Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach!

Experiment Result: This Abnormality's energy output increased by 15%.

Experiment 3: Employee ████ was assigned to confess a Level 3 sin to this Abnormality.

Experiment Result: At 1 minute and 48 seconds after ████ was sent into the containment unit, a dazzling light appeared inside. The light grew brighter and brighter, until even employees outside the containment unit could see it. Immediately afterward, the company suffered a massive blackout that lasted for two hours.

████ lost all memories from the past six years.

After the incident, all similar experiments were canceled.

It was worth noting that the mental corruption levels of all employees in the department decreased to some extent.

"It seemed like a pretty good Abnormality. It had already been placed in Z-1," Angela replied, then looked at Xiao Huasheng.

"Unfortunately, we currently have no employees who can confess their sins to it."

Angela closed her eyes. "It seemed that during the previous cycle, not a single person in that world who didn't want to die existed."

"People who didn't want to die would become my employees after death, right?" Xiao Huasheng confirmed.

"Of course. But perhaps their lives had been too bitter, so they didn't particularly want to live."

The blue-haired angel said this with a smile on her face.

This made Xiao Huasheng begin to suspect that Angela's criteria for someone who "didn't want to die" might be unimaginably strict.

After all, who in this world had no regrets? Naturally, there would be people who didn't want to die.

It could be said that everyone didn't want to die.

Yet even so, among the souls capable of forming an Abnormality, there had not been a single person who could become an employee of Lobotomy Corporation.

Perhaps employees were even more precious than Abnormalities.

"It looked like I had to do this myself?" Xiao Huasheng asked again in confusion.

"It's fine. I am you, and you are me. I know every sin you have ever committed." Angela spoke with dignity, showing no sign of mocking Xiao Huasheng.

"Then why don't you go?" Xiao Huasheng asked Angela.

In response, Angela immediately bounced twice. The astonishing up-and-down motion left the red-haired angel, who was as flat as a board, dumbfounded.

Beneath that snug black lining, what kind of magnificent scenery was hidden?

"I'm made of flesh and blood. If anything went wrong, it would mean your subconscious had died. It would affect you to some degree, wouldn't it?"

Angela spoke slowly. At the end, she adjusted the front of her chest. "But doing that demonstration once was enough... It hurt a little."

Looking at this situation.

Xiao Huasheng really had to go herself, repent before One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds, and obtain energy that way.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Huasheng teleported directly into Room Z-1.

Within this mental world, as the incomplete master of this world, Xiao Huasheng could naturally teleport anywhere at will.

During this time, she also discovered that Angela herself was in a very safe corner of this mental world, where almost nothing could affect her.

Thus, she breathed a sigh of relief.

At least she no longer had to worry about the safety of her subconscious.

Then she looked at the enormous skull before her. Its pitch-black eye sockets stared at Xiao Huasheng.

It seemed to be waiting for her to confess her sins.

"Do I have to talk about my embarrassing past now..." Xiao Huasheng suddenly felt like crying.

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As soon as she thought of those shameful mistakes that she really had committed.

She looked at the skull before her and stammered.

"One day at school, actually, I..."

"Actually, I planted all the bombs, then blew the school into the sky."

Suddenly.

One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds fell silent, then made a sound.

"Oh."

Without a doubt, this failed to provoke any reaction from the skull.

Since she possessed Exusiai's memories, she naturally also had access to Exusiai's little secrets.

Seeing this, Xiao Huasheng became angry and frustrated, then rattled off several more things.

"I stole Sister An's chocolate and ate it!"

"I secretly hid Mostima's underwear just because I wanted her to play with me a little longer! She even suspected that Sister An had taken it!"

"I was the one who secretly hid Texas's cigarettes! She often couldn't find them, so she quit smoking!"

"And Emperor's records—I took them to listen to, thought their taste was bad, and then badmouthed them behind their back!"

"And, and..."

She desperately recounted her sins to the skull before her, but it was nothing like the records had described. Simply speaking them aloud did not lessen a person's sins.

On the contrary, the more she spoke, the more an indescribable sense of guilt filled her heart.

As she spoke, she was nearly crying, yet the skull before her still showed no reaction.

Left with no choice, she brought up thoughts she had actually never wanted to voice.

"Lastly, lastly!"

"At the final parade, many Laterano people actually supported other races joining them. Liberi, Feline, and many, many others marched beside Laterano... Yet just because they weren't Sankta, they could never truly integrate into the Holy City."

