Who hid My Corpse!-Chapter 94 - : The times have changed at nine o’clock
Chapter 94: The times have changed at nine o’clock
Gerard pushed open the door to the archive room, and the dust that had settled on it cascaded down, as if to declare that no one had set foot here for a long time.
Behind the door hung a crystal; Gerard looked up at the crystal for a moment, then walked underneath it. The crystal only shimmered lightly and made no further sound.
Gerard wove through rows of bookshelves, the archive room so quiet that only the echo of his own footsteps could be heard.
“Seeing how hesitant you were just now, I thought this place would be extremely difficult to enter,” Bai Wei’s voice echoed in Gerard’s mind. “Turns out, after all that fuss, there isn’t even a supervisor?”
“The crystal we passed just now is the supervisor,” Gerard said gravely. “Only the faithful of my Lord Lyra may enter here. Those who have forsaken the Lord Lyra in their hearts will trigger the crystal to sound an alarm immediately.”
“There’s really such a thing?” Bai Wei asked, clearly intrigued. “But doesn’t that sound a bit unreliable? How can you verify that the crystal truly possesses the ability to validate belief?”
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“There’s no need to verify it; since its creation, it has never…” Gerard started to say “never made a mistake,” but he stopped himself and after a moment’s hesitation, he corrected himself. “It rarely makes mistakes.”
But Bai Wei had noticed the pause and said with a smile, “So it’s not ‘never’ made a mistake, but ‘rarely’ makes mistakes. Let me think… the one who made the mistake was you, right? Ten years ago you caused that horrendous ‘Night Star’ incident, and yet Lyra didn’t execute you immediately. I presume… it’s because their verification didn’t consider you to have abandoned Lyra, right?”
Gerard didn’t say anything, but from his expression, Bai Wei understood she had guessed correctly.
Compared to Ulu, Bai Wei’s knowledge of Gerard wasn’t as extensive. Ulu, after all, was a character who had interacted with players, whereas Gerard had died before any such interactions took place. Before players confronted Corey in the game, Gerard had already died at Corey’s hands. And thereafter, players could only glean snippets about the “Night Star” incident from the analyses within the Lyra Map.
Still, Bai Wei chose him as the next Host, because he was the only “broken gear” in the current Lyra.
Lyra was different from Rhein; it was an extremely special sect. Much like the feeling the city of Lyra gave, it was like a large, intricately built machine.
Every person in the city was like a gear in a machine that was in operation, each one implicitly doing their own work. As long as the machine wasn’t having any issues, it was assumed that every gear was still normally turning in its place.
That is until the “Night Star” incident ten years ago.
Without a doubt, for a machine, it was a major malfunction, so they extracted the malfunctioning part for a thorough inspection, only to discover… the gear was not at fault.
Then, what was it that had failed?
Gerard stopped in front of a small room.
He had already generally perused the archives in the outer part, not finding what he sought, which made sense since the outer archive room was semi-public, accessible to anyone with the right clearance.
The files inside this small room, undoubtedly, were not for public disclosure, not meant to be perused.
Gerard extended his hand and turned the doorknob.
With a “click,” the door opened like that.
Without even the most basic lock, it gave the impression of safeguarding against the honorable but not the dishonorable.
Gerard walked in.
The small room was only one-tenth the size of the outer area and contained few documents, so it didn’t take Gerard long to find what he was looking for.
“Maintenance Staff Information (Confidential) 230-240 years.”
Gerard gazed at the file for a long while before he finally reached out, only to stop just above it.
If he backed out now, there was still a chance to turn back.
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But if he opened it, then he would be thoroughly violating the rules.
A violation by a Lyran equated to betrayal. Even ten years ago, Gerard didn’t believe he had betrayed Lyra, and now, to prove he hadn’t betrayed Lyra, was he about to commit a true act of betrayal?
Then Bai Wei’s voice rose in his mind. “It’s okay, you’re still young, you can wait another ten years.”
Gerard narrowed his eyes slightly; he didn’t believe that such mockery from Bai Wei could affect him.
But even so, he took a deep breath and reached for the file.
He had thought that the process wouldn’t be easy, that his mind would resist, that his metallic body would obstruct, and at that moment, he would have to adopt more drastic measures, especially since he was already standing there.
But in the end, his hand touched the file all too easily.
Gerard was taken aback.
Why… so smooth?
Neither his mind nor his body raised an alarm?
Could this be Lyra’s tacit approval?
Or was it that…
An unsettling thought surfaced unbidden in Gerard’s mind, one he dared not dwell on. He immediately opened the file.
The maintenance staff information from those ten years was still there.
Suppressing the shock in his heart, Gerard began to review the maintenance staff’s information, eventually selecting a target.
