Story Reader / Golden Vortex / Golden No More / Story
M-15 Source of Disaster
All of you, including Lucia, gather around the monitor in the cabin...
You watch the Golden Vortex, this majestic architectural wonder in the middle of the desert, collapses and falls.
Pilot, keep circling the area.
Are we trying to rescue Nat?
Bianca was right. Nat holds a lot of intel that would be advantageous to us.
I don't see her...
I'm seeing a lot of Corrupted, though. Without the antigen, this place is completely taken over.
The Punishing Virus concentration has crossed the safety threshold within seconds.
And it's still rising...
We shouldn't stay here...
The Corrupted that's climbing out of the ruin... they're all guards we took down.
Lucia. This is war.
There was no other way.
Really? Can you say for certain that we made no mistake...?
Couldn't we have come up with a better plan? When we took down Nat, have we thought about...
...About how she could have stopped the Punishing Virus if we hadn't weakened the Golden Vortex's defense?
She had suppressed the virus for such a long time...
Lucia...
Lee gives Bianca a pat on the shoulder, and she steps to the side. You stand in front of Lucia...
I... Understood, Commandant.
(Sticks her face to the window) Wah! Those guards look like they're reborn... Nanami is so moved...
...
That was quite a commotion! I can feel the quakes all the way here at the quarantine zone!
I'm fine, everyone! Sorry to have you all worried!
(Shakes her head) No one was worried.
(Laughs) You won't admit it because you're embarrassed! I've sent you the coordinates of the QZ. Get over here quickly! Liv is worried.
No, I'm not!
Please notify the teams in the QZ that the Golden Vortex ruin is now a dead zone with a huge number of Corrupted...
Noted. We'll take care of them.
Our newest order is to establish quarantine zones around the Golden Vortex and hunt down the infected guards.
Nat, the Golden Construct, is also buried in the ruins. She might be infected already, but we need to make sure her frame is intact.
We can ask to whitelist her, but the authority to do so lies in the Strategic Intelligence Unit...
Anyway, get to the QZ first, and we can discuss all of that later.
——!! ——!!
(Pushes away the infected mechanoid) ...!
The Corrupted struggles with its dying breath, but there is nothing it can do...
They're all infected...
(Observes the Corrupted crawling out of the ruin) How annoying... I guess there wasn't another way...
The highly concentrated Punishing Virus covers the ruin with a red glow. Inside it stand countless figures of the menacing Corrupted...
