it!

But when the office door opened, Oute and Kal'tsit were disappointingly neatly dressed.

"Eyjafjalla," Oute said preemptively, "Give the extra Dream-Sleep Device to the Earthspirit and Provence."

His white stats, being from a late-stage Homo sapiens, weren't quite sufficient, so he didn't actually see whether the Earthspirit had arrived or not at that moment. But it didn't matter... Eyjafjalla and Provence were definitely there anyway.

"Yes, senior!"

Little Sheep, who had been keeping a close eye on the office, recognized Oute's words almost immediately.

Of course, this was also because she had already suspected it.

Kal'tsit then looked at Eyjafjalla.

Not long ago, she was the one who personally signed the note for Oute, authorizing her to transfer three "Dream-Sleep Device" from Closure.

Incidentally, with almost the entire Engineering Department enjoying the "eightfold greatness," information about the Dream-Sleep Device has inevitably spread to a small circle. And this is precisely why Kal'tsit Closure create this prototype.

Large-scale use of the Interstice cannot be kept completely secret. However, a seemingly plausible excuse can effectively divert attention.

"The Dream-Sleep Device ..." The Earthspirit took the helmet from Eyjafjalla and examined it closely, but found that it truly could not reveal its secrets.

It would be a miracle if you could figure it out...

She arrived just as the two entered the office. Although she had already heard about the farce from others, she didn't feel any gossip because of the lack of real-life experience.

Kal'tsit deliberately said in front of everyone, "Through the Dream-Sleep Device, you can transcend your own dreams and arrive at a collective dream specially woven by Rhodes Island."

It is known that Oute is a bonus item from Rhodes Island; therefore, Oute is approximately equal to Rhodes Island; therefore, Oute's "stealing" of the inner universe is approximately equal to Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals stealing it, and approximately equal to Rhodes Island's deliberate creation.

Your one-thousandth is approximately equal to one thousand, right?

"The flow of time is slightly different there," Kal'tsit explained.

Oute said, "Overtime pay will be calculated as usual."

The Earthspirit, however, asked warily, "As usual? As usual in what way?"

Earthspirit, my superhero of part-time jobs...

"When the collective dream system is operating at full capacity, one night is equivalent to one week. Therefore, during the use of the Dream-Sleep Device, one working day is calculated as eight working days," Kal'tsit said.

A daytime day is counted as one working day, and a nighttime day is counted as seven working days.

Of course, if you really want to be picky, you could even deduct a night shift from what you did after waking up... but to work a night shift while exhausted from the Interstice is a bit too much.

Regardless, this argument is quite appealing. Warfarin's vampire-like rants actually make a lot of sense—at least, these currently interested, random operators are all on the same page as her.

"As Catastrophe Messenger, I have extra work to assign you. However, we'll discuss that tonight," Oute reminded them. "Also, Earthspirit, Eyjafjalla, Provence, you can wait for me at the docks."

This granting of the Dream-Sleep Device, almost a public performance, was so legitimate that almost no one would suspect there was anything wrong with the Dream-Sleep Device...

But this was not Oute's intention.

He had initially thought that Kal'tsit, because of his experience at Hamlet Hospital, would suspect his intentions and thus become aware of his underhanded dealings at Hamlet.

He came here with the intention of having Kal'tsit perform the surgery and simulate the procedure for the lamb at the Interstice... Little did he know that Kal'tsit had only just learned about Oute's "providing public safety services"?

This noob beats the pro; that's the case.

But it doesn't matter.

Perhaps due to the aftereffects of last night's experiment, Kal'tsit is now very open-minded about Oute using others for experiments in the Interstice: Please, don't do it to yourself.

Um...

It's time to pay Warfarin some hush money.

The experiment of limb regeneration would definitely be stimulating for the cat.

In this light, it's not hard to understand why Kal'tsit only learned about "public services" today: her blind trust in Oute's abilities and her misunderstanding of the Interstice caused Kal'tsit to pay far less attention to reality.

It's impossible that she was really manipulated by Oute, right?

No way?

No way?

Is it possible for someone to earn more in three days than someone else does in three years?

In reality, it is probably still a combination of both.

While Kal'tsit focused more of her attention on the Interstice and on Oute's health, Oute had already taken over her control of Rhodes Island, a "pharmaceutical company" where most of its employees were still just ordinary workers.

Chapter 123 Relying on Our Own Hands

The young man from "Liberi" and the girl from Cautus's laughed and played at the docks as they made their way towards Lungmen Inner City. Behind them was a team of Rhodes Island operators, including men, women, and children.

The Catastrophe Messenger were among them.

Kal'tsit stared at Oute's departing figure and sighed, "Warfarin, come out."

The Bloodfiend Physician chuckled, trying to brush it off. "Haha... The weather's really nice today."

"Yes, the sun is shining brightly on the deck today," Kal'tsit chimed in. "It's a perfect day for a 'technical demonstration,' isn't it?"

Upon hearing the cat's threat, Warfarin froze.

Although Oute did not directly reveal Warfarin's actions, at this critical juncture, the only person who dared and was able to conduct experimental surgeries with Oute was Warfarin.

When he sought further medical assistance from Kal'tsit, it was tantamount to selling Warfarin...

Although Warfarin is capable of operating on Eyjafjalla, this means that Oute, who is not yet able to perform other tasks during surgery, will have to be replaced by another medical operator.

Kal'tsit's control over the Medical Department is on a completely different level compared to her control over other departments.

If continuous battles, campaigns, and even wars can forge Oute's divinity... then Kal'tsit already possessed this divinity within the Medical Department.

Before the technology verification begins, Kal'tsit will definitely try to stop Oute's small-scale activities that use human lives (even in the Interstice) as expendable resources to fill the technological gap, a relapse of old problems and old habits.

However, once the verification is complete and tangible results are achieved, Kal'tsit will no longer impose restrictions.

As is expected, Kal'tsit has little interest in this technology: it relies too heavily on individual ability, has no value for widespread adoption, and is meaningless to this distorted civilization that is already highly dependent on Originium.

But to prevent Oute from taking advantage of the Interstice's characteristics and forcibly injecting Originium into Hamlet, thus "discovering" some "deep, dark" secret within himself...

The cat decided to clean up Oute's mess again...

Last time!

Hey, cat girl.

"I should have warned you before the Dream-Sleep Device was officially put into use." Kal'tsit made it sound very sophisticated that she had been completely unaware of what was happening.