Dispensational Rules
Muscular kept trying to get cosy with Shen Ynj.
Though employing the usual honest face and ingratiating tone doesnt seem to really work on this young man with a cold face.
In the end, Muscular is basically out of options, looking awkward while cursing this poker face guy in his mind.
The heck is that attitude! What a poseur!
Perhaps because he has already had achievents in this Nightmare already, Muscular has lost patience in acting. So after a few more failed attempts at starting a conversation, he rolls his eyes and turns away, not talking anymore.
He does look self-satisfied for sure.
Though Shen Ynj still looks the sa whether Muscular was appealing to him or treating him coldly. Hes shut him off entirely.
These people arent rare in the Tower either. So people jokingly refer to them as zombies, because, they look like they have spent too long in the Tower and have lost all the emotions that was part of what made them human.
The zombies always have this poker face, doesnt speak, and are unenergetic. Rather than humans, they more resemble the undead as portrayed in popular dia.
Muscular has seen such people, of course, but they normally at least still reacted like normal people would, instead of being like Shen Ynj, even ignoring people actively talking to him entirely.
In fact, though, Shen Ynj is just blanking out subconsciously while his mind is wholly dedicated to a question he can never find an answer to.
He has once seen that comrcial complex back on Earth.
Exactly where it was He cant rember. He just managed to dig up so familiar fragnts from his entirely decimated mories; or rather, it is more accurate to say that the comrcial complex triggered a familiar feeling in him.
Two buildings, a bridge connecting them in the air on the third floor, an open-air underground plaza Just seeing the comrcial complex from afar is enough to remind him of its most notable features.
But
He rembers nothing outside of these features.
He is using all his mind to rember, to recall, to dig up the na of the comrcial area from his mind; where it was, when he went there, what shops were there.
He thought about it for two whole runs of the Nightmare already, but he could rember nothing.
His mories, just like the apartnt unit they were inside in the first hour of the Nightmare, has been locked up. He does not know if he cannot rember because it really was too far ago in the past, or because
Because of sothing else.
He, or rather, they, the MissiontakersThe humans, all inexplicably appeared in the Tower one day, right? So in theory, there should be a culprit, behind all this shouldnt there?
Thinking this way, Shen Ynjs face turns paler and paler. His poker face, typical of a zombie, is only exacerbating the stiffness and lifelessness.
It is the first ti he has realised, his mories may be patchy.
He does not know, really; its just an inkling He does not know if its just him overthinking things right now.
Perhaps, it was just him having walked past the comrcial complex that one ti, and the rather noticeably prominent structure has left an impression in his mind, which is why he can recall nothing of how and when after-the-fact now.
But, but but, its also possible, that it is the culprit that sent them into this ga, who has ssed with their mories, right?
Otherwise, how could not a single Missiontaker in the whole of the Tower manage to recall how they were transported here?
Shen Ynj is almost trembling entirely, gritting his teeth, mustering all his courage just to face this possibility head-on.
He never thought so deeply about this before. There are a lot of Missiontakers like him, too, who never dares thinking too much, about why humans went into the ga Escape. They do not dare probe too deep, or ask about sothing as heavy as their future.
Theyve beco ostriches(TL: Famous for sticking its head in the dirt, i.e. running away/hiding from problems instead of solving them, which is a myth), beco zombies, beco anything that could keep their attention away from these terrifying hypotheses. They try their best to live in ignorant bliss.
So of them are like Shen Ynj, still trudging aninglessly between Nightmares; so of them are like the Jiang sisters, who just decided to stop one day, and sink deep into gratuitous indulgences.
The Tower Ha. The Tower.
Theyre so cowardly, all of them, that they dont even want to hear a word of all the rumours and conspiracies floating around.
So, when Shen Ynj was so suddenly plunged into the sense ofdj vubrought on by that comrcial complexBy this whole Nightmare!His imdiate emotional response, was fear.
He doesnt want to know about them He doesnt want to face them!
But his brain is still futilely combing through his mories, only to make him realise for good that his mories are tattered. He finds himself unable to recall his parents, his job, his friends.
They are fragnts. Fragnts that cannot link up. Fragnts that cannot tell him anything.
It, it might just be, because they were so far in the past, right? It cant be It cant be because sothing has ssed with his mories!
Shen Ynjs face is so stiff and frozen right now. He has completely ignored the mans blabbering next to him, because he is face-to-face with sothing far scarier. A demon. A monster, baring its fangs right at him.
While the two of them are preoccupied with their own thoughts now, they have finished exploring the ground floor of the apartnt.
There are no apartnt units on the ground floor, as they only begin from the second floor upwards. The ground floor contains the lobby, security, the managent offices, and other functional rooms like the electrical room.
After one hour passed since the second run of the Nightmare began and the Missiontakers were allowed to leave their apartnt units, the first few Missiontakers to co down to the ground floor has already explored it, but only rudintarily.
This ti, the two of them have discovered sothing far more interesting in the security office.
Muscular picks up the letter of complaint and smacks it with his curled finger, handing it over to Shen Ynj and ask, look, whats this?
A paper shoved right into his presence makes even Shen Ynj co back to his wits. He takes the piece of paper from Muscular to read.
anwhile, Muscular is also now approaching Shen Ynj quietly, planning to sneakily steal the young mans utility card while he is distracted reading.
Most Carddealers work with the Tailors, but not Muscular, because of his utility card, which ans he tends to avoid revealing his true appearance anywhere in public.
Therefore, he had to really learn his own techniques for stealing from the ground up.
He has observed this young mans clothing closely, and finally settles on the thick layer of his clothes under the left armpit, because he noticed how, when the young man was walking, his left arm barely moved at all, remaining close to his body the whole ti.
This is not the easiest of jobs, but Muscular already has a blade pinched between his fingers. As long as he does not directly cause harm to Missiontakers, then the Server would not have anything to say about his using a sharp blade.
As soon as he slices open the clothes using the blade, while the young man is distracted reading the complaint, he can steal the utility card. Then, he can try to cause this run to end prematurely, and everything will be hidden under the rugs, just like the last run of the Nightmare
Greediness is swelling up in Musculars expression.
Shen Ynj does not notice anything off, as he lowers his head to read the complaint.
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