Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach!

She cleared her throat and spoke.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm the subconscious that occupies 91% of your brainpower, leaving the version of you outside with only 9% and turning you into an idiot."

"?"

Xiao Huasheng stared blankly at the blue-haired Angel. There were so many question marks over her head that they were almost impossible to count.

"I am your subconscious," the blue-haired Angel said. "In other words, you are me, and I am you. I control this company within your soul the entire time, providing energy for your actions outside."

"What does that mean?" After hearing the blue-haired Angel rattle off so much nonsense, Xiao Huasheng still ended up with a question mark over her head.

That drove the blue-haired Angel mad. She immediately poked Xiao Huasheng in the chest with her finger.

"You ⑨ Angel, just as I thought, you don't understand! You idiot!"

"Gah! What do you mean by that?!"

Provoked, Xiao Huasheng immediately lost her composure.

The two Angels, one blue-haired and one red-haired, began pounding each other on the head in the cold, brutal surveillance room.

The difference was that the blue-haired Angel's body was soft, while the red-haired Angel was as hard as stone.

After their scuffle, the blue-haired Angel lay gasping in her chair, unwilling to move.

"Whew, whew, whew... It's all your fault. The energy tank dropped another 1%. We won't live much longer."

Xiao Huasheng pouted. "You were the one who started it."

During that time, the blue-haired Angel had already explained everything she needed to explain to Xiao Huasheng.

This place was Xiao Huasheng's mental world.

A mental world occupied by a strange company called the Lobotomy Corporation system.

It was also the source of energy that allowed Xiao Huasheng to move, a central station for storing and releasing energy.

Likewise, it was a three-in-one site capable of producing energy.

As long as Xiao Huasheng continued moving, energy would be consumed at a rate of ten units per day.

The way to produce energy was to use the consciousness of the dead to create "Abnormalities," then extract consciousness from those "Abnormalities."

As for the consciousness of those unwilling to die, it would automatically be incorporated into the company as employees, assisting the whole company in generating energy for Xiao Huasheng.

As employees of the mental Lobotomy Corporation, they could also be freely released into the outside world to assist Xiao Huasheng in battle. However, releasing employees also required energy.

The "Abnormalities" extracted from people's consciousness could also be released. Since "Abnormalities" were themselves sources of energy, releasing them required no energy.

This was a mental world similar to a "battery universe." The entire mental world existed solely for Xiao Huasheng's movements.

In order to manage this company.

Xiao Huasheng's consciousness had split into two parts.

One part remained in the mental world within her mind and occupied 91% of her brainpower. The other possessed 9% of her brainpower and lived outside while searching for energy.

When the energy reached 0%, both sides would die at the same time and never be reborn.

All that would remain was an SCP-173 statue capable of acting only on instinct. Intelligence and autonomy would vanish from the statue once more.

The blue-haired Angel had a guess about this.

Perhaps Xiao Huasheng's current Angel form, aside from taking on this appearance because of her love for Exusiai, was more likely an unprecedented manifestation of SCP-173's Supernormal State.

However, compared to the Supernormal State described in the proper files, this Supernormal State was far weaker.

It was a state between normality and the Supernormal State.

It was precisely because this Supernormal State was incomplete that the consciousnesses of the two of them could remain balanced within this statue's body without being devoured by it.

Otherwise, with Supreme Divinity, there was no way an external soul could have taken control of everything.

It was both fortunate and unfortunate.

"This still sounds so hard to understand! Can't you explain it more simply?!" Xiao Huasheng could not help shouting. Steam was rising from her head; she clearly could not understand this string of convoluted nonsense.

"I'm tired. Destroy it all." The blue-haired Angel slumped against her chair, looking dead inside.

That damn ⑨ Angel could not understand any of this.

After the blue-haired Angel fell silent, she had no choice but to phrase it differently.

"What it means is, if you don't seek out dead people and those who don't want to die, then absorb energy from them, we'll die. Can you understand that now?!" the blue-haired Angel said.

"So we have to use other people's deaths for our own lives? Only when others die can we go on living?"

Xiao Huasheng froze, looking at the blue-haired Angel as she spoke words that were inexplicably philosophical.

The blue-haired Angel rolled her eyes and rapped Xiao Huasheng on the head.

"We're the same person, so you can accept my perspective too. Let me put it less cruelly."

The blue-haired Angel slowly said, "We all rely on the sacrifices of other lives to exist in this world."

People ate all kinds of living creatures in order to keep breathing, moving, and surviving.

The Angels had merely replaced that behavior with spiritual "eating."

"Of course, as the manager, if you can allow those lives that cannot rest in peace to find peace here, then why can't that be considered a good deed?"

"I think I understand," Xiao Huasheng said.

Then she smiled and looked at the blue-haired Angel before asking.

"Then what should I call you? I can't call you Xiao Huasheng too, right? Even though you're also me, it would still feel a little strange."

The blue-haired Angel was slightly stunned, then she slowly moved.

