Number Nine lifted the Inductive Bait and headed straight for the door.
He didn't feel any psychological burden because the plan had always been to use the bait to destroy the entire Abandoned Cooling Factory at the end of the experiment to erase their traces—now it was just happening a bit sooner.
"You're insane!" Julia screamed.
Number Nine stopped in his tracks, "Insane? Julia, you should know, we are from the Truth Society! Stop thinking about your little tricks, think about yourself, think about the people back home, think about the Chairman's kindness to you. What you need to do is use these abandoned cooling devices to complete the validation as soon as possible, otherwise, once the Chairman gets angry, you... hehe..."
A cruel laugh echoed in the lab until the doors closed and everything returned to calm.
Julia silently approached the cooling chamber and continued with the validation, now was not the time to think about anything else.
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