"I don't know whether that was good or bad. I only know that we shouldn't have done that. We shouldn't have forced anyone to make any decision."

"I wanted to change all of it. Our god was actually a computer? We had actually been confessing to a computer all this time?"

"Amid that blind crowd, I selfishly destroyed everything."

"When I killed the Saint, when I killed Laterano's god, I still didn't know how to explain it to our people. If angels no longer had a god, could they still be called angels? Or perhaps... maybe we were never angels to begin with?"

The Exusiai memories Xiao Huasheng possessed had already reached a distant era, a realm that even Exusiai at the current point in Arknights could not attain.

After saying all this, she still received no answers.

Yet One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds was not as silent as it had been in the records.

When facing Xiao Huasheng, it let out a sigh.

"Sorry. I cannot absolve your sins. My ability is insufficient, but perhaps I can comfort you."

After saying that, before Xiao Huasheng's astonished gaze.

One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds erupted with powerful light. Angela guided that immense energy to fill the entire facility, and watched as the energy bar rapidly rose.

It was not that Exusiai's sins were so grave that even this being could not absolve them.

Rather, it could not affect her. Her existence stood far above its own, and many of One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds' methods could not be used on her at all.

Though it could not absolve her, it could still comfort her.

As Xiao Huasheng felt her heart settle slightly, her vision was swallowed by a blinding white light.

Angela spoke to Xiao Huasheng remotely. "Well done. It looked like we could live comfortably for a while again... Oh, and by the way, the Manager can release Abnormalities without consuming any energy. Recovering them will be a little difficult, though. You'll need to touch these Abnormalities with your hands to contain them..."

"Congratulations, your work is complete. Continue exploring this world." Angela's voice echoed. "When necessary, I will guide you."

As the energy filled up.

Xiao Huasheng also exited Lobotomy Corporation.

When the three unlucky D-Class personnel—the very D-Class personnel initially tasked with observing Xiao Huasheng—were urged on by the task force.

And carried Xiao Huasheng back into the containment chamber that had once again been heavily modified until it was even sturdier.

The three pitiful D-Class personnel, who had thought they were finally safe, suddenly saw light emerge from her body.

Suddenly, it was as though someone had pressed pause on the entire world.

Her body began to tremble slightly, and faint streams of seven-colored light seeped from beneath her skin.

At first, only her fingertips glimmered, flickering like fireflies. But in the next instant—

Boom!!!

A gorgeous rainbow pillar of light shot into the sky from her body, illuminating everything within a hundred meters as brightly as day.

Even the underground facility could not stop such light from piercing through.

Countless seven-colored rays moved around her like living creatures, instantly weaving into a net.

The three D-Class personnel screamed.

"Aaaahhh!"

"W-what now?!"

"Not this again!"

But when that light truly shone upon them, they only felt an overwhelming sense of peace.

Their hearts suddenly became much calmer, as though something within them had melted away.

Then they neither cried nor shouted, merely staring blankly ahead.

Before them.

Xiao Huasheng, who had previously turned into an unmoving statue, lightly waved a finger forward and greeted them once again.

"Yoo-hoo! Did you miss me?"

"Ah..."

The three D-Class personnel stared blankly at the lively red-haired angel before them.

Xiao Huasheng waved at the three of them, then finally said, "Honestly, I think that instead of locking me up, you should let me go where I belong."

"I want to see the Manager here."

Xiao Huasheng made her demand bluntly.

Faced with this sudden request, the research facility fell silent.

The interim Manager was weighing the pros and cons—according to regulations, high-ranking personnel were strictly forbidden from coming into direct contact with research subjects.

But at this moment, as the acting B-Class Manager, she had no choice but to face this dilemma.

The acting Manager set down her coffee cup and let out a long sigh.

She knew this might be a road of no return.

The thoughts of those special existences were impossible to predict. Who knew what murderous intent might be hidden behind this request?

"Manager Jin, you really left me with a mess." She complained expressionlessly, then stood up, adjusted her collar, and strode resolutely toward the containment area.

Inside the containment chamber, an old chair had been placed beneath the glaring ceiling lights.

Xiao Huasheng was firmly restrained in it.

Though restraints of this level were practically nonexistent to her.

She stared toward the door, her heartbeat accelerating slightly.

The person she was about to meet was one of humanity's elite among elites.

Xiao Huasheng was very curious.

"Please maintain visual contact. The Manager has authorized this meeting."

As the electronic voice sounded, the heavy blast door slowly opened.

A dignified woman entered through the door. She walked in slowly, every gesture exuding elegance.