StarTie Simulation: Aren’t you NPCs?

In the minds of most people in "Neon City", they all believe that the headquarters of those "wings" that can stand at the top of the city are all skyscrapers, because the top-ranked "Company B" and "Company C" are like this, so... they all believe that "Company A" is the same.

But "Q", "A" and even "K" all understand one thing: as the only power center before the emergence of the "Wing Federation", "Company A" is not as simple as it seems, nor is it exactly the same as other "Wings".

The core of "Company A" is... underground.

Here, there are the research and development of "Ether Cartridges", the research and development and rejection testing of more advanced mechanical prostheses, and even the research and development and testing of various types of weapons.

Although on the surface "Company A" is more like an administrative department than the other "wings", secretly... it has quietly replaced the positions of the three "wings" and through continuous updates and iterations, the three "wings" have disappeared from everyone's sight.

Perhaps for the sake of confidentiality, or perhaps simply because of the large underground space that allows the laboratory to be expanded at will, the true lifeblood of "Company A" is right beneath the city.

Back to the beginning of the mission, "A" and "Q" were not looking at the towering building in the distance, but at an abandoned house not far away.

As former employees of "Company A", they naturally knew how to find the mechanical supervisor. The copied "K" must be in the supervisor's office in the underground research institute.

The two people approached the abandoned house cautiously, waiting for an opportunity to come.

The two of them stayed silently near the wall without saying a word until the sound of "J" was heard in the headphones, and then they carefully rushed to the entrance again.

"You two, your facial information has been added to the recognition system. Your authority is lower than that of the supervisor, but higher than that of all the staff. This should allow you to freely enter and exit most of the laboratories."

"As for the next battle... it's up to you, whether it's fighting against "K" from more than ten years ago, or holding back that part of the guard force... you should be the most troublesome..."

Before "J" could finish, "A" said while operating the Face ID authentication in front of him: "It's not a big deal. It's just "K" from more than ten years ago. I...or we, have never stopped in these ten years."

"J" fell silent, then he sighed and continued, "Anyway...please be careful when fighting in an underground laboratory like this."

"Q" replied calmly: "Understood." Then he recognized his facial ID and entered the underground research institute of "Company A".

The two of them just looked at the familiar corridor in front of them. As two department heads who used to not get along well...they also often quarreled here.

"A" glanced at "Q" beside him and then said with a sigh: "Thinking back to those days, the first thing I did every morning was to go into the lab. I had to quarrel with you in the corridor during lunch, and we had to quarrel again when we got off work."

"Q" glanced at him, then said, "Why? You still want to have a fight now?"

"No, no, no, what I mean is... people who used to quarrel two or three times a day have been working together for more than ten years."

"What? Do you regret it?"

"Of course I don't regret it. This is not only a good thing for mankind, but also... we have truly understood each other, right?"

"Q" was stunned when he heard this, then shook his head helplessly and continued: "Let's go, first turn off the "ether mass blocker" that I was halfway through, and then go find trouble with the mechanical brain."

"Got it."

"A" said as he took out something similar to a radar display from his pocket. After taking a quick look at it, he said thoughtfully, "It should be in... the B-101 laboratory."

"Q" was stunned for a moment, then asked, "How did you know? I was just planning to look for them one by one."

"A" scratched the back of his head and said with a smile: "This thing is an 'ether mass monitor' that I made. It can detect the ether mass content in a circular area with a radius of about ten meters."

"At the time, I thought... since that machine was used to shield the ether, it meant that the ether content around that thing must be ridiculously low. Now it seems that my guess was correct."

"Q" shrugged noncommittally, then walked towards the B-101 laboratory first, while "A" looked at her back, shook his head helplessly, and followed her.

It was not until the two of them opened the door of the B-101 laboratory and saw the hemispherical machine running non-stop in the center of the room that "Q" walked forward without hesitation and completely shut down the machine that she had made.

As the surrounding etheric quality returned, the two looked at each other, then stepped out of the room at the same time, walking towards the "supervisor's office" at a leisurely pace.

Unlike other companies, the three departments of "Company A" have three supervisors, and the most capable...or the one with the best performance will become the boss of the remaining two supervisors.

Obviously, the market for mechanical prostheses is much broader than that for weapons and "Ether Cartridges", so every general manager is from the mechanical prosthesis research and development department.

"A" and "Q" walked through one silver-white corridor after another in silence, looking at the lights that were almost never turned off. The two of them recalled that time at the same time, but they also tacitly did not mention what happened back then.

No matter how many conflicts there were in the beginning...it was because of the disagreement on work. Privately, the two of them were also pretty good friends, but the tension at work was also brought into life.

After more than ten years of working together and being familiar with each other, they had long recognized each other. During the month that Wu Xuan and Yin Lang trained, the two of them tacitly chose to put the final result after everything was over.

After all...they are no longer children.