She slowly adjusted her posture, standing as dignified as a statue. A lock of indigo hair draped from her left shoulder, bending into an elegant curve at her collarbone.

Beneath the golden halo, the tip of her cool-toned braid glimmered with nearly imperceptible silver light, like a condensed galaxy.

Her gilded pupils were covered by frost-like eyelids, casting two crescent-shaped shadows over her porcelain-white skin.

Her hands overlapped beneath her hips, all ten fingers spread like the folded wings of a white dove, her nails faintly gleaming with a cold light.

Her shapely figure stood out beneath her black undershirt and white lab coat. She closed her eyes, stood with dignity, and said.

"My name is Angela. You may call me that. I am a will born to serve you."

After a moment of silence, Xiao Huasheng made her break character in a second.

"Are you sure you're not being forced to work? If you've been kidnapped, blink twice."

Angela broke character and could not help rubbing Xiao Huasheng's cheeks as she said.

"Anyway, from now on, you stone block are my manager. You make all the decisions concerning this company, and I'll assist you in accomplishing everything."

Unexpectedly, although Xiao Huasheng's skeleton was as hard as stone, her cheeks were quite soft and flexible.

After Angela kneaded her cheeks without a trace of dignity, Xiao Huasheng rubbed her face and muttered a question.

"Then why don't you control everything yourself? Didn't you say you occupy 91% of the brainpower?"

At that moment, Angela twirled a lock of hair around her finger, pouted, and muttered, "You're the manager, so you have the final say. All the control authority is with you."

"All the control authority?"

"Mm-hm. All of it."

As she spoke, Xiao Huasheng's gaze gradually shifted toward Angela, and she narrowed her eyes.

"I'm your subconscious. You can't do that to me. I'm not doing that."

Seeming to realize what Xiao Huasheng intended to do, Angela hurriedly covered her chest and spoke with faintly reddened cheeks.

"At least you're much cuter than you were in that game." Xiao Huasheng scratched at the corner of her eye, then let Angela off the hook.

Then she asked the most important question.

"Oh, right, Angela. Didn't you say all my actions consume energy? Does acting in this mental world consume energy too?"

"Of course. That is certain. And every employee's actions require energy as well. However, you can choose to lay them off on your own."

"Your 'layoffs' don't sound very proper." "Layoffs" in Lobotomy Corporation did not sound like a friendly thing at all.

"Anyway, the more employees there are, the easier management becomes. As it happens, there's a soul construct here."

Angela did not explain much. She merely pulled up a screen for Xiao Huasheng.

Then she returned to standing dignifiedly at the side, closed her eyes, and said, "Soul constructs are aggregates produced from the dead souls you have come into contact with. These aggregates possess different emotional traits, generally divided into four directions."

"Anger, sorrow, joy, and fear?" Xiao Huasheng asked as she looked at the screen before her.

Angela nodded slightly. "Because we are not a complete Lobotomy Corporation, we cannot obtain a specific Abnormality directly. We can only determine whether we need that Abnormality based on these four emotions."

"If we don't need it, we can just skip it."

She said this.

Xiao Huasheng looked at the panel before her and stroked her chin in hesitation.

[Anger: 25%]
[Sorrow: 25%]
[Joy: 0%]
[Fear: 50%]
Danger Level: Moderate

"Not even a little joy? Can I choose not to take it now?" Xiao Huasheng asked.

"An Abnormality with a joy index is not always a good thing," Angela replied.

"Fine, then I'll give it a try."

Considering that she would be unable to move if she ran out of energy, Xiao Huasheng decided it was better to try.

There was not much available for her to create right now.

When Xiao Huasheng clicked Extract, the screen lit up, and a file accompanied by a recording appeared before her.

It was a skull with a cross on its head, wearing a crown of thorns.

Abnormality: One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds

Risk Level: ZAYIN

A gigantic skull wearing a crown of thorns was connected to a cross, quietly floating two meters above the ground.

Although this Abnormality looked bizarre, there were very few recorded instances of it displaying violence toward employees.

It fed on the "sins" that surfaced in people's words.

Employees assigned to work with it needed to confess their sins and repent. How exactly did it consume those sins? That was still unknown.

Recently, research had discovered that One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds could produce certain positive effects.

A study involving One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds showed that employees who successfully repented recovered part of their sanity after completing their repentance. However, the principle behind this positive effect remained unclear.

At the same time, if the sins confessed by an employee were untrue, this effect would not occur.

Through research on this Abnormality, we have divided human sins into the following three levels.

Level One: Insignificant lies or small mistakes that could be discussed as jokes in social settings without drawing attention.

Level Two: More serious mistakes and transgressions that would only be shared with one's closest friends.

Level Three: Heinous sins that could never be revealed to anyone and could only be buried in the grave alongside oneself.

Experiment 1: Employee ████ was assigned to confess a Level One sin to this Abnormality.

Result: This Abnormality's energy output increased by 12%.

Experiment 2: Employee ████ was assigned to confess a Level Two sin to this Abnormality.